Literary Biography

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    • By: Hannah Kent
    • Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • Inspired by a true story. In 1825, in a remote Irish valley lying between the mountains and Flesk River of Killarney, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events....

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    • By: Annie Ernaux
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep the child. But this was a France where abortion was illegal....

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    • Five Literary Marriages
    • By: Carmela Ciuraru
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy....

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    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Hayden McLean
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980s in Baltimore, known back then as the murder capital of the United States....

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    • By: Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Elizabeth Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one of the greatest English novelists....

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    • Oxford Between the Wars
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Set in the world that Evelyn Waugh immortalised in Brideshead Revisited, this is a true and often funny story of the thriving of knowledge and spirit of fun and foreboding that characterised Oxford between the two world wars....

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    • The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
    • By: Kent Babb
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Through extensive research and interviews with those closest to Iverson, acclaimed Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb gets behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of the hard-changing, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last....

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    • Author of the Harry Potter Series
    • By: Jennifer Hunsicker
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • Tales of Childhood
    • By: Roald Dahl
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Series: The Roald Dahl Classic Collection
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to Roald Dahl, which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them....

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    • Kunstwerk des Lebens
    • By: Rüdiger Safranski
    • Narrated by: Rüdiger Safranski, Frank Arnold
    • Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-2013
    • Language: German
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    • Rüdiger Safranski führt uns Goethe in neuem Licht vor und macht uns zu Zeitgenossen dieses Genies und Menschen...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Tom Keymer
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2022
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • Author of the Hunger Games Trilogy (Famous Female Authors)
    • By: Melissa Ferguson
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of Suzanne Collins. This young adult author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Hunger Games trilogy is discussed....

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    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally best-selling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House....

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    • L'arte di correre in discesa
    • By: Matthew McConaughey
    • Narrated by: Francesco Prando
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2022
    • Language: Italian
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    • "Sono in questa vita da cinquant'anni, ne scruto l'enigma da quarantadue, e da trentacinque tengo un diario pieno di idee..."

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    • Author of the Divergent Trilogy
    • By: Lori Mortensen
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of Veronica Roth. This young adult author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Divergent trilogy is discussed....

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    • By: Laurence Leamer
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The fascinating true story behind one of the original literary scandals - how Truman Capote (author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's ) betrayed his closest friends in service of his next book....

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