Showing results by publisher "Fourth Estate" in Literary History & Criticism
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- By: Alex Ross
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story18
’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and...
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A masterful example of Gesamtkunstwerk
- By Wotan on 05-07-21
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
- By: Philip Hoare
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker. ‘Undoubtedly Hoare’s masterpiece’ Olivia Laing ‘Queer in all senses of the word’ Neil Tennant ‘A life-changing book’ Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times ‘Fabulously...
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A labour of love
- By Anonymous on 05-08-25
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William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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Mantel Pieces
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance31
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Story32
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical...
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Wonderful, just oddly pronounced
- By Ali on 05-10-20
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Mantel Pieces
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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South and West
- From A Notebook
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks–writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations...
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South and West
- From A Notebook
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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The Voice that Thunders
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES ‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN In this rich collection of writings, spanning more...
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The Voice that Thunders
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Jane Carr
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance74
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Story74
A brilliant collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation...
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Some Good Stories Spoilt by the Reader
- By Helen on 20-02-21
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
- Narrated by: Jane Carr
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-09-14
- Language: English
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The Free World
- Art and Thought in the Cold War
- By: Louis Menand
- Narrated by: David Colucci
- Length: 34 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer...
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The Free World
- Art and Thought in the Cold War
- Narrated by: David Colucci
- Length: 34 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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September 1, 1939
- W.H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
- By: Ian Sansom
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book about a poet – W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a...
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a special treat
- By Olly Buxton on 01-02-21
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September 1, 1939
- W.H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-08-19
- Language: English
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The Pages
- By: Hugo Hamilton
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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The narrator of The Pages is not a human but a book: a first edition of Joseph Roth’s masterpiece Rebellion, rescued from a Nazi book-burning in 1933. In recounting its history, it tells a multitude of stories: of Andreas, the character who lives in its pages; of its current owner, a woman whose discovery of a hand-drawn map in the book begins a thrilling mystery; and of Roth himself, a writer on the run. Together, they form a compelling story about art, nationalism, the weight of history, and the strange connections between us.
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The Pages
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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Little Labours
- By: Rivka Galchen
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. ‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston Globe One August day, a baby was born, or as it...
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Little Labours
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-05-17
- Language: English
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Semicolon
- How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life
- By: Cecelia Watson
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules. Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began...
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Nothing in language is 100% trustworthy?
- By Julian Griffin on 23-11-23
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Breathe
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take up an academic residency. But when Gerard is struck by a fatal illness, their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela must first face the terrifying prospect of widowhood, then the chaos of the days when Gerard is gone.
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Breathe
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-08-21
- Language: English
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The World According to Joan Didion
- By: Evelyn McDonnell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Joan Didion was a writer’s writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life’s telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world. The World According to Joan Didion is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didion’s prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to “throw themselves into the convulsions of the world,” as she once said.
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The World According to Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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On Purpose
- Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
- By: Ben Hutchinson
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find our modern, secular...
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On Purpose
- Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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