Classic Biography

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    • Including a Biography of Stephen Leacock by Peter Gilchrist McArthur
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Butler Leacock, Peter Gilchrist McArthur
    • Narrateur(s): Henry Marshall
    • Durée: 7 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" is considered to be the masterpiece of Stephen Leacock. Originally published in 1912, it is a set of tales occurring in the fictional hamlet of Mariposa, on the shores of Lake Wissanotti.

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    • How Earth Made Life and Life Made Earth
    • Auteur(s): Olivia Judson
    • Durée: 21 h
    • Date de publication: 2026-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A daring and visionary new narrative of the emergence of life, one that refocuses our attention on the beautiful and mysterious tango between life and Earth itself, from Olivia Judson, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation These are questions as...

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    • SF and the Human Imagination
    • Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
    • Narrateur(s): Margaret Atwood, Susan Denaker
    • Durée: 8 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 évaluations
    • At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with...

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    • Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
    • Auteur(s): Katharine Smyth
    • Narrateur(s): Brittany Pressley
    • Durée: 8 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE...

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    • Auteur(s): Michel Danino
    • Narrateur(s): Vishal Menon
    • Durée: 10 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as -Sarasvati' in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this...

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    • A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    • Auteur(s): Anne Frank
    • Narrateur(s): Kathe Mazur
    • Durée: 5 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-03-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration. Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The...

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    • Auteur(s): Lena Dunham
    • Narrateur(s): Lena Dunham, Andy Ward
    • Durée: 1 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • Is it evil not to be sure? is a collection of entries from Lena Dunham's diary--or what she called her "Creative Snippets and Observations Journal"--from the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006. It is a candid, chaotic, and occasionally poetic snapshot of a young person becoming an adult. Read...

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    • Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
    • Auteur(s): Elif Batuman
    • Narrateur(s): Elif Batuman
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of...

    23,31 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • With a New Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Cornel West
    • Narrateur(s): Cornel West, JD Jackson
    • Durée: 4 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 20 évaluations
    • The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on...

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    • Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise
    • Auteur(s): Obama for Change, Barack Obama - introduction
    • Narrateur(s): Andre Blake
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and a failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader—one who can bring people together, be honest about...

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    • The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
    • Auteur(s): Sue Roe
    • Narrateur(s): Kristin Atherton
    • Durée: 11 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 évaluations
    • "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." - The Times (UK) As she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse...

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    • The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
    • Auteur(s): Mark Dery
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Sims
    • Durée: 14 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman...

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    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Negroponte
    • Narrateur(s): Penn Jillette
    • Durée: 1 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and...

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    • Auteur(s): Erik Jampa Andersson
    • Narrateur(s): Erik Jampa Andersson
    • Durée: 7 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A revolutionary perspective on the climate catastrophe bridging history, philosophy, science, and religion.You've heard the hard-hitting data and you've seen the documentaries. But what will it truly take for humanity to change? We will not tackle the climate catastrophe with data alone we need...

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    • Auteur(s): Robert Gottlieb
    • Narrateur(s): Maria Tucci
    • Durée: 11 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 évaluations
    • Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s...

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    • Auteur(s): A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
    • Narrateur(s): Pradeep Kumar
    • Durée: 3 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Authored by the most influential Indian President yet, this book delves into the obstacles that are preventing India from rising up to the challenge of development. India has unmatched talent and ambition with an inherent tendency to work hard, then what is it that keeps India from overtaking...

    12,00 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Auteur(s): Peter Ames Carlin
    • Narrateur(s): Bobby Cannavale
    • Durée: 17 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 évaluations
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Tonight in Jungleland comes the first biography in more than twenty-five years written with Bruce Springsteen’s cooperation—an intimate, powerful portrait that captures the enduring impact of the Boss: “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen...

    29,99 $ ou gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours

    • Auteur(s): Gregg Olsen, Kevin Sullivan
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Pierce
    • Série: Notorious USA
    • Durée: 2 h
    • Date de publication: 2014-10-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • New York Times best-selling author Gregg Olsen and true-crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan travel down a bizarre trail of murder into notorious Pennsylvania....

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    • Auteur(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Narrateur(s): Billy Hartman
    • Durée: 2 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • "We are all travelers in the 'wilderness of the world' - travelers with a donkey." So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878...

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