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The Lost Continent
- Travels In Small Town America
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: William Roberts
- 再生時間: 10 時間 12 分
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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 16 時間 32 分
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Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.
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Notes From a Big Country
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: William Roberts
- 再生時間: 9 時間 19 分
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After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for The Mail on Sunday Night and Day magazine. This is a collection of these column entries. Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to suing people, the beach, TV, movies, air conditioners, college, Americana, injury dangers, wasting resources, and holiday seasons.
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 14 時間 47 分
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In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.
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- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/10/06
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Notes From a Small Island
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: William Roberts
- 再生時間: 10 時間 29 分
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
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How to Think Like Shakespeare
- Lessons from a Renaissance Education
- 著者: Scott Newstok
- ナレーター: Gabriel Vaughan
- 再生時間: 4 時間 50 分
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A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully.
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The Lost Continent
- Travels In Small Town America
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: William Roberts
- 再生時間: 10 時間 12 分
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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 16 時間 32 分
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Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be.
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Notes From a Big Country
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: William Roberts
- 再生時間: 9 時間 19 分
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After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for The Mail on Sunday Night and Day magazine. This is a collection of these column entries. Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to suing people, the beach, TV, movies, air conditioners, college, Americana, injury dangers, wasting resources, and holiday seasons.
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: Bill Bryson
- 再生時間: 14 時間 47 分
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In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.
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Very good storytelling about the human body.
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/10/06
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Notes From a Small Island
- 著者: Bill Bryson
- ナレーター: William Roberts
- 再生時間: 10 時間 29 分
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
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How to Think Like Shakespeare
- Lessons from a Renaissance Education
- 著者: Scott Newstok
- ナレーター: Gabriel Vaughan
- 再生時間: 4 時間 50 分
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A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully.
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 1599
- 著者: James Shapiro
- ナレーター: James Shapiro
- 再生時間: 6 時間 28 分
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1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.
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Hag-Seed
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: R.H. Thompson
- 再生時間: 8 時間 11 分
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Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: Not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge.
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My Planet
- Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
- 著者: Mary Roach
- ナレーター: Angela Dawe
- 再生時間: 4 時間 41 分
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Follow New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach - but be careful not to trip - as she weaves through personal anecdotes and everyday musings riddled with her uncanny wit and amazingly analytical eye. These essays, which found a well-deserved home within the pages of Reader's Digest as the column "My Planet," detail the inner workings of hypochondriacs, hoarders, and compulsive cheapskates. (Did we mention neurotic interior designers and professional list makers?) For Roach, humor is hidden in the most unlikely places, which means that nothing is off limits.
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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
- 著者: Professor Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Professor Harold Bloom
- 再生時間: 8 時間 10 分
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Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance.
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Caesar's Last Breath
- Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
- 著者: Sam Kean
- ナレーター: Ben Sullivan
- 再生時間: 10 時間 33 分
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it.
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- 著者: David McCullough
- ナレーター: Edward Herrmann
- 再生時間: 16 時間 50 分
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The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
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Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from academics to eccentrics. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunker-like basement room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed.
Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air", "foregone conclusion", "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's: the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.
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- Crystal
- 2013/02/24
Unexpected Findings in a Quality Bryson Book
There's not much that can shock me about Shakespeare theories. I have a BA in English Literature. I've read all the plays, sonnets, even the ones suspected to be by Shakespeare.
It seemed an odd topic for beloved Bryson to tackle and I was curious about his angle on it. I was pleasantly surprised, "What do we really know about the bard?" he asks in the first chapter.
This was a refreshing and lively investigation into what's real and what's dreamed about one man's life. Solid topics, using all types of research from court records to paintings, Bryson gives a new eye on an ages old mystery. In the process, we learn about how many things have simply been made up by well meaning researchers for the past four hundred years!
I found myself wishing there was more. I loved it.
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- Charles L. Burkins
- 2007/11/30
Too Little, Too Short
Bill Bryson's voice (both actual and literary) shine through in this short work, detailing what is known and knowable about William Shakespeare. Because little is known about Shakespeare, this book has less of the amusing anecdotes that make books like "In a Sunburned Country" such a delight. It's quite frustrating to realize that we know so little about a figure so important to English literature. Still it is an interesting exposition on an interesting man, or rather, what we expect is an interesting man. The audiobook it self is only a little over 5 hours long, but (as of November 2007) there is an interview with Bryson appended on end for another bit. I liked it, but then I expect that I would enjoy Bryson writing about asparagus. The chapter where he discusses the various theories about Shakespeare not actually writing the plays of Shakespeare is the best part; but there the book ends. In the end it is a barely satifying book because of the paucity of the material, but it is a book that is well written and narrated.
