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Can You Forgive Her?
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
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Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six in the Palliser series. Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy. The values and aspirations of the governing stratum of Victorian society are ruthlessly examined, and none remains unscathed. But above all Trollope focuses on the predicament of women. 'What should a woman do with her life?' asks Alice Vavasor of herself, and this theme is echoed by every other woman in the audiobook.
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Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
- By Sharon on 08-03-10
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Can You Forgive Her?
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Series: Audible Exclusive - The Pallisers, read by Timothy West, Book 1, The Pallisers, Book 1
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-02-10
- Language: English
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Made in America
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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A history of America through its language
- By Tom on 12-05-10
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Made in America
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 16-01-06
- Language: English
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The Story of Human Language
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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Groans from Taiwan
- By Jake Harrison on 18-04-20
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language provides a fascinating survey of how grammar came into being and the differences or similarities between languages spoken around the world, before exploring how language eventually emerged in the very remote human past.
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Amazing book
- By Ivan Dimitrov on 15-01-22
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings
- Narrated by: Alexander Mercury
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Russian for Beginners will make learning Russian easy and enjoyable.
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Great Companion to the book
- By Joshwright10 on 29-12-19
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners
- Narrated by: Alexander Mercury
- Series: Teach Yourself Foreign Language Graded Reader Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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The Forsyte Saga
- The Man of Property
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don’t let that be the reason you put off listening to this wonderful work. There are passion and lust in these pages, high art and low comedy, and unthinking violence that ride alongside ever-correct manners. Scandal, tragedy, despair, rape, accidental death, marriage, remarriage and a healthy leavening of births all unfold against a rolling backdrop of a world war.
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Odd choice of narrator
- By Beverley on 27-04-16
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The Forsyte Saga
- The Man of Property
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Series: The Forsyte Saga (Recorded Books), Book 1, The Forsyte Chronicles, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-03-14
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold Story of English
- By: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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Absolute Americanised nonsense
- By Suzibm on 19-11-23
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold Story of English
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-11-09
- Language: English
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At the Back of the North Wind
- By: George MacDonald
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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This is the story of the mystical travels of Diamond, a coachman's son, through distant lands and strange events while riding on the back of the beautiful North Wind.
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At the Back of the North Wind
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-12-12
- Language: English
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Language A to Z
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Linguistics, the study of language, has a reputation for being complex and inaccessible. But here's a secret: There's a lot that's quirky and intriguing about how human language works-and much of it is downright fun to learn about. But with so many potential avenues of exploration, it can often seem daunting to try to understand it. Where does one even start?
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Hugely entertaining albeit a little shallow
- By Kira Adams on 10-01-19
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Language A to Z
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-11-13
- Language: English
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Introduction to Cognitive Science
- By: Thad A. Polk, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Thad A. Polk
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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For millennia, philosophers and scientists have been trying to unlock the secrets of the mind with only limited success—until now. Today, with modern technologies including the best in neuroscience, medical imaging, and recent advances in artificial intelligence, we are making more progress than ever before. In Introduction to Cognitive Science, Professor Thad A. Polk takes you on a fascinating tour of the latest discoveries in the relatively new field of cognitive science. In 24 exciting lectures, Professor Polk shares dozens of the most challenging questions in cognitive science today.
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Introduction to Cognitive Science
- Narrated by: Thad A. Polk
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 21-06-24
- Language: English
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- By: Nancy C. Andreasen M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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In a fascinating tour of creativity and the brain, Nancy Andreasen, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa and the winner of the National Medal of Science, explores how the human brain achieves creative breakthroughs--in art, literature, music, and science--the role of genes and environment, extraordinary creativity vs. ordinary creativity, and the question of genius and insanity.
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Fantastic book
- By Alpha on 01-03-15
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-10-08
- Language: English
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- By: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Daniel Everett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.
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Highly recommended the most beautiful Book
- By Judine on 07-05-22
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Narrated by: Daniel Everett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
- By: E. Nesbit
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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In this follow-up to Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It, Cyril, Robert, Anthea, Jane, and the Lamb have more magical adventures in store when a mysterious egg hatches in the nursery fireplace. Out comes a flame-colored bird, the Phoenix, who, though a bit conceited, proves very helpful indeed. The bird kindly explains that the second-hand Persian carpet recently acquired for the nursery is actually a flying one. On it, they may travel to any place and time that they wish. But once again, the children find that magic does not always go as planned.
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The Phoenix and the Carpet is Amazing and so imaginative!!!
- By Anonymous User on 13-12-23
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Series: The Psammead Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 31-08-12
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Hailed as the father of the naturalist novel, French author and playwright Honoré de Balzac left a legacy of treasured literary works that include Père Goriot and Cousin Bette. The daughter of a wealthy but miserly man, Eugénie Grandet falls in love with her penniless cousin, Charles. The two plan to marry, but at the behest of her father, Charles must first go overseas to make his fortune. Returning years later, Charles calls off the engagement, leaving Eugénie heartbroken and vengeful.
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Inappropriate narrator
- By leeB on 29-01-18
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Eugénie Grandet
- Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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To Let
- The Forsyte Saga, Book 3
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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“So many people have written and claimed that their families were the original of the Forsytes,” wrote Galsworthy, “that one has almost been encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagine species.” It is the Spring of 1920, 34 years on from the beginning of the Saga. “Young Jolyon” is married to Irene after her divorce from Soames, and they now have a son, Jon. Soames has re-married and has a daughter, Fleur. A new generation of Forsytes comes of age and the Saga continues.
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Beautiful reading of a masterpiece of human insight.
- By Mel Graham on 22-03-24
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To Let
- The Forsyte Saga, Book 3
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Series: The Forsyte Saga (Recorded Books), Book 3, The Forsyte Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-03-14
- Language: English
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Don Juan
- By: George Gordon Byron
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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Byron's Don Juan is a comic masterpiece written in a satirical, mock heroic style. Based on the legend of Don Juan, (which is here pronounced JOO-AN), Byron completely reverses the portrayal of Juan, instead showing him as someone easily seduced by women instead of seducing them. He called this form of poetry "epic satire". It is generally considered to be Byron's masterpiece.
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Don Juan
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 20-01-14
- Language: English
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Crome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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The renowned author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, made his literary debut with the 1921 classic Crome Yellow. Set in post-WWI England, this perennial favorite satirizes the fads and fashions of the time with the tale of a hapless couple who join a colorful mix of British aristocrats attending a party at a rural country estate.
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Crome Yellow
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-06-15
- Language: English
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Pinocchio
- By: Carlo Collodi
- Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
- Length: 23 mins
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When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life! But Pinocchio dreams of being a real boy.... A magical retelling of the classic tale, read by Stephen Mangan.
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Good to Read
- By Anna on 13-04-24
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Pinocchio
- Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 04-10-12
- Language: English
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale", and "In the Pride of His Youth", this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances, and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-11-16
- Language: English
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