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To Throw Away Unopened
- By: Viv Albertine
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance73
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Story74
Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in bloodletting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger.
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A read again and again book!
- By Sarah Power on 18-01-19
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To Throw Away Unopened
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
- The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
- By: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. The book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice.
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A wonderful edition of a great book
- By Michael on 14-12-21
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Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
- The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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The River of Consciousness
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren, Kate Edgar
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance56
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Story58
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living...
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very interesting
- By Jenny Caine on 21-11-23
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The River of Consciousness
- Narrated by: Dan Woren, Kate Edgar
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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The Planets
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance1
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THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating...
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The Planets
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-10-05
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
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A very good read
- By Anonymous on 27-08-24
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Notes of a Native Son
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Acquired Tastes
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance40
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Story40
Acquired Tastes is a celebration of life's extravagances. It explores an aspect of human nature that, although dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card. It samples the luxuries of Havana cigars, Parisian hotels, bespoke London tailoring, and handmade shoes; discusses the proper color for a stretch limousine; and weighs the cost versus the pleasure of keeping a mistress.
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Peter Mayle does it again!
- By Louise A. on 11-11-21
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Acquired Tastes
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-07-15
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance23
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Story23
Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Life After Ambition
- A "Good Enough" Memoir
- By: Amil Niazi
- Narrated by: Amil Niazi
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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“Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her—and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift.” —Emma Specter, Vogue Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed...
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Life After Ambition
- A "Good Enough" Memoir
- Narrated by: Amil Niazi
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-01-26
- Language: English
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance9
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Story9
Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance-art pieces, and most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.
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Not every essay brilliant, but well worthwhile
- By Paul Beardsell on 23-02-20
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The Wave in the Mind
- Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-07-18
- Language: English
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance210
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Story210
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.
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Warm, witty with quite a lot of good sense too.
- By Felicity Coudre on 26-07-15
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-09-14
- Language: English
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Pure Drivel
- By: Steve Martin
- Narrated by: Steve Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Story10
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album! Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts...
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absolutely witty and great
- By KA ALVAREZ AGUILAR on 08-01-19
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Pure Drivel
- Narrated by: Steve Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
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Sister Outsider
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance87
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Story88
Brought to you by Penguin. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising...
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Audre Lorde, my prophet
- By J D on 26-07-21
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Sister Outsider
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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What I Know for Sure
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,542
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Performance2,910
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Story2,887
Candid, moving, exhilarating, uplifting, frequently humorous, and passionately read by Ophrah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure shimmers with the sort of truth that listeners will revisit again and again. As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you...
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Just what I needed to hear right now
- By Ms. Laura Mercier on 04-05-16
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What I Know for Sure
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-09-14
- Language: English
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The Yarn Whisperer
- My Unexpected Life in Knitting
- By: Clara Parkes
- Narrated by: Clara Parkes
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance39
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Story39
Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we’ve tucked away in our memory banks. Over time, those stitches form a map of our lives. —From the preface In The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on...
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Excellent.
- By helen on 14-12-16
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The Yarn Whisperer
- My Unexpected Life in Knitting
- Narrated by: Clara Parkes
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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Notes on Grief
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance91
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Story91
On 10th June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
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It just sounded like me talking to me
- By J Aravind on 22-06-21
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Notes on Grief
- Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Consider The Lobster
- Essays and Arguments
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrated by: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of...
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Aged badly
- By Sam on 31-10-25
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Consider The Lobster
- Essays and Arguments
- Narrated by: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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We Are Not Numbers
- The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey
- Narrated by: Ahmed Alnaouq, Sarah Agha, George Kreitem
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Brought to you by Penguin. A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings...
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Reality
- By Ariala on 11-03-26
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We Are Not Numbers
- The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Ahmed Alnaouq, Sarah Agha, George Kreitem
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance160
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Story160
The best of the Minimalists! This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com. This collection has been edited and organized to create an experience that's considerably different from reading individual selections online. From simple living, decluttering, and finances to passion, health, and relationships, Essential is for anyone who desires a more intentional life.
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mumbling narrator destroys great content
- By Public name on 09-05-17
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-10-16
- Language: English
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Authority
- Essays on Being Right by the Pulitzer Prize Winner
- By: Andrea Long Chu
- Narrated by: Andrea Long Chu
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Brought to you by Penguin. Since her canonical 2017 essay 'On Liking Women', the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out...
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Authority
- Essays on Being Right by the Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Narrated by: Andrea Long Chu
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-08-25
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,793
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Performance1,537
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Story1,526
A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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