Literary Biography

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    • A Life
    • By: Matthew Sturgis
    • Narrated by: John Pirkis
    • Length: 34 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The fullest, most textural, most accurate - most human - account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life - based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers....

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    • By: Jane Austen
    • Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
    • Series: Jane Austen's Novels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42,396 ratings
    • One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....

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    • By: Charlotte Brontë
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • Hailed as Charlotte Brontë’s “finest novel” by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
    • By: Andrea di Robilant
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In the fall of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "a goddam wonderful city." He was a year shy of his 50th birthday and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade....

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    • By: Hermione Lee
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Lee interweaves Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Wixson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Eudora Welty
    • Narrated by: Sally Darling
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind.....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Sarah Chihaya
    • Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter. Sarah calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners”.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Oliver Gloag
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Few would question that Albert Camus, novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
    • By: Camille Peri
    • Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift, A Wilder Shore unfolds with all the richness and complexity of a timeless epic.

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    • A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • By: Nicholas A. Basbanes
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In Cross of Snow, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work - the soul - of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, and translations....

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    • John le Carré: An Intimate Memoir
    • By: Suleika Dawson
    • Narrated by: Suleika Dawson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life, The Secret Heart is the account of Suleika Dawson’s enduring love affair with John le Carré....

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    • By: Norman Mailer
    • Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
    • Length: 42 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 411 ratings
    • Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore. The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood....

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    • By: Jack Olsen
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,675 ratings
    • Recounts the tragic events that followed the arrest of Fred Coe, a conservative, clean-cut young man, for a series of rapes committed in the city of Spokane and led to revenge and murder....

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    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Series: Kopp Sisters, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,315 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

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