Showing results for "Literary Lives" in Literature & Fiction
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Slice of Life
- Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ragged sheet of paper. "Collapse of Western Civilization - Dr. Norbert Beilstein," it said. "Visitors welcome."
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Superbly read!
- By Ket on 07-09-25
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Slice of Life
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 58 mins
- Release Date: 27-09-16
- Language: English
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The Gentleman from Peru
- Written by: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would rent a boat and invite the others on a cruise. Now, the friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can’t help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two.
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it leaves a mark on you
- By Kindle Customer on 14-10-24
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The Gentleman from Peru
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Series: Audible Original Stories
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 31-08-20
- Language: English
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Life After Truth
- A Novel
- Written by: Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrated by: Rachel Butera
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers.
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Loved it
- By s mohan on 08-07-22
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Life After Truth
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rachel Butera
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Written by: Anne Brontë
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Jenny Agutter
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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The story of a woman's struggle for independence from an abusive husband. Helen 'Graham' has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage and to protect her young son from the influence of his father. Exiled to the desolate moorland mansion, she adopts an assumed name and earns her living as a painter. Gilbert Markham, a local man intrigued by the beautiful young 'widow' offers his friendship but becomes distrustful when her reclusive behaviour sparks rumours and speculation.
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The force of her beautiful characters reached my heart
- By Manish on 26-02-25
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Jenny Agutter
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 14-11-06
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist
- A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel
- Written by: Emile Habiby
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of the aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty, that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian—no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness.
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The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist
- A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 14-06-22
- Language: English
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A Short Stay in Hell
- Written by: Steven L. Peck
- Narrated by: Sergei Burbank
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A man is cast by an unfamiliar God into a vast, incomprehensible Hell - a labrynth library of books containing the stories of every life ever lived. His only way out is to find the single book that tells his own story. But along the seemingly infinite shelves lies...
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A Short Stay in Hell
- Narrated by: Sergei Burbank
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 21-05-26
- Language: English
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The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
- Written by: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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I am now growing in years, and — since I understand that Shakespeare and Mr. Emmons are deceased — it is not impossible that I may even die. It has occurred to me, therefore, that I may as well retire from the field of Letters and repose upon my laurels. But I am ambitious of signalizing my abdication of the literary sceptre by some important bequest to posterity; and, perhaps, I cannot do a better thing than just pen for it an account of my earlier career.
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The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 53 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-26
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Michael K
- Written by: J.M. Coetzee
- Narrated by: Jack Klaff
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and...
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A Brief Placeholder for a Longer Review
- By rahul on 09-06-19
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Life and Times of Michael K
- Narrated by: Jack Klaff
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 12-01-15
- Language: English
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Still Life
- Written by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD ‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton ‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About...
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Did not want this to end
- By Derrick Menezes on 31-03-26
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Still Life
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Bacteria in Daily Life
- Written by: Grace Coleridge Frankland
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The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progress in understanding and preventing diseases such as tuberculosis and diphtheria. The book also includes chapters on the spread of disease through close contact with infected persons as well as from contaminated drinking water and milk. Water purification methods as well as the stability of various disease-causing organisms to extremes of heat and cold is discussed. The final chapter includes a very interesting discussion of the development of anti-venoms ...
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Written by: Thornton Wilder
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Exploring themes of love, goodness, and predestination, Wilder exposes the nature of his characters by examining their relationships. The bonds of parents and children, siblings, and surrogate parents are all examined with elegant skill, leading us to ask the hard questions that point to the inevitable river below.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 13-02-23
- Language: English
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Lost Coast Literary
- Written by: Ellie Alexander
- Narrated by: Megan Trout
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Book editor Emily Bryant finds herself unexpectedly in the charming town of Cascata on California’s Lost Coast, holding the keys to her grandmother’s rambling Victorian mansion. While sorting through her grandmother’s things, Emily learns that she must edit old manuscripts to inherit the estate. It’s a strange request from a family member who was basically a stranger. Emily quickly realizes that there’s something different about these manuscripts. Any changes she makes come true.
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Lost Coast Literary
- Narrated by: Megan Trout
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 14-02-23
- Language: English
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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost
- A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain, Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England
- Written by: Elliot Engel PhD, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost,
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne, Cassandra Campbell, Christopher Cazenove,
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most listeners, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating audiobook, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.
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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost
- A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain, Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne, Cassandra Campbell, Christopher Cazenove, Stephen Fry, full cast
- Series: A Dab of Dickens, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 01-05-15
- Language: English
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The Vine of Desire
- Written by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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the continuity across generations and nations
- By Sangeetha on 07-06-24
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The Vine of Desire
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 14-10-14
- Language: English
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Life Among the Savages
- Written by: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley...
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Life Among the Savages
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Series: Jacksons, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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Birds of America
- Stories
- Written by: Lorrie Moore
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the opening story, "Willing" - about a second-rate movie actress in her 30s who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being - Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
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Outstanding
- By Amazon Customer on 04-09-23
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Birds of America
- Stories
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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The Spoils of Poynton
- Written by: Henry James
- Narrated by: Maureen O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Mrs Gereth, a wealthy widow, is dreading the day that her son, Owen, gets married. She hopes that he will marry a woman who will appreciate their home and all of its treasures as she does. So she enlists the help of Fleda Vetch to try to corrupt the impending marriage of her son and Mona Brigstock - a philistine who is determined to marry Owen in order to inherit Mrs Gereth’s valuable possessions and home by any means. Meanwhile, Fleda hides her real feelings towards Owen. Even when he ends up feeling the same way, Fleda cannot bring herself to marry him as this would force him to break his engagement to Mona, and thus betray all of her own ideals.
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The Spoils of Poynton
- Narrated by: Maureen O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 15-05-09
- Language: English
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The Night Child
- A Novel
- Written by: Anna Quinn
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora’s body—the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire—when you think you might die.”
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The Night Child
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
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These Precious Days
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Bloomsbury presents These Precious Days written and read by Ann Patchett. A BARACK OBAMA TOP BOOK OF 2021 ‘A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death’ Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like...
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Will keep coming back to this for years to come!
- By Rudrani Banerjee on 29-03-22
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These Precious Days
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
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An Artist of the Floating World
- As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
- Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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1948, Japan. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
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fleeting essence with time.
- By Madhu on 13-05-23
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An Artist of the Floating World
- As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-14
- Language: English
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