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The Watsons

par Jane Austen ...

Lu par May Lane ...

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1 heures 47 min

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it in 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than ... En savoir plus

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The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it in 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than
... En savoir plus
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Eros the Bittersweet

An Essay

par Anne Carson ...

Lu par Suzanne Toren ...

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6 heure 3 min

Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general listeners. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of ... En savoir plus

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Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general listeners. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of
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Retour à Yvetot

par Annie Ernaux ...

Lu par Annie Ernaux, Dominique Blanc ...

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1 heures 30 min

« Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j’y ai trouvé le mode d’emploi de la vie, un mode d’emploi auquel j’accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu’au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J’étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les ... En savoir plus

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« Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j’y ai trouvé le mode d’emploi de la vie, un mode d’emploi auquel j’accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu’au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J’étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les
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A Room of One's Own

par Virginia Woolf ...

Lu par Frances Butt ...

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4 heure 25 min

A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century bookWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. … [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and ... En savoir plus

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A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century bookWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. … [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces

par Maria Tatar ...

Lu par Julie McKay ...

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12 heure 9 min

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and ... En savoir plus

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World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and
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Tribu de lectoras

par Asociación de lectoras Librosb4tipos ...

Lu par Adriana Galindo, Gabriela Ramírez, Gaby Torres, Dessirée Hernández, Graciela Gámez, Alma Olguín ...

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5 heure 34 min

Ensayos que celebran la memoria y la imaginaciónSi algo tenemos que agradecer a las redes sociales es que han contribuido a reunir a miles de mujeres apasionadas por la lectura. En México destaca la labor de Librosb4tipos, una asociación integrada por once mujeres mexicanas que se dedican apromover la lectura con una mirada genuina, dejando de lado cualquier preten... ... En savoir plus

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Ensayos que celebran la memoria y la imaginaciónSi algo tenemos que agradecer a las redes sociales es que han contribuido a reunir a miles de mujeres apasionadas por la lectura. En México destaca la labor de Librosb4tipos, una asociación integrada por once mujeres mexicanas que se dedican apromover la lectura con una mirada genuina, dejando de lado cualquier preten...
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Translating Myself and Others

par Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Lu par Jhumpa Lahiri, Sneha Mathan ...

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5 heure 40 min

Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa LahiriWith an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the authorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a ... En savoir plus

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Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa LahiriWith an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the authorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a
... En savoir plus
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime

par Agatha Christie ...

Lu par Hugh Fraser, Sophie Roberts ...

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6 heure 10 min

Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved ... En savoir plus

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Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved
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The Heroine’s Bookshelf

Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

par Erin Blakemore ...

Lu par Tavia Gilbert ...

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4 heure 44 min

The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like today’s women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett O’Hara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions. ... En savoir plus

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The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like today’s women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett O’Hara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions.
... En savoir plus
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Jane Austen: A Most Improper Heroine

par Margaret Elliot ...

Lu par Digital Voice Brian Bones E ...

Collections Livre audio : 1 - Margaret's Short Biographies of History
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2 heure 16 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She wrote the greatest love stories in the English language. She never married. This is the life Jane Austen actually lived — and how every snub, heartbreak, and borrowed sitting room found its way into the books she wasn't allowed to put her name on. ... En savoir plus

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She wrote the greatest love stories in the English language. She never married. This is the life Jane Austen actually lived — and how every snub, heartbreak, and borrowed sitting room found its way into the books she wasn't allowed to put her name on.
... En savoir plus
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Thalia Book Club: Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?

par Jeanette Winterson ...

Lu par A.M. Homes ...

Collections series Thalia Book Club
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1 heures 30 min

The author of the international best-selling novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit tackles her own reality in her riveting memoir. In this remarkable book she confronts the various paths her childhood took, from being raised by a religious zealot who kept a gun in the dresser to pondering her sexuality and other core parts of her identity and the search for her biological mother. Funny, acute, ... En savoir plus

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The author of the international best-selling novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit tackles her own reality in her riveting memoir. In this remarkable book she confronts the various paths her childhood took, from being raised by a religious zealot who kept a gun in the dresser to pondering her sexuality and other core parts of her identity and the search for her biological mother. Funny, acute,
... En savoir plus
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Thalia Book Club: Evening with Jane Gardam, An

par Jane Gardam ...

Lu par Stacy Schiff, Paul Hecht ...

