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El Príncipe
By: Nicolás 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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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
By: Maureen Corrigan
Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A book reviewer for The Washington Post and NPR's Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan is obsessed with books-so much so that they caused her to delay marriage. This audiobook explores her obsession with all things literary. Corrigan expertly weaves together her own life story withthe stories from the books she loves. Read more
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Ayn Rand Answers
By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand turned to nonfiction writing and occasional lecturing. Her aim was to bring her philosophy to a wider audience and to apply it to current cultural and political issues. The taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed added not only an eloquent new dimension to Ayn... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
By: David Wroblewski
Narrated by: Dan Menaker
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
David Wrobleski sits down with Dan Menaker to discuss and read excerpts from his book, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Read more
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Shakespeare
By: Raphael Shargel
Narrated by: Raphael Shargel
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Professor Raphael Shargel channels his passion for teaching and expertise as a Shakespearean scholar into this illuminative study of the Immortal Bard's eight great comedies. Shakespeare's genius is as readily apparent in these comedies as in his timeless tragedies. Often marked by internal and external conflicts, young lovers struggling for... Read more
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Odyssey of the West VI
By: Timothy B. Shutt
Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt, Katherine Elkins & Joel F. Re...
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey of the West series, a grand exploration of art, literature, revolutionary theories, and intellectual progress through the ages, concludes with a fascinating look at the twentieth century. Series editor and esteemed university professor Timothy B. Shutt is joined by contributing lecturers for a lively discussion of the major works and... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Amy Bloom's Away
By: Amy Bloom
Narrated by: Isaiah Sheffer & Jill Eikenberry
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Amy Bloom sits down with Isaiah Sheffer to discuss her book, Away. Jill Eikenberry reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
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Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daring new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character and have continued to provide inspiration to people and poets for generations.Leaves of Grass is Whitman's masterpiece,... Read more
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La ciudad de los herejes (The City of Heretics)
By: Frederico Andahazi
Narrated by: Walter Krochmal
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
En la Francia medieval, el duque Geoffroy de Charny ha hecho uso de su malefica inteligencia para urdir un plan que le asegurara gloria y poder. Dominado por la ambicion, se propone revivir el caracter milagroso del Santo Sudario, la perfecta excusa que justifique la construccion de una iglesia para su propio provecho. Mientras tanto, su hija... Read more
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Classical Mythology
By: Peter Meineck
Narrated by: Peter Meineck
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed... Read more
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Harry, a History
By: Melissa Anelli
Narrated by: Renée Raudman
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What it was like to seek out friends, families, online forums, fan fiction, and podcasts to get a fix between novels. When the... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars
By: Gary Schmidt
Narrated by: Khris Lewin
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Two-time Newbery Medal winner Gary Schmidt talks about the frequently comic mishaps and adventures of a 12-year-old Long Island boy in the Vietnam era. Actor Khris Lewin performs an excerpt from the book. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore.
Thalia Kids' Book Club events are lively talks between children's book authors and their fans (ages... Read more
A Way With Words IV
By: Michael Drout
Narrated by: Michael Drout
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In A Way with Words I, II, and III, Professor Michael D.C. Drout increased listeners' understanding of the way literature works, of the rhetoric that in many ways defines people's lives, and of the intricacies of grammar, all while maintaining a lively tone that conveys the professor's infectious enthusiasm for the subject. In part IV of this... Read more
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James Joyce in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From a young age, James Joyce showed a precocious, original intellect and a confidence in his own artistic destiny. He would indeed go on to transform the nature of modern literature, employing a unique stream-of-consciousness technique rich in symbolism and wordplay. Through his art, the Dublin native sought to reveal the radiance and meaning... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
By: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem, Judith Freeman & Rich Cohen
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) joins Judith Freeman and Rich Cohen in celebrating Raymond Chandler's classic detective novel, The Big Sleep. Read more
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Borges in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges’ frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges’ focus on universal themes early on came to belittle the... Read more
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Reading Magic
By: Mem Fox
Narrated by: Mem Fox
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
We all hope and expect our children will learn to read, but how many of us realize we can get our kids on the road to reading simply by reading aloud to them every day? With passion and humor, Mem Fox explains why reading aloud to young children has such an impact on their ability to read—and on their entire lives. Writing as an ordinary mother... Read more
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Jimmy Carter: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his new book on the Middle East peace process, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work, with Margaret Warner. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book
By: Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: John Hockenberry & Rita Wolf
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Geraldine Brooks sits down with John Hockenberry to discuss her novel People of the Book. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt. Read more
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
By the end of his life, Lawrence had despaired of Western civilization, which he felt had corrupted and weakened the human spirit. He believed that we had somehow lost touch with our instinctual being and no longer responded to the 'true voice' of our blood. We still possessed such truth deep within us, but it was smothered by a dead culture.His... Read more
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Samuel Beckett’s work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving us blinking with stinging eyes at unremitting reality. Beckett’s... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Stroud's Heroes of the Valley
By: Jonathan Stroud
Narrated by: Matthew Cody
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of The Bartimaeus Trilogy discusses his new novel with Matthew Cody (author of the upcoming book Powerless) that follows a young shepherd on a hero's quest. Along the way, he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and the truth about the legends he grew up listening to. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore. Read more
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Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
By: Michael Drout
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The overwhelming success of the Lord of the Rings films and the Harry Potter series aptly demonstrates that the fantasy genre is alive and well in the new millennium. The names of authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Terry Brooks evoke ripe tales of heroism and the clash of good versus evil in magical, faraway lands. The rich... Read more
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Odyssey of the West II
By: Timothy B. Shutt
Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more
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