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Books narrated by Robert Penn

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  • All The King's Men

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE“All the King’s Men, the best American political novel ever written, is generally read as a cautionary tale about how power poisons slowly, like arsenic, or cynicism. But it’s also a fable about history, and why, like poetry, it’s so hard to write it fast." -Jill LeporeRobert Penn Warren’s masterpiece follows the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Slow Rise

    A Bread-Making Adventure

    by Robert Penn ...
    'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' TelegraphOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • It's All About the Bike

    The Pursuit of Happiness On Two Wheels

    by Robert Penn ...
    As seen on TVThe bicycle is one of mankind's greatest inventions - and the most popular form of transport in history. Robert Penn has ridden one most days of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedalled 40,000 kilometres around the world. Yet, like cyclists everywhere, the utilitarian bikes he currently owns don't even hint at this devotion. Robert needs a new bike, a bespoke machine that reflects ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who Speaks for the Negro?

    In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-known figures such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser-known individuals whose names might otherwise be lost to history. Transcripts from these interviews, combined with Warren’s reflections on the movement ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

    by Robert Penn ...
    Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • At Heaven's Gate

    Novel

    The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic.At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author’s years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

    by Robert Penn ...
    Narrated by Robert Penn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    enguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Man Who Made Things Out Of Trees, written and read by Robert Penn.Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

    by Robert Penn ...
    Narrated by Robert Penn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied use of ash than any other kind of wood. Journeying across the English-speaking world, Robert Penn meets craftsmen with rare skills and a knowledge of the properties of ash developed over millennia. He ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Complete Harvard Classics  ALL 71 Volumes

    The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

    ( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War

    In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. But thwarted by the discovery of a physical deformity which he had hoped to conceal, he must try other means to find his "truth." ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    All the King's Men

    Narrated by Michael Emerson ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 55 min

    This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus