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Beautiful Exile
- The Life of Martha Gellhorn
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books have become classics. Her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and affairs with legendary lovers like H. G. Wells, and her relationship with two presidents, Roosevelt and Kennedy, reflect her campaigns against tyranny and deprivation, and her outrage at the corruption and cruelty of modern governments.
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Beautiful Exile
- The Life of Martha Gellhorn
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-05-14
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written.
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-03-20
- Language: English
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Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Picasso has often been called the greatest artist of this century. This biography defines his greatness: his accomplishment and versatility as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, ceramicist, and designer. Most of the innovations in 20th century art are associated not only with his work but with the legend he built of himself as the quintessential modern artist.
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Pablo Picasso: A Biography for Beginners
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-02-15
- Language: English
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Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The biography's new title emphasizes that Rebecca West was a prophet - one not always appreciated in her own day. As early as 1917, she understood where the world was headed and realized that the revolution in Russia held out false hope. Because she took this view as a socialist, those on the left scorned her as an apostate, whereas she understood that Communism would result in a disaster for the British left.
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- By Anonymous on 08-08-25
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Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-08-15
- Language: English
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Danielle Mors
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath has also been fueled in part by the tragic nature of her death. As a result, a steady stream of biographies of Plath have appeared over the last fifty-five years that mainly focus on her death or contain projections of an array of points of view about the writer.
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Danielle Mors
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-03-25
- Language: English
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The Life of William Faulkner
- The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Philip J. Rodrigue
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Integrating Faulkner’s screenplays, fiction, and life, Rollyson argues that the novelist deserves to be reread not just as a literary figure but as a still-relevant force, especially in relation to issues of race, sexuality, and equality. The culmination of years of research in archives that have been largely ignored by previous biographers, The Life of William Faulkner offers a significant challenge and an essential contribution to Faulkner scholarship.
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The Life of William Faulkner
- The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
- Narrated by: Philip J. Rodrigue
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-04-21
- Language: English
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Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
- A Timeline of People, Places, and Events
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Joe Formichella
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, Carl Rollyson provides a documentary approach to the life and legend of this singular personality. With details of her childhood, her young adult years, her ascent to super-stardom, and the hour-by-hour moments leading to her tragic early death, this volume supplements - and, in some cases, corrects - the accounts of previous biographies.
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Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
- A Timeline of People, Places, and Events
- Narrated by: Joe Formichella
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-10-19
- Language: English
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- By: Carl E. Rollyson
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The late Michael Foot, once leader of the Labour party, lives on as a major figure in British political history, although he is best remembered as a fiery and eloquent standard-bearer for socialist beliefs and policies.
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-04-17
- Language: English
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Hollywood Enigma
- Dana Andrews, Hollywood Legends
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, and most important of all, Gene Tierney, with whom he did five films.
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Truly dreadful
- By John Grant on 26-12-19
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Hollywood Enigma
- Dana Andrews, Hollywood Legends
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-11-14
- Language: English
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Lesley Ann Fogle
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate her classic texts.
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Lesley Ann Fogle
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-04-17
- Language: English
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The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary 71-year writing career. The general introductory studies of West are outdated and do not take into account her posthumous publications, or her large literary archive of unpublished letters and manuscripts. Previous scholarly books have chopped West up into categories and genres instead of following the evolution of her career.
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The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 25-01-16
- Language: English
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Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
- Hollywood Legends Series
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe, highlighted by new perspectives that depict the central importance of acting to the authentic aspects of her being.
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Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
- Hollywood Legends Series
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-10-14
- Language: English
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The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 2
- This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: David Beveridge
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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By the end of The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 1, the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The second volume of Carl Rollyson’s ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence. Feeling, as an artist, he should be above worldly concerns and even morality, he has instead inherited only debts and numerous mouths to feed and funerals to fund.
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The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 2
- This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962
- Narrated by: David Beveridge
- Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowell's rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the "new poetry" as an integral part of post-World War I American culture.
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Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries
- Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-09-15
- Language: English
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Lillian Hellman
- Her Life and Legend
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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He provides entertaining and informative accounts of her feud with Mary McCarthy, and her many love affairs and surprising friendships. He also provides a provocative and compelling portrayal of this complex and brilliant woman, who was called everything from a "viper" and "a goddam liar" to "an empathetic genius with a highly original and penetrating mind." Near death, Hellman spoke of being blocked; this biography will show what got in her way.
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Lillian Hellman
- Her Life and Legend
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-08-15
- Language: English
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. One can ask for no better guidebook.
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-04-16
- Language: English
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Marie Curie
- Honesty in Science
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Professional biographer Carl Rollyson has pioneered a new kind of biography for children and adults alike. His narrative of Marie Curie's life is rendered in simple, precise prose. Each chapter is designed to provoke further discussion and research into the life and career of one of the century's greatest scientists and - as Rollyson shows - one of the most important figures in human history.
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Marie Curie
- Honesty in Science
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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Ronald Colman
- Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Jon Mills's voice replica
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ronald Colman, the silent film star, who showed a generation of actors how to perform for the talkies, remained Hollywood’s gentleman hero for more than two decades. He appeared with many of the screen’s leading ladies, including Lillian Gish, Joan Bennett, Kay Francis, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, Greer Garson, Jean Arthur, and Ginger Rogers. As the epitome of the Hollywood gentleman, he immortalized the self-sacrificing hero in his signature role of Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities.
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Ronald Colman
- Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero
- Narrated by: Jon Mills's voice replica
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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Lives of the Novelists
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Thomas D. Hand
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography, including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life. In such instances, there seems to be a symbiosis between the biographer and subject. In other cases, biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for biography because they are not men and women of action.
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Lives of the Novelists
- Narrated by: Thomas D. Hand
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 21-10-15
- Language: English
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To Be a Woman
- The Life of Jill Craigie
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Jill Craigie - filmmaker, writer, pioneering feminist, and devoted wife to former Labour leader Michael Foot - led an extraordinary life. Strikingly attractive, fiercely independent, and politically radical, Craigie established a reputation as a filmmaker with her 1944 film Out of Chaos, becoming the first female director to gain national attention.
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To Be a Woman
- The Life of Jill Craigie
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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