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The Mighty Dead
- Why Homer Matters
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance49
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Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) ‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does...
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Fascinating book, woeful narration
- By Steven on 27-08-16
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The Mighty Dead
- Why Homer Matters
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-02-15
- Language: English
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Sufferah
- Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Troy Glasglow
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse and his imprisonment as a young man protesting against systemic racism and police brutality. Abandoned as a baby to the British care system, Alex Wheatle grows up...
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Just Fantastic, Moving, Honest to the Core (Coeur), visceral.
- By Arabee on 19-05-26
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Sufferah
- Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
- Narrated by: Troy Glasglow
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Must You Go?
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan, Gareth Armstrong, Various
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance18
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When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to the politician Hugh Fraser - but their union seemed inevitable from the moment they met: 'I would have found you somehow', Pinter told Fraser. Their relationship flourished until Pinter's death on Christmas Eve 2008 and was a source of delight and inspiration to them both until the very end.
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Deeply affectionate portrait of a literary giant
- By Goody on 28-04-14
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Must You Go?
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan, Gareth Armstrong, Various
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-07-10
- Language: English
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Masquerade
- The Lives of Noël Coward
- By: Oliver Soden
- Narrated by: Oliver Soden
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance35
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Story34
'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the...
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Interesting in parts but long winded in places.
- By Alison St Pierre on 21-04-23
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Masquerade
- The Lives of Noël Coward
- Narrated by: Oliver Soden
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Life
- By: Claire Harman
- Narrated by: Claire Harman
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance88
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Story89
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and...
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Charlotte Bronte's true memoir
- By a.hopewell on 26-07-17
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Life
- Narrated by: Claire Harman
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-10-15
- Language: English
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an...
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Lovely book, lovely read.
- By Anonymous on 09-04-25
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- By: Lisa Chaney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest author of his time, and he bequeathed the royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. In this brilliant biography, Lisa Chaney goes beyond the myths to discover the fascinating, frequently misunderstood man behind the famous boy.
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Loved loved the book
- By Resonate on 27-09-23
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Down in the Valley
- A Writer's Landscape
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance37
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Story37
Brought to you by Penguin. An enhanced audio edition containing original audio interviews with the author, Laurie Lee. A moving, never-before-published portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought...
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a gentle wander through his life.
- By Mrs. Janice Cowpersmith on 19-09-21
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Down in the Valley
- A Writer's Landscape
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-11-19
- Language: English
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The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
- By: Deborah Morse, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Deborah Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë created some of the greatest works of 19th-century English literature. How did these three young women, born into a humble parsonage on the isolated moors of Northern England, write such striking work? What influenced them? How did they get their stories out into the world? Why do their novels continue to grip readers to this day? These and other questions are what you will explore in The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice.
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Adds depth to well loved literature
- By Sarielle on 31-08-22
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The Brontës: Romantic Passion and Social Justice
- Narrated by: Deborah Morse
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
- The Journals of Alice Walker
- By: Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd - editor
- Narrated by: Alice Walker, Aunjanue Ellis, Janina Edwards
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer and her abundant appetite for life' THE TELEGRAPH...
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Pure Bliss and Wholesome 🌱
- By Smangele on 13-11-24
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
- The Journals of Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker, Aunjanue Ellis, Janina Edwards
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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Where Shall We Run To?
- A Memoir
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions." David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice...
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Enchanting
- By Prof J on 04-03-26
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Where Shall We Run To?
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- 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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Overall6
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Performance5
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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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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Lucy Scott, Sarah Lambie, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë—the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist—is a true classic. It transports us with a deft hand straight into 19th-century Haworth, Yorkshire and crafts an extensive account of Brontë’s life, quoting throughout from letters she sent and received. From her challenging, isolated childhood to her death shortly before the age of 39, newly married and pregnant, the enigmatic author of Jane Eyre is portrayed with enormous care.
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the best Brontë biography
- By Kindle-klant on 24-12-25
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Lucy Scott, Sarah Lambie, Nigel Pilkington, Georgina Sutton, David Timson
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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Giving Up the Ghost
- A Memoir
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Jane Wymark
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall342
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Performance299
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Story295
Opening with "A Second Home", in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, Giving Up the Ghost is a wry, shocking, and beautifully written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness, and family. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect left her childless, and how the ghosts of the unborn have come to haunt her life as a writer.
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A stunningly crafted memoir
- By MaE on 04-06-14
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Giving Up the Ghost
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jane Wymark
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-05-12
- Language: English
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Too L.A.
- Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
- By: Eve Babitz, Lili Anolik
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the 'squalid overboogie' of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage. But Babitz considered her letters 'the kind of writing I do best,' calling...
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Too L.A.
- Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 03-09-26
- Language: English
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Londres
- Textos selecionados
- By: Joaquim Nabuco
- Narrated by: Everton Ferreira
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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"Onde procede essa impressão universal de Londres, seguida dessa sensação de finalidade, que talvez seja toda subjetiva?" Extraída do livro "Minha formação", a crônica "Londres", de Joaquim Nabuco, traz para o leitor de hoje vislumbres tanto do pensamento do célebre abolicionista quanto de sua autobiografia.
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Londres
- Textos selecionados
- Narrated by: Everton Ferreira
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 08-06-26
- Language: Portuguese
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الزير سالم
- By: ممدوح عدوان
- Narrated by: رنا الخطيب
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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«الزّير سالم»، يتناول الكتاب سيرة عدي بن ربيعة التغلبي، الملقّب ب الزّير، أبو ليلى المهلهل. هو أحد فرسان قبيلة تغلب، التي كانت شمال شرق الجزيرة العربيّة، أطراف العراق والشّام. شاعرٌ، وأحد أبطال العرب في الجاهليّة.
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الزير سالم
- Narrated by: رنا الخطيب
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-06-26
- Language: Arabic
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»Zwei Menschen sind in mir«
- Ingeborg Bachmann. Die Biografie
- By: Andrea Stoll
- Narrated by: Jutta Seifert
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem Tod fordern Ingeborg Bachmanns Briefe eine neue Perspektive auf Leben und Werk dieser Autorin, die uns heute aktueller denn je erscheint. Andrea Stolls Biografie beleuchtet das unübersehbare Spektrum Bachmannscher Ambivalenzen von seinen Ursprüngen her und führt uns vor Augen, wie diese ikonische Dichterin in eine Spirale von Selbstinszenierung und Selbstzerstörung geraten konnte.
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»Zwei Menschen sind in mir«
- Ingeborg Bachmann. Die Biografie
- Narrated by: Jutta Seifert
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-06-26
- Language: German
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Amore
- Le più belle pagine di Isabel Allende sull'amore, il sesso, i sentimenti
- By: Isabel Allende, Elena Liverani - translator
- Narrated by: Viola Graziosi
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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“La mia vita sessuale è iniziata presto, più o meno a cinque anni, all’asilo delle suore Orsoline a Santiago del Cile.” Così inizia l’introduzione di Isabel Allende – scanzonata e nel tono lieve de La somma dei giorni – a questa raccolta delle sue più belle pagine dedicate...
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Amore
- Le più belle pagine di Isabel Allende sull'amore, il sesso, i sentimenti
- Narrated by: Viola Graziosi
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-02-26
- Language: Italian
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Memoirs
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance12
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Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.
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A good storyteller.
- By C E WATSON on 18-06-24
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Memoirs
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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