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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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Great Book
- By nilesh bosmiya on 01-03-24
Written by: Sudha Murty
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The Pity of Partition
- Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
- Written by: Ayesha Jalal
- Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll....
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A Tragedy
- By kavita on 16-04-19
Written by: Ayesha Jalal
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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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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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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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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
- A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
- Written by: David Lipsky
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour....
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Amazing memoir by David Lipsky.
- By ankursing50 on 21-07-21
Written by: David Lipsky
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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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Great Book
- By nilesh bosmiya on 01-03-24
Written by: Sudha Murty
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The Pity of Partition
- Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
- Written by: Ayesha Jalal
- Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll....
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A Tragedy
- By kavita on 16-04-19
Written by: Ayesha Jalal
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
- A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
- Written by: David Lipsky
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour....
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Amazing memoir by David Lipsky.
- By ankursing50 on 21-07-21
Written by: David Lipsky
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Technology affects almost everything we do, and its possibilities can be both exhilarating and daunting. This collection features two radio documentaries exploring Douglas Adams’ vision of the digital future, plus Did Douglas Get It Right?, presented by Mitch Benn....
Written by: Douglas Adams
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- Written by: Ian Fleming, Fergus Fleming
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold"....
Written by: Ian Fleming,
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The Art of the Wasted Day
- Written by: Patricia Hampl
- Narrated by: Patricia Hampl
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form....
Written by: Patricia Hampl
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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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J. Krishnamurti (Hindi Edition)
- Ek Jeevani [A Biography]
- Written by: Mary Lutyens
- Narrated by: Shonali Sarkar
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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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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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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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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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- Written by: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown....
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The reading is not engaging
- By Samir Mishra on 05-08-20
Written by: Rebecca Solnit
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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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A Letter to My Father
- Written by: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered....
Written by: Franz Kafka
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Simple Passion
- Written by: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner....
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Simple passions could live forever for a woman
- By Rakesh Agrawal on 08-11-22
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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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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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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Travels
- Written by: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere, comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere....
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Only for diehard fans
- By Biswadeep on 30-01-24
Written by: Michael Crichton
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A Woman's Story
- Written by: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to capture the real woman....
Written by: Annie Ernaux,
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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
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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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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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Véra
- Written by: Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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Véra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time....
Written by: Stacy Schiff
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Rabindranath Tagore
- Written by: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
- Narrated by: Anuj Datta
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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This intellectual biography of Tagore, perhaps the first of its kind, portrays him as a man who was deeply skeptical, self-critical, tormented by conflicts in his inner life, aware of the historical significance of his times and continually interacting with adversaries and friends....
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A journey through Tagore's mind!
- By K SHUKLA on 06-02-23
Written by: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
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One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Written by: Binyavanga Wainaina
- Narrated by: Ivanno Jeremiah
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him....
Written by: Binyavanga Wainaina
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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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Ghalib: The Man, the Times
- Written by: Pavan K. Varma
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Mirza Mohammad Asadullah Khan Ghalib began writing poetry in Persian at the age of nine and the pre-eminent poet of the time, Mir, predicted a great future for the precocious genius when he was shown his verse....
Written by: Pavan K. Varma
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My Childhood
- Written by: Maxim Gorky
- Narrated by: Nicholad Boulton
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy....
Written by: Maxim Gorky
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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
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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 auf offener Bühne mit einem Messer angegriffen und schwer verletzt. Mehr als dreißig Jahre nachdem das iranische Regime wegen seines Romans "Die satanischen Verse« eine Fatwa gegen ihn ausgesprochen hat, holt ihn die Bedrohung ein.
Written by: Salman Rushdie,
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Von F. Scott Fitzgerald bis Gertrude Stein - 10 kurze Biografien berühmter Autoren
- 5 Minuten - Schneller hören - mehr wissen!
- Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein.
Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
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The Book-Makers
- A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
- Written by: Adam Smyth
- Narrated by: Adam Smyth
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.
Written by: Adam Smyth
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Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert
- Written by: Walter Benjamin
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940), war vieles: Philosoph, Kulturkritiker, Übersetzer - aber auch ein Schriftsteller. Auf der Flucht vor den Nazis, die Frankreich besetzt hatten, nahm er sich an der spanischen Grenze das Leben. In seinem autobiografischen Werk Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert beschreibt er in kunstvollen Miniaturen einzelne Bilder und Bruchstücke von Reminiszenzen seiner Kindheit, die an Kunstfertigkeit kaum zu übertreffen sind.
Written by: Walter Benjamin
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Jules Verne - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- Written by: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Jules Verne, French author and inventor of science fiction: 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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La Gloire de mon père
- Souvenirs d'enfance 1
- Written by: Marcel Pagnol
- Narrated by: Philippe Caubère
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Le premier tome des Souvenirs d’enfance de Marcel Pagnol est un classique indémodable.
