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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock.
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Fascinating history destroyed by narration
- By Cassandra on 03-06-22
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Shattered
- From the author of The Buddha of Suburbia
- By: Hanif Kureishi
- Narrated by: Art Malik
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance40
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Story40
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025 From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed. Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next...
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shattered
- By Bargin Hunter on 24-12-25
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Tolstoy
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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Story26
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia.
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A fascinating biography
- By Kirstine on 12-04-16
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Tolstoy
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-06-15
- Language: English
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Heavy Light
- A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
- By: Horatio Clare
- Narrated by: Horatio Clare
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance83
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Story81
After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under section two of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.
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Honesty and humour of the author
- By reverend mother on 25-05-26
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Heavy Light
- A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
- Narrated by: Horatio Clare
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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The Real Hergé
- The Inspiration Behind Tintin
- By: Sian Lye
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Story10
Hergé created only 24 Tintin books, which have been translated into more than 70 languages and sold 230 million copies worldwide. The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin takes an in-depth look at the man behind the cultural phenomenon and the history that helped shape these books. As well as focusing on the controversies that engulfed Hergé, this biography will also look at his personal life, as well as the relationships and experiences that influenced him.
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Tin tin
- By Linda T on 12-05-26
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The Real Hergé
- The Inspiration Behind Tintin
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-02-21
- Language: English
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Oscar
- A Life
- By: Matthew Sturgis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Bloomsbury presents Oscar by Matthew Sturgis, read by Jot Davies. The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade' TLS 'Simply the best...
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Lots of well-researched information excellently organized
- By Tabby Cat on 23-03-24
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Oscar
- A Life
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- By: Polly Morland, Richard Baker
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Story36
'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor...
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The sort of GP you wish you had
- By Victoria on 04-10-22
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall159
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Performance146
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Story146
In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.
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Decent introduction with predictable issues
- By Anonymous on 27-10-22
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The World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Ghostland
- In Search of a Haunted Country
- By: Edward Parnell
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall309
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Performance275
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Story274
‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare ‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the...
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Im not sure what kind of book this is.
- By Wren on 27-01-20
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
- By: Carlo Levi
- Narrated by: Massimo Malucelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Scritta tra il 1943 e il 1944, durante la sua militanza nel Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, viene pubblicata nel 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa...
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Classic of post-war Italian literature
- By AMS on 08-09-15
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
- Narrated by: Massimo Malucelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-11-11
- Language: Italian
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The Plague and I
- Common Reader Editions
- By: Betty MacDonald
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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" The Plague and I" recounts MacDonald's experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. "Anybody Can Do Anything" is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how "the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family" brightened their weathering of the Great Depression.
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the best
- By Sylvi on 01-03-25
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The Plague and I
- Common Reader Editions
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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Dark Renaissance
- The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
- By: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Brought to you by Penguin. Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. From one of the greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the...
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Another non-fiction ruined by the narrator
- By Dee G on 30-09-25
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Dark Renaissance
- The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Brought to you by Penguin. The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own...
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-10-25
- Language: English
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A Frozen Woman
- By: Annie Ernaux
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons.
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Magnificent
- By Anonymous on 16-05-25
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A Frozen Woman
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-11-19
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens in Love
- By: Robert Garnett
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love narrates the story of the most intense romances of Charles Dickens’ life and shows how his novels both testify to his own strongest affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved all too well, if not always wisely. Charles Dickens has no rival as the most fertile creative imagination since William Shakespeare, and no one influenced his imagination more powerfully than these three women, his muses and teachers in the school of love.
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Fascinating Dickens’ Details
- By cyclingcarol on 19-10-24
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Charles Dickens in Love
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly
- Collected advice from the bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love's Sunday Times column
- By: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall396
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Performance338
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Story334
Brought to you by Penguin. 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. It was as if I had crept down to the docks under cover of darkness and floated a message out in a bottle...
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I inhaled this!
- By Elizabeth on 28-10-22
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Dear Dolly
- Collected advice from the bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love's Sunday Times column
- Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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The Durrells
- The Story of a Family
- By: Richard Bradford
- Narrated by: Mike Read
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Bloomsbury presents The Durrells by Richard Bradford, read by Mike Read. A variously tragic tale of escapism and assimilation, Richard Bradford's The Durrells explores the truth behind the image. The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th century. Gerald turned...
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So much anger and despise
- By Poppy on 26-03-26
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The Durrells
- The Story of a Family
- Narrated by: Mike Read
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Goldeneye
- Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- By: Matthew Parker
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance51
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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd 'The big bang on Bond books... Beautiful, brilliant' Tony Parsons Goldeneye: the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond. From 1946 until the end...
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Enthralling!
- By james on 20-01-20
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Goldeneye
- Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-10-14
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror
- By: Mark Canada, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Mark Canada
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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Overall34
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Performance29
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Through these 10 lectures, you will delve into the darkness of Poe’s most nightmarish stories, including “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. You’ll also learn how he invented the detective story and explored themes of love and loss in such poems as “Ulalume” and “Annabel Lee”. And you’ll discover how Poe employed symbolism, imagery, rhythm and rhyme, irony and paradox, repetition, simile, and foreshadowing to create a unique body of work.
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Terrible narration
- By Raven Stone on 02-02-22
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Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror
- Narrated by: Mark Canada
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- By: Rick Emerson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.
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Interesting story
- By Masonia on 14-06-23
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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