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The Genius Dialogues
- By: Audible Originals, Bob Garfield
- Original Recording
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Overall73
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Performance58
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Story58
The MacArthur Foundation awards the "Genius Grant" every year to the most compelling scientists, educators and artists in the country. But who are these "geniuses," really? Host Bob Garfield sits down with fellows, including writer and producer David Simon, radio producer Jad Abumrad, and inventor Amy Smith, to learn what events shaped their life, how they became leaders in their fields, and what they imagine our shared future looks like.
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Great show
- By Erin M on 04-10-18
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Traversal
- By: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 22 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? How do we safeguard our love of truth from our lust for power? What slakes our longings and what redeems our losses?...
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Traversal
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 22 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-03-26
- Language: English
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- By: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance90
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Story92
A charming account of the life of enigmatic Queen Mary, wife of King George V, and a magnetic portrait of a vanished age 'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever' - Harry Mount, Financial Times When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the...
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Maddening foot notes!
- By Ruby G on 17-01-19
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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Boy & Going Solo
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance72
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Story72
Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories. These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy Dahl’s...
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Great story, shame it's only half of the book.
- By Nick on 16-12-18
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Boy & Going Solo
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-11-16
- Language: English
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Philip Larkin
- Life, Art and Love
- By: James Booth
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Story21
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the University of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Drawn from years of research and a wide variety of Larkin's friends and correspondents, this is the most comprehensive portrait of the poet yet published.
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Good literary analysis embedded in a grating hagiography
- By Aravis on 26-06-15
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Philip Larkin
- Life, Art and Love
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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Shattered
- From the author of The Buddha of Suburbia
- By: Hanif Kureishi
- Narrated by: Art Malik
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance40
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Story40
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025 From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed. Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next...
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shattered
- By Bargin Hunter on 24-12-25
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Story19
'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable' Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN 'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating' KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of Super-Infinite Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might...
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Utterly absorbing
- By Sam Bilton on 09-07-25
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Life
- By: A. B. Facey
- Narrated by: Roger Cardwell
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance37
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Story36
Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent 60 years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a "fortunate" one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the story of a life lived to the full - the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
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What a story!!!
- By Anonymous on 15-03-25
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A Fortunate Life
- Narrated by: Roger Cardwell
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-11-12
- Language: English
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Malice in Wonderland
- The witty and perceptive diaries of Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer, 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- By: Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance23
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Story23
Hugo Vickers's adventures in the world of Cecil Beaton: an unputdownable portrait of a vanishing age, featuring untold anecdotes and thrilling titbits of royal gossip 'A fascinating document, a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . . an elegy, sad and comical, to a...
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Tedious twaddle
- By Alex G on 07-04-26
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Malice in Wonderland
- The witty and perceptive diaries of Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer, 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- Narrated by: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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Dante
- By: Alessandro Barbero
- Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
Alessandro Barbero segue Dante nella sua adolescenza di figlio d'un usuraio che sogna di appartenere al mondo dei nobili e dei letterati; nei corridoi oscuri della politica, dove gli ideali si infrangono davanti alla realtà meschina degli odi di partito e della corruzione dilagante; nei vagabondaggi dell'esiliato che scopre l'incredibile varietà dell'Italia del Trecento, fra metropoli commerciali e corti cavalleresche.
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Dante, un uomo dei suoi tempi
- By Anonymous on 12-03-23
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Dante
- Narrated by: Alessandro Benvenuti
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-06-21
- Language: Italian
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Lowborn
- Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
- By: Kerry Hudson
- Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall438
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Performance388
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Story385
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson. What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to...
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Everyone should hear or read this.
- By More than a Mum on 20-05-19
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Lowborn
- Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
- Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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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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Overall34
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Performance20
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Story19
'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
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance22
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Story22
John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.
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An extraordinary life in letters
- By Crawford jamieson on 28-02-23
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- A Biography
- By: Humphrey Carpenter
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance109
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Story109
The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, released for the first time on audio. In more than 40 years since Tolkien’s death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and become...
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Pleasing and well-read biography of a complex man
- By Kl Love on 18-05-20
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-07-18
- Language: English
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The Sign of the Cross
- Travels in Catholic Europe
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Part travelogue, part reportage, part autobiography, The Sign of the Cross is the story of Colm Tóibín's religious pilgrimage across Europe. Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of...
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The Sign of the Cross
- Travels in Catholic Europe
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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In Extremis
- The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
- By: Lindsey Hilsum
- Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall431
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Performance368
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Story371
Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. With fierce compassion and honesty, she reported from the most dangerous places in the world, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. In Sri Lanka in 2001, Marie was hit by a grenade and lost the sight in her left eye - resulting in her trademark eye patch - and in 2012 she was killed in Syria. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war..
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An incredible book for an incredible woman.
- By Marguerite Leech on 15-01-19
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In Extremis
- The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
- Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Lit
- A Memoir
- By: Mary Karr
- Narrated by: Mary Karr
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling ‘The Liars’ Club’ and ‘Cherry’ – a memoir about a self-professed ‘blackbelt sinner’s’ descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. ‘If you’d told me, even a year before I start...
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gutsy and beautiful
- By Wrongfu on 16-12-23
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance141
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Story140
Brought to you by Penguin. Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There...
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Brilliant essays
- By Betty on 14-03-21
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many critics?
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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-03-13
- Language: English
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The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
- By: Deborah Morse, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Deborah Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë created some of the greatest works of 19th-century English literature. How did these three young women, born into a humble parsonage on the isolated moors of Northern England, write such striking work? What influenced them? How did they get their stories out into the world? Why do their novels continue to grip readers to this day? These and other questions are what you will explore in The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice.
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Adds depth to well loved literature
- By Sarielle on 31-08-22
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The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
- Narrated by: Deborah Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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