Par la grâce de son écriture, l’auteur nous transporte dans les collines provençales et nous fait partager son émerveillement d’enfant.
Written by: Marcel Pagnol
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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 auf offener Bühne mit einem Messer angegriffen und schwer verletzt. Mehr als dreißig Jahre nachdem das iranische Regime wegen seines Romans "Die satanischen Verse« eine Fatwa gegen ihn ausgesprochen hat, holt ihn die Bedrohung ein.
Written by: Salman Rushdie,
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Von F. Scott Fitzgerald bis Gertrude Stein - 10 kurze Biografien berühmter Autoren
- 5 Minuten - Schneller hören - mehr wissen!
- Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein.
Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
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The Book-Makers
- A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
- Written by: Adam Smyth
- Narrated by: Adam Smyth
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.
Written by: Adam Smyth
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Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert
- Written by: Walter Benjamin
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940), war vieles: Philosoph, Kulturkritiker, Übersetzer - aber auch ein Schriftsteller. Auf der Flucht vor den Nazis, die Frankreich besetzt hatten, nahm er sich an der spanischen Grenze das Leben. In seinem autobiografischen Werk Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert beschreibt er in kunstvollen Miniaturen einzelne Bilder und Bruchstücke von Reminiszenzen seiner Kindheit, die an Kunstfertigkeit kaum zu übertreffen sind.
Written by: Walter Benjamin
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Jules Verne - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- Written by: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Jules Verne, French author and inventor of science fiction: 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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La Gloire de mon père
- Souvenirs d'enfance 1
- Written by: Marcel Pagnol
- Narrated by: Philippe Caubère
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Le premier tome des Souvenirs d’enfance de Marcel Pagnol est un classique indémodable.
Par la grâce de son écriture, l’auteur nous transporte dans les collines provençales et nous fait partager son émerveillement d’enfant.
Written by: Marcel Pagnol
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- Written by: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black–black clothes, black mask–rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond.
Written by: Salman Rushdie
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Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover
- The Many Lives of Agyeya
- Written by: Akshaya Mukul
- Narrated by: Dishant Narang
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
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Sachchidanand Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' is unarguably one of the most remarkable figures of Indian literature. From his revolutionary youth to acquiring the mantle of a (highly controversial) patron saint of Hindi literature, Agyeya's turbulent life also tells a history of the Hindi literary world and of a new nation—spanning as it does two world wars, Independence and Partition, and the building and fraying of the Nehruvian state.
Written by: Akshaya Mukul
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Leo Tolstoy - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- Written by: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Leo Tolstoy, Russian nobleman and most famous author: 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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Agatha Christie - 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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Agatha Christie, British queen of crime novels: 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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Agatha Christie - Kurzbiografie kompakt
- 5 Minuten - Schneller hören - mehr wissen!
- Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Agatha Christie, englische Königin des Kriminalromans: 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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Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- Written by: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth comes an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go.
Written by: Dorian Lynskey
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Il punto cieco
- Benn, Walser, Melville, Dick, Lubitz. Letteratura e altri abissi
- Written by: Antonino Trizzino
- Narrated by: Dario Dossena
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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C’è un punto in cui l’occhio umano non vede: gli scienziati lo chiamano punto cieco, e di questo si tratta, di una zona d’ombra nella retina dove non arrivano la luce e le immagini esterne. Per fortuna interviene il cervello a “riempire” quel buco nero: capta informazioni dalle aree dell’occhio circostanti e le proietta su quel vuoto. L’esistenza di questo punto cieco è tanto spaventosa quanto affascinante. Come lo sono tutte le zone d’ombra: le parti segrete di ciascuno di noi, le aree oscure del mondo, i punti ciechi nella vita e nell’arte.
Written by: Antonino Trizzino
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Stefan Zweig - Kurzbiografie kompakt
- 5 Minuten. Schneller hören - mehr wissen!
- Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Stefan Zweig, Autor von Weltruhm - und gepeinigtes Genie: 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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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- Written by: Harriet Baker
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a writer again’. Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it.
Written by: Harriet Baker
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Plan B
- Further Thoughts on Faith
- Written by: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on her faith as well – getting older; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognise as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we're not alone in the midst of despair.
Written by: Anne Lamott
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Rudyard Kipling - Kurzbiografie kompakt
- 5 Minuten. Schneller hören - mehr wissen!
- Written by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
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Rudyard Kipling, in Indien geborener Engländer und Literaturnobelpreisträger: 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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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- Written by: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
Written by: Andre Dubus III