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Shakespeare For Grownups
- Everything you Need to Know about the Bard
- By: E Foley, B Coates
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? If you’ve always felt a bit embarrassed at your precarious grasp on the plot of Othello, or you haven’t a clue what a petard - as in ‘hoist with his own petard’ - actually is, then fear not, because this, at last, is the perfect guide to bring you up to speed. From the authors of the number-one bestselling Homework for Grown-ups, Shakespeare for Grown-ups is the essential book for anyone keen to deepen their knowledge of the Bard’s key plays and sonnets.
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Very interesting and well written/read.
- By G T Butler on 20-04-15
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Shakespeare For Grownups
- Everything you Need to Know about the Bard
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-01-15
- Language: English
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The Aristotle Collection
- Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Rhetoric, On Sense and the Sensible, On Memory and Reminiscence, On Sleep and Sleeplessness, On Dreams, On Prophesying by Dreams, On Longevity and Shortness of Life, On Youth and Old Age, & On Life and Death
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 34 hrs and 1 min
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.
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Great books you can learn about Aristotle from it
- By Oriya on 03-01-24
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The Aristotle Collection
- Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Rhetoric, On Sense and the Sensible, On Memory and Reminiscence, On Sleep and Sleeplessness, On Dreams, On Prophesying by Dreams, On Longevity and Shortness of Life, On Youth and Old Age, & On Life and Death
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 34 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-03-21
- Language: English
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The Wife of Bath
- A Biography
- By: Marion Turner
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter.
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Not what I expected
- By Nancy Bowring on 15-02-23
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The Wife of Bath
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-01-23
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
- By: David Crystal
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, A Little Book of Language ranges widely, revealing language's myriad intricacies and quirks.
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Basic but interesting, better in print form
- By Scifisam on 23-05-15
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A Little Book of Language
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-08-12
- Language: English
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Snatched From The Flames
- By: Nathan Reynolds
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What would you say to the people you loved if you knew The Secrets in your head could cost you all your lives? What do you do when you no longer remember your best friends name, the church you’d served at for seven years or the places you used to work? Where do you go when the memories in your mind are now clouded with shadows of things you’d carefully forgotten? Where once there used to be memories of soccer games and high school pranks, there are assassinations in hotel rooms with poisons and blades. Will she run from me when she knows what I’ve done? When she sees the man in the ...
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The Inklings
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
- By: Humphrey Carpenter
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.
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Unsympathetic to Christianity
- By Miriam W. on 02-11-19
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The Inklings
- C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-11-17
- Language: English
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Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
- By: James Krasner, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: James Krasner
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Every hero works to soothe the fears of the people during their period in history. Heroes are not only brave, but they’re also able to navigate the convoluted corridors of society, and to see through the respectable pretense of others to detect the evil that lies within. So, who better to take on the foggy, crime-ridden streets and strict social mores of Victorian London than the iconic literary detective Sherlock Holmes? In Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary, you’ll investigate the history behind Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s whip-smart, charismatic detective.
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Ok as it goes
- By Mr S. on 02-08-21
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Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
- Narrated by: James Krasner
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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The Layman’s Havamal
- A Modern Interpretation of Viking Age Wisdom
- By: Paul Begadon
- Narrated by: Paul Begadon
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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This book is an exploration of the wisdom in the Viking Age poem "Havamal", specifically as it relates to the average person who isn't a scholar of Old Norse, or even an enthusiast of Viking culture. This book is for the layman, the average person who simply wants to improve their life using proven advice. The poem "Havamal" is earthy, cynical, stoic, and grim in its depiction of human life. Havamal means “The Words of the High One”. The poem's speaker is none other than Odin, King of the Gods, who has traveled the many worlds seeking power and suffered greatly in his quest.
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Great book
- By boyd Saunders on 30-03-23
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The Layman’s Havamal
- A Modern Interpretation of Viking Age Wisdom
- Narrated by: Paul Begadon
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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According to Jennings
- By: Anthony Buckeridge
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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The boys at Linbury Court Preparatory School are eager to speed up the progress of space travel, and none more so than Jennings, whose first task is to find a suitable helmet. But is it really a good idea to take a dome-shaped glass-case, which previously housed a stuffed woodpecker, and place it over his head? Petrified paintpots! Jennings and Darbishire's luck is in when they hitch a ride with an international cricketer, and could it be that they've done something right for once when they attempt to apprehend a suspected burglar? Bat-witted clodpoll!
