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Letters from a Stoic
- Penguin Classics
- By: Seneca, Robin Campbell
- Narrated by: Julian Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living....
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Excellent narration
- By SteveO on 31-01-20
By: Seneca, and others
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Parsnips, Buttered
- Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time
- By: Joe Lycett
- Narrated by: Joe Lycett
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded....
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best comedian of all time
- By Katie on 06-11-16
By: Joe Lycett
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....
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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill
- The Private and Personal Letters
- By: Sir Winston S. Churchill, James Drake - editor, Dr Allen Packwood - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context....
By: Sir Winston S. Churchill, and others
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Letters to a Young Poet
- (Penguin Classics)
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Max Deacon
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself....
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Absolutely wonderful!!!
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-20
By: Rainer Maria Rilke, and others
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The Complete Letters of Pliny the Younger
- By: Pliny
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley, Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The extant letters of Pliny, written between AD 97 and 112, give us a unique insight into Imperial Rome under the early Antonine emperors. Organised into 10 books, the letters reflect a wide range of topics, mirroring Pliny’s own public and private interests....
By: Pliny
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Letters from a Stoic
- Penguin Classics
- By: Seneca, Robin Campbell
- Narrated by: Julian Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal instincts and the importance of upright ethical ideals and virtuous living....
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Excellent narration
- By SteveO on 31-01-20
By: Seneca, and others
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Parsnips, Buttered
- Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time
- By: Joe Lycett
- Narrated by: Joe Lycett
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book I have attempted to solve each and every one of life's problems. And I have succeeded....
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best comedian of all time
- By Katie on 06-11-16
By: Joe Lycett
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....
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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill
- The Private and Personal Letters
- By: Sir Winston S. Churchill, James Drake - editor, Dr Allen Packwood - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context....
By: Sir Winston S. Churchill, and others
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Letters to a Young Poet
- (Penguin Classics)
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Max Deacon
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself....
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Absolutely wonderful!!!
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-20
By: Rainer Maria Rilke, and others
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The Complete Letters of Pliny the Younger
- By: Pliny
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley, Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The extant letters of Pliny, written between AD 97 and 112, give us a unique insight into Imperial Rome under the early Antonine emperors. Organised into 10 books, the letters reflect a wide range of topics, mirroring Pliny’s own public and private interests....
By: Pliny
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- By: Ian Fleming, Fergus Fleming
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold"....
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Fleming, the man, so likable and charming
- By SirChutney on 02-12-18
By: Ian Fleming, and others
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Letters with Smokie
- Blindness and More-than-Human Relations
- By: Rod Michalko, Dan Goodley
- Narrated by: Kent Sheridan, Allen Sawkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie....
By: Rod Michalko, and others
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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
- By: J. D. Rockefeller
- Narrated by: Rick Font
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son....
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Honest great values
- By Anonymous User on 21-03-24
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Modern Nature
- Journals, 1989 - 1990
- By: Derek Jarman
- Narrated by: Julian Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature....
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Beautiful diary but not great narration
- By Miss Emma Bonnici on 24-06-21
By: Derek Jarman
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Yours, for Probably Always
- Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949
- By: Janet Somerville
- Narrated by: Ellen Barkin
- Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Martha Gellhorn was a strong-willed, self-made, modern woman whose journalism, and life, were widely influential at the time and cleared a path for women who came after her....
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An inspiration for young ambitious women
- By GERANIMO on 07-08-21
By: Janet Somerville
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The Letters of John F. Kennedy
- By: Martin W. Sandler - editor
- Narrated by: Eugene H. Russell IV, Reay Kaplan, Mark Cabus
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawn from more than two million letters on file at the library this project presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy the man....
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
- By: Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan - editor, Marc C. Conner - editor
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, John F. Callahan
- Length: 49 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades....
By: Ralph Ellison, and others
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Correspondance (1944-1959)
- By: Albert Camus, Maria Casarès
- Narrated by: Isabelle Adjani, Lambert Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Le 19 mars 1944, Albert Camus et Maria Casarès se croisent chez Michel Leiris. L'ancienne élève du Conservatoire, originaire de La Corogne...
By: Albert Camus, and others
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The Letters of Private Wheeler
- An Eyewitness in Action at the Battle of Waterloo (Military Memoirs)
- By: B.H. Liddell Hart
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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These letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars....
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Badly narrated
- By JB on 15-11-22
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A Letter to My Father
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered....
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shockingly bad
- By Sab J on 13-04-24
By: Franz Kafka
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Free at Last!
- The Diaries 1991-2001
- By: Tony Benn
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Tony Benn's diaries began in 1940, and have been compared to those of Pepys in their detail, scope, and accuracy....
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An honourable man
- By David on 08-09-05
By: Tony Benn
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Dear Papa
- The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway
- By: Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Brendan Hemingway
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Santino Fontana, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Dear Papa is an intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of 20 years....
By: Ernest Hemingway, and others
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The Letters of Jane Austen
- Performed by Fiona Shaw in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw CBE
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Born at Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, Jane Austen was the youngest of seven children. She lived a quiet life, moving to Bath, Southampton, Chawton and eventually to Winchester where she died unmarried in 1817 at the age of 42....