Collections series Thalia Book Club
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1 heures 21 min

In a rare New York appearance, the beloved British author of Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, the funny, romantic and surprising paired novels about a 50-year marriage between a crusty British barrister and his sparkling surprising Betty, discusses these books and her brand-new third chapter in this remarkable series, Last Friends. Paul Hecht will read from the book. In conversation with ... En savoir plus

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In a rare New York appearance, the beloved British author of Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, the funny, romantic and surprising paired novels about a 50-year marriage between a crusty British barrister and his sparkling surprising Betty, discusses these books and her brand-new third chapter in this remarkable series, Last Friends. Paul Hecht will read from the book. In conversation with
... En savoir plus
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Thalia Book Club: Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then

par Jamaica Kincaid ...

Lu par Ian Frazier ...

Collections series Thalia Book Club
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1 heures 24 min

The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier (The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days). ... En savoir plus

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The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier (The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days).
... En savoir plus
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Starry and Restless

Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

par Julia Cooke ...

Lu par Andi Arndt ...

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13 heure 44 min

"Andi Arndt’s performance fleshes out each woman’s biography clearly and respectfully, often adding a wry tone." — KirkusThe riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off ... En savoir plus

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"Andi Arndt’s performance fleshes out each woman’s biography clearly and respectfully, often adding a wry tone." — KirkusThe riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off
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Square Haunting

Five Writers in London Between the Wars

par Francesca Wade ...

Lu par Corrie James ...

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13 heure 9 min

Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative ... En savoir plus

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Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles

Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light

Lu par Eric Jason Martin, Xe Sands ...

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5 heure 8 min

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively . . . loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a multi-faceted portrait of the ... En savoir plus

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In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively . . . loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a multi-faceted portrait of the
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From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—

par Olive Schreiner ...

Lu par Clare Staniforth ...

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18 heure 16 min

Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only―, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One sister remains in the British Cape Colony and finds a way to deal with her husband's infidelities. The other, raped at age fifteen, is hounded out of her insular white ... En savoir plus

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Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only―, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One sister remains in the British Cape Colony and finds a way to deal with her husband's infidelities. The other, raped at age fifteen, is hounded out of her insular white
... En savoir plus
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Doris Lessing

A Biography

par Carole Klein, Cedar House Audio ...

Lu par Anna Fields ...

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11 heure

Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished ... En savoir plus

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Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished
... En savoir plus
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Eleven Days

The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie's Mysterious Disappearance

par Laura Thompson ...

Lu par Mandy Weston ...

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6 heure 40 min

A unique approach to understanding Agatha Christie’s infamous eleven-day disappearance, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie.In December of 1926, Agatha Christie, the world’s most famous mystery author, vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. Claiming to have lost her memory, she gave one ... En savoir plus

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A unique approach to understanding Agatha Christie’s infamous eleven-day disappearance, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie.In December of 1926, Agatha Christie, the world’s most famous mystery author, vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. Claiming to have lost her memory, she gave one
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The Alice Behind Wonderland

par Simon Winchester ...

Lu par Simon Winchester ...

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2 heure 43 min

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless ... En savoir plus

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On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless
... En savoir plus
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Essential Anais Nin

Excerpts from her Diary and Comments

par Anais Nin ...

Lu par Anais Nin ...

Version Abrégée

45 min

From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell–binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an extraordinary, historic, archival, and memorable ... En savoir plus

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From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell–binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an extraordinary, historic, archival, and memorable
... En savoir plus
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Committed

On Meaning and Madwomen

par Suzanne Scanlon ...

Lu par Suzanne Scanlon ...

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10 heure 13 min

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left ... En savoir plus

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A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left
... En savoir plus
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Things I Don't Want to Know

par Deborah Levy ...

Lu par Juliet Stevenson ...

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2 heure 59 min

A luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, a witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write"Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part "living autobiography" on writing and womanhood.Taking George Orwell's famous essay, "Why I Write", as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. ... En savoir plus

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A luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, a witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write"Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part "living autobiography" on writing and womanhood.Taking George Orwell's famous essay, "Why I Write", as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life.
... En savoir plus
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Camp Austen

My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan

par Ted Scheinman ...

Lu par Ted Scheinman ...

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3 heure 43 min

A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancingThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the ... En savoir plus

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A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancingThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the
... En savoir plus

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