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Doris Lessing
By: Carole Klein
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of... Read more
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10 Books That Screwed Up the World
By: Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
You've heard of the "Great Books"?
These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad... Read more
Die Augusteische Dichtung - Abridged
By: Niklas Holzberg
Narrated by: Niklas Holzberg
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Philologie mit Prof. Dr. Niklas Holzberg: NACH PHILIPPI 42 v. Chr. Oktavian und Mark Anton haben die Cäsarmörder besiegt und teilen das römische Reich unter sich auf. In der unsicheren politischen Situation entstehen die idyllische Hirtenpoesie Vergils und die zeitkritischen Satiren des Horaz. NACH AKTIUM 31 v. Chr. Oktavian hat Mark... Read more
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Proust and the Squid
By: Maryanne Wolf
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Reading is a miracle, because the brain was never wired for written language. This eloquent, accessible look at reading explores how it has transformed our brains, our lives, and the world.
It took 2,000 years for written language to develop, and it takes 2,000 days for a child's brain to learn to read. During that time, the brain must... Read more
The Romantic Manifesto
By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchphrases and conventional ideas define her sense of the truth.In her ethics AynRand extolled the virtue of... Read more
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Die erotische Dichtung der Römer - Abridged
By: Niklas Holzberg
Narrated by: Niklas Holzberg
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
AMOR IN ROMA Die für das Sexualleben im antiken Rom gültige Ordnung ist dem Liebesgott eher feindlich gesinnt, weshalb die Verfasser erotischer Poesie eine Gegenwelt errichten. CATULL (UM 55 V. CHR.) Berühmt ist das Wechselbad seiner Gefühle in den Lesbia-Gedichten ("Ich hasse und liebe"). Als Spott- und Schmähdichter schreckt er vor... Read more
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Das Alter in der Literatur - Abridged
By: Helmut Bachmaier
Narrated by: Helmut Bachmaier
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: Yes
Die Literaturgeschichte bietet viele Beispiele für Lob und Fluch des Alters. Bei Autoren wie Montaigne, Shakespeare oder Goethe finden wir Einsichten, die durch die moderne Altersforschung verifiziert wurden. Ein Reigen von verschiedenen Altersbildern der Literaturgeschichte liefert Anregungen und Material, um das eigene Altern zu reflektieren. Read more
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How to Read and Why
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. From a lifetime of writing and teaching about literature, this great scholar exhorts readers to consider the... Read more
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A Writer’s People
By: V. S. Naipaul
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." Here, he takes us into his sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his... Read more
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Armageddon in Retrospect
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Rip Torn
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.
A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more
The Everything Guide to C.S. Lewis & Narnia - Abridged
By: Jon Kennedy
Narrated by: Mark Warner
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Lion, the Witch, and the man behind it all. Now, more than ever, the works of C.S. Lewis enthrall and entertain listeners of all ages. But who was this man of intellect and imagination? The Everything Guide to C.S. Lewis and Narnia gives you an in-depth look at this master storyteller, his life and times, and his best-known works. You'll... Read more
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Those Who Walk in Darkness
By: John Ridley
Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
John Ridley, the best-selling author of The Drift, is renowned for his gritty, violent tales and their razor-sharp dialogue. This foray into science fiction is an explosive thriller. In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a superbeing clash, America has had enough. All... Read more
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The Philosophical Dictionary
By: Voltaire
Narrated by: Donal Donnelly
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
-A collection of Voltaire's ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but worth saving for later development-wise and witty entries on subjects as diverse as atheism and kissing. Read more
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Ex Libris
By: Anne Fadiman
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring... Read more
The Age of Shakespeare
By: Frank Kermode
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts,... Read more
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Die griechische Literatur. Von Homer bis zum Ende der Antike - Abridged
By: Martin Hose
Narrated by: Martin Hose
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Epen Homers, die Tragödien des Sophokles oder die Dialoge Platons gehören zu den Fixpunkten der europäischen Literatur. Zugleich sind sie Wegmarken der griechischen Literaturgeschichte, die mit einer technischen Revolution, der Nutzung der Schrift, einsetzt und in einem Prozess von fast 1500 Jahren in stetig wachsender Verfeinerung eine... Read more
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El Príncipe
By: Nicolas Maquiavelo
Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
El príncipe constituye un capítulo fundacional del pensamiento y la literatura occidental, y, sin embargo, el lector tiene que sortear la inercia de tópicos seculares al intentar aventurarse por sus páginas. Pero, en última instancia, Maquiavelo fue sobre todo un esforzado patriota florentino, y gran parte de su vida estuvo dedicada al servicio... Read more
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The Buried Book
By: David Damrosch
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one... Read more
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Do I love thee… …let me count…
By: Various Authors
Narrated by: Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis, Amy Caldwell & K...
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? Do you wish you were in love? Or perhaps you wish you weren't in love? For everyone who loves, who ever loved, who searches for love, who suffers from love, who rejoices in love, this set of 70 poems is for you. It ranges in time from classical Greece to the early 20th century. It includes voices from... Read more
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Adam Resurrected
By: Yoram Kaniuk
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written.A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam is now the ringleader at an asylum populated solely... Read more
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How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read
By: Pierre Bayard
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 bestseller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book’s place in our culture. Using examples from works by Graham Greene, Umberto Eco, and others (and... Read more
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PONS mobil Sprachtraining Aufbau: Italienisch
By: Giorgio Piva, Beatrice Rovere-Fenati & Christop...
Narrated by: Various Artists
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Sie besitzen bereits italienische Grundkenntnisse und Sie möchten mehr dazulernen und mehr können? PONS mobil Sprachtraining enthält 12 Dialoge und Interviews mit Menschen aus Italien. Nach jedem Dialog bzw. Interview folgen Übungen, die Ihnen helfen - gesprochenes Italienisch leichter zu verstehen - die Grammatik zu wiederholen - Ihren... Read more
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Shakespeare
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, and... Read more
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PONS mobil Sprachtraining Aufbau: Präsentieren auf Englisch
By: Phil Newton
Narrated by: Various Artists
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Das praktische Englisch-Training für unterwegs: Präsentieren Sie professionell auf Englisch! Ob mit pie chart oder bar chart: meistern Sie souverän die häufigsten Situationen aus Bereichen wie Marketing, Vertrieb, Personal, Finanzen... Bereiten Sie sich auf das Moderieren, Vortragen oder Präsentieren auf Englisch vor und werden Sie bald so... Read more
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