Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Audiobook

Mastering The Cockney Accent

An Interactive Guide To Developing A Cockney Accent For The Stage or Screen

by Stephanie Lam ...

Narrated by Brandon Mier, Brian Furlong, Malcolm Cameron, Olivia Mornet ...

Unabridged

40 min

This is the ideal way to quickly master the Cockney (British) accent using a combination of approaches from pronunciation and oral posture techniques to dialect development (Cockney rhyming slang) and practice exercises. The course also contains guidance on developing a basic British accent to underpin a Cockney accent if desired dependent on your native accent. This course can help you prepare ... Read more

$22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is the ideal way to quickly master the Cockney (British) accent using a combination of approaches from pronunciation and oral posture techniques to dialect development (Cockney rhyming slang) and practice exercises. The course also contains guidance on developing a basic British accent to underpin a Cockney accent if desired dependent on your native accent. This course can help you prepare
... Read more
Audiobook

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

by Dante Alighieri ...

Narrated by Suzanne Fowler, Dennis Wells, Rina Riley Anis Marsh, Talia Morton, Malcolm Cameron, Mollie Sanders, Kris Welch, June Sherman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but
... Read more
Audiobook

On Liberty By John Stuart Mill

by John Stuart Mill ...

Narrated by Malcolm Cameron, Brenden Holland, Silas Harper, Luigi Simmons ...

Unabridged

5 hours 21 min

On Liberty Audiobook is a philosophical work by English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

On Liberty Audiobook is a philosophical work by English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

by George Bernard Shaw ...

Narrated by Talia Morton, Soraya Barton, May Lane, Mustapha Mann, Simona Holt, Malcolm Cameron, Sofie Connor, Kingsley Sanders ...

Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which,
... Read more

Audiobook

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, Fiona Shaw ...

Narrated by Fiona Shaw ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft tackles the wasted potential she sees in women, refusing to see them as inferior to men; she decries their limitations and suggests that they are worthy of an equal standard of education, and that they should be taught to develop their own reason, not simply how to gain a man. Written in 1792, at the height of the French Revolution, A ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBooks

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft tackles the wasted potential she sees in women, refusing to see them as inferior to men; she decries their limitations and suggests that they are worthy of an equal standard of education, and that they should be taught to develop their own reason, not simply how to gain a man. Written in 1792, at the height of the French Revolution, A
... Read more

Also available as: eBooks
Audiobook

Solar Bones

by Mike McCormack ...

Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds ...

Unabridged

9 hours

A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBooks

A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man
... Read more

Also available as: eBooks
Audiobook

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque ...

Narrated by Frank Muller ...

Unabridged

6 hours 57 min

Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war's final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBooks

Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war's final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of
... Read more

Also available as: eBooks
Audiobook

Friends and Traitors

An Inspector Troy Novel

by John Lawton ...

Narrated by Lewis Hancock ...

Series Audiobook 8 - The Inspector Troy Series
Unabridged

10 hours 58 min

The latest novel in a series regularly singled out for its exceptional quality features Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard in a tale of Cold War spy dealings centered around double agent Guy Burgess—a story of betrayal, espionage, and the dangers of love.London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Britain, ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The latest novel in a series regularly singled out for its exceptional quality features Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard in a tale of Cold War spy dealings centered around double agent Guy Burgess—a story of betrayal, espionage, and the dangers of love.London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Britain,
... Read more
Audiobook

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie ...

Narrated by Sam Dastor ...

Unabridged

21 hours 36 min

Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel's publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie's comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The tale of an Indian film star and a Bombay expatriate, Rushdie's masterpiece was deservedly honored with the Whitbread Prize. "Swift's ... Read more

$30.99 USD

Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel's publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie's comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The tale of an Indian film star and a Bombay expatriate, Rushdie's masterpiece was deservedly honored with the Whitbread Prize. "Swift's
... Read more
Audiobook

May We Be Forgiven

by A.M. Homes ...

Narrated by Andy Paris ...

Unabridged

20 hours 44 min

A.M. Homes is acclaimed for her unnerving looks at suburban life in such searing works as The Safety of Objects, Jack, and Music for Torching. May We Be Forgiven stars Harold Silver, a historian who's always been jealous of his successful brother, George. But when the hot-tempered George is institutionalized for committing a violent act, Harold finds himself comforting his brother's wife and ... Read more

$30.99 USD

A.M. Homes is acclaimed for her unnerving looks at suburban life in such searing works as The Safety of Objects, Jack, and Music for Torching. May We Be Forgiven stars Harold Silver, a historian who's always been jealous of his successful brother, George. But when the hot-tempered George is institutionalized for committing a violent act, Harold finds himself comforting his brother's wife and
... Read more
Audiobook

The Finkler Question

by Howard Jacobson ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

12 hours 34 min

Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick.Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings together reminiscing. Until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick.Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings together reminiscing. Until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into
... Read more
Audiobook

Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang ...

Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

Unabridged

22 hours 52 min

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Books narrated by Malcolm Cameron

Mastering The Cockney Accent

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

On Liberty By John Stuart Mill

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

People who read these also enjoyed

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Solar Bones

All Quiet on the Western Front

Friends and Traitors

The Satanic Verses

May We Be Forgiven

The Finkler Question

Wild Swans

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Books narrated by Malcolm Cameron

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed