Literary Memoir

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    • An Intimate Life
    • By: Alex Christofi
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Oliver Gloag
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • By: Arthur Golden
    • Narrated by: Noriko Aida
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • In Arthur Golden's poised and beautifully written debut novel, Sayuri tells the extraordinary tale of her life, evoking a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history....

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 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: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Christopher Wixson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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 Very Short Introduction
    • By: Tom Keymer
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • This Very Short introduction explores the major themes of Austen criticism through close analysis of her major and minor works, with particular emphasis on the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which the novels emerge, and with which they engage....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir....

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    • The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
    • By: Kent Babb
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Through extensive research and interviews with those closest to Iverson, acclaimed Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb gets behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of the hard-changing, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last....

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    • Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
    • By: Richard Bradford
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Coote
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making....

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    • By: Margaret Atwood
    • Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities....

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    • By: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
    • By: Harriet Baker
    • Narrated by: Harriet Baker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it....

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    • By: Larry Brown
    • Narrated by: Ed Sala
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Before he won stunning acclaim as one of today's most gifted southern writers, Larry Brown was a firefighter with the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department....

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    • A Biography of Swami Vivekananda
    • By: Gautam Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A journey through the life of Swami Vivekananda is a study of the Indian civilization, its ethos and value system....

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    • By: Laurence Leamer
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The fascinating true story behind one of the original literary scandals - how Truman Capote (author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's ) betrayed his closest friends in service of his next book....

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    • L'arte di correre in discesa
    • By: Matthew McConaughey
    • Narrated by: Francesco Prando
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-22
    • Language: Italian
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    • "Sono in questa vita da cinquant'anni, ne scruto l'enigma da quarantadue, e da trentacinque tengo un diario pieno di idee..."

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nikki Grimes
    • Narrated by: Nikki Grimes
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse....

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