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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
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Alfred Hitchcock
- A Brief Life
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance88
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A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Alfred Hitchock, the master of suspense. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan...
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Excellent intro to a great film director's legacy
- By An Alexandria music lover on 11-13-16
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Alfred Hitchcock
- A Brief Life
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-25-16
- Language: English
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Shakespeare
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall288
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Performance187
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Story187
This is the big one from Peter Ackroyd — and a worthy companion to London: The Biography. Only Peter Ackroyd can combine readable narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he...
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Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
- By Four Bears on 10-16-06
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Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 11-01-05
- Language: English
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The Life of Thomas More
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall161
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Performance122
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Story121
The Life of Thomas More went straight to #1 on the London Times best seller list when published in the United Kingdom. It remained in that position for over a month, garnering the kind of praise that is rarely given. Thomas More was not only a great man of the church, he was also arguably the...
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One of the hardest audiobooks I've ever finished
- By S. Marshall Priddy on 05-21-18
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The Life of Thomas More
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-30-06
- Language: English
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Venice
- Pure City
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall108
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Performance88
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Story85
The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its listeners to that sensual and...
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An endless droning list.....
- By jack on 03-15-11
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Venice
- Pure City
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-09-10
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance88
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Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell...
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WOW
- By Mitchell Drimmer on 02-25-15
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- Narrated by: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-27-11
- Language: English
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Chaucer
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance45
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Story45
As part of his series of brief biographies, best-selling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer's works. Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life. He served with the Duke of Clarence...
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first rate
- By hh on 09-16-07
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Chaucer
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-29-06
- Language: English
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London Under
- The Secret History Beneath the Streets
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Story18
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface. There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest...
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A Brief but Interesting Meditation
- By Carl Salbacka on 08-25-25
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London Under
- The Secret History Beneath the Streets
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-28-20
- Language: English
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
- A Novel
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance20
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When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. This haunting and...
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Interesting fantasia
- By Tad Davis on 08-06-13
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
- A Novel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-06-09
- Language: English
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht, Simon Prebble, Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance43
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Story43
If your tastes run to Victorian mysteries and murder, you’ll enjoy Peter Ackroyd’s special blending of fact and fiction in this magnificent recreation of the bizarre murders that rocked Victorian England. Drawing on surviving police records and court transcripts, Ackroyd paints a fascinating...
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Chilling and Gripping
- By Virginia Waldron on 10-21-13
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht, Simon Prebble, Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-29-11
- Language: English
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J.M.W. Turner
- Ackroyd's Brief Lives
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a...
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A snapshot of Turner’s Life
- By Porreca, Joanna on 04-27-21
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J.M.W. Turner
- Ackroyd's Brief Lives
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-21-14
- Language: English
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Queer City
- Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way–through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria (“wolf dens” or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae...
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Queer City
- Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-03-26
- Language: English
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The Lambs of London
- A Novel
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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A tour de force in the tradition of Hawksmoor and Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd’s new novel of deceit and betrayal is a witty reimagining of a great nineteenth-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for children...
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The Lambs of London
- A Novel
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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