Mark Bowen has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 14 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is The Prisoner of Castillac.
The Most Famous Dystopias
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The best dystopian novels of all time. 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime lead by The Party and Ministry of Truth. We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It is believed that the novel had a huge influence on the works of Orwell and Huxley, as well as on the emergence of the genre of dystopia. Aldous Huxley presents a future where the World Controllers have created the ideal society in Brave New World. All its members are happy consumers. Contents: George Orwell - 1984 Yevgeny Zamyatin - We Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
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The Prisoner of Castillac
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Virtually no one in the village of Castillac holds out any hope. It has been seven years, after all. Seven years since the popular, mischievous Valerie Boutillier disappeared without a trace. The exertions of the gendarmes, led by Chief Dufort, yielded almost no clues, and his failure to solve the case had been one of the main reasons he quit the force. But then a shred of evidence appears. It might be nothing. But Molly Sutton isn't afraid to grab hold of it and take it as far as she can. Will a shred be enough? And if Valerie is still alive, how will Molly and Ben ever find her in time?
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The Tragedy of King Lear
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King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in an extremely fawning and obsequious manner. His third daughter gets nothing, because she will not flatter him as her sisters had done. When he feels disrespected by the two daughters who now have his wealth and power, he becomes furious to the point of madness. He eventually becomes tenderly reconciled to his third daughter, just before tragedy strikes her and then the king. Derived from the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the play has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, with the title role coveted by many of the world's most accomplished actors. The first attribution to Shakespeare of this play, originally drafted in 1605 or 1606 at the latest with its first known performance on St. Stephen's Day in 1606, was a 1608 publication in a quarto of uncertain provenance, in which the play is listed as a history; it may be an early draft or simply reflect the first performance text. The Tragedy of King Lear, a revised version that is better tailored for performance, was included in the 1623 First Folio. Modern editors usually conflate the two, though some insist that each version has its own individual integrity that should be preserved. Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.
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20+ Self-Help Classics Collection
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20 Self-Help Classics Collection: classic books on how to successfully make money and influence relationships. This collection of titles encapsulates the greatest writings of all time on how to grow in wealth and prosperity. Contents: Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich; James Allen. as a Man Thinketh; James Allen. Out from the Heart; Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet; Sun Tzu. The Art of War; Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching; Confucius. Analects; Benjamin Franklin. The Way to Wealth; Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The Meditations of the Emperor; Russell H. Conwell Every Man His Own University; Ralph Waldo Emerson. Self-Reliance; Florence Scovel Shinn. The Game of Life and How to Play It; Charles F. Haanel. The Master Key System; Wallace D. Wattles. The Science of Getting Rich; Wallace D. Wattles. How to Get What You Want; Wallace D. Wattles. The Science of Being Well; Wallace D. Wattles. The Science of Being Great; Orison Swett Marden. An Iron Will; Orison Swett Marden. He Can Who Thinks He Can; Russell H. Conwell. Acres of Diamonds List of authors includes: Russell H. Conwell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Florence Scovel Shinn , Charles F. Haanel, Wallace D. Wattles, Orison Swett Marden
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Hamlet
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet", Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". It was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers - from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch - and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella". Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.
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