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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- By: Miles Jupp
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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In these 10 entertaining documentaries, he explores why some books, games and binge-watched box sets are, as they say, 'literally unputdownable'; peers into Plotto, an ingenious manual of story devices, to discover whether it really can make writing easy; takes a sideways look at some familiar characters from literature, including James Bond, Dracula, Fu Manchu and Carruthers; delves into the intricacies of the locked-room murder; and revisits his old prep school to find out whether a book of stirring 19th-century verse can work its magic on today’s young people.
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Strangely smug
- By Liz on 01-01-21
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
- Social Sciences
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History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)
- By: History of Westeros
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Come obsess over A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones with us! Our show is an enthusiastic and heavily-detailed look at the past, present and future of Westeros and the realms beyond.
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Macbeth
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance22
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.
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A great play, poorly performed/recorded
- By Jklaw on 31-12-17
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Macbeth
- Narrated by: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 31-12-00
- Language: English
- Crime · Classics · Drama
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance9
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Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance-art pieces, and most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.
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Not every essay brilliant, but well worthwhile
- By Paul Beardsell on 23-02-20
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-07-18
- Language: English
- Essays · Philosophy · Social Sciences
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Why Bother?
- By: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Narrated by: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance45
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Story45
1994 saw one of Peter Cook's most acclaimed performances since his 1960s' heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through 'Beyond the Fringe' and 'Not Only...
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Two masters at the top of their game
- By Joseph William McQuade on 14-05-18
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Why Bother?
- Narrated by: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 28-04-06
- Language: English
- European · Film & TV · World Literature
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- By: John Betjeman
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance18
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Story17
'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old...
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A beautiful listen
- By Hilary on 18-01-16
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-08
- Language: English
- Art & Literature · Authors · European
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance44
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.
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Excellent book. Foreign language quotations in reading a problem.
- By chloe sevigny on 09-02-22
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-07-14
- Language: English
- Art & Literature · Authors · European
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Potterless
- By: Mike Schubert
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Join Mike Schubert, a grown man reading the Harry Potter series for the first time, as he sits down with HP fanatics to poke fun at plot holes, make painfully incorrect predictions, and bask in the sassiness of the characters. Schubes and his guests cover a portion of the Harry Potter franchise each week, taking you on a journey through your childhood, this time with the rose-tinted glasses off. Follow Potterless on Twitter (@PottterlessPod) and Instagram (@PotterlessPodcast), and learn more about the show at www.potterlesspodcast.com
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A bit to much basketball talk but other than that very good
- By Amazon Customer on 23-01-26
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Classics of Horror: Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- By: James Krasner, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: James Krasner
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall5
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Performance3
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James Krasner, an expert in Victorian literature, takes you on a fascinating journey into the enduring power of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You’ll learn how these three literary masters structured their novels to offer not only scares but also complex insights into cultural debates that still matter to us today.
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Absurd climate change lecture
- By Michael Dubarry on 02-07-25
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Classics of Horror: Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Narrated by: James Krasner
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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Furies
- Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
- By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, and others
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance9
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'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist ______________________________ A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers...
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Epic
- By Amazon Customer on 31-08-24
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Furies
- Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, Katie Leung, Laura Aikman
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 08-03-23
- Language: English
- Social Sciences
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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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Overall16
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Performance13
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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
- Nonfiction · 19th Century · Essays
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Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
- By: James Krasner, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: James Krasner
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Performance62
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Every hero works to soothe the fears of the people during their period in history. Heroes are not only brave, but they’re also able to navigate the convoluted corridors of society, and to see through the respectable pretense of others to detect the evil that lies within. So, who better to take on the foggy, crime-ridden streets and strict social mores of Victorian London than the iconic literary detective Sherlock Holmes? In Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary, you’ll investigate the history behind Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s whip-smart, charismatic detective.
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Ok as it goes
- By Mr S. on 02-08-21
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Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
- Narrated by: James Krasner
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
- Art & Literature · Authors
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Cruel Optimism
- By: Lauren Berlant
- Narrated by: Amanda McKibbin
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted.
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This is dictated by AI, it is SHOCKING
- By P7002 on 06-04-25
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Cruel Optimism
- Narrated by: Amanda McKibbin
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
- Sociology
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Listen to Series of Full Audiobooks in Classics, British Literature
- By: Free Audiobooks
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Download 3 full audiobooks of your choice free at https://esound.spaceJust pick any 3 audiobooks free from 500,000+ best sellers, new releases sci-fi, romances, mysteries, classics, and more. Select your favorite audiobooks, free, stream or download your audiobooks instantly on your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop. It's that easy!Contact: info@esound.space
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
- Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
- By: Joseph Campbell, Henry Morton Robinson, Edmund L. Epstein - editor
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Countless would-be readers and listeners of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life - have given up after a few pages and "dismissed the book as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to understanding the fascinating world of Finnegans Wake.
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
- Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-06-20
- Language: English
- Customs & Traditions · European
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Right Ho, Jeeves
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
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Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Bertie must deal with the Market Snodsbury Grammar School prize giving, the broken engagement of his cousin Angela, the wooing of Madeline Bassett by Gussie Fink-Nottle, and the resignation of Anatole, the genius chef. Will he prevail? Only with the aid of Jeeves!
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Death in Venice
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall129
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Performance104
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Story104
A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us
- By Wras on 20-09-15
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Death in Venice
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-12-11
- Language: English
- European · Genre Fiction · Psychological
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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
- Charles II's Great Escape
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall123
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Performance102
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed...
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What a story.
- By Mark on 14-06-18
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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
- Charles II's Great Escape
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · England
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Twelve Angry Men
- By: Reginald Rose
- Narrated by: Dan Castellaneta, Hector Elizondo, Armin Shimerman
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Overall38
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Performance32
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Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, 12 jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices.
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recorded live - audience thought it was a comedy
- By allison mcdonagh on 09-03-17
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Twelve Angry Men
- Narrated by: Dan Castellaneta, Hector Elizondo, Armin Shimerman
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-07-06
- Language: English
- Drama & Plays · European · United States
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