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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- De: Lucasta Miller
- Narrado por: Sally Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Romantic Life
- De David en 05-03-22
De: Lucasta Miller
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What Is Man?
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Carl Reiner
- Duración: 3 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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What Is Man? appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic, who debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and whether man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and avoid pain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm 21, this shit was crazy. But I loved it.
- De Trina en 10-16-17
De: Mark Twain
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Kierkegaard
- A Single Life
- De: Stephen Backhouse
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of 19th century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern Christianity, and influenced people as diverse as Franz Kafka and Martin Luther King Jr. Though few people today have read his work, that lack of familiarity with the real Kierkegaard is changing with this biography by scholar Stephen Backhouse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Will en 07-11-17
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The Professor and the Madman
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,044
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,059
Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- De Jerry en 07-07-03
De: Simon Winchester
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
- How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Told!
- De JodyB en 12-01-17
De: Les Standiford
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The Fellowship
- The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- De: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 448
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C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If You Love Literature...
- De Ray M en 07-14-16
De: Philip Zaleski, y otros
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The Prince and the Pauper
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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They look alike, but they live in very different worlds. Tom Canty, impoverished and abused by his father, is fascinated with royalty. Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, is kind and generous but wants to run free and play in the river - just once. How insubstantial their differences truly are becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing - and roles. The pauper finds himself caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, and the prince wanders horror-stricken through the lower strata of English society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful author, terrific narrator, splendid book
- De Rahni en 10-01-17
De: Mark Twain
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A Life Observed
- A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis
- De: Devin Brown
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A beautifully written remembrance
- De Rob en 02-06-18
De: Devin Brown
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Fiery Heart
- De: Claire Harman
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Charlotte Brontë's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Like Jane Eyre, she was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to a brutally strict boarding school at a young age. Charlotte grew up and watched helplessly as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Brontë clan remaining.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clear-Eyed Bio of Literature's Most Elusive Figure
- De wally en 09-02-16
De: Claire Harman
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Mark Twain
- A Life
- De: Ron Powers
- Narrado por: Ron Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Mark Twain founded the American voice. His works are a living national treasury: taught, quoted, and reprinted more than those of any writer except Shakespeare. His awestruck contemporaries saw him as the representative figure of his times, and his influence has deeply flavored the 20th and 21st centuries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Buy the Book
- De W.Denis en 10-22-05
De: Ron Powers
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions?
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5 out of 5 stars
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JOHNATHAN SWIFT AND POWER OF THE PEN
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 09-30-14
De: Leo Damrosch
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachae Wiseman
- Narrado por: Alex Dunmore
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book about nothing
- De Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez en 06-14-22
De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, y otros
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Reading Like a Writer
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Nanette Savard
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Practical, literate, generous
- De Gare en 04-13-08
De: Francine Prose
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The Kingdom of Speech
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 247
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takedown of a pseudointellectual bully!
- De Wayne en 09-01-16
De: Tom Wolfe