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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
- Their Stories Are Better than the Bestsellers
- Auteur(s): James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
- Narrateur(s): Tom Force, Nancy Peterson, Jenn Lee, Autres
- Durée: 7 h et 55 min
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To be a bookseller or librarian… You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates “book joy” by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, “You’ve got to read this. You’re going to love it.” Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place has the magic of rainbows and unicorns, but it's also a business. The book business.
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People talking about themselves, not much magic.
- Écrit par Zack le 2024-05-07
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
- Their Stories Are Better than the Bestsellers
- Narrateur(s): Tom Force, Nancy Peterson, Jenn Lee, Jennifer Pickens, Amy Jensen, Deanna Anthony, Jane Oppenheimer, Susan Hanfield, Marni Penning, Daniel Henning, Rob Reider
- Durée: 7 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2024-04-08
- Langue: Anglais
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This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with “heartfelt testimonials” (New Yorker) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
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Coventry
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Rachel Cusk
- Narrateur(s): Antonia Beamish
- Durée: 7 h et 30 min
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Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential listening for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
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Coventry
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): Antonia Beamish
- Durée: 7 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-01
- Langue: Anglais
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In Coventry, Rachel Cusk gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions....
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In Praise of Shadows
- Auteur(s): Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrateur(s): David Rintoul
- Durée: 1 h et 28 min
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.
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Illuminating understanding of Shadows.
- Écrit par Playaprez le 2022-12-20
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In Praise of Shadows
- Narrateur(s): David Rintoul
- Durée: 1 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2017-09-22
- Langue: Anglais
- In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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Congratulations, the Best Is Over!
- Essays
- Auteur(s): R. Eric Thomas
- Narrateur(s): R. Eric Thomas
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
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After going viral “reading” the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life. But then everything changed. In this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas moves back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore (a place he never wanted to return, even to be buried) and behaving completely out of character.
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Congratulations, the Best Is Over!
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): R. Eric Thomas
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2023-08-08
- Langue: Anglais
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After going viral “reading” the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life....
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Tim Kreider
- Narrateur(s): Tim Kreider
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his virtuoso writing and singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women - romantic, platonic, and the murky in-between. He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love, and seeks to understand his commitment issues by tracking down the John Hopkins psychologist who tested him for a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico.
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): Tim Kreider
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2018-02-06
- Langue: Anglais
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New York Times essayist Tim Kreider trains his virtuoso writing and singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women....
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A View from the Stars
- Stories and Essays
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu
- Narrateur(s): Brian Nishii
- Durée: 6 h et 11 min
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A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.
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A View from the Stars
- Stories and Essays
- Narrateur(s): Brian Nishii
- Durée: 6 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2024-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
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A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time....
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What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?
- And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports
- Auteur(s): Bill Gutman
- Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Muhammad Ali had lost or quit in his first fight against Sonny Liston? What if the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had never moved to the West Coast? What if Vince Lombardi had become head coach of his hometown Giants instead of heading to Green Bay? How would sports history, and our perception of it, be different today?
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What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?
- And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports
- Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2013-02-05
- Langue: Anglais
- What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston....
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The Written World and the Unwritten World
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Italo Calvino
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 8 h et 9 min
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An extraordinary collection of essays, forewords, articles, and interviews, The Written World and the Unwritten World displays the remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit of prolific Italian writer Italo Calvino as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world.
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The Written World and the Unwritten World
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 8 h et 9 min
- Date de publication: 2023-01-31
- Langue: Anglais
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A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature....
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The Art of the Short Game
- Tour-Tested Secrets for Getting Up and Down
- Auteur(s): Stan Utley, Matthew Rudy
- Narrateur(s): Barry Abrams
- Durée: 4 h et 4 min
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Veteran golfers know that the secret to a lower score is a solid short game, but mastering those small strokes can be maddening - even for the pros. One of golf's most revered instructors, Stan Utley now reveals the step-by-step tactics behind his revolutionary short-game techniques in The Art of the Short Game.
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Excellent listen.
- Écrit par chris le 2023-05-24
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The Art of the Short Game
- Tour-Tested Secrets for Getting Up and Down
- Narrateur(s): Barry Abrams
- Durée: 4 h et 4 min
- Date de publication: 2020-11-24
- Langue: Anglais
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Veteran golfers know that the secret to a lower score is a solid short game, but mastering those small strokes can be maddening - even for the pros. One of golf's most revered instructors, Stan Utley now reveals the step-by-step tactics behind his revolutionary short-game techniques....
