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Did you know that to find audio books and to download audio books is easy and fast? These arts & drama on audio sound files fit easily on a MP3 player or on an iPod. You don't need anything else than the player and you carry an entire library with you if you like. That makes listening to audio books a real pleasure and you can listen for your favourite audio book anywhere and anytime!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s plea to her lover to love her just for herself, and not for any qualities that may fade away,  read by Jenny Agutter.

A single poem, available also within the collection entitled  "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"

Narrator: Jenny Agutter | ISBN: 1405667166

Robert Burns’s well-known poem celebrating the enduring power of true love, read by Bill Wallis.

A single poem, available also within the collection entitled  "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"

Narrator: Bill Wallis | ISBN: 1405667197

Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, in which he tries, and fails, to find an apt comparison in nature, read by Bill Wallis.

A single poem, available also within the collection entitled  "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"

Narrator: Bill Wallis | ISBN: 1405667210

Edward Lear’s much-loved comic poem, featuring the most elegant fowl in literature and  his beautiful feline friend, read by Jenny Agutter.

A single poem, available also within the collection entitled  "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"

Narrator: Jenny Agutter | ISBN: 1405667159

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Christopher Marlowe’s emotional appeal to his lady to run away with him and  live a romantic rural idyll with him, read by Bill Wallis.

A single poem, available also within the collection entitled  "A Dozen Red Roses: 12 Valentines Poems"

Narrator: Bill Wallis | ISBN: 1405669993

• What We Learned From Making an Entire Magazine in 48 Hours
  Posted on 3 Sep 2010 at 7:45am
  Alexis Madrigal of Longshot: "Everything we do is made possible by the new (free) technological tools out there. But we're the ones that have to figure out how to deploy - in what constellations, in what order - to actually run a magazine."...
  
• On What Makes Literary Parody Funny
  Posted on 3 Sep 2010 at 7:36am
  A take on Raymond Chander's dick Philip Marlowe preparing a leg of lamb "is funny not just because of the incongruity between the tough-guy manner and the task at hand ('I put the squeeze on a lemon and it soon juiced'); it's also funny, a bit more disturbingly, because it shows us that there's something inadvertently comical below the surface of Chandler's hard-boiled prose."...
  
• Do Popular Books Ensure Movie Success?
  Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 6:09pm
  "Some books reach a cultural saturation point, where everyone -- great aunts and frat boys, baristas and coffee patrons, defense attorneys and police officers -- seems to be talking about them or has read them, or is planning to read them. It's no surprise that these books, with broad and engaged reader interest, attract the attention of Hollywood."...
  
• The Way You Read Books - Let The Battle Commence
  Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 5:47pm
  "By the end of this year, 10.3 million people are expected to own e-readers in the United States, buying about 100 million e-books. The trend is wreaking havoc inside the publishing industry, but inside homes, the plot takes a personal twist as couples find themselves torn over the "right way" to read"...
  
• Will Universities Stop Assigning "Whole" Books?
  Posted on 1 Sep 2010 at 5:18pm
  "My own peculiar worry about Academe 2020, offered with less than 20/20 foresight, may seem less catastrophic: the death of the book as object of study, the disappearance of "whole" books as assigned reading. Does that count as a preposterous figment of extreme academe, or is it closer than we think?"...
  

• Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:08am
  In a dozen countries ? including in North Africa, Pakistan and former Soviet republics ? the United States has significantly increased military and intelligence operations.
  
  
  
• Political Memo: Obama Says Mosque Remarks Were Not Endorsement
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:40am
  President Obama?s attempt to reframe comments about a community center in New York City had him plunging into a debate about Islam and American identity.
  
  
  
• This Time, Voter Anger Is No Surprise to Democrats
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:38am
  Among the advantages Republicans hold as they seek to control Congress, one thing is missing: surprise. Unlike in 1994, there will be no sneak attacks.
  
  
  
• U.S. Offers Aid to Rescue Pakistanis and Reclaim Image
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:22am
  American officials allowed that they were seeking to use a sizable response to Pakistan?s floods to boost the United States? image there.
  
  
  
• In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming
  Posted on 15 Aug 2010 at 3:41am
  The summer?s heat waves in the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.
  
  
  

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