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Mary Shelley i el Monstre de Frankenstein

Una mirada contemporània a la vida i l'obra de Mary Shelley i al seu monstre immortal. «Més enllà de les justes reivindicacions de la crítica feminista, més enllà dels fills legítims i bastards a la cultura popular, més enllà dels abusos biogràfics que s'han comès i es cometen a partir de la seva extraordinària vida, Mary Shelley és una de les grans escriptores de la història, [...] un dels més grans escriptors que han existit.» Als dos-cents anys de la publicació de Frankenstein, aquest riquíssim assaig literari de Ricard Ruiz Garzón presenta Mary Shelley i la seva criatura més famosa, reproduïda incessantment per la cultura popular contemporània en pel·lícules, llibres, sèries, etc. L'autor ha sabut cosir la vida, l'obra i les idees de Mary Shelley amb altres monstres literaris i amb els nostres monstres personals. Un autèntic llibre-Frankenstein. - Ricard Ruiz Garzón és un escriptor nascut a Barcelona el 1973. Compagina la literatura amb la seva tasca com a columnista i professor de l'Màster en Edició de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. La seva obra abasta la ficció fantàstica, la juvenil i l'assaig, així com la coordinació d'antologies literàries com Demà encara, Insòlites o Risc. La seva obra li ha valgut diversos premis, entre ells el Mirades 2006 per Les veus de l'laberint o el Edebé per La immortal.

Ricard Ruiz Garzón (Author), Neus Sendra (Narrator)

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Mary Queen of Scots

Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, and Queen of France at sixteen years, she grew up in the crosshairs of Europe's political battles to become Queen Elizabeth's arch rival. This audiobook tells the story of the fraught and dangerous relationship between these two women of incredible charisma and power - a relationship that began with both seeking a political settlement, but which led them down a path of danger, from which only one could emerge victorious. Previously published as 'My Heart is My Own'.

John Guy (Author), Jan Cramer (Narrator)

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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

The making of the film Mary Poppins made into a starring role for Julie Andrews in Walt Disney's hugely successful and equally classic adaptation is being brought to life by Disney in the upcoming film, Saving Mr. Banks. Our biography of P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins, She Wrote, is the official movie tie-in and explores the events that inspired the upcoming major motion picture, telling the story of P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood and her struggles with Walt Disney as he adapted her novel for the big screen. Travers, whom Disney accused of vanity for "thinking you [Travers] know more about Mary Poppins than I do," was a poet and world-renowned author as tart and opinionated as Julie Andrews' big-screen Mary Poppins was cheery and porcelain-beautiful ("You've got the nose for it," Travers candidly assessed the star). Yet it was a love of mysticism and magic that shaped P. L. Travers' life as well as the very character of Mary Poppins. The clipped, strict, and ultimately mysterious nanny was the creation of someone who remained inscrutable and enigmatic to the end of her ninety-six years. "Who is P. L. Travers?" the American press inquired of "this unknown Englishwoman" whose stories had inspired the record breaking film and won her international fame. Valerie Lawson's illuminating biography, Mary Poppins She Wrote, provides the first full look at the life of the woman and writer whose personal journey is as intriguing as her beloved characters, the woman who fervently believed that "Everyday life is the miracle."

Valerie Lawson (Author), Terry Donnelly (Narrator)

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Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

A remarkable new biography from one of Britain's leading young historians that recovers the cofounder of communism from the shadows of history. Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also, with Karl Marx, the founder of international communism, which in the twentieth century came to govern one-third of the human race. He was coauthor of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so that Marx could write Das Kapital. His searing account of the Industrial Revolution, The Condition of the Working Class in England, remains one of the most haunting and brutal indictments of the human costs of capitalism. Far more than Marx's indispensable aide, Engels was a profound thinker in his own right—on warfare, feminism, urbanism, Darwinism, technology, and colonialism. With fierce clarity, he predicted the social effects of today's free-market fundamentalism and unstoppable globalization. Drawing on a wealth of letters and archives, acclaimed historian Tristram Hunt plumbs Engels's intellectual legacy and shows us how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his exuberant personal life with his radical political philosophy. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England—of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes—Marx's General tells a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal. And it tackles head-on the question of Engels's influence: was Engels, after Marx's death, responsible for some of the most devastating turns of twentieth-century history, or was the idealism of his thought distorted by those who claimed to be his followers? An epic history and riveting biography, Marx's General at last brings Engels out from the shadow of his famous friend and collaborator.

