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Goodbye Christopher Robin
- A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
- By: Ann Thwaite, Frank Cottrell-Boyce - preface
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the listener a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood.
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Goodbye Christopher Robin
- A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2023
- Language: English
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Cross of Snow
- A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- By: Nicholas A. Basbanes
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In Cross of Snow, the result of more than 12 years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, and notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work - the soul - of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, and translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde.
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Cross of Snow
- A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-07-2021
- Language: English
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- By: Julie Phillips
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-04-2022
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath
- A Biography
- By: Linda Wagner-Martin
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.
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Sylvia Plath
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2020
- Language: English
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How to Write Like Tolstoy
- A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
- By: Richard Cohen
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking - sometimes obsessive - effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view. Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime's reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar.
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Title sells it short. Not a how-to book but better
- By Kindle Customer on 07-04-2023
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How to Write Like Tolstoy
- A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2020
- Language: English
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Jane Austen
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Tom Keymer
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This Very Short introduction explores the major themes of Austen criticism through close analysis of her major and minor works, with particular emphasis on the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which the novels emerge, and with which they engage. Thomas Keymer combines critical introductions to each of Austen's six major novels with an exploration of the key themes in her works.
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Jane Austen
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2022
- Language: English
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Truth or Consequences
- Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert
- By: Daniel Asa Rose
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan's lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
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Truth or Consequences
- Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-12-2023
- Language: English
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Dakota
- A Spiritual Geography
- By: Kathleen Norris
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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"With humor and lyrical grace," Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh, and forgiving, steeped in history and myth (San Francisco Chronicle). A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.
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Jan Morris
- Life from Both Sides
- By: Paul Clements
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humor, and had earned her a passionate readership around the world.
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Jan Morris
- Life from Both Sides
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2023
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Colin MacCabe
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, laid down the template for the coming-of-age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest.
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James Joyce
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2022
- Language: English
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A Writer Prepares
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A Writer Prepares, an examination of the first quarter century of one writer's life, is arguably the work of two writers. There's the middle-aged fellow who wrote about half of it at a blistering pace in 1994, and there's the octogenarian who finished the job another quarter century later. The older fellow brought less raw energy to the task, and his memory is a long way from infallible, but one can only hope he's offset these losses with a slight edge in judgment, in perspective, in maturity.
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A Writer Prepares
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2021
- Language: English
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Brother-Souls
- John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
- By: Ann Charters, Samuel Charters
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
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John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were—in Holmes's words—"Brother Souls." Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes.
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Brother-Souls
- John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2024
- Language: English
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Mary Shelley
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just any woman. The daughter of two notorious radicals, Mary had become an outcast from English society when she was only sixteen. A lifelong advocate for the rights of women, she refused to be governed by social conventions, running away with a married man, having children out of wedlock, and authoring books, stories, and essays that broke literary conventions.
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Mary Shelley
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2022
- Language: English
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Anya Seton
- A Writing Life
- By: Lucinda H. MacKethan
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Anya Seton was the best-selling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over 60 years after their publication; yet there has never before been a book-length biography about this great American writer. Ann Seton was born in 1904 the daughter of two celebrity writers: Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton. At age 36 and self-renamed Anya, she placed her first novel with a major publisher.
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Anya Seton
- A Writing Life
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2020
- Language: English
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Making Oscar Wilde
- By: Michele Mendelssohn
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 11 hrs
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Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michele Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for storytelling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the US and Britain with his words.
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Making Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 04-08-2020
- Language: English
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Jane Austen's Best Friend
- The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd
- By: Zöe Wheddon
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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All fans of Jane Austen everywhere believe themselves to be best friends with the beloved author and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd offers a unique insight into Jane's private inner circle. Through this heartwarming examination of an important and often overlooked person in Jane's world, we uncover the life-changing force of their friendship.
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Jane Austen's Best Friend
- The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2024
- Language: English
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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
- A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
- By: Kathryn Aalto
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play. The Hundred Acre Wood - the setting for Winnie-the-Pooh's adventures - was inspired by Ashdown Forest, a wildlife haven that spans more than 6,000 acres in southeast England.
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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
- A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2019
- Language: English
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The Romance of American Communism
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project.
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The Romance of American Communism
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- By: John Tresch
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2021
- Language: English
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The Life of the Author: Shakespeare
- By: Anna Beer
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering listeners a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself.
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The Life of the Author: Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2021
- Language: English
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