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Common Yet Uncommon
- 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life
- Written by: Sudha Murty
- Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox—to be filled with food—wherever she goes....
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I love you
- By Samuel on 10-05-24
Written by: Sudha Murty
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Letter to My Daughter
- Written by: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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What a beautiful Narration 💗
- By Sanghamitra Matta on 21-02-23
Written by: Maya Angelou
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Ayn Rand Answers
- The Best of Her Q & A
- Written by: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs
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Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order to bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues....
Written by: Ayn Rand
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- Written by: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
Written by: Rob Wilkins
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Lone Fox Dancing
- My Autobiography
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Udai Matthan
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In this brilliantly listenable autobiography - his book of books - one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written....
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Brilliant Bond
- By D D Tahilyani on 14-03-22
Written by: Ruskin Bond
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- Written by: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.
Written by: Harold Bloom
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Common Yet Uncommon
- 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life
- Written by: Sudha Murty
- Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox—to be filled with food—wherever she goes....
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I love you
- By Samuel on 10-05-24
Written by: Sudha Murty
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Letter to My Daughter
- Written by: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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What a beautiful Narration 💗
- By Sanghamitra Matta on 21-02-23
Written by: Maya Angelou
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Ayn Rand Answers
- The Best of Her Q & A
- Written by: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order to bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues....
Written by: Ayn Rand
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- Written by: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
Written by: Rob Wilkins
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Lone Fox Dancing
- My Autobiography
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Udai Matthan
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In this brilliantly listenable autobiography - his book of books - one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written....
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Brilliant Bond
- By D D Tahilyani on 14-03-22
Written by: Ruskin Bond
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- Written by: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.
Written by: Harold Bloom
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Rain in the Mountains
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life....
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Rain or sunshine, mountains are mesmerizing
- By Rakesh Agrawal on 23-09-22
Written by: Ruskin Bond
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J. Krishnamurti (Hindi Edition)
- Ek Jeevani [A Biography]
- Written by: Mary Lutyens
- Narrated by: Shonali Sarkar
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Hindi translation of Krishnamurti: His Life and Death, Mary Lutyens shares a personal and philosophical account of his life, staying aligned with his beliefs about the world, the nature of knowledge, self, life and death....
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love
- By Jigs on 23-08-21
Written by: Mary Lutyens
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Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Written by: Brian Evenson
- Narrated by: Brian Evenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature....
Written by: Brian Evenson
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My Story
- Written by: Kamala Das
- Narrated by: Suchitra Koliyot
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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My Story is an autobiographical book written by Indian author and poet Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Surayya or Madhavikutty). The book was originally published in Malayalam, titled Ente Katha. The book evoked violent reactions of admiration and criticism....
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A heartwarming story!
- By AzzKikr on 16-10-23
Written by: Kamala Das
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Written by: James Boswell
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 51 hrs and 2 mins
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The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time....
Written by: James Boswell
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
- Written by: Alexandra Popoff
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
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Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century....
Written by: Alexandra Popoff
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Life on the Mississippi
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away...
Written by: Mark Twain
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Thalia Book Club: David Rakoff's Half Empty and Sloane Crosley's How Did You Get This Number
- Written by: David Rakoff, Sloane Crosley
- Narrated by: Ira Glass
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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The authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) and I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Crosley) join up to examine our contemporary culture....
Written by: David Rakoff,
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Daily Rituals
- How Artists Work
- Written by: Mason Currey
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring....
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An important nudge
- By Kindle Customer on 04-02-22
Written by: Mason Currey
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- Written by: Miles J. Unger
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the 20th century....
Written by: Miles J. Unger
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Gauguin and Polynesia
- Written by: Nicholas Thomas
- Narrated by: Nicholas Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In this generously illustrated life of Gauguin, Nicholas Thomas retells the artist's story for a twenty-first-century audience, giving greater consideration to the Pacific contexts of his experience, and to Pacific perspectives on his art and his legacy....
Written by: Nicholas Thomas
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Meri Duniya Mere Dost [My World My Friend]
- Written by: Khushwant Singh
- Narrated by: Dinesh Verma
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Meri Duniya Mere Dost is a collection of Hindi translations of Singh’s writings that consists of personal notes, memoirs, articles, philosophical musings and some wit from this beloved author whose career has spanned multiple decades....
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Honesty is the best policy !
- By Gunwant Vithalrao Kamble on 19-08-22
Written by: Khushwant Singh
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Knife (German edition)
- Written by: Salman Rushdie, Bernhard Robben - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Felix von Manteuffel
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Das Weltereignis als Hörbuch: Salman Rushdie erzählt die Geschichte des Attentats auf ihn. Im August 2022 wird Salman Rushdie während einer Lesung...
Written by: Salman Rushdie,
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On Writers and Writing
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....
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Not like any other
- By Arvind Passey on 24-12-21
Written by: Margaret Atwood
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A Man's Place
- Written by: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame....
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A Heart Warming Narration of Emotions
- By Saurav Sikdar on 06-09-23
Written by: Annie Ernaux,
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The Golden Years
- The Many Joys of Living a Good Long Life
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Shubhankar
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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In his trademark warm, witty, whimsical style and his marvellously simple prose, Ruskin tells us how to enjoy the advancing years some of us are blessed with, and how to make the most of the amazing gift called life....
