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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Rambling. Doesn’t seem to be written with the reader in mind.
- By The last two times I’ve received this items it has arrived with one of the 6 jars smashed. Perhaps just a coincidence or the manufacturer needs to improve their packaging. on 21-07-25
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-04-20
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Book
- The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
- By: Chris Laoutaris
- Narrated by: Philip Pope
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing...
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very very slow
- By twigs way on 10-06-25
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Shakespeare’s Book
- The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
- Narrated by: Philip Pope
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 31-03-23
- Language: English
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Homage to Catalonia
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,205
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Performance1,039
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Story1,040
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. Orwell’s experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to gather an experience worth writing as well as to fight Fascism, and wrote Homage to Catalonia within months of his return.
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NOT UNABRIDGED !
- By Troy on 28-05-14
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Homage to Catalonia
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-07-11
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance44
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Story42
Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.
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Excellent book. Foreign language quotations in reading a problem.
- By chloe sevigny on 09-02-22
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-07-14
- 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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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
- Alexander McCall Smith
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance35
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Story35
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, calls the poet not only the greatest literary discovery of his life but also the best of guides on how to live.
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Not this narrator!
- By Louise on 25-02-22
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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-10-13
- Language: English
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Her Husband
- Hughes and Plath, A Marriage
- By: Diane Middlebrook
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance31
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Story31
Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six-and-a-half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and brought new significance to his poetry.
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Wonderful
- By Mary on 16-02-10
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Her Husband
- Hughes and Plath, A Marriage
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-03-04
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Uzo Aduba
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer...
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Riveting and Inspirational
- By Dekarri Dillon on 07-04-26
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The Heart of a Woman
- Narrated by: Uzo Aduba
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-08-25
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McClarty
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers, and assorted Middle Americans.
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America
- By Leonard Turton on 04-04-26
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Ron McClarty
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-12-25
- Language: English
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Levels of Life
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall247
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Performance221
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Story221
'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.
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The tropics of grief
- By Paul S. Turner on 20-07-14
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Levels of Life
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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Cider With Rosie
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall487
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Performance413
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Story414
Brought to you by Penguin. The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the...
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Wonderful Narration
- By Mr. Robertson on 23-12-12
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Cider With Rosie
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Series: Cider with Rosie, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-03-11
- Language: English
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Deliberate Cruelty
- Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
- By: Roseanne Montillo
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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This glittering, “wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told” (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the intertwined fates of literary icon Truman Capote and infamous socialite Ann Woodward—featured in the hit TV series Feud: Truman Capote vs. The Swans—sweeping us...
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Disappointing
- By lawrence nicholas hart on 06-05-23
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Deliberate Cruelty
- Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock.
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Fascinating history destroyed by narration
- By Cassandra on 03-06-22
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Dark Renaissance
- The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
- By: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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Brought to you by Penguin. Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. From one of the greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the...
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Well written and informative
- By Amazon Customer on 31-03-26
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Dark Renaissance
- The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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The Outsider
- My Life in Intrigue
- By: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall262
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Performance224
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Story223
We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau.
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Curiously No Sense of Irony
- By Dr on 04-10-15
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The Outsider
- My Life in Intrigue
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-09-15
- Language: English
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The Man in Black
- The Charles Maddox Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Lynn Shepherd
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Private investigator Charles Maddox is surprised when he is approached by Edward Tulkinghorn for help. The feared and shadowy attorney offers Charles a handsome price he can't refuse to do some sleuthing for a client. Charles learns that Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and now Tulkinghorn wants him to find and stop whoever is responsible. But what starts as a simple open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker. As he cascades toward a collision with powerful forces, Charles will need all the assistance he can get…
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The Audio is even better than the novel!
- By Peter Guttridge on 02-09-23
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The Man in Black
- The Charles Maddox Mysteries, Book 2
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Series: The Charles Maddox Mysteries, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 22-03-23
- Language: English
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The Voice that Thunders
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES ‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN In this rich collection of writings, spanning more...
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The Voice that Thunders
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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Overall284
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Performance244
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Story243
A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches. Robert Graves, who went on to write I, Claudius, has given to posterity here one of the all-time great insights into the experience of war.
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Lots missing
- By Chloe on 08-05-16
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Goodbye to All That
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-02-08
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- By: Emily Van Duyne
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
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Exceptional
- By Zoe on 09-07-25
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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Thomas Hardy
- The Time-torn Man
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall64
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Performance58
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Story58
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin, read by Jill Balcon and David Shaw-Parker. Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest...
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Plese let me introduce you to Claire Tomalin
- By Christine lee on 20-09-18
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Thomas Hardy
- The Time-torn Man
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-05-18
- Language: English
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