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Made in America
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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A history of America through its language
- By Tom on 12-05-10
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Made in America
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 16-01-06
- Language: English
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Can You Forgive Her?
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
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Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six in the Palliser series. Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy. The values and aspirations of the governing stratum of Victorian society are ruthlessly examined, and none remains unscathed. But above all Trollope focuses on the predicament of women. 'What should a woman do with her life?' asks Alice Vavasor of herself, and this theme is echoed by every other woman in the audiobook.
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Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
- By Sharon on 08-03-10
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Can You Forgive Her?
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Series: The Pallisers, Book 1, Audible Exclusive - The Pallisers, read by Timothy West, Book 1
- Length: 28 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-02-10
- Language: English
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The Story of Human Language
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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Groans from Taiwan
- By Jake Harrison on 18-04-20
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Forsyte Saga
- The Man of Property
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don’t let that be the reason you put off listening to this wonderful work. There are passion and lust in these pages, high art and low comedy, and unthinking violence that ride alongside ever-correct manners. Scandal, tragedy, despair, rape, accidental death, marriage, remarriage and a healthy leavening of births all unfold against a rolling backdrop of a world war.
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A wonderful and engrossing story
- By asm09090 on 15-06-16
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The Forsyte Saga
- The Man of Property
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Series: The Forsyte Chronicles, Book 1, The Forsyte Saga (Recorded Books), Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-03-14
- Language: English
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- By: David W. Anthony
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.
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A very impressive work
- By Tony on 01-07-19
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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Martin Eden
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created.
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a genuine masterpiece
- By M on 05-05-24
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Martin Eden
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 15-07-12
- Language: English
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Writing for Busy Readers
- By: Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
- Narrated by: Todd Rogers
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing. Including many real-world examples, a checklist and other tools, this guide will make you a more successful and productive communicator. Rogers and Lasky-Fink bring Strunk and White's core ideas into the twenty-first century's attention marketplace.
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Writing for Busy Readers
- Narrated by: Todd Rogers
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- By: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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The Golden Bowl
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
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Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of Jamess young American heroines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution.
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Wonderful story, poor reading
- By CLR on 13-05-15
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The Golden Bowl
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 25-04-11
- Language: English
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Et tu, Brute?
- The Best Latin Lines Ever
- By: Harry Mount, John Davie
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' – examples would fill a book. And often these phrases are also used in English translation: 'The die is cast'; 'crossing the Rubicon'; 'Rome was not built in a day'.
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Et tu, Brute?
- The Best Latin Lines Ever
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale", and "In the Pride of His Youth", this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances, and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-11-16
- Language: English
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First You Write a Sentence.
- The Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life.
- By: Joe Moran
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Enter acclaimed author Professor Joe Moran. Using minimal technical terms, First You Write a Sentence is his unpedantic but authoritative explanation of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace.
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Brilliant
- By marija maher on 25-12-18
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First You Write a Sentence.
- The Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life.
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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Making Sense
- By: David Crystal
- Narrated by: David Crystal
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as preposition and conjunction now often confound children and adults alike.
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Grammar beautifully explained
- By SGG71 on 29-05-18
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Making Sense
- Narrated by: David Crystal
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 14-07-17
- Language: English
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
- By: E. Nesbit
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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In this follow-up to Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It, Cyril, Robert, Anthea, Jane, and the Lamb have more magical adventures in store when a mysterious egg hatches in the nursery fireplace. Out comes a flame-colored bird, the Phoenix, who, though a bit conceited, proves very helpful indeed. The bird kindly explains that the second-hand Persian carpet recently acquired for the nursery is actually a flying one. On it, they may travel to any place and time that they wish. But once again, the children find that magic does not always go as planned.
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The Phoenix and the Carpet is Amazing and so imaginative!!!
- By Anonymous User on 13-12-23
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Series: The Psammead Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 31-08-12
- Language: English
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings
- Narrated by: Alexander Mercury
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Russian for Beginners will make learning Russian easy and enjoyable.
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Great Companion to the book
- By Joshwright10 on 29-12-19
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners
- Narrated by: Alexander Mercury
- Series: Teach Yourself Foreign Language Graded Reader Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- By: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Read this?
- By S. O'NEILL on 24-06-10
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-08-08
- Language: English
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Wordwatching
- Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
- By: Julian Burnside
- Narrated by: James Millar
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the bestselling Wordwatching, words are a source both of pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill.
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Very informative and easy to listen to.
- By Andrzej Lengiewicz on 13-02-20
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Wordwatching
- Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
- Narrated by: James Millar
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-12-14
- Language: English
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Written in Stone
- A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
- By: Christopher Stevens
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue. First spoken in Stone Age times on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago, this mother tongue spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe and much of Asia. It is the genetic basis of everything we speak and write today - the DNA of language.
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Disappointing
- By Clare on 09-03-17
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Written in Stone
- A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-11-15
- Language: English
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Language A to Z
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Linguistics, the study of language, has a reputation for being complex and inaccessible. But here's a secret: There's a lot that's quirky and intriguing about how human language works-and much of it is downright fun to learn about. But with so many potential avenues of exploration, it can often seem daunting to try to understand it. Where does one even start?
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Hugely entertaining albeit a little shallow
- By Kira Adams on 10-01-19
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Language A to Z
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-11-13
- Language: English
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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day
- Better English Series
- By: Edie Schwager
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and entertaining method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech, and for learning how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide also provides root meanings and elements of words so you can increase your vocabulary base by thousands of exciting new words and use them with aplomb in sentences.
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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day
- Better English Series
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-10-16
- Language: English
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