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Shakespeare Without a Life
- By: Margreta de Grazia
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No chronology had been devised by which to coordinate the events in his life with the writing of his works. Nor was there an archive of primary materials on which to base a life. And the only work by Shakespeare written in the first person, the Sonnets, had yet to be critically edited and incorporated into the canon. Without a biography, how could Shakespeare have been valued and understood?
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Shakespeare Without a Life
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2023
- Language: English
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Liberty or Justice for All?
- A Conversation Across the American Centuries
- By: Philip F. Gura
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Liberty or Justice for All? brings to life four of America's greatest thinkers, whose dialogue across the ages has never been more relevant.
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Liberty or Justice for All?
- A Conversation Across the American Centuries
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2023
- Language: English
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Black Women Writers at Work
- By: Claudia Tate - editor
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after.
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Black Women Writers at Work
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2023
- Language: English
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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
- By: Simon Young
- Narrated by: Jonathan Johns
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In the last 50 years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s.
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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
- Narrated by: Jonathan Johns
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Romance of Murder
- Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir
- By: David Lehman
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The Mysterious Romance of Murder, the poet and critic David Lehman explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies—some famous (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to aficionados—with style, wit, and passion.
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The Mysterious Romance of Murder
- Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-10-2022
- Language: English
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Victories Never Last
- Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
- By: Robert Zaretsky
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the work of great writers who endured similar circumstances. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, historian and biographer Robert Zaretsky did the same while also working as a volunteer in a nursing home in south Texas. In Victories Never Last, Zaretsky weaves his reflections on the pandemic siege of his nursing home with the testimony of six writers on their own times of plague: Thucydides, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, and Albert Camus.
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Victories Never Last
- Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2022
- Language: English
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The Game Is Afoot
- The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Jake Ruddle
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy Black traces how Holmes and his milieu evolved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books and how Holmes continues to resonate today. Black explores the context of Doyle's ideas and stories and why they struck such a chord with readers in London, and ultimately the world. Drawing on a masterful knowledge both of Doyle's era and his writings, this entertaining and wide-ranging book uses the Holmes stories to bring Victorian England to vibrant life, a world where crimes large and small abound.
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The Game Is Afoot
- The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Jake Ruddle
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-06-2022
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Bishop
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jonathan F.S. Post
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the "best-loved" poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the ninety or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse. Drawing on biographical and critical material, Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishop's letters and commentary by fellow poets. Throughout, Post places Bishop's lyric poetry alongside her other poetic genres, short stories, and translations within the context of her life and aesthetic values, showing how these shaped her work.
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Elizabeth Bishop
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-05-2022
- Language: English
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Extinction and the Human
- Four American Encounters
- By: Timothy Sweet
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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In Extinction and the Human, Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.
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Extinction and the Human
- Four American Encounters
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-05-2022
- Language: English
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Comic Book Women
- Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
- By: Peyton Brunet, Blair Davis, Trina Robbins - foreword
- Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others.
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Comic Book Women
- Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
- Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2022
- Language: English
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The Short Story
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Andrew Kahn
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing innovations in plot construction, capacity for psychological insight, and ability to offer intensely concentrated perceptions.
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The Short Story
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2022
- Language: English
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The Men in My Life
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: J. Michael McCullough
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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In this collection, Vivian Gornick turns her attention to a large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.
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The Men in My Life
- Narrated by: J. Michael McCullough
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2021
- Language: English
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George Bernard Shaw
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Christopher Wixson
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures 70 years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity.
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George Bernard Shaw
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2020
- Language: English
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The Avengers and Philosophy
- Earth's Mightiest Thinkers
- By: William Irwin, Mark D. White
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Avengers assemble! Tackling intriguing dilemmas and issues that no single great philosopher can withstand, this powerful book enlists the brainpower of an A-list team of history's most prominent thinkers to explore the themes behind the action of Marvel Comics' all-star superhero team.
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The Avengers and Philosophy
- Earth's Mightiest Thinkers
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
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The Hunger Games and Philosophy
- A Critique of Pure Treason
- By: George A. Dunn, William Irwin, Nicolas Michaud
- Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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At every turn in the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss, Peeta, Gale, and their many allies wrestle with harrowing choices and ethical dilemmas that push them to the brink. Is it okay for Katniss to break the law to ensure her family's survival? Do ordinary moral rules apply in the Arena? Can the world of The Hunger Games shine a light into the dark corners of our world? Why do we often enjoy watching others suffer? An essential companion for Hunger Games fans, this book will take you deeper into the dystopic world of Panem and into the minds and motivations of those who occupy it.
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The Hunger Games and Philosophy
- A Critique of Pure Treason
- Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
- Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-07-2020
- Language: English
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy
- Everything Is Fire
- By: William Irwin, Eric Bronson
- Narrated by: David G. Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium Trilogy is an international phenomenon. These books express Larsson's lifelong war against injustice, his ethical beliefs, and his deep concern for women's rights. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical?
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy
- Everything Is Fire
- Narrated by: David G. Roberts
- Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-07-2020
- Language: English
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Twilight and Philosophy
- Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality
- By: Rebecca Housel, William Irwin, J. Jeremy Wisnewski
- Narrated by: Rebecca Housel
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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Bella and Edward, and their family and friends, have faced countless dangers and philosophical dilemmas in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels. This book is the first to explore them, drawing on the wisdom of philosophical heavyweights to answer essential questions such as: What do the struggles of "vegetarian" vampires who control their biological urge for human blood say about free will? Are vampires morally absolved if they kill only animals and not people? From a feminist perspective, is Edward a romantic hero or is he just a stalker? Is Jacob "better" for Bella than Edward?
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Twilight and Philosophy
- Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality
- Narrated by: Rebecca Housel
- Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-07-2020
- Language: English
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Zorro's Shadow
- How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero
- By: Stephen J.C. Andes
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Long before Superman or Batman made their first appearances, there was Zorro. Born on the pages of the pulps in 1919, Zorro fenced his way through the American popular imagination, carving his signature letter Z into the flesh of evildoers in Old Spanish California. Zorro is the original caped crusader, the first hero to have a band called the Avengers, and the character who laid the blueprint for the modern American superhero. In Zorro's Shadow, historian and Latin American studies expert Stephen J. C. Andes investigates the legends behind the mask of Zorro.
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Zorro's Shadow
- How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2020
- Language: English
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Detectives in the Shadows
- A Hard-Boiled History
- By: Susanna Lee
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force - and sometimes even the law - is the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a shadowy figure in a trench coat standing on a street corner, his face most likely obscured by a tilted fedora, a lit cigarette dangling from his hand. The hard-boiled detective is known by his dark past, private pain, and powers of deduction. He only asks questions - never answers them. In his stories he is both the main character and the narrator.
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Detectives in the Shadows
- A Hard-Boiled History
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2020
- Language: English
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Under the Red White and Blue
- Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
- By: Greil Marcus
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald's story has become a key to American culture and American life itself.
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Under the Red White and Blue
- Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2020
- Language: English
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