Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Essays
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance94
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Story94
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.
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The ugly voice of Audible spoils every book.
- By Julia on 23-07-22
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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Beautiful and Impossible Things
- By: Oscar Wilde, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Narrated by: John Telfer, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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Story14
This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.
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Wisely chosen, beautifully read
- By Dr Stu Eagles on 01-05-23
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Beautiful and Impossible Things
- Narrated by: John Telfer, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-02-18
- Language: English
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After Henry
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away.
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After Henry
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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In Gratitude
- By: Jenny Diski
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Story21
In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged 15, by the author Doris Lessing and the subsequent 50 years of their complex relationship.
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Excellent narration
- By Sugs on 06-07-25
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In Gratitude
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 31-05-16
- Language: English
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Mrs Griffin Sends her Love
- And Other Writings
- By: Miss Read
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance13
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Story13
From organising the school summer fete - 'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand' - to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood - 'I collect stones with holes in them' - Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can.
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Miss Griffin Sends her Love
- By Anonymous on 21-03-19
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Mrs Griffin Sends her Love
- And Other Writings
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-07-15
- Language: English
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火葬秘史 骨になるまで
- (小学館)
- Narrated by: 高城 亨
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-08-26
- Language: Japanese
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- The Uncollected Columns
- By: Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne - editor
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance39
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Story39
Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - More features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured, violent relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry reading circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly-veiled autobiography to purely fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down-and-out sports promoters - climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure among French filmmakers.
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- The Uncollected Columns
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Shaking a Leg
- By: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance15
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Story16
Listening to Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had - a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction and everything in between. Bursting with ideas, culturally astute and sparklingly witty, this comprehensive volume of Angela Carter's journalism is the most down-to-earth and entertaining companion to latter 20th-century thought you'll ever need.
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Chapter headings?!
- By Daniel Galsworthy on 29-10-21
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Shaking a Leg
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Keeping an Eye Open
- Essays on Art
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story53
Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, for a variety of journals and magazines. Gathering them for this book, he realised that he had unwittingly been retracing the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.
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'allo 'allo
- By Matthew on 26-08-15
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Keeping an Eye Open
- Essays on Art
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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Everybody
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance82
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Story82
Embodiment is not an easy business. From violence to illness, sexuality to racism, the fact of a body can be impossibly hard to inhabit. Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why. Laing’s exploration of the complexities of bodily life takes in some of the most significant and beguiling figures of the past century, among them the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, the painters Francis Bacon and Agnes Martin and the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone.
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Fab book, average narrator
- By Lisa on 07-07-21
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Everybody
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-05-21
- Language: English
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Where There's a Will
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance20
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Following the best-selling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian, and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would we like to leave to our descendants? Not a third-rate painting or our PEPS, according to Sir John, but a love of Shakespeare, a taste for alcohol, the ability to defeat boredom, the importance of never locking the lavatory door, and so on.
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A BIT DISAPPOINTING
- By H. L. Mason on 21-06-14
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Where There's a Will
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-12-12
- Language: English
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Patocracia
- Cómo destruir un país en ocho años
- By: Lucía Etxebarria
- Narrated by: Pilar Pintre
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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Lucía Etxebarría integra su experiencia de cancelación pública, y la de otras figuras conocidas, como síntoma de un clima político y cultural más amplio. Un ambiente en el que el disenso se castiga y el miedo se convierte en una herramienta de control. Provocador, subjetivo y deliberadamente incómodo, este libro combina crítica política, psicología social y análisis del lenguaje. Explora el papel del neuromarketing y de la manipulación emocional para mostrar cómo la razón cede terreno frente al impacto afectivo y el pensamiento binario.
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Patocracia
- Cómo destruir un país en ocho años
- Narrated by: Pilar Pintre
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-04-26
- Language: Spanish
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- By: Zenshin Florence Caplow - editor, Reigetsu Susan Moon - editor
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.
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well formatted giving the story and an explanation of the story
- By W. Laing on 27-04-24
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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Palm Sunday
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.
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Palm Sunday
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Culture and Anarchy
- By: Matthew Arnold
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.
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Culture and Anarchy
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-05-13
- Language: English
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Upworthy: Good People
- Stories from the Best of Humanity
- By: Gabriel Reilich, Lucia Knell
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Piper Goodeve, Ellen Archer, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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For anyone who could use proof that the world is full of good people, this beautifully illustrated book features 101 stories of human decency from Upworthy, the beloved social media brand that reaches more than 100 million people per month.
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Upworthy: Good People
- Stories from the Best of Humanity
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Piper Goodeve, Ellen Archer, Kevin R. Free, Janina Edwards, Gregory Connors, Landon Woodson, Gabriel Reilich, Lucia Knell
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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A Modest Proposal
- By: Jonathan Swift
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food. By doing this he mocks the authority of the British officials.
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A modest proposal
- By sherlock on 23-12-16
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A Modest Proposal
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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Salvador
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror - its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.
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Salvador
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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What Happened?
- By: Hanif Kureishi
- Narrated by: Hanif Kureishi
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable and much-loved author. From social media to the ancient classics, from appraisals of David Bowie to Georges Simenon to Keith Jarrett, this is the latest literary 'event' in a unique body of work that displays Kureishi's characteristic boundless curiosity and wit. What Happened? is as much about the very fact of Kureishi's catholic appetite for culture as his observations and insights themselves, and any new book in his oeuvre is a justification for celebration.
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What Happened?
- Narrated by: Hanif Kureishi
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-03-20
- Language: English
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Money, Sex, War, Karma
- Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
- By: David R. Loy
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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In little time, Loy has become one of the most powerful advocates of the Buddhist worldview, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers sharp and even shockingly clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples - the working of karma, the nature of self, the causes of trouble on both the individual and societal levels - and the real reasons behind our collective sense of "never enough", whether it's time, money, sex, security...even war.
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a great argument
- By a lisa on 04-11-23
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Money, Sex, War, Karma
- Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-04-16
- Language: English
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