Showing results by publisher "Recorded Books" in Literary History & Criticism
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Life on the Mississippi
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away in pursuit of his dream. Life on the mighty river for Twain consisted of paddleboats and history, poker games and gamblers, larger-than-life characters and outlandish festivals like Mardi Gras. Twain recorded it all with his keen eye for detail and biting wit.
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Life on the Mississippi
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-07-1999
- Language: English
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Sexual Politics
- By: Kate Millett
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors - D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet - and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life.
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A hateful polemic
- By Anonymous on 08-07-2024
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Sexual Politics
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2019
- Language: English
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Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
- A Memoir in Essays
- By: Nicole Graev Lipson
- Narrated by: Nicole Graev Lipson
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters.
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Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
- A Memoir in Essays
- Narrated by: Nicole Graev Lipson
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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Space Crone
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin, So Mayer - editor, Sarah Shin - editor
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.
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Space Crone
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2026
- Language: English
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Gods and Mortals
- Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
- By: Sarah Iles Johnston
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of powerful forces beyond human control. Little wonder that they continue to fascinate readers thousands of years after they were first told. Gods and Mortals is a major new telling of ancient Greek myths by one of the world's preeminent experts.
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Gods and Mortals
- Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-02-2023
- Language: English
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Read Until You Understand
- The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
- By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Farah Jasmine Griffin’s beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that framed the US Constitution and that inspired Malcolm X’s fervent speeches, the soulful music of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the daring literature of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison, the artistry of Romare Bearden, and many others.
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Read Until You Understand
- The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
- Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2021
- Language: English
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Flatland
- By: Edwin A. Abbott
- Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed audiences for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator, and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women - thin, straight lines - are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
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Multi Dimensional Fiction
- By Guillermo Aranguren on 01-11-2023
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Flatland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2014
- Language: English
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These Fevered Days
- Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
- By: Martha Ackmann
- Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready" - and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home" (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent toward publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson's life through 10 decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet.
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These Fevered Days
- Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2020
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar: Children's Literature
- Between the Covers
- By: Prof. Kimberley Reynolds
- Narrated by: Prof. Kimberley Reynolds
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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In the 21st century, many of the best-known and most influential stories have been conceived for juveniles. In "Children’s Literature", Professor Kimberley Reynolds of Newcastle University delves into the phenomenon and “golden ages” of this remarkably diverse literary genre. Throughout the lectures, Reynolds addresses questions of why children’s literature is so popular and how these extraordinary works have both responded to and helped to shape childhood.
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Fascinating
- By AC on 08-05-2025
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The Modern Scholar: Children's Literature
- Between the Covers
- Narrated by: Prof. Kimberley Reynolds
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 19-01-2012
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- Dante and His Divine Comedy: The Modern Scholar
- By: Professor Timothy B. Shutt
- Narrated by: Professor Timothy B. Shutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Kenyon College professor Dr. Timothy B. Shutt examines Dante's greatest work, The Divine Comedy, both in terms of its autobiographical elements and its allegorical meaning for the human race.
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The Modern Scholar
- Dante and His Divine Comedy: The Modern Scholar
- Narrated by: Professor Timothy B. Shutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2008
- Language: English
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The Age of Shakespeare [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Frank Kermode
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare?s works.
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The Age of Shakespeare [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2005
- Language: English
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My America
- Langston Hughes on Democracy
- By: Randal Maurice Jelks
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American artist Langston Hughes. My America traces Hughes's journey from a child captivated by the wonder of Kansas City to cosmopolitan witness in Paris, New York, Mexico City, and Madrid. We encounter Hughes as a young man discovering the pulse of modern life in a world on the verge of exploding metaphorically and literally. His experiences informed his work and his thinking on art, democracy, and activism.
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My America
- Langston Hughes on Democracy
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2026
- Language: English
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Glad to the Brink of Fear
- A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: James Marcus
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces listeners to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness.
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Glad to the Brink of Fear
- A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2024
- Language: English
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The House Where My Soul Lives
- The Life of Margaret Walker
- By: Maryemma Graham
- Narrated by: Kelechi Ezie
- Length: 33 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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This first complete biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She was an artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and institution builder. Among the first to recognize the impact of black women in literature, Walker became a chief architect of what many have called the new Black South Renaissance.
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The House Where My Soul Lives
- The Life of Margaret Walker
- Narrated by: Kelechi Ezie
- Length: 33 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2023
- Language: English
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The Questions That Matter Most
- Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Jane Smiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Smiley has long been acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent novelists. Less known is her nonfiction, her steady and penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. Her approach is both enthusiastic and meticulous, always quick to dive beneath surface-level interpretations of authors and their work. This volume of nonfiction begins with a personal introduction that traces Smiley’s migration from Missouri to California a quarter-century ago.
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The Questions That Matter Most
- Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
- Narrated by: Jane Smiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2023
- Language: English
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Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
- By: H. P. Wood
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Kitty Hayward and her mother are ready to experience the spectacles of Coney Island's newest attraction, the Dreamland amusement park. But when Kitty's mother vanishes from their hotel, Kittty finds herself penniless, alone, and far from her native England. The last people she expects to help are the cast of characters at Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet, a museum of oddities. From con men to strongmen, from flea wranglers to lion tamers, Kitty's new friends quickly adopt her and vow to help find the missing Mrs. Hayward.
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Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-06-2016
- Language: English
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The True Tails of Baker and Taylor
- The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World
- By: Jan Louch, Lisa Rogak
- Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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It all started when Jan Louch, assistant librarian at the Douglas County Public Library in Carson Valley, Nevada, and a coworker acquired two Scottish fold cats to keep mice away from the town's new library. Jan called the cats Baker and Taylor because the names fit the felines' mild temperaments - and because she dealt with the book distribution company on a daily basis.
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The True Tails of Baker and Taylor
- The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World
- Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2016
- Language: English
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Los Que Falsificaron la Firma de Dios
- By: Viriato Sencion, Asa Zatz - translator
- Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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They Forged the Signature of God is an enthralling fictionalized account of the recent and tumultuous history of the Dominican Republic. The story follows three seminary students trying to divine their proper paths in life amid a social climate marked by political repression and instability. Virato Sencion delivers an exacting take on his country's recent political history, and his book has become a best seller in Latin America.
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Los Que Falsificaron la Firma de Dios
- Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2004
- Language: Spanish
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What Fire Cannot Burn
- By: John Ridley
- Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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John Ridley is an acclaimed screenwriter and best-selling author. His first novel featuring LAPD mutant hunter Soledad O'Roark, Those Who Walk in Darkness, was an instant hit. Soledad's second adventure finds her hunting down a vigilante who is murdering metanormals indiscriminantly. She has no love for the mutants, but no one is above the law. So with her modified sidearm at her hip, she hits the pavement, determined to dish out some street justice.
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What Fire Cannot Burn
- Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
- Series: Those Who Walk in Darkness, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2008
- Language: English
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Memoranda During the War
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Robert Gorman
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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"The real war will never get in the books," Walt Whitman wrote in this diary he kept during the Civil War. Whitman chronicled his visits to Washington, D.C. hospitals where he comforted wounded men and assisted nurses and doctors. This journal, written by one of America's greatest poets and writers, captures the details and ironies of war.
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Memoranda During the War
- Narrated by: Robert Gorman
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2007
- Language: English
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