Jay Parini
Empire of Self
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Borges and Me
- An Encounter
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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Borges and Me
- An Encounter
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-18
- Language: English
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Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit
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The Last Station
- A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Lorna Raver, Rebecca Lowman, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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As Leo Tolstoy’s life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunning disciple are locked in a whirlwind battle for the great man’s soul. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth and 13 children....
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The Last Station
- A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Lorna Raver, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Bramhall, Richard McGonagle, Robertson Dean
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-18
- Language: English
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Price: $29.14 or 1 Credit
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Empire of Self
- A Life of Gore Vidal
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate, authorized, yet frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century....
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Empire of Self
- A Life of Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-13
- Language: English
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Benjamin's Crossing
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Edoardo Ballerini, Natasha Soudek, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin - the German-Jewish critic and philosopher - has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee....
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- By James De Dood on 2023-01-15
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Benjamin's Crossing
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Edoardo Ballerini, Natasha Soudek, Kathleen Gati, Senn Annis
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-09
- Language: English
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Price: $26.22 or 1 Credit
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Why Poetry Matters
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured by our clamorous culture: without poetry, we live only partially....
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Why Poetry Matters
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-10
- Language: English
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Price: $14.82 or 1 Credit
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West Mountain Epilogue
- A Reading by Jay Parini from his New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Jay Parini
- Length: 55 mins
- Abridged
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A reading by Jay Parini of 33 of his most celebrated poems....
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West Mountain Epilogue
- A Reading by Jay Parini from his New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015
- Narrated by: Jay Parini
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-21
- Language: English
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Price: $9.98 or 1 Credit
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The Way of Jesus
- Living a Spiritual and Ethical Life
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story2 out of 5 stars 1
Renowned poet and novelist Jay Parini's The Way of Jesus is a book for progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as Parini does, with some of the basic questions about human existence....
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The Way of Jesus
- Living a Spiritual and Ethical Life
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-27
- Language: English
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