Showing results by publisher "HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books" in Literary History & Criticism
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Something in the Blood
- The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
- By: David J. Skal
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 21 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon.
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Something in the Blood
- The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 21 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2016
- Language: English
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Bunk
- The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
- By: Kevin Young
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington.
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Bunk
- The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2017
- Language: English
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin's rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of soprano popular singers in the 1970s to the forging of a Black women's literary renaissance and the politics of Malcolm X through the lens of Black feminism.
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
- New and Selected Essays
- Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2023
- Language: English
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Jane on the Brain
- Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen
- By: Wendy Jones
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we go back to Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma's mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers? We care because the human brain is a social brain. And Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings, but friends whom we know and love. We see ourselves and others reflected in Austen's work.
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Jane on the Brain
- Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2017
- Language: English
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The Saddest Words
- William Faulkner's Civil War
- By: Michael Gorra
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world.
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The Saddest Words
- William Faulkner's Civil War
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 29-12-2020
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd
- Edgar Allan Poe and the City
- By: Scott Peeples
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft.
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The Man of the Crowd
- Edgar Allan Poe and the City
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-10-2020
- Language: English
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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
- By: Elizabeth Duquette
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society.
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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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How to Be a Farmer
- An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
- By: M. D. Usher - translator
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Whether you farm or garden, live in the country or long to move there, or simply enjoy an occasional rural retreat, you will be delighted by this cornucopia of writings about living and working on the land, harvested from the fertile fields of ancient Greek and Roman literature. An inspiring antidote to the digital age, How to Be a Farmer evokes the beauty and bounty of nature with a rich mixture of philosophy, practical advice, history, and humor.
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How to Be a Farmer
- An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-11-2021
- Language: English
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In the Matter of Nat Turner
- A Speculative History
- By: Christopher Tomlins
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed 55 whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist preacher to recover the haunting persona of this legendary American slave rebel.
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In the Matter of Nat Turner
- A Speculative History
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2020
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Living
- E. E. Cummings in the Great War
- By: J. Alison Rosenblitt
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Intimate and richly detailed, The Beauty of Living begins with E. E. Cummings's Cambridge upbringing and his relationship with his socially progressive but domestically domineering father. It follows Cummings through his undergraduate experience at Harvard, where he fell into a circle of aspiring writers including John Dos Passos, who became a lifelong friend. Steeped in classical paganism and literary Decadence, Cummings and his friends rode the explosion of Cubism, Futurism, Imagism, and other "modern" movements in the arts.
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The Beauty of Living
- E. E. Cummings in the Great War
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2020
- Language: English
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Transforming Harry
- The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
- By: John Alberti - Edited by, P. Andrew Miller - Edited by
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation.
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Transforming Harry
- The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2018
- Language: English
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Light and Legacies
- Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation
- By: Janaka Bowman Lewis
- Narrated by: Janaka Bowman Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature.
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Light and Legacies
- Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation
- Narrated by: Janaka Bowman Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2023
- Language: English
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American Visions
- The United States 1800-1860
- By: Edward L. Ayres
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it. Edward L. Ayers's rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs.
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American Visions
- The United States 1800-1860
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2023
- Language: English
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Bibliophobia
- The End and the Beginning of the Book
- By: Brian Cummings
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 40 mins
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Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5,000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. A global history, covering six continents and seven religions, it discusses topics such as the origins of human script; the development of textual media such as scrolls, codices, printed books, and AI; the collection and destruction of libraries; the use of books as holy relics, talismans, or shrines; and the place of literacy in the history of slavery, heresy, blasphemy, censorship, and persecution.
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Bibliophobia
- The End and the Beginning of the Book
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2022
- Language: English
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Buried Treasures
- The Power of Political Fairy Tales
- By: Jack Zipes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Jack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for uncovering political fairy tales of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, offers fascinating profiles of more than a dozen of their writers and illustrators, and shows why they deserve greater attention and appreciation.
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Buried Treasures
- The Power of Political Fairy Tales
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2023
- Language: English
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