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Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation
- In Praise of a Plural World
- By: Linda Jaivin
- Narrated by: Linda Jaivin
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international politics can be a few steps from serious trouble.
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Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation
- In Praise of a Plural World
- Narrated by: Linda Jaivin
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Pharsalia
- By: Lucan
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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If you had been a court poet during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, irritating the megalomaniac ruler would not have been wise. And one of the things which would have really angered Nero would have been the effort to write an epic poem about the struggle between Pompey and Caesar in which the noble hero (portrayed by Pompey) was the man who fought to preserve the Republic, and the selfish villain (portrayed by Caesar), the man who destroyed it. Yet Lucan wrote just such a poem.
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The Pharsalia
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-05-2017
- Language: English
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale", and "In the Pride of His Youth", this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances, and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2016
- Language: English
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The Sensitive Man
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: C James Moore
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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By the end of the 21st century, a deep-state human-systems organization, the Psychotechnic Institute, has begun melding neuroscience and psychoanalytics to create the foundation for generations of more peaceful, more powerful, more "sensitive" human beings. In Poul Anderson's 1954 science-fiction thriller, The Sensitive Man, one such human, Simon Dalgetty, is on the trail of brutal men who kidnapped Michael Tighe, keeper of the keys to the Institute's secrets, and, thus, to the fate of world order.
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The Sensitive Man
- Narrated by: C James Moore
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2018
- Language: English
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Grammamanti
- Immaginare futuri con le parole
- By: Vera Gheno
- Narrated by: Vera Gheno
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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Chi può definirsi grammamante? Chi ama la lingua in modo non violento, la studia e così comprende di doverla lasciare libera di mutare a seconda delle evoluzioni della società, cioè degli usi che le persone ne fanno ogni giorno parlando. Essere grammarnazi significa difendere la lingua chiudendosi dentro a una fortezza di certezze tanto monolitiche quanto quasi sempre esili; chi decide di abbracciare la filosofia grammamante, invece, non ha paura di abbandonare il linguapiattismo, ossia la convinzione che le parole che usiamo siano sacre, immobili e immutabili.
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Grammamanti
- Immaginare futuri con le parole
- Narrated by: Vera Gheno
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2024
- Language: Italian
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Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings and Facts! A Brief History on Colloquial Expressions and Where They Come From!
- Why Do We Say That?
- By: Scott Matthews
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Why Do We Say That, we've rounded up 101 of the most commonly used idioms and "hit the nail on the head" by providing the historical context behind each one. Don't be a "deer in the headlights" when someone asks you the meaning of "straw man" or "up a creek without a paddle." This book has got you covered.
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Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings and Facts! A Brief History on Colloquial Expressions and Where They Come From!
- Why Do We Say That?
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2025
- Language: English
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- By: Margalit Fox
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records.
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Incredible story. Innovation, dedication and addiction really pays off !
- By Leigh on 25-08-2025
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-09-2013
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
- Penguin Classics
- By: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrated by: Fiona Glascott
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Fiona Glascott, star of Brooklyn and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Geoffrey Wall. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor...
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A difficult story superbly narrated.
- By T.E. Jakopo on 29-08-2024
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Madame Bovary
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Fiona Glascott
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2019
- Language: English
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Japanese in 40 Minutes
- Learn to speak Japanese in minutes with Collins
- By: Collins Dictionaries
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Japanese language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by...
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A good, short intro.
- By Leslie Brown on 03-06-2018
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Japanese in 40 Minutes
- Learn to speak Japanese in minutes with Collins
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2007
- Language: Japanese
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Time to Talk
- What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development
- By: Michelle MacRoy-Higgins PhD, Carlyn Kolker
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Wondering when to expect baby's first word? Want to get your toddler talking? Worried your child is not speaking as clearly as his peers? When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions, and Time to Talk has the answers.
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Great information
- By Kindle Customer on 19-02-2019
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Time to Talk
- What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2017
- Language: English
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The English Language
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Simon Horobin
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.
