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Comedy Witze Humor - 8 Stunden Super Witze
By: Der Spassdigga
Narrated by: Der Spassdigga
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Über 8 Stunden ultra viele zweifelhafte Witze zum Tränen Lachen. Comedy, Witze und Humor als Megapack des zweifelhaften Geschmacks. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herrinnen, hier bekommt ihr guter Geschmack Beulen. Read more
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Comedy Witze Humor - 8 Stunden Super Witze
By: Der Spassdigga
Narrated by: Der Spassdigga
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Über 8 Stunden ultra viele zweifelhafte Witze zum Tränen Lachen. Comedy, Witze und Humor als Megapack des zweifelhaften Geschmacks. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herrinnen, hier bekommt ihr guter Geschmack Beulen. Read more
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The Trip to Echo Spring
By: Olivia Laing
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
OLIVIA LAING’S WIDELY ACCLAIMED ACCOUNT OF WHY SOME OF THE BEST LITERATURE HAS BEEN CREATED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISMIn The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America’s finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John... Read more
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The Role of the Scroll
By: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Role of the Scroll, Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting scrolls in medieval history, placing them in the context of those who made, commissioned, and used them, and reveals their remarkably varied uses. Scrolls were the best way to keep ever-expanding lists, for example, those of debtors, knights, and the dead. While... Read more
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The Book
By: Keith Houston
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows... Read more
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Queremos informarle de que mañana seremos asesinados con nuestras familias
By: Philip Gourevitch
Narrated by: John Alex Toro
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Un extraordinario reportaje, ganador de numerosos premios internacionales, sobre el genocidio ruandés. El 6 de abril de 1994, el avión del presidente de Ruanda fue abatido por un misil. Al día siguiente el gobierno animaba a la mayoría hutu a asesinar a sus vecinos tutsis junto con aquellos hutus que intentasen protegerlos. De este modo daba... Read more
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The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
By: Ravish Kumar
Narrated by: Uplaksh Kochhar
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
'The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from the moment we step out of our homes, with so many... Read more
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Chaucer's People
By: Liza Picard
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.
Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court—men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an... Read more
Moving Foreword
By: Jon Chattman
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A great foreword is more than just a few pages of self-indulgent frippery that comes before a book. A great foreword adds zest. It sets the stage for the page turner you're about to open, and perhaps even puts you in the locked room where a mystery happens or in the high-button shoes of a year gone by.
A great foreword—sometimes—is even better... Read more
Possessed by Memory
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.
Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues... Read more
Simply Eliot
By: Joseph Maddrey
Narrated by: Alex Lee
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Though he was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Harvard University, at the age of 26, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) emigrated to England, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Influenced equally by his formative years in the New World and his experiences in London during and after World War I, Eliot strove to reconcile a... Read more
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Verb Tenses
By: Ken Xiao & Urison Xiao
Narrated by: Ken Xiao
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
You have studied English for years, yet you still use the wrong tenses. You've tried many methods but you continue to make tense mistakes. You can read tenses, but when you speak or write, you're unsure of which tense to use.The good news is this is very normal.Ken was once like you, but now he can use the English tenses like a native. Urison is... Read more
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Patience
By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron
Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Patience" is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right.The poet’s usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and... Read more
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Pearl
By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron
Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Lovely pearl, which it pleases a prince to set radiantly in gold so bright….Alas! I lost her in a garden; through the grass to the ground it slipped from me. I languish, grievously wounded by the power of my love for that spotless pearl of mine.’"Pearl" is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work... Read more
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron
Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is perhaps the best-known Arthurian romance in the English language, praised by Tolkien as ‘the best conceived and shaped narrative poem of the fourteenth century, indeed of the Middle Ages, in English.’Its story is well-known: New Year celebrations at Camelot are disrupted by the fearsome and strange appearance... Read more
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The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript
By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron
Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems—the best known of which is "Sir Gawain" and the "Green Knight".The... Read more
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Cleanness
By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron
Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Cleanness" is the second of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Cleanness tells several stories, all related by theme–the disastrous consequences of uncleanness, and the good fortune to be had by being clean.The poet carefully constructs a complex accumulation of... Read more
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Macbeth
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the moral and noble Banquo to the mysterious Three Witches, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read, performed in innovative productions set in a vast array of times and locations, from Nazi... Read more
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What Blest Genius
By: Andrew McConnel Stott
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate the artistic legacy of the town’s most famous son, William Shakespeare. Attendees included the rich and powerful, the fashionable and the curious, eligible ladies and fortune hunters, and a horde of journalists and profiteers. For three days, they paraded... Read more
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On Cussing
By: Katherine Dunn
Narrated by: Caroline Aaron
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
F uck the Fuckity Fuckin' Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won't be surprised that this was her father's favorite sentence, or that, as a young girl, she heard it as a kind of profane poem, a secret song. For many of us, the language of Geek Love carries a similar staying power, born of Dunn's agile use of language and her strange, beautiful... Read more
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The Club
By: Leo Damrosch
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernIn 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink,... Read more
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Iago
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
One of Shakespeare's most provocative and... Read more
A Carnival of Losses
By: Donald Hall
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Hall lived long enough to leave behind two final books, memento mori titled Essays After Eighty (2014) and now A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety. They’re up there with the best things he did.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate of the United States, essays from the vantage point of very old ageDonald Hall lived... Read more
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Aux marches du palais
By: Albert Millaire
Narrated by: Albert Millaire
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Albert Millaire considère la fréquentation des classiques comme toujours profitable et enrichissante, surtout si elle se fait auprès d’un grand nombre d’auteurs et de leurs oeuvres. C’est la raison qui l’a incité à concevoir et monter, en entier, un spectacle pour les faire revivre. Produit à partir d’un enregistrement en direct à la Chapelle... Read more
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