What Writers Read
35 Writers on Their Favourite Book
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Bloomsbury presents What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes, read by Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Nick Hornby, Diana Evans, Paris Lees, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Paul Mendez, Sara Collins, Nina Stibbe, Tessa Hadley, Damon Galgut, Simon Darwen and Aysha Kala.
A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM :
Nick Hornby * Ruth Ozeki * Ann Patchett * Benjamin Zephaniah * Marian Keyes * Elizabeth Strout * Deborah Levy * Tessa Hadley * Elif Shafak * George the Poet * Leila Slimani * Ali Smith * Derek Owusu * Dolly Alderton * Paris Lees * Jojo Moyes * Paul Mendez * Sebastian Faulks * Diana Evans * Meena Kandasamy * Lisa Taddeo * Nikesh Shukla * Taiye Selasi * Monica Ali * Nina Stibbe * Caleb Azumah Nelson * Elizabeth Day * Sara Collins * Damon Galgut * Naoise Dolan * William Boyd * Emma Dabiri * Fatima Bhutto * Kit De Waal
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Dear Dolly
- Collected Wisdom
- De: Dolly Alderton
- Narrado por: Dolly Alderton
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
For years, New York Times bestselling author Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth, and wit with the diverse universe of fans who have turned to her “Dear Dolly” column seeking guidance on a host of life problems. Dolly has thoughtfully answered questions ranging from the painfully—and sometimes hilariously—relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, relationships platonic and romantic, dating, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of social media, sex, loneliness, longing, love and everything in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Feels like a hug
- De Lauren Armstrong en 01-05-25
De: Dolly Alderton
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Wellness
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- De: Nathan Hill
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 18 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,856
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,709
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,708
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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you have to believe it'll work
- De Alex halladay en 09-22-23
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Lessons
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- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 681
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
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Mrs. Dalloway
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,570
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,369
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,357
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Tough Read Perfectly Delivered
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed -- 2.75 Stars
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Bookworm
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- De: Lucy Mangan
- Narrado por: Lucy Mangan
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The author’s sarcasm
- De Phil B. en 10-01-24
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Dear Dolly
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- De: Dolly Alderton
- Narrado por: Dolly Alderton
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
For years, New York Times bestselling author Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth, and wit with the diverse universe of fans who have turned to her “Dear Dolly” column seeking guidance on a host of life problems. Dolly has thoughtfully answered questions ranging from the painfully—and sometimes hilariously—relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, relationships platonic and romantic, dating, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of social media, sex, loneliness, longing, love and everything in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Feels like a hug
- De Lauren Armstrong en 01-05-25
De: Dolly Alderton
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Wellness
- A Novel
- De: Nathan Hill
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 18 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,856
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,709
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,708
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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you have to believe it'll work
- De Alex halladay en 09-22-23
De: Nathan Hill
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Lessons
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon McBurney
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 681
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 590
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
- De Peggy M en 09-26-22
De: Ian McEwan
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Mrs. Dalloway
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,570
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,369
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,357
It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Tough Read Perfectly Delivered
- De Chris en 06-11-12
De: Virginia Woolf
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Sorrow and Bliss
- A Novel
- De: Meg Mason
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,143
Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed -- 2.75 Stars
- De Sharlotte en 06-07-21
De: Meg Mason
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Bookworm
- A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- De: Lucy Mangan
- Narrado por: Lucy Mangan
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The author’s sarcasm
- De Phil B. en 10-01-24
De: Lucy Mangan
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Still Writing
- The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
- De: Dani Shapiro
- Narrado por: Dani Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
From Dani Shapiro, best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate companion to living a creative life. Writers - and anyone with an artistic temperament - will find inspiration and comfort here.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring but dark, better to read than listen
- De Raquel en 10-22-21
De: Dani Shapiro
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Capote
- A Biography
- De: Gerald Clarke
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 25 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
First published in 1988 - just four years after Capote's death - Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author's life, based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional person - both brilliant and flawed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the brightest stars can self destruct
- De Placeholder en 09-22-21
De: Gerald Clarke
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Here We Are
- My Friendship with Philip Roth
- De: Benjamin Taylor
- Narrado por: Benjamin Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
So begins Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America's greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roth's place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In Here We Are, Benjamin Taylor's beautifully constructed memoir, we see him as a mortal man, experiencing the joys and sorrows of aging, reflecting on his own writing, and doing something we all love to do: passing the time in the company of his closest friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thankful
- De K. King en 06-10-20
De: Benjamin Taylor
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Red Comet
- The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
- De: Heather Clark
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 45 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 310
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Glitchzig en 10-28-20
De: Heather Clark
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Pity the Reader
- On Writing with Style
- De: Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unlistenable
- De Grant Swalwell en 01-06-20
De: Kurt Vonnegut, y otros
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Well-Read Black Girl
- Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
- De: Glory Edim
- Narrado por: Glory Edim
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 383
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves on the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim brings together original essays by some of our best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all - regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability - have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wish I had...
- De S. Hayes en 03-18-19
De: Glory Edim
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Tom Stoppard
- A Life
- De: Hermione Lee
- Narrado por: Stephen Crossley
- Duración: 37 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 38
Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Shakespeare in Love - remain as fresh and moving as when they entranced their first audiences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great biography
- De Aidan O'Reilly en 03-11-21
De: Hermione Lee
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Birnam Wood
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Catton
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 783
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 655
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding thriller w/ exceptional character development
- De Bradley T. Collins en 04-21-23
De: Eleanor Catton
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Languages of Truth
- Essays 2003-2020
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Raj Ghatak, Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Salman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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SALMAN RUSHDIE
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 07-24-21
De: Salman Rushdie
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Monsters
- A Fan's Dilemma
- De: Claire Dederer
- Narrado por: Claire Dederer
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 224
Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adresses my many questions
- De Syd Young en 11-01-23
De: Claire Dederer
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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Write for Your Life
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Anna Quindlen
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds? Where can we find community, history, humanity? In this lyrical new book, the answer is clear: through writing. This is a book for what Quindlen calls “civilians,” those who want to use the written word to become more human, more themselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An inspiring telling
- De JV in FL en 08-22-22
De: Anna Quindlen