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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
- How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells, Concocted Creative Nonfiction
- By: Lee Gutkind
- Narrated by: Lee Gutkind
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction. In this book Gutkind tells the true story of how creative nonfiction became a leading genre for both audiences and writers.
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
- How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells, Concocted Creative Nonfiction
- Narrated by: Lee Gutkind
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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The Situation and the Story
- The Art of Personal Narrative
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks—and answers. Taking us on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras.
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The Situation and the Story
- The Art of Personal Narrative
- Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Open at the Close
- Literary Essays on Harry Potter
- By: Cecilia Konchar Farr - editor
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan, Sarah Sampino
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Despite their phenomenal decades-long success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literary culture. In Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one.
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Open at the Close
- Literary Essays on Harry Potter
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan, Sarah Sampino
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: English
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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
- A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
- By: Kathryn Aalto
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play. The Hundred Acre Wood - the setting for Winnie-the-Pooh's adventures - was inspired by Ashdown Forest, a wildlife haven that spans more than 6,000 acres in southeast England.
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Helped the reader join Pooh and friends in their wanderings.
- By G R O FRIEND "Pubgypsy" on 29-01-24
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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
- A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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The Environmental Unconscious
- Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton
- By: Steven Swarbrick
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it provides an innovative and theoretical account of environmental loss focused on the counterintuitive forms of enjoyment that early modern poetry and psychoanalysis jointly theorize.
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The Environmental Unconscious
- Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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Black Women Writers at Work
- By: Claudia Tate - editor
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after.
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Black Women Writers at Work
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-01-23
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
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A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime - to transgress moral law - if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.
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Fascinating and wonderfully read
- By Lon Shriver on 16-07-13
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Crime and Punishment
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-07-10
- Language: English
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A Horse at Night
- On Writing
- By: Amina Cain
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Amina Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors—including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf—and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess.
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Weird accents
- By G. Ruffer on 02-11-22
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A Horse at Night
- On Writing
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Decadence
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: David Weir
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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David Weir explores the conflicting attitudes towards modernity present in decadent culture by examining the difference between aesthetic decadence - the excess of artifice - and social decadence, which involves excess in a variety of forms, whether perversely pleasurable or gratuitously cruel. Such contrariness between aesthetic and social decadence led some of its practitioners to substitute art for life and to stress the importance of taste over morality, a maneuver with far-reaching consequences.
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Decadence
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-08-18
- Language: English
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Contemporary Fiction
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Robert Eaglestone
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and postmodernism, the relationship between globalization and terrorism, and the impact of technology, Eaglestone examines how works both reflect the world in which we live and the artistic concerns of writers and readers alike.
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Contemporary Fiction
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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The Dark Fantastic
- Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
- By: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fan-fiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century.
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The Dark Fantastic
- Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Comparative Literature
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Ben Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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From colonial empire-building in the 19th century to the postcolonial culture wars of the 21st century, attempts at "comparison" have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? That is discussed in this audiobook....
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Comparative Literature
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-11-18
- Language: English
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George Bernard Shaw
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Christopher Wixson
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures 70 years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity.
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George Bernard Shaw
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-12-20
- Language: English
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The World According to Proust
- By: Joshua Landy
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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This book is a brief guide to Proust's magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the listener to view the novel as a single quest-a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging-through the novel's fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, self-fashioning, and the unconscious mind.
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The World According to Proust
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-12-22
- Language: English
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Émile Zola
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Brian Nelson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as "naturalism" and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late 19th century in ways that scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, including the realities of working-class life, class relations, and questions of gender and sexuality, and his writing embodied a new freedom of expression, with his bold, outspoken voice often inviting controversy.
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Émile Zola
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-01-21
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
- With the Letters to Rilke from the "Young Poet"
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Damion Searls - translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.
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Letters to a Young Poet
- With the Letters to Rilke from the "Young Poet"
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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Classical Mythology
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Helen Morales
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction audiobook goes beyond a simple retelling of the stories to explore the rich history and diverse interpretations of classical mythology. It is a wide-ranging account, examining how classical myths are used and understood in both high art and popular culture, taking the listener from the temples of Crete to skyscrapers in New York, and finding classical myths in a variety of unexpected places: from Arabic poetry and Hollywood films, to psychoanalysis, the Bible, and New Age spiritualism.
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- By Daniel on 30-08-23
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Classical Mythology
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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Game of Thrones and Philosophy
- Logic Cuts Deeper than Swords
- By: William Irwin - editor, Henry Jacoby - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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George R. R. Martin's New York Times best-selling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show adapted from it, have earned critical acclaim and inspired fanatic devotion. This book delves into the many philosophical questions that arise in this complex, character-driven series, including: Is it right for a "good" king to usurp the throne of a "bad" one and murder his family? How far should you go to protect your family and its secrets?
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Game of Thrones and Philosophy
- Logic Cuts Deeper than Swords
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Series: Pop Culture and Philosophy, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Jonathan Franzen
- The Comedy of Rage
- By: Philip Weinstein
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Jonathan Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: How does one appeal to a broad mass of mainstream readers on the one hand while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two later novels, on which his reputation rests?
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Good listen
- By Blind Boy on 08-01-19
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Jonathan Franzen
- The Comedy of Rage
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-10-15
- Language: English
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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
- By: Simon Young
- Narrated by: Jonathan Johns
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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In the last 50 years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s.
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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
- Narrated by: Jonathan Johns
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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