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Agatha Christie

The Sunday Times bestselling biography of the legendary creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

by Lucy Worsley ...

Narrated by Lucy Worsley ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

The bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley OBE'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMESTo Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie was 'thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. Born in 1890, Christie ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

The bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley OBE'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMESTo Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie was 'thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. Born in 1890, Christie
... Read more
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Shakespeare

The Seven Major Tragedies

by Harold Bloom ...

Narrated by Harold Bloom ...

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

Shakespeare invented characters in a new kind of way. He not only gave them personality and depth, he gave them life. Not a life that went simply from point to point, but one that developed rather than unfolded. In so doing, Shakespeare created characters with whom everyone can identify, whether the characters were kings and queens or fools and merchants. Renowned Shakespearian scholar Professor ... Read more

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Shakespeare invented characters in a new kind of way. He not only gave them personality and depth, he gave them life. Not a life that went simply from point to point, but one that developed rather than unfolded. In so doing, Shakespeare created characters with whom everyone can identify, whether the characters were kings and queens or fools and merchants. Renowned Shakespearian scholar Professor
... Read more
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Second Chances

Shakespeare & Freud

by Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips ...

Narrated by Donald Corren, Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

7 hours

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and FreudIn this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again.Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, ... Read more

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A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and FreudIn this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again.Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament,
... Read more
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Hamlet

Two Complete Full Cast Performances of Original Shakespeare Text & Modern English

by SparkNotes, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Ariel Blake, Jonathan Davis, Imani Jade Powers, Fred Berman, Jennifer Van Dyck, Dion Graham, Robert Petkoff, Gabriel Vaughan, Soneela Nankani, James Fouhey, Gabra Zackman, Thérèse Plummer ...

Series series No Fear Shakespeare Audio Recordings
Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a
... Read more
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The Situation and the Story

The Art of Personal Narrative

by Vivian Gornick ...

Narrated by Vivian Gornick ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who
... Read more
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Romeo and Juliet

Two Complete Full Cast Performances of Original Shakespeare Text & Modern English

by SparkNotes, William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by James Fouhey, Imani Jade Powers, Nikki Massoud, Mark Bedard, Ryan Quinn, Joey Parsons, Wayne Carr, Nance Williamson, Gabriel Vaughan, Kurt Rhoads, Will Damron, Gabra Zackman ...

Series series No Fear Shakespeare Audio Recordings
Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a
... Read more
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George MacDonald

A Biography of Scotland's Beloved Storyteller

by Michael Phillips ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Unabridged

14 hours 53 min

Scotland's beloved storytellerGeorge MacDonald, nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to twentieth century Christians by C.S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald’s Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced similar acknowledgements. G.K. Chesterton said of MacDonald, “If we test the matter of originality of attitude, ... Read more

$46.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Scotland's beloved storytellerGeorge MacDonald, nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to twentieth century Christians by C.S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald’s Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced similar acknowledgements. G.K. Chesterton said of MacDonald, “If we test the matter of originality of attitude,
... Read more
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The Tower and the Ruin

J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

by Michael D. C. Drout ...

Narrated by Michael D. C. Drout ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In ... Read more

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A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In
... Read more
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C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity

A Biography

by George M. Marsden ...

Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

Series series Lives of the Great Religious Books
Unabridged

5 hours 26 min

Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican--famously converting to ... Read more

$26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican--famously converting to
... Read more
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Tyrant

Shakespeare on Politics

by Stephen Greenblatt ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

5 hours 26 min

"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip RothWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the ... Read more

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"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip RothWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the
... Read more
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God’s Secretaries

The Making of the King James Bible

by Adam Nicolson ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn ... Read more

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A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn
... Read more
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Life Lessons from Charles Dickens

Hope in the Gutter: Why Kindness Is the Revolution

by Marcus Alden ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Colin Ashford E ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Timeless Wisdom from Writers and Poets
Unabridged

52 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some stories don’t just entertain—they awaken your heart. Dickens never stopped doing both.Charles Dickens wasn’t just a storyteller. He was a social reformer, a voice for the voiceless, and a master of revealing both the cruelty and the kindness inside every human heart. Through orphans, outcasts, misers, and misfits, he gave us the mirror we still ... Read more

$5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some stories don’t just entertain—they awaken your heart. Dickens never stopped doing both.Charles Dickens wasn’t just a storyteller. He was a social reformer, a voice for the voiceless, and a master of revealing both the cruelty and the kindness inside every human heart. Through orphans, outcasts, misers, and misfits, he gave us the mirror we still
... Read more
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The Tempest (Unabridged)

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by AI Marcus ...

Unabridged

2 hours 18 min

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Tempest, thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone, begins with a storm which shipwrecks the king of Naples and his crew. We quickly learn that the tempest was not a natural occurence; it was created by Prospero, the usurped duke of Milan who is stranded on a nearby island, with the help of Ariel, a spirit in ... Read more

$3.99 CAD

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Tempest, thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone, begins with a storm which shipwrecks the king of Naples and his crew. We quickly learn that the tempest was not a natural occurence; it was created by Prospero, the usurped duke of Milan who is stranded on a nearby island, with the help of Ariel, a spirit in
... Read more
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Worlds Elsewhere

Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe

by Andrew Dickson ...

