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Charles Dickens
- A Life
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall626
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Performance457
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Story456
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a...
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As lively a story as a good novel
- By Kirstine on 27-01-12
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Charles Dickens
- A Life
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 20-12-11
- Language: English
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
- By: Christopher Fowler
- Narrated by: Christopher Fowler
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance42
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Story42
Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner, no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten.
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A cornucopia of literary bygones & their writers
- By Rachel Redford on 15-10-17
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
- Narrated by: Christopher Fowler
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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Naked Portrait
- A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud
- By: Rose Boyt
- Narrated by: Rose Boyt
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Read by the author, Rose Boyt. ‘Hypnotic and propulsive’ - The Sunday Times ‘Thrilling’ - The TLS ‘Compulsive’ - The Observer In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, drawing on a diary she kept while sitting for him and...
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The chosen one
- By Rachel Redford on 27-07-24
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Naked Portrait
- A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud
- Narrated by: Rose Boyt
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 30-05-24
- Language: English
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Logical Family
- A Memoir
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance84
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Story84
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Logical Family: A Memoir, written and read by Armistead Maupin. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man “on the very spot where the first shots of...
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Thank you Mr. Maupin
- By the typist on 18-10-17
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Logical Family
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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My Childhood
- By: Maxim Gorky
- Narrated by: Nicholad Boulton
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy who goes to live with his grandparents following the death of his father. Gorky’s depiction of 19th-century Russia through the eyes of his younger self is remarkable. As he recalls memories of his youth, contrasting themes and emotions are revealed, from barbaric joy to dark gloom, genuine cruelty and saint-like forbearance.
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Gorky my favourite
- By ash on 26-11-24
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My Childhood
- Narrated by: Nicholad Boulton
- Series: Autobiography of Maxim Gorky, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-06-21
- Language: English
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- By: Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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Story43
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home...
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Brilliantly narrated.
- By Robin Birney on 15-06-15
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Tibetan Peach Pie
- A True Account of an Imaginative Life
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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The Outsider
- My Life in Intrigue
- By: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall263
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Performance225
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Story224
We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau.
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Curiously No Sense of Irony
- By Dr on 04-10-15
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The Outsider
- My Life in Intrigue
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-09-15
- Language: English
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Autobiography
- By: Benjamin Zephaniah
- Narrated by: Benjamin Zephaniah
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall548
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Performance500
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Story501
*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the...
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Who Knew?!
- By PMPM on 23-08-18
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Benjamin Zephaniah
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-08-18
- Language: English
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The Master
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. 'A triumph' – The Observer 'A masterly achievement' – The Independent In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in...
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Not for me.
- By real hair on 09-03-26
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The Master
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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The Murder Guy
- By: Jeff Edwards
- Narrated by: Richard Easter
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Full of fascinating anecdotes of murder, mystery and occasional mayhem, Jeff reveals the details of cases that will grip readers from start to finish. The Murder Guy is an action-packed ride through some of the biggest cases from the 1970s to recent years. It tackles everything from the search...
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The Murder Guy
- Narrated by: Richard Easter
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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The Best Minds
- A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- By: Jonathan Rosen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University. Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call: Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School.
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Riveting. Insightful. Eye opening
- By Louise on 16-05-23
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The Best Minds
- A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance70
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Story70
The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time. "Irresistible. I thought I knew quite a lot about Roald Dahl, but now I know much much more. Donald Sturrock's book lucidly describes a complicated life and relates it to the richness of Dahl's storytelling."Quentin Blake...
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Thoroughly enjoyed it, despite minor flaws
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-11
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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A Life in the Balance
- The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, a Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
- By: Billy Wayne Sinclair, Jodie Sinclair
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance57
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We all know that life in prison ain't grand, but the utter horror of it springs from the pages of this autobiography, written by a one-time death-row inmate. Billy Wayne Sinclair is now serving a reduced 90-year sentence for murdering a Baton Rouge convenience store owner in a robbery gone wrong more than three decades ago. His story of an adult life spent in one of Louisiana's harshest prisons is amazing, not only because he has survived with his soul intact, but because it provides such a raw look at the inner workings of a system bent on revenge, not rehabilitation.
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good book
- By Natasha chesson on 13-10-22
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A Life in the Balance
- The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, a Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- By: John Betjeman
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance19
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'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old...
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A beautiful listen
- By Hilary on 18-01-16
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-08
- Language: English
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Byron
- A Life in Ten Letters
- By: Andrew Stauffer
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography.
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Byron
- A Life in Ten Letters
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The House of Beckham
- Money, Sex and Power
- By: Tom Bower
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance123
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The explosive new book from Britain’s leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple have together built a multi-billion-dollar global brand. For...
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Despicable Greed
- By Avid listener on 26-06-24
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The House of Beckham
- Money, Sex and Power
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance47
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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. The longest of the memoirs, The Imaginary Girlfriend,” is the core of this collection.
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Vintage Irving
- By Philip on 04-03-20
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 20-04-14
- Language: English
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Terry Pratchett In His Own Words
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Terry Pratchett
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Sir Terry Pratchett was a much-loved writer who gained international fame for his Discworld fantasy series. In this recording we hear - in his own words - about science-fantasy and comedy writing. He discusses his fans and followers, how he enjoys writing and the importance of the Discworld...
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A very honest and funny listen
- By Nols on 28-01-26
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Terry Pratchett In His Own Words
- Narrated by: Terry Pratchett
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-04-22
- Language: English
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Less
- Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
- By: Patrick Grant
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance267
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Story267
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER ‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETT We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had...
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Stood out for good... Until they didn't
- By Mrs B on 01-11-24
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Less
- Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance44
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Story42
Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.
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Excellent book. Foreign language quotations in reading a problem.
- By chloe sevigny on 09-02-22
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-07-14
- Language: English
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