Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Literary History & Criticism
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At the Strangers' Gate
- Arrivals in New York
- By: Adam Gopnik
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today...
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At the Strangers' Gate
- Arrivals in New York
- Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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Anita Brookner
- Art and Life
- By: Hermione Lee
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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One of our most brilliant biographers illuminates the life and work of one of the most fascinating, iconic British novelists of our time. “Hermione Lee is a literary life-writer par excellence.” —The Atlantic Anita Brookner is famous for her quiet, incisive studies of solitary and...
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Anita Brookner
- Art and Life
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 13-10-26
- Language: English
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If This Be Magic
- The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
- By: Daniel Hahn
- Narrated by: Daniel Hahn, Full Cast
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world’s most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic of bringing the Bard to a global audience. "For those who care deeply about language, and...
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If This Be Magic
- The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
- Narrated by: Daniel Hahn, Full Cast
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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The Slicks
- On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
- By: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and...
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The Slicks
- On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
- Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-11-25
- Language: English
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Let the Poets Govern
- A Declaration of Freedom
- By: Camonghne Felix
- Narrated by: Camonghne Felix
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal. “In these fierce yet tender pages, Camonghne Felix reveals how imagination can become a form of governance—an instrument for creating a world rooted in...
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Let the Poets Govern
- A Declaration of Freedom
- Narrated by: Camonghne Felix
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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On Morrison
- By: Namwali Serpell
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, AND ESQUIRE NATIONAL BESTSELLER An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor—“a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre”...
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On Morrison
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 17-02-26
- Language: English
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The Trembling Hand
- Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
- By: Mathelinda Nabugodi
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets—with urgent lessons for today "[P]owerful, revelatory. . . . [A]s a writer Nabugodi is warm and witty, her prose both...
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The Trembling Hand
- Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-07-25
- Language: English
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Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world...
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Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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Maus Now
- Selected Writing
- By: Hillary Chute - editor
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth...
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Maus Now
- Selected Writing
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- By: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
- Narrated by: Alex Dunmore
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy...
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- Narrated by: Alex Dunmore
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
- By: Helena Kelly
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was. In this...
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-05-17
- Language: English
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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
- By: Daniel Stashower
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age when he created Sherlock Holmes. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship, to his often stormy...
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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Richard Matthews
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-04-05
- Language: English
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The Amen Corner
- A Play
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dion Graham, January LaVoy, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. "[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston Hughes In...
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The Amen Corner
- A Play
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dion Graham, January LaVoy, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Janina Edwards, Aaron Goodson, Angel Pean, Shayna Small, Robin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, JD Jackson, Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Über Literaturkritik
- By: Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Narrated by: Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki spricht seine Essays selbst. Welche Funktion hat Literaturkritik? An wen wendet sie sich? Was will sie erreichen? Seit mindestens zweihundertfünfzig Jahren werden diese Fragen gestellt und mehr oder weniger erregt debattiert, denn sie treffen ins Zentrum des literarischen Lebens. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, die deutsche Institution der Literaturkritik, hat dazu scharfzüngige, kenntnisreiche und großartig formulierte Essays verfasst.
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Über Literaturkritik
- Narrated by: Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-06-07
- Language: German
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Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
- By: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Fourteen engaging stories from one of India's master story-tellers Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various...
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Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-12-18
- Language: English
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The Lamp is Lit
- By: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Elvis Mathias
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Autobiographical sketches and stories from India's best-loved writer in English. For over four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity and quietude in life and in art. This collection of essays and episodes from his...
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The Lamp is Lit
- Narrated by: Elvis Mathias
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-12-18
- Language: English
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Friends In Small Places
- By: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Paul Thottam
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a...
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Friends In Small Places
- Narrated by: Paul Thottam
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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Fine Family
- By: Gurcharan Das
- Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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This majestic novel by the author of India Unbound is the extraordinary chronicle, rich in passion and incident, of a Punjabi family that is uprooted from its settled existence in Lyallpur by the violence of Partition and forced to flee to India. Everything is lost in the transition, but when a...
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Fine Family
- Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-12-18
- Language: English
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Books for Living
- Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and Embracing Life
- By: Will Schwalbe
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality?...
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Books for Living
- Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and Embracing Life
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-12-16
- Language: English
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Accidental Playboy
- Caught in the Ultimate Male Fantasy
- By: Leif Ueland
- Narrated by: Leif Ueland
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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A freelance writer learns what it's like to be a single, heterosexual guy in an unsteady world when he's invited to travel cross-country for six months on the "Playboy Bus" in search of the Playmate of the Millennium...
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Accidental Playboy
- Caught in the Ultimate Male Fantasy
- Narrated by: Leif Ueland
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-11-02
- Language: English
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