Narrated by Andrew Dickson ...

Unabridged

20 hours 3 min

There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays—more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English. Why did this happen, and how? Ranging ambitiously ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

There are 83 copies of the First Folio in a vault beneath Capitol Hill, the world's largest collection. Well over 150 Indian movies are based on Shakespeare's plays—more than in any other nation. If current trends continue, there will soon be more high school students reading The Merchant of Venice in Mandarin Chinese than in early-modern English. Why did this happen, and how? Ranging ambitiously
... Read more
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Contested Will

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

by James Shapiro ...

Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

For nearly two centuries, the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays has been challenged by writers and artists as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and Sir Derek Jacobi. How could a young man from rural Warwickshire, lacking a university education, write some of the greatest works in the English language? How do we explain the seemingly ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

For nearly two centuries, the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays has been challenged by writers and artists as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, and Sir Derek Jacobi. How could a young man from rural Warwickshire, lacking a university education, write some of the greatest works in the English language? How do we explain the seemingly
... Read more
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

by Elizabeth Winkler ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong ...

Unabridged

14 hours 28 min

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English
... Read more
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Shakespeare's Restless World

by Neil MacGregor ...

Narrated by Neil MacGregor ...

Unabridged

4 hours 30 min

What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In a time of political and religious unrest and economic expansion, how did Elizabethan play-goers make sense of their changing world? What did the plays mean to the public when they were first performed? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining twenty objects from that turbulent period. There ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In a time of political and religious unrest and economic expansion, how did Elizabethan play-goers make sense of their changing world? What did the plays mean to the public when they were first performed? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining twenty objects from that turbulent period. There
... Read more
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The World Broke in Two

Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

by Bill Goldstein ...

Narrated by Bill Goldstein ...

Unabridged

12 hours 6 min

This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make
... Read more
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

by Bright Summaries ...

Narrated by Sara Wright ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unabridged

22 min

Unlock the more straightforward side of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, which follows the Boy Who Lived during his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This year, the school is guarded by Dementors, sinister ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Unlock the more straightforward side of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, which follows the Boy Who Lived during his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This year, the school is guarded by Dementors, sinister
... Read more
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Sartor Resartus

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by James Gillies ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

Sartor Resartus is one of the most unusual, even quirky, British novels to emerge from the first half of the 19th century. Published in 1836, its varied heritage reflects the earlier eccentricities of Sterne and Swift, curiously mixed with influences from Goethe.Its subject matter is strange: it concerns a book called Clothes: Their Origin and Influence by one Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, a German ... Read more

$23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sartor Resartus is one of the most unusual, even quirky, British novels to emerge from the first half of the 19th century. Published in 1836, its varied heritage reflects the earlier eccentricities of Sterne and Swift, curiously mixed with influences from Goethe.Its subject matter is strange: it concerns a book called Clothes: Their Origin and Influence by one Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, a German
... Read more
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The Rig Veda

by Anonymous ...

Narrated by Sagar Arya ...

Unabridged

39 hours 10 min

Often appearing as ?gveda, the oldest of the four sacred books linked to Hinduism, it was composed in an ancient form of Sanskrit about 1500 BCE. The Rig Veda (Sanskrit: The Knowledge of Verses) was preserved in secrecy by ancient clans, initially orally, before it was written down about 300 BCE.These 1028 poems, grouped as 10 ‘Circles’ (mandalas), have variously been called hymns, poems or songs ... Read more

$46.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Often appearing as ?gveda, the oldest of the four sacred books linked to Hinduism, it was composed in an ancient form of Sanskrit about 1500 BCE. The Rig Veda (Sanskrit: The Knowledge of Verses) was preserved in secrecy by ancient clans, initially orally, before it was written down about 300 BCE.These 1028 poems, grouped as 10 ‘Circles’ (mandalas), have variously been called hymns, poems or songs
... Read more
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The World According to Narnia

Christian Meanings in C. S. Lewis’ Beloved Chronicles

by Jonathan Rogers ...

Narrated by Brian Emerson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

The World according to Narnia is a lively and engaging exploration of the many Christian themes in C. S. Lewis’ widely-known and universally loved children’s stories. C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia with a Christian understanding of the world firmly in his mind. Thus, it is no surprise that at every turn, some character or incident reflects parts of the Christian story. From the ... Read more

$16.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The World according to Narnia is a lively and engaging exploration of the many Christian themes in C. S. Lewis’ widely-known and universally loved children’s stories. C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia with a Christian understanding of the world firmly in his mind. Thus, it is no surprise that at every turn, some character or incident reflects parts of the Christian story. From the
... Read more
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The Italian

by Ann Radcliffe ...

Narrated by Sara Alexander ...

Unabridged

22 hours 27 min

Brought to you by Penguin.From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

Brought to you by Penguin.From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no
... Read more
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Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Paul Scofield ...

Abridged

5 hours 52 min

This comic masterpiece is read by Paul Schofield. It has been noted also by Dickens’ biographer, Forster, that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'."Martin Chuzzlewit" is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

This comic masterpiece is read by Paul Schofield. It has been noted also by Dickens’ biographer, Forster, that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'."Martin Chuzzlewit" is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to
... Read more

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