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In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.

During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.

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. It has been mentioned innumerable times that happiness cannot be found outside of you; it is inside of you - in one’s heart. Even then we go out in search of happiness - either through materialistic possessions or through someone else’s existence.

Joining Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios is author of the UK's best-selling zombie horror series The Undead. British writer R R Haywood has just made the quantum-leap into the time travel genre, where a young scientist in the year 2061 has to save the world from oblivion, with the help of three ordinary people from the past. Here he talks about his latest book, Extracted, as well as all things zombies, time travel and more.

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.

J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life, for many years: orphaned and poor, his guardian forbade him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in love with, and he went through the horrors of the First World War. An intensely private and brilliant scholar, he spent over 50 years working on the languages, history, peoples, and geography of Middle-earth,

Si hay un escritor que con su literatura, en una metáfora de guerreros, magos, elfos, gigantes y bestias inverosímiles, haya logrado retratar los horrores de dos guerras mundiales, el desenfreno de la industrialización, la ambición desmedida del poder y el deterioro ambiental del presente...

Born in New York City’s Black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married White poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a Black gay writer in an open marriage, with walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, and more.

Joining us at Audible Studios for the second time is R. R. Haywood, author of Amazon UK’s number one horror series The Undead, and Washington Post best-selling author of The Undead series and the Extracted trilogy (both of which are Audible best sellers!). He talks to us about the first book in his new trilogy, The Worldship Humility, a science-fiction novel detailing the escapades of a petty thief and an Airlock Operative who accidentally steal a code with information about a new habitable planet.

In this rare one-of-a-kind audiobook adventure, the listener is met with the unexpected nature of a grand literary trek. Here is an audio treat to startle the imagination, invigorate the mind, and touch the spirit of all who hear it. From the studios of veteran artists and producers who were amongst the very first to imagine that books might one day talk—first on tape and later in the digital realm.

Science fiction dwells mostly in the realm of possibility, where mysteries proliferate nevertheless, meaning is never static, and “time and history have convinced us that things are not as they seem”. So, too, does all language, argues Samuel Delany, in his vigorous justification for the writing life. Chronicling his struggle with dyslexia, the evolution of his gay and Black identity during the AIDS crisis, and his experiences and relationships through five decades as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, Delany is a longtime observer of language’s inner workings.

Un appassionato scambio di lettere che disegna la biografia emotiva e la vita di una coppia bella e dannata, quella di Francis Scott Fitzgerald e sua moglie Zelda. Poche storie d'amore sono diventate una leggenda come questa: uno scrittore di disarmante talento che morì a quarantaquattro anni consumato dalla tubercolosi e dall'alcol, soltanto otto anni prima che l'eterna ragazza in cui aveva specchiato tutte le sue turbolente eroine bruciasse nel rogo di una clinica per malattie mentali.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Deepen your insight into and appreciation for the writings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis as you explore the untold story of how the First World War shaped their lives, faith, and writings. Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the...

Con una scrittura intima e vivida, l'autrice racconta storie di umanità e natura, in un affresco emotivo dove i cavalli diventano specchio e guida del percorso interiore. La narrazione, tra paesaggi toscani e atmosfere sudamericane, rivela una sensibilità rara nel cogliere le sfumature dell'esistenza, le molteplici forme dell'amore, per gli animali, per i luoghi, per le persone, e il coraggio necessario per trovare la propria strada.

M R Carey, a renowned writer of brilliant comic books, novels and films, visits the Audible Studios to talk about his latest novel, The Boy on the Bridge - a stand-alone story set in the same world as his best seller The Girl with All the Gifts. Alongside him we have one of your favourite narrators, Finty Williams. She's the voice behind the audiobook of Mike's latest novel and several of his previous ones, too.

Nascere sulle rive dell’Arno è un segno distintivo, ma lo è ancor di più decidere di morirvi dopo anni vissuti di là dall’oceano. Nella camera 409 la finestra è spalancata su piazza del Duomo e sulla cupola di Brunelleschi, dentro, ormai stanca, aspetta di morire Oriana Fallaci. Natura ribelle e carattere focoso, degna rappresentante, come tutti i grandi, insieme a Montanelli e Malaparte, della categoria degli acci: fiorentini sarcastici, irritabili, gelosi, gente che punge.

V roce 1979 se Daňa Horáková stala třetí, poslední, manželkou režiséra a scénáristy Pavla Juráčka (1935–1989). Ve stejném roce byli vzhledem ke svým politickým postojům nuceni se v rámci akce Státní bezpečnosti „Asanace“ vystěhovat do Západního Německa. Autorka v knize popisuje jejich seznámení, svatbu a následný společný život nejprve v Čechách a později v Německu bez příkras, a byť i jen malé trošky autocenzury. Poznáváme tu patologický vztah dvou intelektuálů, kteří nemohli žít spolu, ale ani bez sebe. Vyprávění stejně spalující jako příběh Viktorky a Černého myslivce.

Fast hätte J. R. R. Tolkien den Ersten Weltkrieg nicht überlebt. Einzig die Tatsache, dass er 1916 am sogenannten Grabenfieber erkrankte und in der Folge nach England zurückgeschickt wurde, rettete ihm wohl das Leben. Tolkien sehnte sich nach seinen Erlebnissen im Ersten Weltkrieg wohl nach Ruhe. Als Professor für englische Philologie in Oxford lebte er zurückgezogen, verreiste selten und rauchte gerne Pfeife – wie die von ihm geschaffenen Hobbits. Tolkien liebte die nordische Mythologie.

Kniha o životě, vesmíru a vůbec všem, co se dotýká autora nejslavnější pětisvazkové trilogie všech dob. Je určená těm, kdo měli spoustu otázek o povaze, sociálním zázemí, inspiračních zdrojích a příčetnosti Douglase Adamse, ale nevěděli, komu je položit. Kniha sleduje proměny původně rozhlasového seriálu v knižní bestseller, televizní seriál, divadelní hru, film, počítačovou hru, a ručníky. Současně nás seznamuje i se životem spisovatele Douglase Adamse, s jeho netradičním dětstvím či jeho proměnou ve stopařskou superhvězdu galaktického formátu.

Myslíte, že znáte Agathu Christie? Opravdu? Pro svět byla legendární autorkou nejprodávanějších knih. Ve 30. letech 20. století však cestovala se svým manželem, známým archeologem Maxem Mallowanem, který zkoumal ruiny a starověké divy Sýrie a Iráku. Když se jí přátelé zeptali, jaký je ten podivný "jiný život", rozhodla se odpovědět na jejich otázky tím, že si zapíše svá dobrodružství do této knihy. Autorka tento život popsala jako meandrující kroniku života během archeologických vykopávek.