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The English Language
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2018
- Language: English
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تاريخ اللغة
- By: ستيفن روجر فيشر
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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يبحث هذا الكتاب تاريخَ اللغة منذ ما قبل اللغة البشريَّة حتى الانفجار الهائل لوسائل التواصل والإعلام في وقتنا الراهن. ويستهلُّ المؤلِّف حديثَـهُ بوصف طرائق تواصل الحيتان والطُّيور والحشرات والرئيسيَّات من غير البشر، مشيراً إلى أنَّ هذه السياقات الأولى صالحةٌ لتطبيق مفهوم اللغة، ثم ينتقلُ إلى الحديث عن القدرات المبكِّرة للإنسان المنتصب، وانتشار اللغات في جميع أنحاء العالم، محلِّلاً تطوُّرَ الكتابة، ومبرزاً أثـرَ ظهور علم اللغويات في القرن التَّاسع عشر في دراسة اللغات البشريَّة وفهمها. ويتابع المؤلِّف تطوُّرَ رؤية اللغويين لعلاقة اللغة بالتغيُّرات الاجتماعيَّة في منتصف القرن العشرين. وأخيراً يتطرَّق إلى تأثيرات المذياع والتلفاز والدعاية والإعلام وشبكة الإنترنت في اللغة، ويتساءل كيف تعيدُ الوسائط الإلكترونيَّـة تشكيلَ لغات العالم يومياً، وترسمُ مستقبلَها؟ مقترحاً إعادة تفسيرٍ جذريَّـةٍ للغة.
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تاريخ اللغة
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2025
- Language: Arabic
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Psycholinguistics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Fernanda Ferreira
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but research in psycholinguistics has shown that complex computations take place behind the scenes when you communicate with others. Recent debates concerning how AI tools such as ChatGPT work highlight some of these core questions about the language faculty and how it is that humans comprehend, produce, and learn language.
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Psycholinguistics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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This amazing collection of poetry from the famous Greek Anthology spans over 1,500 years of ancient Greek and Byzantine history. The selections in this recording were chosen and translated by famed classicist J. W. Mackail.
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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2020
- Language: English
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Language and Mediated Masculinities
- Cultures, Contexts, Constraints
- By: Robert Lawson
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. In Language and Mediated Masculinities, Robert Lawson draws on data to explore language and masculinities across a range of media contexts.
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Language and Mediated Masculinities
- Cultures, Contexts, Constraints
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2023
- Language: English
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New Poems
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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New Poems by D.H.Lawrence. Narrated by Denis Daly. This audiobook is a collection of 42 poems first published in 1920. In it, Lawrence explores the possibilities of free verse, of which he says in the preface: “This is the unrestful, ungraspable poetry of the sheer present, poetry whose very permanency lies in its wind-like transit.”
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New Poems
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2018
- Language: English
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A March on London
- Being a Story of Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt
- By: George Alfred Henty
- Narrated by: Jim Hodges
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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In 1381, Wat, the Tyler, and the peasants he represented urged of the king of England that serfdom should be abolished, the right of all to market their goods publicly should be allowed, the price of good land should not be over four pennies an acre, and that all past offenses should be pardoned. Instead of presenting their requests in a respectful manner, they took to the streets of East Anglia, Kent, and London. Although their demands were certainly reasonable, their methods were not.
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A March on London
- Being a Story of Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt
- Narrated by: Jim Hodges
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-07-2017
- Language: English
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Death at the Excelsior [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: P.G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 51 mins
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Inside a quiet boarding house on the waterfront, a man stares up to the ceiling with sightless eyes. The tight lipped landlady proclaims that it is murder. Can an upscale detective agency penetrate to the bottom of the mystery?
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Death at the Excelsior [Classic Tales Edition]
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2017
- Language: English
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- By: Thomas De Quincey
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was first published anonymously in 1821 in the London Magazine and was published in book form a year later. A revised edition was published in 1846. It is an account by the author of his addiction to laudanum and the effects it had on his life. This recording presents an abridged version of the 1856 edition.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2017
- Language: English
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La dame aux camélias
- By: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Narrated by: Élodie Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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"La Dame aux camélias" raconte l'histoire des amants maudits, Marguerite et Armand, que les jugements moraux et la maladie vont détruire : le roman d'un désastre amoureux où les sentiments sont bafoués au profit de la bienséance sociale. Alexandre Dumas fils s'est inspiré de sa maîtresse, la courtisane Marie Duplessis, pour créer la dame aux camélias, héroïne romanesque s'il en est, et également héroïne d'opéra à partir de 1853, quand Verdi adaptera son histoire sous le nom de "La Traviata".
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La dame aux camélias
- Narrated by: Élodie Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2016
- Language: French
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