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- Cathleen
- 2009/03/22
A Walk in the Forest Arden
My first exposure to Bill Bryson was A Walk in the Woods and I enjoy it still. Shakespeare is a different book -- more journalism than recollection, but it is extremely enjoyable and a good "listen" -- the chapters lend themselves to logical breaks, etc. And it is very amusing!
All of the historical detail is fascinating, and makes one wonder how we ever got the folio version of the plays at all. Probably the most interesting part for me was the debunking of all the "He didn't write the plays" theories.
Very enjoyable.
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- Cather
- 2007/12/09
Bryson does it again...
Bryson admits up front that we know practically nothing about Shakespeare, but proceeds to tell what we do know, and how we know it, about the Bard himself, London, and the theatre world at the time. And he does it in classic Bryson style, finding the humor in everything.
And clearly, he's having fun reading it. He should... it's a fun book.
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- Catherine
- 2012/01/24
Don't know much about Shakespeare
Bill Bryson talks as much about what we don't know about Shakespeare (or Shacksper or Shakspere, etc.) as what we do know. It is informative in a negative sort of way, with digressions on Shakespeare scholars, life and theater in the Elizabethan and Jacobian ages, and a bit about who else might have written the plays. I recommend it.
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- Joshua Kim
- 2012/06/10
Concise and Wonderful
The world, or at least my world, needs more high quality concise books. Bryson's new Shakespeare, from the Eminent Lives Series, is one of the genres better examples.
The Modern Library Chronicles is another imprint with some excellent texts. To quote from their page:
"Modern Library Chronicles feature the world's great historians on the world's great subjects. Lively, accessible, and brief (most under 150 pages), these authoritative short histories are designed to appeal to general readers as well as to students in the classroom".
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- En vino veritas
- 2015/08/30
Perfect biography for school
My 7 th grade son has taken an interest in Shakespeare over the last school year and during our travel to London this summer. We were looking for a biography for summer reading requirements that was detailed, yet not such a large volume. This was perfect. We both enjoyed the Kindle and Audible version, and having been in so many of the places recently, including a performace at The Globe, it was like reliving all of the tours we had just taken. The thorough investigation and accumulation of facts regarding what we know, and what we don't know, was both digestable and intriguing for my son. It left him begging for a trip to the Folger Shakespeare Museum not far from us in Washington, DC. Thank you!
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- Andy Spooner
- 2009/07/25
Very enjoyable in the typical Bryson style
This one is more in the historical vein of "Mother Tongue" or "Made in America" (as opposed to memoirs like "In a Sunburned Country" or "A Walk in the Woods"). Not as laugh-out-loud funny as his memoir-style books, but entertaining and fascinating, I thought.
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- Mau Mau
- 2015/04/08
Humorous & Accessible
Bill Bryson narrates his own humorous review of Shakespeare's life and the scholarship that's grown up around it. Bryson's reading is staccato and a bit dry at first, but I warmed to it over time. This is not a book for scholars or even serious students of Shakespeare. It's a funny look at the man who has affected so much and about whom so little is known. That said, Bryson appears to have done his homework. I learned enough to feel inoculated against silly conspiracy theories on the one hand or purist dogma on the other. Definitely recommended
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- Tad Davis
- 2020/02/19
Short, sweet, and accurate
This book — part travelogue, part collection of interviews — is actually a handy little biography of Shakespeare. Bryson is an amateur when it comes to Shakespeare, but as a writer he's a consummate professional: he's read the right books (Samuel Schoenbaum, G Blakemore Evans) and he's talked to the right people (Stanley Wells, Georgiana Ziegler), and he’s assembled the results in an entertaining and accessible way. He narrates his own book in a charming, maybe slightly less than conversational voice.
One of the things I like about the book is that brief as it is, it doesn't focus relentlessly on Shakespeare alone. Bryson takes the time to look to the right and the left of his subject, and his book is full of fascinating and little-known details about the period. (Little known by me, at any rate.) The last chapter is a cheerful takedown of the misguided idea that someone other than the glover’s son from Stratford wrote the plays. The book concludes with a brief interview with the always-enthusiastic author. (My favorite question: “Do you think we'll ever find the play Love’s Labours Won?”)
Short and sweet, accurate, deeply interested in his subject.... if you want to extend your knowledge of Shakespeare, start here.