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The Voyage Out
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.
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The Voyage Out
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2015
- Language: English
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More Than Words
- How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
- By: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Narrated by: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign language. But why do we have this almost magical, special talent? It turns out...
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More Than Words
- How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
- Narrated by: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2025
- Language: English
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection, Melvyn Bragg surveys how English has evolved over 1,000 years. He starts by looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how English has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin and Old French to dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries. He also examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks and, lastly, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2022
- Language: English
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Caesar and Cleopatra
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emporor of Rome and the Queen of the Nile as only Shaw could have imagined them! He is a self-doubting cynic who is experiencing a mid-life crisis and she is an imperious and impertinent child on the threshold of womanhood. This recording also includes Shaw's alternate Prologue and his post-text notes.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
- Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2013
- Language: English
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A Tale of a Tub
- By: Jonathan Swift
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Swift's allegorical satire about religion and politics follows the lives of three brothers, Martin, Peter, and Jack, each of who represents a faction of the Christian faith - Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism, and the dissenting faiths, respectively. Each brother inherits a coat (representing religious practice) from their father (God) on the condition that they do not change it. But instead the three quarrelsome youths disobey their father and change their coats beyond recognition.
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A Tale of a Tub
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-12-2015
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words
- The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
- By: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning - a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things - from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that don’t exist at all, like flying pigs.
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Louder Than Words
- The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-01-2014
- Language: English
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Language Unlimited
- The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
- By: David Adger
- Narrated by: David Adger
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Where does our linguistic creativity come from? How does the endless scope of language emerge from our limited selves? Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes the listener on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand.
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Language Unlimited
- The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
- Narrated by: David Adger
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-05-2020
- Language: English
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Eve's Diary - Complete
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 40 mins
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Eve's Diary - Complete, written by the incomparable Mark Twain, was first published in 1905 in the Christmas edition of Harper's Bazaar. This charming short story is told from both Adam and Eve's point of view as they traverse their new world from the Garden through to the Fall and is said to be a love letter to his late wife Olivia Langdon Clemens who passed a year before it's publication.
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Eve's Diary - Complete
- Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2017
- Language: English
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The Water Babies
- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- By: Charles Kingsley
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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A main-stay of British children's literature through the 1920's, The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby was written by Rev. Charles Kinglsey as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine in 1862-63.
Although some of the author's opinions seem dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over icebergs, is still a wonderful adventure tale for children. The book was adapted into an animated film in 1978 and produced as a play at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003.
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The Water Babies
- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2012
- Language: English
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-01-2016
- Language: English
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Bunner Sisters
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner are two unmarried sisters who own a small notions shop in a shabby section of New York City circa 1900. The older sister, Ann Eliza, buys a small clock for her sister's birthday from a tiny shop and meets the owner, a German immigrant named Herman Ramy. Once Mr. Ramy enters their lives, things begin to change in ways that neither sister could have imagined.
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Bunner Sisters
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2016
- Language: English
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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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In Our Time
- The Written World
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Broadcaster and arts presenter Melvyn Bragg fronts 'The Written World', a five-part BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history. In the first programme he looks at the technology...
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In Our Time
- The Written World
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2012
- Language: English
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- By: Ross Perlin
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- By: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2024
- Language: English
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Plato's Gorgias
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art. This dialogue blends comic and serious discussion of the best life, providing a penetrating examination of ethics.
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Plato's Gorgias
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 08-03-2016
- Language: English
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The Poor Clare
- By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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The intentional killing of a woman's dog unleashes a torrent of rage. In her desire for revenge, the woman curses the dog's killer: All that the murderer loves most, he will lose. This haunting tale brilliantly demonstrates Elizabeth Gaskell's understanding of the tensions between Catholics and Protestants and the harsh realities of class society.
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A tale beyond the usual
- By Anonymous on 27-06-2023
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The Poor Clare
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2015
- 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
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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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Say It Skillfully
- Speak Up, Make Your Words Matter, Win Together
- By: Molly Tschang, Marshall Goldsmith, Ken Blanchard - foreword
- Narrated by: Molly Tschang, Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Effective communication is the ultimate currency. It *is* the way to trusted relationships, great work and a happy life—and it’s a team sport. All of us play a role.
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Say It Skillfully
- Speak Up, Make Your Words Matter, Win Together
- Narrated by: Molly Tschang, Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith, Alan Mulally
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-05-2025
- Language: English
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Moonfleet
- By: F. Exell, John Meade Falkner
- Narrated by: Royce Pierreson
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, read by Royce Pierreson. A tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. Everyone in the tiny village of Moonfleet lives by the sea one way or another, so it's no surprise when young John Trenchard...
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As good for adults as you people!
- By Anonymous on 17-04-2022
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Moonfleet
- Narrated by: Royce Pierreson
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 25-10-2018
- Language: English
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