Best Free Audio Books Online. April 2, 2009 LearnOutLoud invites you jump in and listen to 100 of the best free audiobook downloads available online. For many years now we've featured a Free Audio Book every Friday as part of our Free Resource of the Day Emails. From these emails, we've pulled out 100 of our favorites, including ancient classics, Shakespearean drama, key European & Russian novels, important political documents, poetry introductions, and the finest American literature. Whether you are a student or life-long learner, this selection covers just about everyone from Homer to Jane Austen, to Mark Twain and even an appearance by Sherlock Holmes! Click the titles below to get started on your free literary audiobook journey: 1. Listen to one of the all-time great works of American literature: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2.
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Mystery. Dyslexia friendly books. 10 of the best books set in London | Travel. Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959 It evocatively celebrates a time and a place – 1958, Notting Hill – where youthful rebellion and multiculturalism are stirring out of London's post-war slumber. "Cool, this is London, not some hick city in the provinces! This is London, man, a capital, a great big city where every kind of race has lived ever since the Romans.
" • Notting Hill Helen Simpson, Title story from Constitutional, 2005 A teacher makes the most of her lunch-hour on Hampstead Heath, enjoying the views and the snippets of conversation. "From that hill up there to my left it's possible to see for miles, and on a clear day I can pinpoint my road in Dalston. Monica Ali, Brick Lane, 2003 In Monica Ali's novel, Chanu and his family discover a rich and varied London, including the delights of the East End's Brick Lane. "Nazneen walked a step behind her husband down Brick Lane. Sukhdhev Sandhu, Night Haunts, 2006 "The streets of London are made from gold. "Implacable November weather. ‘Shame and Wonder,’ by David Searcy. Photo “When people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “because they think that it is only style that they are talking about.”
But uncommon literary style is always integrative, both the mother and the daughter of invention, wrought from a writer’s desperation “to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.” Astonishment is a quality central to David Searcy’s “Shame and Wonder,” a nonfiction collection from a writer best known for two horror-inflected novels, “Ordinary Horror” and “Last Things.” What unites these 21 essays, which range from extended, rolling meditations (including one on the semiotics of the cereal box prize) to a lyric fragment on watching the PBS docu-series “Lewis & Clark,” is the sense of a wildly querying intelligence suspended in a state of awe. Continue reading the main story Essays By David Searcy Illustrated. 228 pp. Wired for Books MP3 Page by Don Swaim on Free Audio Download. Here's a list of some of the people Swaim interviews: Douglas Adams, Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Ray Bradbury, William F.
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Literary Periods Timeline. YA novels lists. If you like books like these: crime fiction for teens | Children's books. As someone who has been reading YA for years, long before I sat down to write a book of my own, it was less of a surprise and more of a relief to read that, according to a Bowker Market Research survey published earlier in the month, 55% of buyers of YA books are over 18. Why? I take it you're looking for an answer more profound than: because they're brilliant. It's easy to dismiss books for teenagers as books about teenagers. After all, teenagers only care about split ends and beautiful, brooding vampires, right?
But teenagers read as widely as adults and yes, they love books like Twilight and The Hunger Games, but to assume that's all they want to read because they're bestsellers is to assume that all adults want to read is Stieg Larsson and Fifty Shades of Grey. And let's not forget that these teenagers are reading Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney at school. But when it comes to crime, do they want the same thing as adults? What do you think? Teenagers are just as demanding as adults. The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time - Listmuse.com. A contemporary list, with an international flavour and a respect for the classics, The Best Books: Top 100 Novels of All Time list contains many of the great works of fiction you'd expect, but with a few surprises to add a little spice to the collection. 1.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English. " 2. By Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. By George Orwell Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. 4. By Leo Tolstoy Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. 5. By J. A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. 6. By Joseph Heller 7. By Arthur Koestler 8. By Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. 9. Literary Magazines and Journals Database| Poets & Writers. Writers - Literature. Culture - The 100 greatest British novels.
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BlomquistColum's Anthology of Irish Verse - Bartleby.comBREAC - Digital Journal of Irish Studies Medieval Celtic ManuscriptsThe Book of KellsCarmina GadelicaCELT Irish Electronic Texts Irish Writers OnlineIreland Literature ExchangeBibliography of 19th-c. Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift ArchiveJonathan Swift Biography - IncompetechGulliver's Travels - U. Bram StokerDraculaBram Stoker Biography - Classic Literature LibraryBram Stoker's Dracula - Carstens smith Oscar WildeThe Official Home Page of Oscar WildeWilde Biography - BBCOscar Wilde OnlineCELT: Oscar WildePoetry of Oscar Wilde - Bartleby.com George Bernard ShawShaw Biography - C.
William Butler YeatsYeats Biography - Poetry FoundationCollected Poems - W. Donn ByrneByrne Biography - J. Fine Art The Faery Harper Oisín. Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion. I Heart Intelligence FREE BOOKS: 100 legal sites to download literature - I Heart Intelligence.
Top 10 Contemporary British Playwrights You Should Know. Caryl Churchill Fascinated with staging the complexities of female sexuality, Caryl Churchill has been penning award-winning productions since her debut as a student playwright in 1958 – catapulting her career into view with the acclaimed Downside. From 1974-5, Churchill was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court, and from here was involved with theatrical groups Monstrous Regiment and Joint Stock well into the 1980s.
Churchill’s arguably greatest accomplishment is the Obie Award winning Top Girls (1983). Centred on the character of Marlene, first seen seated at a celebratory dinner taking place in the present, the plot unravels to reveal an entirely female cast representing what Sadie Jones labels a ‘female global humanity’. This feminist global humanity comprises of Pope Joan, Isabella Bird and a Japanese courtesan amongst others, all of which have carved themselves notable space in a male-dominated world, at whatever price. Nina Raine debbie tucker green Bola Agbaje Lucy Prebble. 10 Contemporary Plays That Should Be on Your Shelf | Flavorwire | Page 2. Tomorrow marks the release of much beloved, left-of-center author Daniel Johnson’s new book, entitled Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse. Like many of his readers, we are most familiar with Johnson through his novels (Tree of Smoke) and short stories (Jesus’ Son), so we were psyched to jump into this new-to-us format for the author.
Inspired by Johnson’s plays, we started thinking about all of the wonderful contemporary playwrights out there whose work deserves a spot on anyone’s reading list, whether they’re a theatre junkie or just an average lover of fantastic literature. Click through to check out our list of contemporary plays that everyone should be reading, and if we’ve missed your favorite, be sure to add to our recommendations in the comments!
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Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) Interior Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent bookstores on Paris's Left Bank. The first was opened by Sylvia Beach on 19 November 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren, before moving to larger premises at 12 rue de l'Odéon in the 6th arrondissement in 1922. During the 1920s, it was a gathering place for writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Ford Madox Ford. It closed in 1940 during the German occupation of Paris and never re-opened. The second is situated at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, in the 5th arrondissement. Opened in 1951 by George Whitman, it was originally named "Le Mistral" but renamed to "Shakespeare and Company" in 1964 in tribute to Sylvia Beach's bookstore. Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey established Shakespeare and Company in 1919 on 8 rue Dupuytren.
The original Shakespeare and Company was closed in 14 June 1940, during the German occupation of France during World War II. George Whitman died at the age of 98 on December 14, 2011. Crime Fiction, Psycho-Thrillers, Murder Mysteries. Open access ebooks.
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