Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios for Bloomsbury" in Literary History & Criticism
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What Matters in Jane Austen
- Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- By: John Mullan
- Narrated by: Paul Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness. In 20 short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen’s novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction.
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For die-hard Austen fans
- By Robyn on 22-12-2023
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What Matters in Jane Austen
- Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
- Narrated by: Paul Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Edge of Memory
- The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change
- By: Patrick Nunn
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Using Australia as a springboard, this book explores the science in folk history. It looks at ancient tales and traditions that may in all probability be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the biblical flood. Nowadays the majority of our historical knowledge comes from the written word, but in The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the largely untapped resource of the collective human memory that is held in stories. This important book explores the wider implications for our knowledge of how human society has developed through the millennia.
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Ill-informed narrator
- By Rosemary Noble on 28-08-2019
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The Edge of Memory
- The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2018
- Language: English
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Philip Larkin
- Life, Art and Love
- By: James Booth
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the University of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Drawn from years of research and a wide variety of Larkin's friends and correspondents, this is the most comprehensive portrait of the poet yet published.
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Philip Larkin
- Life, Art and Love
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2014
- Language: English
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Young Romantics
- The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives
- By: Daisy Hay
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective - celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt.
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Young Romantics
- The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2013
- Language: English
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Nabokov in America
- On the Road to Lolita
- By: Robert Roper
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined - as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest here, but his best work flowed from his response to this exotic land.
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Nabokov in America
- On the Road to Lolita
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2015
- Language: English
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Dylan Thomas
- A Centenary Celebration
- By: Hannah Ellis - editor
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work, and exploring his lasting legacy. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, the book is arranged thematically and includes a wealth of material: essays from noted biographers such as David Thomas and Clive Woosnam explore Thomas's lasting legacy both at home and abroad, and Welsh poet laurete Gillian Clark reflects on the impact of the seminal "play for voices", Under Milk Wood.
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Dylan Thomas
- A Centenary Celebration
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2014
- Language: English
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Making the Monster
- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on Gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a 19-year-old woman with no formal education come up with the idea for an extraordinary novel such as Frankenstein?
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Making the Monster
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-02-2018
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2016
- Language: English
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Shakespeare in London
- By: Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Dustagheer, Jennifer Young
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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The focus of the book is on Shakespeare's London, how it influenced his drama, and how he represents it on stage. Taking listeners on an imaginative journey through the city, the book moves both chronologically, from beginning to end of Shakespeare's dramatic career, and geographically, traversing London from west to east.
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Shakespeare in London
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2016
- Language: English
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The Vagina
- A Literary and Cultural History
- By: Emma L. E. Rees
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the "c-word" obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly "covert visibility".
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The Vagina
- A Literary and Cultural History
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2014
- Language: English
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Horace and Me
- Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
- By: Harry Eyres
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet, Eyres reexamines Horace’s life, legacy, and verse. With a light, lyrical touch (deployed in new, fresh versions of some of Horace’s most famous odes)and a keen critical eye, Eyres reveals a lively, relevant Horace, whose society—Rome at the dawn of the empire—is much more similar to our own than we might want to believe.
Eyres’s study is not only intriguing—he retranslates Horace’s most famous phrase as “taste the day”—but enlivening.
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Horace and Me
- Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2014
- Language: English
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Mr. Churchill's Profession
- The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the 'Special Relationship'
- By: Peter Clarke
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize - for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples. As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others - chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects....
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Mr. Churchill's Profession
- The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the 'Special Relationship'
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2013
- Language: English
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