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What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Kristin Newman
- Narrateur(s): Kristin Newman
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
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Kristin Newman spent her 20s and 30s dealing with the stresses of her high-pressure job as a television comedy writer, and the anxieties of watching most of her friends get married and start families while she wrestled with her own fear of both. Not ready to settle down and yet loathe to become a sad-sack single girl, Kristin instead started traveling the world, often alone, for a few months each year, falling madly in love with attractive locals who provided moments of the love she wanted without the cost of the freedom she needed.
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Awful. Just...don’t
- Écrit par LM le 2018-03-15
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What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
- A Memoir
- Narrateur(s): Kristin Newman
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2014-05-30
- Langue: Anglais
- Not ready to settle down and yet loathe to become a sad-sack single girl, Kristin instead started traveling the world, often alone, for a few months each year, falling madly in love with attractive locals....
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Southern Lady Code
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Helen Ellis
- Narrateur(s): Helen Ellis
- Durée: 3 h et 11 min
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The best-selling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern lady.
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Southern Lady Code
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): Helen Ellis
- Durée: 3 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-16
- Langue: Anglais
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The best-selling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern lady....
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Mr. Know-It-All
- The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
- Auteur(s): John Waters
- Narrateur(s): John Waters
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself.
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It's O-k
- Écrit par paul caron le 2020-09-17
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Mr. Know-It-All
- The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
- Narrateur(s): John Waters
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2019-05-21
- Langue: Anglais
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No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters....
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- Auteur(s): Rob Wilkins
- Narrateur(s): Rob Wilkins
- Durée: 16 h et 8 min
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At 66, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK's best-selling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Following his untimely death from Alzheimer's disease, the mantle of completing Terry's memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate.
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Superb
- Écrit par Louis le 2022-10-07
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- Narrateur(s): Rob Wilkins
- Durée: 16 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2022-09-29
- Langue: Anglais
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....
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A Leader's Legacy
- Auteur(s): James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
- Narrateur(s): James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
- Durée: 3 h et 51 min
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Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, internationally recognized experts in the field of leadership and authors of the best-selling Leadership Challenge, explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact. In a series of 22 short essays, grouped into four parts (significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage), the authors explore the thorny and often ambiguous issues that today's leaders grapple with.
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A Leader's Legacy
- Narrateur(s): James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
- Durée: 3 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2006-10-02
- Langue: Anglais
- In a series of 22 short essays, grouped into four parts (significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage), the authors explore the issues that today's leaders grapple with....
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God and Mr. Gomez
- Auteur(s): Jack Smith
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 6 h et 54 min
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When Jack and Denny Smith decided to build a vacation dream house in Baja, California, they had no idea they were entering a phase of their lives "that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the United States". Through a series of strange and whimsical adventures, they would find that building a house takes God and Mr. Gomez.
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God and Mr. Gomez
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 6 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2006-03-21
- Langue: Anglais
- As their house took form first in their imaginations and then on paper, little things went wrong along the way....
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Let Me Tell You
- New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
- Auteur(s): Shirley Jackson
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter, Gary Bennett, Mark Deakins, Autres
- Durée: 12 h et 54 min
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Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted. As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces—more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson’s children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mother’s papers at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion.
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Let Me Tell You
- New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter, Gary Bennett, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Linda Jones
- Durée: 12 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2022-03-15
- Langue: Anglais
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Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted....
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Auteur(s): Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
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For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence urgently require rethinking.
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good philosophical book
- Écrit par Glen Barber le 2023-08-07
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2021-08-24
- Langue: Anglais
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From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....
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Truth & Beauty
- A Friendship
- Auteur(s): Ann Patchett
- Narrateur(s): Ann Patchett
- Durée: 8 h et 6 min
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The author of Bel Canto, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize, and long-running New York Times best seller, turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
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Ann Patchett is a master storyteller
- Écrit par Belinda Burston le 2020-12-14
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Truth & Beauty
- A Friendship
- Narrateur(s): Ann Patchett
- Durée: 8 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2004-08-10
- Langue: Anglais
- The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....
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When the Heart Waits
- Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
- Auteur(s): Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrateur(s): Carrington MacDuffie
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
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Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are.
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When the Heart Waits
- Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
- Narrateur(s): Carrington MacDuffie
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2023-09-12
- Langue: Anglais
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Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting."
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Politics and the English Language
- Auteur(s): George Orwell
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 42 min
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Within this essay, Orwell criticises the 'ugly and inaccurate' written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind'. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology.
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Politics and the English Language
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 42 min
- Date de publication: 2021-12-20
- Langue: Anglais
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'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered one of Orwell's most important essays....
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