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  • Made in America cover art

    • Made in America

    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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    • Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

    • The Untold Story of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • The Dawn of Language

    • The Story of How We Came to Talk
    • By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

    • Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....

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    • The Mabinogion

    • By: Anonymous
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings

    • The Mabinogion is a mesmerizing panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humor. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories....

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    • Cultish

    • The Language of Fanaticism
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings

    • The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....

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    • Deathworld

    • By: Harry Harrison
    • Narrated by: Christian Rummel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor....

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    • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories

    • By: Oscar Wilde
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is a masterpiece of polished cynicism in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss....

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    • Love Among the Chickens [Classic Tales Edition]

    • By: P. G. Wodehouse
    • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Stanley Featherstonehough Ukridge is positively convinced that his complete ignorance of chicken farming gives him a particular advantage in the subject. A bombastic blowhard, he persuades his wife and his mild-mannered chum to start a chicken farm with him....

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    • A Little Book of Language

    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Nine Nasty Words

    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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    • The Trumpet-Major

    • By: Thomas Hardy
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Rowe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • War threatens the rich, green fields of Wessex in Hardy's historical novel The Trumpet-Major....

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    • Psmith in the City

    • By: P. G. Wodehouse
    • Narrated by: Graham Scott
    • Series: Psmith, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • When Mike Jackson's father suffers a serious financial setback, all Mike's hopes of "Varsity Blue" and a career playing his beloved cricket are dashed. Instead, he must go out and earn his living - in the alien world of the New Asiatic Bank....

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    • What Kind of Creatures Are We?

    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....

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    • The Language Instinct

    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

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    • Snow Crash

    • By: Neal Stephenson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,946 ratings
    • Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

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    • The Voyage Out

    • By: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast....

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    • Wordslut

    • A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Amanda Montell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings

    • A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them....

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