By: Mr Punch
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Wir haben uns wirklich an allerhand gewöhnt
- Der Briefwechsel
- By: Christa Wolf, Sarah Kirsch
- Narrated by: Sandra Quadflieg, Iris Berben
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Zwei Autorinnen von internationalem Rang sind fast drei Jahrzehnte lang, von 1962 bis 1990, miteinander im Austausch: über das Schreiben...
By: Christa Wolf, and others
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Letter to My Younger Self
- 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives
- By: Jane Graham, The Big Issue
- Narrated by: Jow Dow, Clare Kissane
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best known, most interesting and most successful figures in entertainment, politics, food, sport and business to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves....
By: Jane Graham, and others
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Letters from a Lost Generation
- First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends
- By: Mark Bostridge, Alan Bishop
- Narrated by: Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends....
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A moving Tribute to the lost Generation
- By Ruth on 01-09-20
By: Mark Bostridge, and others
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Letters to a Young Poet
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Marc Allen
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Insightful and inspiring thoughts on creative expression from a treasured poet in correspondence with a young neophyte. A perfect gift for the writer, artist, or thinker....
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Basically Fantastic
- By Oisín Davitt on 27-09-17
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The Letters of Jane Austen
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends....
By: Jane Austen
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By-Line Ernest Hemingway
- Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are Hemingway's most sensational dispatches, the behind-the-scenes stories that became For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises....
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An error?
- By jacob on 12-06-13
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Letters from a Stoic (All 124 Letters)
- By: Seneca
- Narrated by: John Winston
- Length: 25 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This edition of Seneca's Epistles includes all 124 of the letters in a single volume, with explanatory notes, an appendix, and an index of the names occurring in the text....
By: Seneca
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- By: Nesta Helen Webster
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Sound interesting? Listen to Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and learn about the author's views on politics, history, and the occult....
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Emerson
- The Mind on Fire
- By: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature....
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A life wasted reading books!
- By Cliff Moyce on 26-12-19
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In Their Own Words
- A History in Letters
- By: The National Archives
- Narrated by: Daniel Mays, Miriam Margolyes, David Haig, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The way we communicate has changed. Today many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm....
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Not as many juicy stories
- By Andrew Agoston-Jones on 09-10-16
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Dorothea's War
- By: Dorothea Crewdson, Richard Crewdson
- Narrated by: Julia Barrie, Richard Burnip
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1915 Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend, Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Treport in Northern France....
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Such a sad war
- By coot on 09-08-22
By: Dorothea Crewdson, and others
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Letters with Smokie
- Blindness and More-than-Human Relations
- By: Rod Michalko, Dan Goodley
- Narrated by: Kent Sheridan, Allen Sawkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.
By: Rod Michalko, and others
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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Dear Oliver
- An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
- By: Susan R. Barry
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Rengin Altay
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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To the world, he was Dr. Sacks, the brilliant neurologist behind bestselling books like Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. To professor Susan Barry, he became Dear Oliver—her mentor, friend, and confidant over the course of their ten-year correspondence.
By: Susan R. Barry
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The Major and the Missionary
- A Love Story
- By: Diana Pavlac Glyer - editor
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their own trials and longings.
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Soledad Brother
- The Prison Letters of George Jackson
- By: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Jackson Jr.
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled Black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.
By: George Jackson, and others
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Dear Oliver
- An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
- By: Susan R. Barry
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Rengin Altay
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters. Sue, herself a neuroscientist, wrote to share an extraordinary development in her own medical history. Born with problems with her vision, Sue had been told she would never acquire the ability to see in 3D - and yet she did, a development at odds with decades of research. Within days, Oliver replied, "Your letter fills me with amazement and admiration."
By: Susan R. Barry
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Letters with Smokie
- Blindness and More-than-Human Relations
- By: Rod Michalko, Dan Goodley
- Narrated by: Kent Sheridan, Allen Sawkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's late guide dog, Smokie. A lively exploration of human-animal relationships and disability as disruption, disturbance, and art, the book offers a refreshing re-evaluation of cultural misunderstandings of disability.
By: Rod Michalko, and others
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
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Insightful and beautiful
- By Paul skinner on 07-04-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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Dear Oliver
- An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
- By: Susan R. Barry
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Rengin Altay
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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To the world, he was Dr. Sacks, the brilliant neurologist behind bestselling books like Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. To professor Susan Barry, he became Dear Oliver—her mentor, friend, and confidant over the course of their ten-year correspondence.
By: Susan R. Barry
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The Major and the Missionary
- A Love Story
- By: Diana Pavlac Glyer - editor
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the years that followed, he and Blanche Biggs, a missionary in Papua New Guinea, shared a vibrant correspondence. These conversations encompassed their views on faith, their politics, their humor, the legacy of C. S. Lewis, and their own trials and longings.
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Soledad Brother
- The Prison Letters of George Jackson
- By: George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Jackson Jr.
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled Black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.
By: George Jackson, and others
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Dear Oliver
- An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
- By: Susan R. Barry
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Rengin Altay
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters. Sue, herself a neuroscientist, wrote to share an extraordinary development in her own medical history. Born with problems with her vision, Sue had been told she would never acquire the ability to see in 3D - and yet she did, a development at odds with decades of research. Within days, Oliver replied, "Your letter fills me with amazement and admiration."
By: Susan R. Barry