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  • Audiobook

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

    by Patrick Henry ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    8 min

    On 20 March 1775, The Second Virginia Convention convened at St. John's Church in Richmond. They assembled to consider weighty matters concerning the tyranny and oppression of the Crown. Many favored continued conciliatory measures. A thirty-nine year old delegate from Hanover County named Pätrick Henry took a seat in the third pew. Here sat a man with a burden. He knew he faced "an irresolute ... Read more

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    The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
    Narrated by Michael Ward ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine. Classified as both Gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.A cornerstone text of academics who subscribed to New Criticism, the novella has had ... Read more

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    The Hedgehog and the Fox

    An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Narrated by Peter Kenny ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 37 min

    This compelling audiobook narrated by Peter Kenny presents Isaiah Berlin's acclaimed essay on Tolstoy and historical understanding"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of ... Read more

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    Best of O. Henry

    by O. Henry ...
    Narrated by Michael Hanson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 7 min

    The best of O. Henry's stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Voice of the City," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and more. ... Read more

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    Creative Evolution

    by Henri Bergson ...
    Narrated by Michael Lunts ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    Henri Bergson’s highly influential book, ‘Creative Evolution’ (‘Evolution Creatrice’, 1907) established a theory of evolution - called ‘Creative Evolution Theory’ - which gained a considerable following in the first half of the 20th Century. It also helped the author to win the Nobel Prize in 1927 for his work investigating the origins of biological information and divergence in the evolutionary ... Read more

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  • The Hedgehog and the Fox

    An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    The world-famous masterpiece about a writer's obsessive pursuit of forbidden love by a Nobel Prize laureate.Translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of ... Read more

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  • Washington Square

    "Washington Square is perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable to Jane Austen's," said Graham Greene.Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the heart of heiress Catherine Sloper against the objections of her father. Precise and ... Read more

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  • The Aspern Papers and Other Tales

    by Henry James ...
    A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet's papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On Writers and Writing

    Selected Essays

    by Henry James ...
    A new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honoré de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and passionate, James's essays are a delight for any lover of the written word."James knew how to be generous without sacrificing the truth. What lends dignity and breadth to [his essays] above their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ministry of Pain

    A Novel

    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Far from home, a fractured community of Yugoslav outcasts struggle with their lives in award–winning author Dubravka Ugrešić's novel The Ministry of Pain.Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and ... Read more

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  • The Daily Henry James

    A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

    by Henry James ...
    "The virtue of The Daily Henry James is how rousingly it distills the exhortation that echoes across James's work: Seize the day!"— The Wall Street JournalFirst published with novelist Henry James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom—a limited edition quote-of-the-day collection titled The Henry James Year Book—this new edition remains a timeless delight for modern readers. Drawing ... Read more

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