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Funny and enjoyable
- By John Boy on 02-10-20
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According to Jennings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-01-12
- Language: English
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Snape
- The Definitive Analysis of Hogwarts’s Mysterious Potions Master
- By: Lorrie Kim
- Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Taking an analytical approach to Hogwarts's irascible, protective Potions professor, author Lorrie Kim presents a closer look at how Dumbledore's double agent operates behind the scenes throughout the Harry Potter series. By examining the story from Snape's point of view, this in-depth exploration pierces the defenses of the wizarding world's famed Occlumens, revealing the man for who he truly is: one of pop culture's most memorable heroes.
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the knowledge is vast on this.
- By Andy on 26-04-24
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Snape
- The Definitive Analysis of Hogwarts’s Mysterious Potions Master
- Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-11-22
- Language: English
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Short Stories in German for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings
- Narrated by: Gido Schimanski
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Short Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress as you listen. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in German for Beginners will make learning German easy and enjoyable.
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- By Brynjar Bett on 17-01-19
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Short Stories in German for Beginners
- Narrated by: Gido Schimanski
- Series: Teach Yourself Foreign Language Graded Reader Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Time to Be in Earnest
- A Fragment of Autobiography
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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P. D. James'sextraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist as well as diaries recording her in old age. In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth birthdays and looks back on her earlier life.
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Will appeal to those who enjoy the author's books
- By Kirstine on 23-01-20
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Time to Be in Earnest
- A Fragment of Autobiography
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-02-15
- Language: English
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
- By: Tony Hawks
- Narrated by: Tony Hawks
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Whilst in Ireland for an International Song Competition, Tony Hawks was amazed to see a hitch-hiker, trying to thumb a lift, but with a fridge. This seemed amazingly optimistic - his Irish friends, however thought nothing of it at all. 'I had clearly arrived in a country', writes Tony, 'where the qualifications for 'eccentric' involved a great deal more than that to which I had become used'. Two years pass but the fridge incident haunts our author.
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The Fridge Man
- By Paul on 21-02-12
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
- Narrated by: Tony Hawks
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-04-11
- Language: English
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The Game Is Afoot
- The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Jake Ruddle
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy Black traces how Holmes and his milieu evolved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books and how Holmes continues to resonate today. Black explores the context of Doyle's ideas and stories and why they struck such a chord with readers in London, and ultimately the world. Drawing on a masterful knowledge both of Doyle's era and his writings, this entertaining and wide-ranging book uses the Holmes stories to bring Victorian England to vibrant life, a world where crimes large and small abound.
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Fascinating
- By Allegria on 16-08-23
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The Game Is Afoot
- The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Jake Ruddle
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-06-22
- Language: English
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Short Stories in French for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Richard Simcott
- Narrated by: Louis Bernard
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening.
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Well designed and read stories
- By oliverdog on 13-03-23
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Short Stories in French for Beginners
- Narrated by: Louis Bernard
- Series: Teach Yourself Foreign Language Graded Reader Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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موسوعة الكتب الصوتية
- By: Podcast Record
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انغمس في عالم من المعرفة والترفيه مع مكتبتنا الشاملة التي تضم آلاف الكتب الصوتية العربية والأجنبية. سواء كنت تبحث عن رواية مشوقة لتُنسيك هموم اليوم، أو كتابًا تعليميًا لتطوير مهاراتك، أو قصة ملهمة لتحفزك على تحقيق أهدافك، فإننا نقدم لك كل ما تحتاجه. استمتع بأعلى جودة صوتية وتصفح قائمة واسعة من الكتب التي تناسب جميع الأذواق ...
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William Blake vs the World
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work—and, crucially, his mind.
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An Exceptionial Artist - A Wonderful Exposition
- By N. Walsh on 12-06-21
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William Blake vs the World
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey is the first audiobook that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that, far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.
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Generally a good insight into the world of Orwell
- By Rob on 08-09-20
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called ‘a sort of national property’. He changed forever the way we think about childhood, about the sense of the self, about our connection to the natural environment and about the purpose of poetry. He was born among the mountains of the English Lake District. He walked into the French Revolution and had a love affair and an illegitimate child before witnessing horrific violence in Paris.
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Wordsworth explained
- By Mrs J West on 01-05-22
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Beowulf
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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The oldest long poem in Old English, written about AD 1,000, Beowulf tells the story of a great warrior of southern Scandinavia, in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorizes the Scyldings of Hrothgar's Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As a result, he has to face her enraged mother. Beowulf dies after a battle against a fierce dragon.
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Timeless
- By mr b t adams on 03-02-16
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Beowulf
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-01-06
- Language: English
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