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The Art of Biblical Narrative
- By: Robert Alter
- Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible’s many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.
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The Art of Biblical Narrative
- Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2024
- Language: English
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Didion & Babitz
- By: Lili Anolik
- Narrated by: Emma Roberts, Lili Anolik
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters, as the key to unlocking Didion. Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring. It was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz.
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Didion & Babitz
- Narrated by: Emma Roberts, Lili Anolik
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2024
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator.
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2025
- Language: English
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William Blake
- By: Philip Hoare
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, Philip Hoare embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of William Blake. A poet, painter and printmaker who was unappreciated and considered mad in his own time, Blake was eventually lauded as a key pillar of the Romantic movement. His posthumous influence reverberates endlessly, from the films of Derek Jarman to our ongoing fear of technological advancement.
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William Blake
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2025
- Language: English
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The CIA Book Club
- The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
- By: Charlie English
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. From copies of Orwell to Agatha Christie, the Western effort was to undermine the censorship of the Soviet bloc, offer different visions of thought and culture to the people, and build relationships with real readers in the East. Historian Charlie English follows the characters of the era, with Bucharest-born George Minden at the narrative’s heart.
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The CIA Book Club
- The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2025
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- By: Sara Lodge
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: Not Yet Known
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From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realize that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women’s lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine.
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-12-2024
- Language: English
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Book of Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 3 hrs
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From the acclaimed Beat Generation author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums come eight extended poems in which he reflects on the urban settings he finds himself in. Best known for his novels, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues and jazz forms that he used in another book of poems, Mexico City Blues.
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Book of Blues
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 27-05-2025
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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In The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the dark side of human nature to discover how we might find joy and beauty in the world while still being clear-eyed about the evil found in it. The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history—including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel—and at the art created from imaginative engagement with those horrific events by artists ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2025
- Language: English
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Writing, the Other Life
- By: Annie Ernaux
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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A sensational celebration of Annie Ernaux's work—Writing, the Other Life features collected writing by critics, journalists, and 24 previously unpublished pieces by the Nobel Prize winner herself—offering a full view of the author's life, writing style, reception by readers, and her thoughts and influence.
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Writing, the Other Life
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2025
- Language: English
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To Save and Destroy
- Writing as an Other
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 4 hrs
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Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC-Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans. The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing?
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To Save and Destroy
- Writing as an Other
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 08-04-2025
- Language: English
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Helden auf der Couch
- Von Werther bis Harry Potter - ein psychiatrischer Streifzug durch die Literaturgeschichte
- By: Andrea Bottlinger, Claudia Hochbrunn
- Narrated by: Anja Lehmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Ein amüsanter Streifzug durch die Literaturgeschichte, der zeigt: Romanfiguren sind auch nur Menschen, und jeder gute Held hat eine Macke. Claudia Hochbrunn, Fachärztin für Psychiatrie, und Literaturwissenschaftlerin Andrea Bottlinger fragen: Hätte eine Erziehungsberatung Ödipus' Eltern vor dem Schlimmsten bewahren können? Wäre Romeo und Julias Geschichte anders verlaufen, wenn sie keine pubertierenden Teenager gewesen wären? Und kompensiert in Fifty Shades of Grey Christian nicht seine fehlende Männlichkeit mit erotischen Fantasien?
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Helden auf der Couch
- Von Werther bis Harry Potter - ein psychiatrischer Streifzug durch die Literaturgeschichte
- Narrated by: Anja Lehmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2024
- Language: German
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The Boundless Deep
- Young Tennyson and the Crisis in Victorian Science
- By: Richard Holmes
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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From the prize-winning and bestselling biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, and author of the landmark, critically acclaimed The Age of Wonder, this is a book about the new science and scepticism of the 19th century; about ideas of geology and deep time, the vast beauty and the terror looming before all those who saw deeper into the stars and studied the new cosmology.
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The Boundless Deep
- Young Tennyson and the Crisis in Victorian Science
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2025
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays
- A Room of One's Own, The Common Reader, The London Scene, The Common Reader: Second Series, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, The Moment and Other Essays, & Three Guineas
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins, Emma Gregory, Kristen Atherton, and others
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays contains the most important and impactful of Woolf's non-fiction writing, including five essay collections and her most renowned essay: A Room of One's Own. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the famous Bloomsbury Group.
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays
- A Room of One's Own, The Common Reader, The London Scene, The Common Reader: Second Series, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, The Moment and Other Essays, & Three Guineas
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins, Emma Gregory, Kristen Atherton, Georgia Maguire, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 19-06-2025
- Language: English
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Firstborn Girls
- Four Generations, One Extraordinary Story
- By: Bernice L. McFadden
- Length: Not Yet Known
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On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died. She was in a car crash on the motorway turnoff to Detroit. For a few minutes, she was clinically dead. From the moment of her resuscitation, we follow a remarkable life, all the way up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Bernice’s family story begins in Sandersville, Georgia, with freedwoman Louisa Vicey Wilson in 1870. Her descendants survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, joined the ‘great migration’, cried when Dr King was assassinated. Wisdom, secrets, and fierce love are passed down through generations of women.
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Firstborn Girls
- Four Generations, One Extraordinary Story
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-03-2025
- Language: English
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 13
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 13
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-01-2025
- Language: German
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 14
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 14
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2025
- Language: German
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Glossen 8
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Obligatorischer Absatz: Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Glossen 8
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-04-2025
- Language: German
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Glossen 7
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Obligatorischer Absatz: Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Glossen 7
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2025
- Language: German
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Literatur und Lüge 9
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 50 mins
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Obligatorischer Absatz: Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Literatur und Lüge 9
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2025
- Language: German
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Literatur und Lüge 10
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Obligatorischer Absatz: Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Literatur und Lüge 10
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-05-2025
- Language: German
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