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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Performance147
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In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.
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Decent introduction with predictable issues
- By Anonymous on 27-10-22
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens in Love
- By: Robert Garnett
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance9
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Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love narrates the story of the most intense romances of Charles Dickens’ life and shows how his novels both testify to his own strongest affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved all too well, if not always wisely. Charles Dickens has no rival as the most fertile creative imagination since William Shakespeare, and no one influenced his imagination more powerfully than these three women, his muses and teachers in the school of love.
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Fascinating Dickens’ Details
- By cyclingcarol on 19-10-24
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Charles Dickens in Love
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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Shirley Jackson
- A Rather Haunted Life
- By: Ruth Franklin
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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Known to millions mainly as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
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very insightful
- By Robbie Mori on 22-07-22
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Shirley Jackson
- A Rather Haunted Life
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 27-09-16
- Language: English
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Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers
- New Stories From Call the Midwife
- By: Jennifer Worth, Suzannah Worth
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens, Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. This enchanting new collection from...
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Disappointing
- By Dan's mum on 05-11-22
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Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers
- New Stories From Call the Midwife
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens, Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-09-22
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Story49
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know written and read by Colm Tóibín. 'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B...
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Fathers and Sons
- By Rachel Redford on 26-11-18
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall235
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Performance199
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Story197
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works...
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Amazing narration!
- By Suhair on 06-06-13
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A Moveable Feast
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-06-06
- Language: English
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Somewhere Towards the End
- By: Diana Athill
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance29
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Story29
What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In Somewhere Towards the End she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taight her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.
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An interesting perspective of ageing and death.
- By Alison St Pierre on 18-09-12
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Somewhere Towards the End
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-04-09
- Language: English
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Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography
- By: Laura Thompson
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Life in a Cold Climate by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond. 'The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured' Sunday Times Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body...
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Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: Great Lives
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
- The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
- By: James Bailey
- Narrated by: Harley Viveash
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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"Remarkably shrewd and surprisingly amusing" WILLIAM BOYD, Guardian "This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer" FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting "Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject" CLARE POLLARD...
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
- The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
- Narrated by: Harley Viveash
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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Literary Rivals
- Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
- By: Richard Bradford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Coote
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade. Richard Bradford’s highly entertaining audiobook looks at some of the closest and most complex relationships in literary history, examining their dramatic effects on literature itself.
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thoroughly enjoyable journey
- By lyndsay on 05-06-25
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Literary Rivals
- Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
- Narrated by: Jonathan Coote
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-10-14
- Language: English
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Country Girl
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance72
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Story72
Edna O'Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication in 1960. Since then she has gone on to produce some of the finest writing of the 20th century. In Country Girl we hear of a life of high drama and contemplation, of encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. It is a life gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered, in prose that sparkles with the effortless gifts of a master.
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More... everything
- By Alison on 07-01-13
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Country Girl
- Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- Language: English
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The Boundless Deep
- Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt Books A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The...
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The Boundless Deep
- Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip.
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Finding a religion
- By Brenda M. on 26-04-25
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Series: Diaries, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-01-21
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall362
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Performance281
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Story279
For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...
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a love letter.
- By Anonymous on 17-05-20
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Letter to My Daughter
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-10-08
- Language: English
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a...
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- By: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance90
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A charming account of the life of enigmatic Queen Mary, wife of King George V, and a magnetic portrait of a vanished age 'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever' - Harry Mount, Financial Times When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the...
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Maddening foot notes!
- By Ruby G on 17-01-19
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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The Most Reluctant Convert
- C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith
- By: David C. Downing
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance31
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His books have sold millions and include classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he evolve from staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?
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Kind of interesting
- By Carôle on 14-03-15
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The Most Reluctant Convert
- C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 20-03-09
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Murder
- By: Martin Edwards
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance40
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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...
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Classic. Brilliant. Enlightening.
- By Nico on 11-06-15
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The Golden Age of Murder
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 54 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature.
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Excellent
- By Antony on 30-11-17
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 54 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-06-17
- Language: English
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Timebends
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance13
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Arthur Miller's plays have held the world's stages for almost half a century. Among them are Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons, which have been read and performed countless times across the world. His memoir, Timebends, shows that the life of the man is as compelling as his plays. With passion, wit and candour, Miller recalls his childhood in Harlem and Brooklyn in the 1920s and the Depression; his successes and failures in the theatre and in Hollywood; the formation of his political beliefs....
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Timebends
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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