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After 60, your golden period starts
- By Rakesh Agrawal on 04-09-23
Written by: Ruskin Bond
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Keith Haring Journals
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Written by: Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey - foreword, Robert Farris Thompson - introduction
- Narrated by: David Pittu, Shepard Fairey
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s. His artwork - with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion - filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, 20 years after his death....
Written by: Keith Haring,
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On Leopard Rock
- A Life of Adventures
- Written by: Wilbur Smith
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....
Written by: Wilbur Smith
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Salman Rushdie at the 92nd Street Y
- Written by: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Mr. Rushdie reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown....
Written by: Salman Rushdie
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Frantumaglia
- Os caminhos de uma escritora [A Writer's Journey]
- Written by: Elena Ferrante, Marcello Lino - tradução
- Narrated by: Livia Simardi, Andressa Bode
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Em Frantumaglia, a própria Elena Ferrante explica sua escolha de permanecer afastada da mídia, permitindo que seus livros tenham vidas autônomas....
Written by: Elena Ferrante,
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Ghalib
- A Wilderness at My Doorstep
- Written by: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
- Narrated by: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Ghalib's poetic trajectory begins from Urdu, then moves to composing almost entirely in Persian and finally swings back to Urdu. It is nearly as complex as his poetry. However, his poetic output in Persian is far more than what he wrote in Urdu....
Written by: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
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Newsroom Confidential
- Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
- Written by: Margaret Sullivan
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Margaret Sullivan
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded....
Written by: Margaret Sullivan
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Modern Man
- The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow
- Written by: Anthony Flint
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier - a man who invented new ways of building and thinking....
Written by: Anthony Flint
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Meri Jeewan Gatha [My Life Story]
- Written by: R. K. Narayan
- Narrated by: Babla Kochhar
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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For me travelling is like that constant feeling of retrospection and soul searching inside of me. For some reason, stories of people from faraway lands make my mind anxious and my brain go into a frenzy....
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अनमोल जीवन की अनमोल सीख
- By vijay chawla on 31-01-22
Written by: R. K. Narayan
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Ci si può accostare ai grandi scrittori della nostra letteratura dall’alto delle loro opere, con un punto di vista intellettualmente critico, colto, accademico. Oppure ci si può avvicinare al loro vissuto, per quanto sghembo, contraddittorio e difficile, da una normale quotidianità. Qui ci viene raccontato Giorgio Manganelli mentre sceglie il vino più opportuno per un invito a cena o fa la sua ordinazione al ristorante con assoluta precisione.
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Josephine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Terezia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Recamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt.
Written by: Anne Higonnet
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Jean-Michel Basquiat - Kurzbiografie kompakt
- 5 Minuten - Schneller hören - mehr wissen!
- Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, amerikanischer Künstler der Superlative: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!
Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
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Biographische Belustigungen 2
- Written by: Jean Paul
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Die Sprachanwendung Jean Pauls gleicht dem kontrollierten Ritt eines wilden Dinosauriers mit fünf Drachenköpfen. Man weiß zwar nie was als nächstes passiert, aber es geht auf überraschendste und angenehmste Arten und Weisen immer weiter. Dabei entpuppt sich der Autor als Meister mannigfaltiger Metaphern, welche praktisch in jedem Satz Denkanstöße, Ideen und Phantasien beim Zuhörer anregen und diesen in ein Parallel-Universum des grenzenlosen Geistes versetzen, der Berge spalten, Seelen gebären und Welten zu erschaffen vermag und das einen vom ersten Moment an fesselt, verzaubert und inspiriert.
Written by: Jean Paul
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Philip Roth - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- Written by: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Philip Roth, American author and world-famous narrator Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
Written by: George Fritsche
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Портреты современников
- Written by: Сергей Маковский
- Narrated by: Всеволод Кузнецов
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Сергей Маковский - русский поэт, художественный критик и организатор художественных выставок, издатель, сын известнейшего русского художника Константина Егоровича Маковского. Учился в Александровском лицее, окончил физико-математический факультет Санкт-Петербургского университета. Первой публикацией Маковского была статья «В.М. Васнецов и Владимирский собор» в журнале «Мир божий». Несколькими годами позже вышло первое «Собрание стихов» Маковского. Тогда же Маковский основал художественный журнал «Аполлон» в Санкт-Петербурге, ставший одним из центров художественной и литературной жизни.
Written by: Сергей Маковский
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Kurt Tucholsky - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- Written by: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Kurt Tucholsky, most famous German publicist: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
Written by: George Fritsche
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- Written by: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and creator of the Little Prince: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
Written by: George Fritsche
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Las palabras justas
- Written by: Milena Busquets
- Narrated by: Milena Busquets
- Length: 3 hrs
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Milena Busquets practica en estos diarios una escritura de pinceladas impresionistas y logra que de lo cotidiano, de lo en apariencia anodino, emerja la epifanía. Este es un diario sobre días tristes y días felices −"La euforia y la felicidad absolutas están a un milímetro del ataque de pánico"−, escrito sin trampa ni cartón, sin falsos pudores, ni engolada pompa. Escrito siguiendo esta premisa: "Uno escribe solo ante el peligro, no hay otra manera honesta de hacerlo, el menor atisbo de autocomplacencia es una señal de cobardía.
Written by: Milena Busquets