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  • Isak Dinesen

    The Life of a Storyteller

    by Judith Thurman ...
    Judith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award–winning biography of Isak Dinesen—now with a new foreword by the authorA brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.With ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Conversions of Edward Gibbon

    A Modern Biography

    by Martha Saxton ...
    A new feminist biography of the incomparably influential English historian Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.Even 250 years after it was first published, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire— Edward Gibbon’s six-volume chronicle of the late Roman and Byzantine periods—remains the best known work of history written in the English ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Secrets of the Flesh

    A Life of Colette

    by Judith Thurman ...
    A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation.Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Chéri and The End of Chéri

    by Colette ...
    Translated by Paul Eprile ...
    Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.Colette’s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: Léa de Lonval, a middle-aged former ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Left-Handed Woman

    Essays

    by Judith Thurman ...
    WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award–winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cleopatra's Nose

    39 Varieties of Desire

    by Judith Thurman ...
    Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's celebrated writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and "women's work"—from haute couture to literature to commanding empires. The subjects are iconic (Jackie, the Brontës, Toni Morrison, Anne Frank) and multifarious (tofu and performance art, pornography and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Second Sex

    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer, Judith Thurman ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 9 min

    UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIMESimone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation, and is now available on audio for the very ... Read more

    $37.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Secrets of the Flesh

    A Life of Colette

    by Judith Thurman ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 7 min

    A dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture.“A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK AWARD • ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Isak Dinesen

    The Life of a Storyteller

    by Judith Thurman ...
    Narrated by Davina Porter ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 21 min

    Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life-her travels, affairs, and friendships-remains the greatest story of all. Christened with the name Karen, the moody, headstrong, youngest of three ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    A Left-Handed Woman

    Essays

    by Judith Thurman ...
    Narrated by Kim Niemi ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 11 min

    WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award–winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

    The hilarious #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Horrible Histories

    by Terry Deary ...
    Narrated by Toby Longworth ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell.Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we?As it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans, and for the past two centuries we have been ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

    A Novel

    by Irene Solà ...
    Narrated by Alma Cuervo ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    “In the spirit of Ágota Kristóf and Juan Rulfo, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is forged from the deepest and truest stories about the perversity of the body, the sheer drama of the natural world, and the vengeful side of the divine. A fecund and daring book.”—Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of XDawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia ... Read more

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