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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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    • 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 61 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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    • 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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    • 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 451 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 41,450 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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    • An Encounter
    • By: Jay Parini
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Catherine Lacey
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
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    • When X—an iconoclastic artist and shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow CM, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing X's biography. In CM's quest to unravel her life story, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets and destruction....

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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 201 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
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    • 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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    • By: Hermione Lee
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-07
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Five Literary Marriages
    • By: Carmela Ciuraru
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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: Roald Dahl
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 672 ratings
    • Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny....

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    • The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
    • By: Lindsay Mattick
    • Narrated by: Erin Moon
    • Length: 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-16
    • Language: English
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    • Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh....

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    • The Poets Life
    • By: Sarah Ruden
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
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    • Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil’s own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct the life of Rome’s greatest poet....

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