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Audie Award For Literary Fiction Or Classics
The Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for an audiobook adaptation released in a given year of a work of literary fiction or a classic A classic is an outstanding example of a particular style; something of Masterpiece, lasting worth or with a timeless quality; of the first or Literary merit, highest quality, class, or rank – something that Exemplification, exemplifies its .... Before 2016 this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Classics (awarded since 2001, before 2003 as the Audie Award for Classics, Fiction) and the Audie Award for Literary Fiction (awarded since 2005). Literary fiction or classics winners and finalists Winners are listed first and highlighted in green. 2010s 2020s Classics winners and finalists 2001–2015 Winners are listed first and highlighted in green. 2000s 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audie Awards
The Audie Awards (, rhymes with "gaudy"; abbreviated from ''audiobook''), or simply the Audies, are awards for achievement in spoken word, particularly audiobook narration and audiodrama performance, published in the United States of America. They are presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) annually in March. The Audies are sometimes likened to the Academy Awards The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in ... for their public recognition of merit in the audio industry. In order to win, works must be submitted for nomination. A panel of judges considers candidates based on consumer acceptance, sales performance, and marketing, and winners and finalists are chosen based on narration, production quality, and source content; formerly packaging was also evaluated. Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula (novel)
''Dracula'' is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker flees after learning that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunts and kills him. The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history. Scholars have suggested various figures as the inspiration for Dracula, including the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler and the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, but recent scholarship suggests otherwise. He probably found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while on holiday, selecting it because he thought it meant 'devil' in Romanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Francis James
Peter Francis James (born September 16, 1956) is an American actor and voice-over artist, distinguished by his strong baritone. Early life James was born September 16, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, to David James and Mary Galloway James. He has five siblings. Career Theater James's acting career began in 1979, when he appeared in a version of Shakespeare's '' Coriolanus'', starring Earle Hyman and Morgan Freeman. He received his first Obie award for his portrayal of Claire in Jean Genet's ''The Maids''. He received his second Obie award, a Drama Desk award, and the Lortel award for his portrayal of Colin Powell in ''Stuff Happens''. He appeared as Oscar opposite Dame Maggie Smith in Edward Albee's ''The Lady from Dubuque'' at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and reprised the role in New York, opposite Jane Alexander. He was a featured player in Regina Taylor's play ''Drowning Crow'', at the Manhattan Theatre Club. James is a guest instructor at HB Studio. From 2022 to 2023, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Quincy Tyler Bernstine is an American actress and audiobook narrator. In 2019, she won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Education Bernstine has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Filmography Film Television Podcasts Theatre * ''Matt & Ben'' (2004) as Ben * ''A Small, Melodramatic Story'' (2006) as O * ''(I am) Nobody’s Lunch'' (2006) as Performer * ''The Misanthrope'' (2007) as Éliante * '' In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)'' (2009) as Elizabeth * ''Ruined'' (2010) as Salima * ''Family Week'' (2010) as Rickey * ''born bad'' (2011) as Sister #1 * ''Red-Handed Otter'' (2012) as Estelle * ''We Are Proud to Present a Presentation…'' (2012) as Black Woman * '' Mr. Burns'' (2013) as Quincy * ''Neva'' (2013) as Masha * ''Grand Concourse'' (2014) as Shelly * ''10 out of 12'' (2015) as Stage Manager * '' The Nether'' (2015) as Detective Morris * ''Peer Gynt'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red At The Bone
''Red at the Bone'' is a coming-of-age novel by American writer Jacqueline Woodson originally published by Riverhead Books in 2019. — Also available on . Premise ''Red at the Bone'' follows two African American families connected by the unexpected teenage pregnancy of sixteen-year-old Iris. Melody celebrates her coming-of-age ceremony in Brooklyn, while her parents, Iris and Aubrey, who were never married and had Melody out of wedlock and as teenagers, reflect on their own pasts. Through flashbacks, Iris's struggle with motherhood an her decision to pursue college gives context to the resulting strain on her relationship with Aubrey. The story interweaves generational perspectives, revealing the impact of Melody's birth on both families and the ways their lives intertwine across time. About the book The story has some interesting elements as noted by reviewers. According to Joshunda Sanders of ''Time'', "Woodson evokes black formalism, a post-Reconstruction movement meant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mythos (book)
