Showing results by publisher "Blackstone Audio, Inc." in Literary History & Criticism
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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a deeply moving history surprisingly shared
- By Anonymous on 30-07-2022
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2019
- Language: English
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- By: Amos Oz
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2016
- Language: English
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The Inklings
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
- By: Humphrey Carpenter
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance16
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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.
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Certainly surprised by joy
- By Kenneth on 05-03-2019
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The Inklings
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2017
- Language: English
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Doris Lessing
- By: Carole Klein
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Iran and raised in Rhodesia, she moved to Britain with little more than an unpublished novel in her suitcase. Once an ardent Communist, she distanced herself from the movement long before it's attraction faded for others. Always prolific, Lessing continued to explore uncharted territory with her series of science-fiction novels. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this book is a timely portrait of a fascinating woman.
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Doris Lessing
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2006
- Language: English
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Greenmantle
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Secret agent Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic messiah. He is joined by three others: John S. Blenkiron, an American who is determined to battle the Kaiser; Peter Pienaar, an old Boer Scout; and the colorful Sandy Arbuthnot, who is modeled on Lawrence of Arabia. Their success or failure could change the outcome of the First World War.
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Words really fail .....
- By David on 07-05-2019
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Greenmantle
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-01-2007
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance82
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.
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I love this book. Finally! Correct Pronunciation
- By Gillian Steele on 22-09-2020
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2018
- Language: English
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: John Little
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance47
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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Silly Enlightenment Belief in Progress, etc.
- By Stacey on 02-01-2022
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- Narrated by: John Little
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 19-12-2003
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, she demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy - even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only results in a deterministic or naturalistic message.
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-07-2008
- Language: English
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Monster, She Wrote
- The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
- By: Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction.
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Monster, She Wrote
- The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2019
- Language: English
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The World According to Narnia
- Christian Meaning in C. S. Lewis' Beloved Chronicles
- By: Jonathan Rogers
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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In The World According to Narnia, Jonathan Rogers takes you further into the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis, helping you to view our world in the way that Narnia invites you to view it. Rogers shows how the storylines and characters from Narnia sing with biblical truth.
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Brilliant!
- By Ab3 on 24-01-2023
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The World According to Narnia
- Christian Meaning in C. S. Lewis' Beloved Chronicles
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2006
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: Barry Kraft
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Metamorphoses
- Narrated by: Barry Kraft
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2008
- Language: English
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Twenty Years After
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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Twenty years later, time has weakened the resolve of the Musketeers and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.
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excitement plus
- By Medusa on 02-01-2021
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Twenty Years After
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: D'Artagnan: The Musketeers Cycle, Book 2
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2009
- Language: English
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Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Wisdom
- By: Neil Douglas-Klotz - editor, Khalil Gibrán
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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This book is a collection of Gibran's words on how to live. Here are his thoughts on what it means to live in community and solitude and what gives life meaning, along with his often prescient views on government, organized religion, wealth, and commerce. Gibran's sensibility feels contemporary. He did not recognize any ultimate authority outside of the human soul: "It were wiser to speak less of God, whom we cannot understand and more of each other, whom we may understand."
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Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Wisdom
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2019
- Language: English
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The Art of Fiction
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Ayn Rand discusses how a writer combines abstract ideas with concrete action and description to achieve a unity of theme, plot, characterization, and style, the four essential elements of fiction. Here, too, are Rand's illuminating analyses of passages from famous writers, rewrites of scenes from her own works, and fascinating rules for building dramatic plots and characters with depth.
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Great advice
- By Kindle Customer on 03-04-2026
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The Art of Fiction
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-12-2004
- Language: English
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Castle of Otranto
- By: Horace Walpole
- Narrated by: Tony Jay
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself, despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred's ancestor, who usurped the lawful Prince of Otranto, begins to unfold.
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Very fun melodrama
- By Kindle Customer on 21-05-2024
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The Castle of Otranto
- Narrated by: Tony Jay
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2006
- Language: English
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- By: Marion Meade
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.
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the lives of notable literary genius of the 1920's
- By Chainzz on 07-11-2022
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2004
- Language: English
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Nostromo
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.
Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his faithful longshoreman, Nostromo, a local hero of sorts whom Señor Gould believes to be incorruptible.
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Audio is not the best
- By Anonymous on 23-11-2020
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Leaves of Grass
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece, written in a pure, uninhibited style, combining sensual and mystical sensibilities. Its bold, joyous voice, its expansive optimism, and its transcendental vision made it uniquely American.
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Leaves of Grass
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2009
- Language: English
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Ender’s World
- Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game
- By: Orson Scott Card - editor
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Janis Ian, Arthur Morey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is a science fiction classic. In Ender’s World almost two dozen writers offer new perspectives on the 1985 novel, along with insights gleaned from other Ender stories that fit within the Ender’s Game chronology. In addition, military strategists Colonel Tom Ruby and Captain John Schmitt offer insight into the human-Formic war.
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Ender’s World
- Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Janis Ian, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, Orson Scott Card
- Series: The Enderverse
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2013
- Language: English
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