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 63 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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    • The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
    • By: Paul Auster
    • Narrated by: Paul Auster
    • Length: 35 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature....

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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 455 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: 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 41,610 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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    • 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 24 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Ethan Gallogly
    • Narrated by: Jake Hunsbusher
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 365 ratings
    • The Trail is a moving story of how nature helps us find what’s missing in our lives. The tale begins with Gil, who in the wake of his father’s death and recently fired from his job, agrees to accompany his father’s old hiking partner Syd on a month-long trek on the John Muir Trail....

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    • Five Literary Marriages
    • By: Carmela Ciuraru
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy....

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    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • The last years of King Charles IX's reign in France were dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. Queen Margot begins in 1572 with the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henri de Navarre...

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    • Essays
    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

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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 34 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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    • Edward I and the Forging of Britain
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,058 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Marc Morris examines afresh the forces that drove Edward throughout his relentless career: his character, his Christian faith, and his sense of England's destiny....

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    • The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
    • By: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis....

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    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

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    • An Encounter
    • By: Jay Parini
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kind of novelistic memoir”, Jay Parini takes us back 50 years, when he fled the United States for Scotland - in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life....

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    • Author of the Harry Potter Series
    • By: Jennifer Hunsicker
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed....

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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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