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Books narrated by Maureen Corrigan

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  • So We Read On

    How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

    The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby—"The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't."Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

    Finding and Losing Myself in Books

    In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

    Finding and Losing Myself in Books

    Narrated by Maureen Corrigan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    A book reviewer for The Washington Post and NPR's Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan is obsessed with books-so much so that they caused her to delay marriage. This audiobook explores her obsession with all things literary. Corrigan expertly weaves together her own life story withthe stories from the books she loves. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    So We Read On

    How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

    Narrated by Maureen Corrigan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 40 min

    The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby—"The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't."Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Lost Lady

    A novel

    by Willa Cather ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

    The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise inspired by the clothes she wore. Bly gained fame for being the first “girl stunt reporter,” writing stories ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    by Annie Dillard ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book ReviewPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 10 Days in a Madhouse

    by Nellie Bly ...
    ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 10 Days in a Madhouse

    by Nellie Bly ...
    ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House

    by Nellie Bly ...
    A courageous female journalist's classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century AmericaIn 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America's first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself "Nellie Brown," she was able to convince policemen, a judge ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 10 Days in a Madhouse

    by Nellie Bly ...
    ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House

    by Nellie Bly ...
    Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island?I said I could and I would. And I did.—Nellie BlyTen Days in a Mad-House is the true account by female journalist Nellie Bly as she took on an undercover assignment investigating the inner workings of New York City’s most notorious insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island in 1887. The fact that Bly took the risk of getting herself committed, ... Read more

    $7.43 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus