Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425768 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425768] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twenty-One Stories Author: Graham Greene Narrator: Emma Gregory, Andrew Wincott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 10, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A celebrated collection of stories from one of the most important British writers of the twentieth century. Features Greene's most famous short story, 'The Destructors'. Written between 1929 and 1954, each of these stories bears the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Opening with the iconic story 'The Destructors', in which a gang of schoolboys destroys a house that has survived the Blitz, Greene offers us deliciously satisfying glimpses into twenty-one worlds, with each piece written as masterfully as his novels. From the chilling climax of a children's birthday party, to a man whose youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him, these are the unmistakable work of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers. © Graham Greene 1954 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413765 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413765] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Lived Underground Author: Richard Wright Narrator: Ethan Herisse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller • One of the Best Books of the Year by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year Read by actor Ethan Herisse From the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy, the novel he was unable to publish during his lifetime—an explosive story of racism, injustice, brutality, and survival. ''Not just Wright's masterwork, but also a milestone in African American literature . . . One of those indispensable works that reminds all its readers that, whether we are in the flow of life or somehow separated from it, above- or belowground, we are all human.'' (Gene Seymour, CNN.com) “The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.”—Kiese Laymon Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement between the Library of America and the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.

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Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene

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