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Gunnar Cauthery takes listeners through the cold and merciless streets of 19th-century Oslo in Hunger, Knut Hamsun’s unforgettable story about a struggling young writer. The novel won the author the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 and is here presented in the 1996 translation by Sverre Lyngstad, which is considered to be the definitive version in English. Gareth Armstrong reads Henry James’s The Tragic Muse, a unique and honest look at the sacrifices and solitude of an artist, and David Rintoul brings us Sir Walter Scott’s action-packed medieval adventure Ivanhoe, a story of tournaments, sieges and courtly love.

Verging on death, a starving, destitute writer navigates the cold and indifferent city of Kristiania in search of his next meal. Frenzied and…

Pressured into a political career by his traditional, establishmentarian family, Nick Dormer longs to be a painter. Eventually, encouraged by…

Written in 1819 but set in 12th-century England, Ivanhoe is a tale of love struggling to survive against a violent backdrop of politics and war.

The NAB Blog: The Growth of the Podcast

Few people can have failed to notice the recent proliferation of podcasts in the market. A recent survey put the number of podcasts currently available at 700,000, offering a total of over 29 million episodes. There are now an estimated …

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