Clare Corbett has narrated 85 audiobooks on Listento.it by 75 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 2,843 ratings. The most-rated is The Graveyard Book: Full-Cast Production.
The Wind in the Willows
Summary
Experience the classic tale of The Wind in the Willows as you’ve never heard it before. Meet Lady Toad, Mistress Badger, Miss Water Rat and Mrs Mole as they go about their adventures, messing around on the river, gallivanting in Lady Toad’s shiny new toy and fighting valiantly to save Toad Hall from unruly squatters. In this retelling by Dina Gregory, The Wind in the Willows becomes a story about a group of female animals to be admired for their close sisterhood and fierce independence. Featuring original music and songs by Rosabella Gregory and sound effects captured on location, put your headphones on, sit back and lose yourself in the British countryside. Cover artwork and illustrations: Melissa Castrillon.
Public Domain (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Audible Theatre Collection: Chekhov
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Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 44, Chekhov was a prolific writer and produced more than 250 short stories in addition to several novellas and a novel. The Russian was also a practicing doctor. A celebrated playwright, Anton Chekhov is often recognised as an influential figure of early modernism of the theatre in addition to being held in high esteem by the likes of George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf, although much praise was not as forthcoming until after his death in 1904. This collection features three plays. Dark comedy The Seagull, is the first of what are considered his 'major plays'. Three Sisters tells the story of a trio of sisters lonely after their father dies and The Cherry Orchard has a dual comedy and tragedy narrative. The Seagull Written in 1895 and a master class in the art and power of subtext, The Seagull follows the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters, all dissatisfied with life. Some desire love. Some desire success. Some desire artistic genius. No one seems able to attain happiness. Tragic and often darkly comic, The Seagull is a timeless classic and an early exercise in addressing the pitfalls of depression and lack of satisfaction in life and purpose. Full cast: Samantha Bond, Catrin Stewart, Freddie Fox, Anthony Howell, Katherine Kingsley, John Rowe, Rachel Atkins, Hugh Ross, Nick Boulton, Stephen Critchlow. Three Sisters After the death of their father, his three daughters find it very hard to live in a drab Russian provincial town. The presence of a company of army officers is the only thing that makes their existence bearable, though inevitable drama, competition and failure lead to confusion and pain, as life doesn't turn out quite to plan for the sisters. Full cast: Samatha Bond, Freddie Fox, Katherine Kingsley, Alison Pettitt, Catrin Stewart, Clare Corbett, Nick Boulton, Stephen Critchlow, Anthony Howell, Richard Reed, Hugh Ross, John Rowe. The Cherry Orchard In Chekhov's last play, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers it, but hers is a diminishing world. The vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her mounting debts. The insistent warnings of a peasant's son turned wealthy businessman go unheeded, and more than the family estate is sacrificed. Full cast: Samatha Bond, Freddie Fox, Hugh Ross, Georgie Grier, Clare Corbett, Richard Reed, Stephen Critchlow, Katherine Kingsley, Nick Boulton, Anthony Howell, Alison Pettitt, John Rowe. This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 3 episodes to your Library now.
Public Domain (P)2016 Audible, Ltd.
The Harpy
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Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: His wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together but make a special arrangement designed to even the score and save their marriage - she will hurt him three times. As the couple submits to a delicate game of crime and punishment, Lucy herself begins to change, surrendering to a transformation of both mind and body from which there is no return. Told in dazzling, musical prose, The Harpy is a dark, staggering fairy tale, at once mythical and otherworldly and fiercely contemporary. It is a novel of love, marriage and its failures, of power, control and revenge, of metamorphosis and renewal.
©2020 Megan Hunter (P)2020 Recorded Books
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Bad Blood [French Version]
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L'histoire hallucinante de la célèbre start-up Theranos dans le livre de l'année selon le Washington Post : Bad Blood : Scandale Theranos, secrets et mensonges au cœur de la Silicon Valley. La start-up promettait une révolution dans la sphère médicale. Elizabeth Holmes, la fondatrice de Theranos, était tellement passionnée par la médecine préventive qu'elle avait laissé tomber ses études à Stanford pour créer une entreprise au service de l'humanité : sa technologie "novatrice et intelligente" consistait à recueillir toutes les analyses sanguines à l'aide d'un seul petit prélèvement au bout du doigt. Elizabeth était nommée comme l'une des "Cinq entrepreneurs visionnaires en passe de changer le monde" et "La plus jeune self-made-woman à devenir milliardaire" par de nombreux médias et a suscité un énorme intérêt du public. Une goutte de sang capillaire est suffisante pour faire des analyses justes, disait-elle. Tout le monde avait envie d'y croire, mais un petit détail a tout gâché : la technologie Theranos ne fonctionnait pas ! Dans ce livre audio John Carreyrou, l'auteur de Bad Blood, journaliste d'investigation au Wall Street Journal, deux fois lauréat du prix Pulitzer dévoile tous les secrets de Theranos. Pendant l'écoute vous apprendrez : l'entreprise a-t-elle eu la moindre chance de créer l'appareil révolutionnaire ; comment Elizabeth Holmes gagnait la confiance des investisseurs et gardait Theranos en vie pendant des années sans éveiller de soupçons ; l'entreprise était-elle créée pour une bonne cause et est tombé dans les ténèbres au fil du temps ou était-elle un mensonge depuis sa création. Bad Blood raconte l'histoire captivante du plus gros scandale industriel depuis Enron, à travers un récit édifiant tissé autour de promesses imprudentes et de l'ivresse financière de la Silicon Valley.
©2019 Original title: "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup". John Carreyrou, Larousse pour l'édition française (P)2020 ABP Éditions
L'arte di amare
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Amare non significa possedere in maniera esclusiva, limitare la libertà del partner o escludersi dalla vita del mondo; al contrario, l'amore può aprirsi all'intero universo, spalancando inattese prospettive. Un trattato sull'amore che insegna a sviluppare la propria personalità e raggiungere la pienezza affettiva.
©2016 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori