Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups [Audiobook] download free by Ben Holden
- Listen audiobook: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups
- Author: Ben Holden
- Release date: 2017/8/4
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781471153754
- Rating: 8.57 of 10
- Votes: 795
- Review by: Patricia Braxton
- Review rating: 8.66 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 6H34M13S in 256 kbps (105.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, MOD, MPEG4 (compression ARC, TZO, TGZ, ZIP, RAR, IMG, LZMA)
- Total pages original book: 528
- Includes a PDF summary of 61 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 47M9S (12.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think about life, a third of which is spent asleep. He deftly explores not only the science of sleep but also why we endlessly tell stories - even to ourselves, as we dream. Holden combines his own illuminating storytelling with a treasure trove of timeless classics and contemporary gems. Poems and short stories, fairy tales and fables, reveries and nocturnes - from William Shakespeare to Haruki Murakami, Charles Dickens to Roald Dahl, Rabindranath Tagore to Nora Ephron, Vladimir Nabokov to Neil Gaiman - are all woven together to replicate the journey of a single night's sleep. Some of today's greatest storytellers reveal their choice of the ideal grown-up bedtime story: writers such as Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett, Tessa Hadley, Robert Macfarlane, Patrick Ness, Tony Robinson and Warsan Shire. Fold away your laptop and shut down your mobile phone. Curl up and crash out with the ultimate bedside book, one you'll return to again and again. Full of laughter and tears, moonlight and magic, Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups joyfully provides the dream way to end the day - and begin the night . . .
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Books & Novels, Poetry Anthologies (various Poets), Short Story Books, Anthologies (non-poetry), Poetry Books
- Download servers: Volafile, Woelkli, Google Drive, FreakShare, BitShare, Dropbox, FileServe, MEGA. Compressed in ARC, TZO, TGZ, ZIP, RAR, IMG, LZMA
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 21.95 USD
- Dimensions: 137x216x1mm
- Weight: 585g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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