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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
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Missing sections and strange dubs
- By Lisa Daniels on 01-05-14
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 23-06-09
- Language: English
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Ryers Readers
- By: Ashley
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Let’s do this! I aim to increase listening skills & comprehension in our little ones; as well as give parents an opportunity to enjoy a cup of coffee while it’s still hot! Looking for even more fun!? Join me on the Ryers Readers Patreon Page where you can find AD-FREE episodes, bonus content, and even become a Ryers Readers Celebrity! Patreon.com/ryersreaders Instagram @ryersreaders RYERS20 for 20% off at www.thatdoughtho.com ThatDoughTho Play Dough & Sensory Shop Leading Creative Play Through Sight, Scent, & Touch IG @that.dough.tho Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod...
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I loved it it was so boring
- By Anonymous User on 27-09-22
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The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction
- By: David Schmid, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: David Schmid
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
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Great mystery and suspense writers have created some of the most unforgettable stories in all of literature. Even those who don't consider themselves fans of this intriguing genre are familiar with names such as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Hannibal Lecter, and Robert Langdon, and understand the deep and lasting impact this writing has had on literature as a whole.
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Disappointing
- By Adrian Marriette on 30-06-17
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The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction
- Narrated by: David Schmid
- Series: The Great Courses: Genre Fiction
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-11-16
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey is the first audiobook that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that, far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.
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Generally a good insight into the world of Orwell
- By Rob on 08-09-20
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- By: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Paul Gilroy - introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. Here, he selects some of his most powerful prose for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race and ethnicity that continue to inform the Black British experience.
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Listening to Linton.
- By tagster on 22-05-23
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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The Weird and the Eerie
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The weird and the eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.
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A fantastic view into what makes up the uncanny aspects of our media landscape
- By Amazon Customer on 14-12-21
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The Weird and the Eerie
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-11-19
- Language: English
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.
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Prose at its most elegant, beautifully performed
- By Lord Copper on 11-01-17
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-11-10
- Language: English
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Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
- By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne was a contemporary of Shakespeare who, after having played his part in France's terrible wars of religion, retired to his estates and decided to write about what he knew best--himself. And so in his likes and dislikes, his reflections on history, his loves and his travels, he brought to life, not just one man, but all human experience. "What do I know?" he asked. If not himself and his own soul, then nothing else.
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Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt
- By: R.A. Spratt
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This is a weekly podcast of funny stories for kids. There are side-splitting versions of my own fractured fairy tales. Also short stories from some of my best-selling books, featuring characters from 'The Adventures of Nanny Piggins' and 'Friday Barnes, Girl Detective'. The stories are perfect for bedtime, long car rides or even if you're just stuck waiting a really long time at the doctor's office. They're written for 7-11 year olds but these are tales the whole family can enjoy. The silliness is ageless. I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoy recording it. After years of being...
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BEST AUTHOR EVER.
- By Eden on 10-06-24
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Water Margin Podcast: Outlaws of the Marsh
- By: John Zhu
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A Chinese classic, retold in English: This podcast is an English retelling of the classic Chinese novel Water Margin (水浒传, aka Outlaws of the Marsh). It aims to tell the story in a way that is more accessible to audiences who are not already familiar with the novel or Chinese culture and literature in general.
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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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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, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?
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Disappointing
- By TDP on 22-02-21
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On Writers and Writing
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-11-20
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.
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as good as it gets
- By Kindle Customer on 25-01-19
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
- By: Paul Kidby
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan, Colin Morgan
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld takes listeners behind the scenes of the amazing partnership between Sir Terry Pratchett and artist Paul Kidby. It shows how the Discworld was brought to visual life - from the earliest sketches to the final magnificent masterpieces - and how Terry and Paul absorbed influences from art and pop culture, fusing them into the Discworld landscape.
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Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan, Colin Morgan
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Machiavelli, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Quentin Skinner
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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In the second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Skinner includes new material on The Prince, showing how Machiavelli developed his neo-classical political theory, through engaging in continual dialogue with the ancient Roman moralists and historians, especially Cicero and Livy. The aim of political leaders, Machiavelli argues, should be to act virtuously so far as possible, but to stand ready "to be not good" when this course of action is dictated by necessity.
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Machiavelli, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- 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
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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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Inspiring
- By Suke on 07-05-24
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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: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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The Waste Land
- A Biography of a Poem
- By: Matthew Hollis
- Narrated by: Matthew Hollis
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists.
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I would never have dared tackle poem without this
- By Mary on 03-11-23
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The Waste Land
- A Biography of a Poem
- Narrated by: Matthew Hollis
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 20-12-22
- Language: English
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of the Century
- By: Tom Shippey
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar Professor Tom Shippey presents us with a fascinating and informed companion to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, in particular focusing on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Written in a clear and accessible style, J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century reveals why all of these books will be timeless.
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Required reading for Tolkien fans.
- By Charlotte Knowles on 19-07-23
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of the Century
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away in pursuit of his dream. Life on the mighty river for Twain consisted of paddleboats and history, poker games and gamblers, larger-than-life characters and outlandish festivals like Mardi Gras. Twain recorded it all with his keen eye for detail and biting wit.
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Mark Twain at his best
- By Mister Peridot on 02-12-17
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Life on the Mississippi
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-07-99
- Language: English
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Burning Man
- The Ascent of D H Lawrence
- By: Frances Wilson
- Narrated by: Huw Parmenter
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial - and we are still unsure what the verdict should be, or even how to describe him. History has remembered him, and not always flatteringly, as a nostalgic modernist, a sexually liberator, a misogynist, a critic of genius and a sceptic who told us not to look in his novels for 'the old stable ego’, yet pioneered the genre we now celebrate as auto-fiction. But where is the real Lawrence in all of this, and how - 100 years after the publication of Women in Love - can we hear his voice above the noise?
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Good book spoilt by lazy production
- By Stephen on 29-01-23
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Burning Man
- The Ascent of D H Lawrence
- Narrated by: Huw Parmenter
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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