''Mythos'' is a book written by British author Stephen Fry, published in 2017. It is a retelling of a number of ancient Greek myths selected by Fry. It was followed by Fry's 2018 book ''Heroes'', a retelling of myths about Greek heroes, as well as a play titled ''Mythos: A Trilogy'', which premiered at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, Canada, in 2018 and was set to tour the UK starting in August 2019. A third and fourth book, named ''Troy'' and ''Odyssey'' followed in 2020 and 2024. Synopsis Fry states at the beginning of the book that no background knowledge is necessary to appreciate the stories and that "there is absolutely nothing academic or intellectual about Greek mythology; it is addictive, entertaining, approachable and astonishingly human". The stories are mostly retellings of myths derived from Hesiod's ''Theogony'', Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'' and Apuleius's ''The Golden Ass/Donkey''. Reception ''Mythos'' received a rating of 4/5 in a review titled "What kind of a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milkman (novel)
''Milkman'' is a 2018 historical psychological fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl, "middle sister", who is harassed by an older married man known as "the milkman" and then as "Milkman". It is Burns's first novel to be published after ''Little Constructions'' in 2007 and is her third overall. ''Milkman'' received strongly positive reviews, with critics mostly praising the book's narration, atmosphere, humour, and its complex portrayal of Northern Irish sociopolitics. ''Milkman'' won several awards, including the 2018 Man Booker Prize, marking the first time a Northern Irish writer has been awarded the prize. The novel also won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction as well as the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. As of 2019, the novel has sold in excess of 540,000 copies. Plot ''Milkman'' is set in Northern Ireland during the 1970s, at the heigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Split Tooth
''Split Tooth'' is a 2018 novel by Canadian musician Tanya Tagaq. Based in part on her own personal journals, the book tells the story of a young Inuk woman growing up in the Canadian Arctic in the 1970s. The book has been described as a blend of fiction, memoir, poetry and Inuit folklore. Characterized by the publisher as magic realism, it has also been seen as an example of Daniel Heath Justice's critical concept of "wonderworks" or literature by Indigenous North American writers that defies conventional Western notions of literary genres. The book won the Indigenous Voices Award for English Prose in 2019. The novel was also longlisted for the 2018 Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Background Split Tooth was written by Tanya Tagaq based on journal entries, poems, and short stories that she had written over the previous 20 years. Tagaq was raised in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and attended high school in Yellowknife before find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musashi (novel)
, also listed as ''Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era'', is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. The book follows Shinmen Takezō starting after the Battle of Sekigahara. It follows his life after the monk Takuan forces him to reinvent himself as Miyamoto Musashi. He wanders around Japan training young pupils, getting involved in feuds with samurai and martial arts schools, and finding his way through his romantic life. It was originally released as a serial in the Japanese newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'', between 1935 and 1939. It has been re-released in book format (first fully-compiled publication by Fumiko Yoshikawa in 1971), most of which are collections of several volumes, which compile the many newspaper strips. With an estimated 120 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling book series in history. An English translation was done by Charles S. Terry and features a foreword ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Street
''Miguel Street'' is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago. The stories draw on the author's childhood memories of Port of Spain. The author lived with his family in the Woodbrook district of the city in the 1940s, and the street in question, Luis Street, has been taken to be the model of Miguel Street. Some of the inhabitants are members of the Hindu community to which Naipaul belonged. Naipaul also draws on wider Trinidadian culture, referring to cricket and quoting a number of lyrics by black calypso singers. Plot summary The stories tend each to focus on a single character living on Miguel Street. As the various characters reappear in different stories, which all share the same boy narrator, the book can be seen as a type of novel. Rather like the characters of ''Dubliners'', some of Naipaul's protagonists appear to be affected by a kind of paralysis, for example Mr. Popo the carpenter, who never finishes making anythi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime And Punishment
''Crime and Punishment'' is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal '' The Russian Messenger'' in twelve monthly installments during 1866.University of Minnesota – Study notes for Crime and Punishment – (retrieved on 1 May 2006) It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. ''Crime and Punishment'' is considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing and is often cited as one of the greatest works of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleak House
''Bleak House'' is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode Serial (literature), serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of ''Bleak House'' is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, ''Jarndyce and Jarndyce'', which comes about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens said there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. One such was probably ''Thellusson v Woodford'', in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though many in the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, ''Bleak House'' helped support a judicial reform movement that culminated in the enactment of Judicature Acts, legal reform in the 1870s. Some scholars debate when ''Ble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
