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  • Mark Twain: Man in White

    The Grand Adventure of His Final Years

    by Michael Shelden ...
    One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stir—but then Twain took off his overcoat to reveal a "snow-white" tailored suit and scandalized the room. His shocking outfit appalled and delighted his contemporaries, but far more than that, as Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Melville in Love

    The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

    by Michael Shelden ...
    A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Young Titan

    The Making of Winston Churchill

    by Michael Shelden ...
    In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill’s early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that both nearly undid him but also forged the character ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Orwell

    The Authorized Biography

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 1 min

    In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks new ground in the evocation of George Orwell’s personal life and in our understanding of his art. Based on original interviews, previously undiscovered letters and documents, and astute literary detective work, Orwell is the major biography of one of the ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

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    Melville in Love

    The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-dick

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    Herman Melville’s epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book." Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The World of George Orwell

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by Michael Shelden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    Big Brother Is Watching You: The words are inextricably associated with the classic dystopian novel 1984 and with its revered author, George Orwell. The Modern Scholar series continues its exploration of great authors with this course from esteemed professor Michael Shelden. In these lectures Orwell, who also penned the epitome of the political satire, Animal Farm, is discussed in full, from his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Lost Generation

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by Michael Shelden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    The Lost Generation from Professor Michael Shelden evokes one of the most creative periods in American literature. Paris of the 1920s served as a base for such authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein. In these lectures, Professor Shelden details and provides fresh insight into the unending allure of the Lost Generation-and of the literary output that exerts ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Young Titan

    The Making of Winston Churchill

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by John Curless ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 22 min

    In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill's early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that both nearly undid him but also forged the character ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Mark Twain: Man in White

    The Grand Adventure of His Final Years

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by Andrew Garman ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 1 min

    Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this brilliant account of the legendary author's life. Drawing heavily on Twain's own letters and journals, Mark Twain: Man in White recounts both Twain's private family experiences and his larger-than-life public image. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Life and Times of Mark Twain

    by Michael Shelden ...
    Narrated by Michael Shelden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    Professor of English at Indiana State University and the author of the literary biography Mark Twain: Man in White, Michael Shelden is the perfect candidate to lead this series of lectures on one of the most important - and most influential - of all American authors. From Twain's early history through his landmark achievements and the defining moments of his extraordinary life, Shelden imparts a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Astor Orphan

    A Memoir

    by Alexandra Aldrich ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the famous Astor dynasty, grew up in the servants' quarters of Rokeby, the forty-three-room Hudson Valley mansion built by her ancestors. Her childhood was one of bohemian neglect and real privation. But it was fairly stable until the summer of her tenth year, when her father took up with an alluring interloper, Giselle.Alexandra idolized her father, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Revolutionary Summer

    The Birth of American Independence

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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