Tristram Hunt (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator)

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Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography

In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.

Francis Wheen (Author), Simon Vance, Simon Vance (Narrator)

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Martin Sharp

This is the beautifully told story of charismatic and unconventional pop artist Martin Sharp, from his lonely privileged childhood, to the heady days of the underground magazine Oz to Swinging London and beyond. Sharp blurred the boundaries of high art and low, he drew rock stars and reprobates into his world, he collaborated with Eric Clapton, obsessively championed eccentric singer Tiny Tim, was haunted by Sydney's Luna Park, and paradoxically became a recluse whose phone never stopped ringing.

Joyce Morgan (Author), Daniel Koek (Narrator)

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Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

Since its release nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women has been a mainstay in American literature, while passionate Jo March and her calm, beloved "Marmee" have shaped generations of young women. Biographers have consistently credited her father, Bronson Alcott, for Louisa's professional success, assuming that this outspoken idealist was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence. But in this riveting dual biography, Eve LaPlante explodes those myths, drawing on unknown and unexplored letters and journals to show that Louisa's "Marmee," Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world. It was Abigail who urged Louisa to write, who inspired many of her stories, and who gave her the support and courage she needed to pursue her unconventional path. Abigail, long dismissed as a quiet, self-effacing companion to her famous husband and daughter, is revealed here as a politically active feminist firebrand, a fascinating thinker in her own right. Examining family papers, archival documents, and diaries thought to have been destroyed, LaPlante paints an exquisitely moving and utterly convincing portrait of a woman decades ahead of her time-and the fiercely independent daughter who was both inspired and restricted by her mother's dreams of freedom. A story guaranteed to turn all previous scholarship on its head, Marmee and Louisa is a gorgeously written and deeply felt biography of two extraordinary women as well as a key to our understanding of Louisa May Alcott's life and work.

Eve LaPlante (Author), Karen White (Narrator)

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Marlene Dietrich

Non è probabilmente possibile trovare l'erede, o una nuova impossibile versione di Marlene Dietrich, una delle donne più belle, originali e inclassificabili del Novecento. Meglio allora cercare di capire ciò che questa creatura geniale, innovativa, indisciplinata, abbia lasciato nella memoria, spesso distratta e disastrata, della nostra storia, di cui è stata parte, da protagonista, con bellezza e profonda intelligenza.

Luca Scarlini (Author), Patrizia Salmoiraghi (Narrator)

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Mark Twain: How to Tell a Story

Mark Twain (Author), Mark Redfield (Narrator)

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Mark Twain: A Life

In "Mark Twain," Ron Powers consummates years of research with a "tour de force" on the life of our culture's founding father. He offers Sam Clemens as he lived, breathed, and wrote. With the assistance of the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, he has drawn on thousands of letters and notebook entries, many only recently discovered. Sam Clemens left his frontier boyhood in Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats. He skirted the western theater of the Civil War before taking off for an uproarious drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West. As his fame as a humorist and lecturer spread around the country, he took the East Coast by storm. He wooed and won his lifelong devoted wife, yet quietly pined for the girl who was his first crush. He became the toast of Europe and a celebrity who toured the globe. His comments on everything he saw, many published here for the first time, are priceless. The man that emerges in Powers's brilliant telling is both the magnetic, acerbic, and hilarious Mark Twain of myth and a devoted friend, husband, and father. Mark Twain left us our greatest voice. Samuel Clemens left us one of our most American of lives.

Ron Powers (Author), Ron Powers (Narrator)

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Maritim Verlag, Folge 2: Der Maritim-Cast

Günter Merlau, Philipp Sydow (Author), Gerd Naumann, Günter Merlau, Harald Dzubilla, Philipp Sydow, Sebastian Pobot (Narrator)

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Maritim Verlag, Folge 1: Der Maritim-Cast

Günter Merlau, Philipp Sydow (Author), Günter Merlau, Philipp Sydow, Sebastian Pobot (Narrator)

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