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Moranifesto
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Joanna Neary
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall456
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Performance406
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Story403
‘I’ve lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac – and that’s just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?’ When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favourite pieces for her new book she realised that they all seemed to join up. Turns out...
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I want to immerse myself in Moran's brilliant bubble!
- By Amy on 05-04-16
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Moranifesto
- Narrated by: Joanna Neary
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-03-16
- Language: English
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Acquired Tastes
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance40
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Story40
Acquired Tastes is a celebration of life's extravagances. It explores an aspect of human nature that, although dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card. It samples the luxuries of Havana cigars, Parisian hotels, bespoke London tailoring, and handmade shoes; discusses the proper color for a stretch limousine; and weighs the cost versus the pleasure of keeping a mistress.
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Peter Mayle does it again!
- By Louise A. on 11-11-21
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Acquired Tastes
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-07-15
- Language: English
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Quietly Hostile
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
After fleeing Chicago to quarantine at home in Michigan, Irby finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her upper lip hairs are visible on Zoom. Her career reaches new heights: she gets to work with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City - her dream! - but behind the new-found glam, Irby is just trying to keep her life together. Our friend in print is back, on point, and ready to take us with her, from adopting Abe (her scrawny, watery-eyed firstborn dog) to her favourite, extremely specific porn searches (including two old nuns).
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This book saved my life (my week!)
- By Kimberley Crafts & Crochet on 05-06-23
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Quietly Hostile
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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Abominations
- Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Story29
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. ‘This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she’s a brilliant writer… Order a copy in case she’s cancelled by Christmas’ THE TIMES (Book of the Year) ‘You may disagree with Lionel Shriver’s...
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Vice-signalling
- By Graham G Grant on 14-02-23
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Abominations
- Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Figures in a Landscape
- People and Places
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story18
Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances, from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life and his restless and ever-curious mind.
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Great variety of topics.... mostly very interesting
- By Nicky Ramone on 06-08-18
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Figures in a Landscape
- People and Places
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-06-18
- Language: English
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The Call of the Weird
- Travels in American Subcultures
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall1,202
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Performance1,008
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Story1,005
Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to...
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One of my favourite downloads so far
- By CA Weir on 26-06-07
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The Call of the Weird
- Travels in American Subcultures
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-06-07
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Socrates
- By: Plato, Christopher Rowe, Christopher Rowe - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance20
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Story20
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth. 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
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The narrator really brings the people to life
- By Kristina on 15-09-21
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The Last Days of Socrates
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Burning Questions
- Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2021
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Ann Dowd, Ciarán Hinds, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance40
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Story40
Brought to you by Penguin. From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you...
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Fantastic!
- By RashaPhoto on 01-06-22
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Burning Questions
- Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2021
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Ann Dowd, Ciarán Hinds, Kaniehtiio Horn, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Naomi Alderman, Omar El Akkad, Tori Dunlap, Esi Edugyan, Lorna Crozier, Amanda Cordner, Tess Degenstein, Stephanie Belding, Amelia Sargisson, Rachel Cairns
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Mrs Griffin Sends her Love
- And Other Writings
- By: Miss Read
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance13
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From organising the school summer fete - 'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand' - to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood - 'I collect stones with holes in them' - Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can.
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Miss Griffin Sends her Love
- By Anonymous on 21-03-19
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Mrs Griffin Sends her Love
- And Other Writings
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-07-15
- Language: English
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,985
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Performance3,452
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Story3,438
What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
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If you’re depressed, get money, a partner & family!
- By Tracey Clare Dunlop on 10-09-19
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-03-15
- Language: English
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Spring
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness.
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A moving read
- By Arlene Finnigan on 12-04-21
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Spring
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance32
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George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. 'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the Blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as 'one of the most moving and incisive portraits of the English character' and is as relevant now as it ever has been.
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The real Orwell
- By Marc on 24-11-22
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-01-22
- Language: English
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Pulphead
- Essays
- By: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape―from high to low to lower than low―by the award-winning young star of...
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Fascinating Essays
- By Richard Holden on 12-09-23
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Pulphead
- Essays
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Migraine
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph. Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating...
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Very interesting view on the problem
- By Anonymous on 11-11-22
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Migraine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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Why Read
- Selected Writings 2001-2021
- By: Will Self
- Narrated by: Will Self
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation' by the Guardian, Will Self's Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature.
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it's good
- By Anonymous on 10-01-26
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Generation of Swine
- Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like “certain death” and “total failure” and the idea of “a doomed generation”. But not me. I am comfortable with these themes.’ Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...
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Generation of Swine
- Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-04-26
- Language: English
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Coventry
- By: Rachel Cusk
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold.
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Essays for Women, about Women,
- By Aquilina Christophorus on 27-08-21
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Coventry
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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Consider The Lobster
- Essays and Arguments
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrated by: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance3
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of...
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Aged badly
- By Sam on 31-10-25
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Consider The Lobster
- Essays and Arguments
- Narrated by: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert Capa, Susan Shillinglaw - introduction
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Brought to you by Penguin. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -...
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Very interesting and enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-22
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A Russian Journal
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance50
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In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his masterwork, Walden, an eloquent expression of a uniquely American philosophy.
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Two Classics Very Well Read
- By Kindle Customer on 13-06-17
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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-06-09
- Language: English
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