Literary Lives
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Life After Truth
- A Novel
- By: Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrated by: Rachel Butera
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers.
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Dissatisfying mess
- By Anonymous on 12-02-2021
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Life After Truth
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rachel Butera
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2019
- Language: English
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Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities....
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Love in the Time of Cholera
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance137
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Story137
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral....
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magnificent
- By Graham B on 12-12-2018
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Love in the Time of Cholera
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2013
- Language: English
- From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century....
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Slice of Life
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance20
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Story20
The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ragged sheet of paper. "Collapse of Western Civilization - Dr. Norbert Beilstein," it said. "Visitors welcome."
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Great story
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-2023
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Slice of Life
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2016
- Language: English
- The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse....
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Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- By: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 40 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Inspired by a near-mythic event on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, Shadow Country re-imagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
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A masterpiece without doubt
- By Michael on 27-08-2018
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Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Series: Shadow Country Trilogy, Book 1-3
- Length: 40 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2009
- Language: English
- This audiobook re-imagines the legend of the sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors....
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A Floating Life
- A Novel
- By: Tad Crawford
- Narrated by: Phil Kane
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries.
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A Floating Life
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Phil Kane
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2013
- Language: English
- A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife....
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
- By: Sandra Gulland
- Narrated by: Kim Handysides
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true.
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The woman behind Napoleone
- By Anonymous on 02-01-2021
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
- Narrated by: Kim Handysides
- Series: The Josephine B. Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2017
- Language: English
- In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions....
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Driftwood
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Dutton
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Dutton
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Los Angeles, California: Clem Jasper is a trust fund kid with a world famous rock musician for a father. When he dies suddenly (playing ping pong) she discovers he's left her a strange legacy: a series of letters that take her on a mysterious road trip around California. Ignoring her aunt's suggestion that she pitch the trip as a reality show, she embarks on her own to discover just what it was that her father meant her to find. What secret could be so powerful that he had to die before telling her?
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Driftwood
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Dutton
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 23-12-2014
- Language: English
- Clem Jasper is a trust fund kid with a world famous rock musician for a father. When he dies suddenly (playing ping pong) she discovers he's left her a strange legacy: a series of letters....
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Oscar
- A Life
- By: Matthew Sturgis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Oscar Wilde's life – like his wit – was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he was lauded and ridiculed in equal measure. His achievements were frequently downplayed, his successes resented. He had a genius for comedy but strove to write tragedies. Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Oscar Wilde to date.
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Over detailed and boring
- By Mark on 15-10-2025
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Oscar
- A Life
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2023
- Language: English
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Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Oscar Wilde to date....
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Life Before Man
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Deborah Burgess, Libby Lennie, Geoff Bowes
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices - after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men.
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thought provoking
- By Anonymous on 09-05-2020
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Life Before Man
- Narrated by: Deborah Burgess, Libby Lennie, Geoff Bowes
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2019
- Language: English
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Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices - after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man....
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In Certain Circles
- By: Elizabeth Harrower
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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An exploration of relationships, marriage, passion, beauty and the price of love. Zoë Howard is 17 when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. Zoe and Russell, Stephen and Anna: they may come from different social worlds, but all four will spend their lives moving in and out of each other's shadow.
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In Certain Circles
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2017
- Language: English
- An exploration of relationships, marriage, passion, beauty and the price of love....
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Life
- By: Lu Yao, Chloe Estep - translator, Ming Ming Lu - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Robert Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin’s difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance.
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Life
- Narrated by: Robert Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2019
- Language: English
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In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life....
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Life Begins at 50!
- By: Celia Anderson
- Narrated by: Gill Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of married life and about to hit the big 5-0, it’s clear that her dreams haven’t quite come true. Then her husband leaves her for his golf partner, forcing Kate to take stock of what has become of her life. Luckily, new friendship comes her way in the form of three feisty older women who take Kate under their wings, plus a new flame (could it be more . . .?) sparks with local divorced dad, Milo. As her big birthday approaches, Kate’s zest for life begins to return.
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Life Begins at 50!
- Narrated by: Gill Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2024
- Language: English
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Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of married life and about to hit the big 5-0, it’s clear that her dreams haven’t quite come true. Then her husband leaves her for his golf partner.
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
- By: Deesha Philyaw
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.
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Well written, touching and a joy to listen to!
- By Shannon on 08-01-2021
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-12-2020
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters....
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Bigger
- A Literary Life
- By: Trudier Harris
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life.
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Bigger
- A Literary Life
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2024
- Language: English
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A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism.
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Love All
- By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrated by: Joanna Lumley
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4
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A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival...This is the story of their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why - a perfect book to curl up and read by the fireside on an autumn afternoon and as satisfying a read as Brief Encounter is a film.
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Love All
- Narrated by: Joanna Lumley
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2008
- Language: English
- A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country....
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If We Could Turn Back Time
- By: Sian O'Gorman
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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After another relationship disaster Alice Littleton returns home to spend summer in Dublin’s Sandycove with her Mum, Ciara and beloved grandmother Eva at their family deli and grocers. As Alice settles back into her old life with best friend Becca and her new boyfriend Conal Blake, she begins to fall in love with the comings and goings of their family shop and once more enjoying the rhythms of Irish life.
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If We Could Turn Back Time
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2025
- Language: English
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After another relationship disaster Alice Littleton returns home to spend summer in Dublin’s Sandycove with her Mum, Ciara and beloved grandmother Eva at their family deli and grocers.
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The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir
- By: Lesley Allen
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Biddy Weir is a quirky girl. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting, Biddy lives in her own little world, happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by. That is, until she meets Alison Flemming. Because there are a few things about Biddy that aren't normal, you see. And Alison isn't afraid to point them out to the world. All of a sudden, Biddy's quiet life is thrown into turmoil. If only there was someone to convince her that, actually, everyone's a little bit weird....
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Liked Eleanor Oliphant? Make is your next read
- By Anonymous on 27-06-2020
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The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2019
- Language: English
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Biddy Weir is a quirky girl. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting, Biddy lives in her own little world, happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by....
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Lives of the Wives
- Five Literary Marriages
- By: Carmela Ciuraru
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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""The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about...
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Lives of the Wives
- Five Literary Marriages
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2023
- Language: English
- ""The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about...
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Preparation for the Next Life
- By: Atticus Lish
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness.
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Preparation for the Next Life
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2015
- Language: English
- Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens....
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The Custom of the Country
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Grace Conlin
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Edith Wharton's most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a blistering indictment of materialism, power, and misplaced values. Its heroine, Undine Spragg, is one of the most ruthless characters in all of literature, as selfishly unscrupulous as she is fiercely beautiful. As she climbs the class ladder through a series of marriages and affairs, she shows little concern for who she has to step on.
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Wonderful reading of a classic
- By EllaBB on 31-07-2025
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The Custom of the Country
- Narrated by: Grace Conlin
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2009
- Language: English
- One of Edith Wharton's most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a blistering indictment of materialism, power, and misplaced values....
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