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Alcoholism is a creeping, crippling tragedy that affects the lives of millions. It's irrevocably affected the life of Louis van Pletten.
At 45 years old, he is still struggling to complete his third book, his great masterpiece, his magnum opus. Trouble is, at over 300 pages, it's morbid, dark as hell, and as full of utter misery and self-loathing as he is. He can barely stand to read it himself. He should burn it, but it's taken him three years to write the damn thing. And he has no spark left to start over - and just enough money left to last him three more months.
He lies to himself all the time. He can stop drinking any time he wants to. It's his business anyway. Friendship doesn't matter, even love and life don't matter - oh, why can't people leave him be? Especially Bernice? The truth is, he really can't live without alcohol...he's tried. He lives from one sip to the next, and it's become a way of life. And it's killing him.
Theo Engela's first novel focuses on alcoholism and the struggle of the main character with it. The story is brilliantly written and describes this way of life with dramatic and upsetting realism for the alcoholic and those closest to them.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,071
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 948
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 941
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Subtle yet grand
- De jb en 10-12-15
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 707
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 623
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 617
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the duke and duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams
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Life for Sale
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Kotaro Watanabe
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots - even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the crosshairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book is good - Narration is just terrible
- De Vyacheslav Varlakov en 03-12-21
De: Yukio Mishima
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- De: Mary Gibson
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss' struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse into the past
- De Luci-Lu en 10-27-21
De: Mary Gibson
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
- Auntie Poldi, Book 1
- De: Mario Giordano
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around. When death instead takes her handsome young friend Valentino - and under mysterious circumstances at that - Poldi will not take it lying down. Perhaps it's in her blood, but Auntie Poldi's hunting instincts have never felt more alive. Justice must be served - if it's the last thing she does....
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5 out of 5 stars
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More fun and murder in Sicily!
- De MolllyT en 02-19-18
De: Mario Giordano
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Elfland
- Aetherial Tales, Book 1
- De: Freda Warrington
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
Elfland is an intimate, sensual novel of people—both human and Aetherial—caught between duty and desire. It is a story of families, and of Rose Fox, a woman born to magic but tormented by her place in her adopted world.Led by Auberon Fox, a group of Aetherials—call them the Fair Folk, if you will—live among us, indistinguishable from humans. Every seven years, on the Night of the Summer Stars, Lawrence Wilder, the Gatekeeper, throws open all gates to the Other World. But this time, something has gone wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Miscommunication is an obnoxious plot device
- De Robin en 05-26-16
De: Freda Warrington
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A Slow Fire Burning
- A Novel
- De: Paula Hawkins
- Narrado por: Rosamund Pike
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,647
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,621
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book should have a DISCLAIMER!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-21
De: Paula Hawkins
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Sweet Sorrow
- The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One Day
- De: David Nicholls
- Narrado por: Rory Kinnear
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love - and how just one summer can forever change a life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My second Nicholls book
- De Mitzi en 09-22-22
De: David Nicholls
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 930
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 762
Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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5 out of 5 stars
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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The Snakes
- A Novel
- De: Sadie Jones
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 88
The Snakes exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy money. But when Bea’s brother, Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France), dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets - and violence - to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary!
- De Bibliophile en 07-21-19
De: Sadie Jones
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The Charioteer
- De: Mary Renault
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 239
After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle and personal relationships, as he falls in love with a young conscientious objector and becomes involved with a circle of world-weary gay men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gay Classic!
- De Christopher en 02-05-16
De: Mary Renault
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The Traitor
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets - a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. As a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. She willingly enters the White Rose's circle....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not all the Germans are guilty.
- De Judy Harley en 09-18-20
De: V.S. Alexander
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Other Side of the Door
- A Novel
- De: Nicci French
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
When Bonnie Graham arrives at her boyfriend’s apartment in London, she is horrified to discover a dead body in a pool of blood on the floor. But she doesn’t call the police. Bonnie hides the corpse and then carefully wipes away any evidence she was ever there. Bonnie is a music teacher who spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a friend’s wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships - some old, some new - unraveling as the days themselves unwind.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Pass
- De Jessica Tenorio en 04-29-21
De: Nicci French
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Brodmaw Bay
- De: F.G. Cottam
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
Brodmaw Bay seems to be the perfect refuge for James Greer and his family. When his son is the victim of a brutal mugging, Greer wants to leave London - the sooner the better - for the charming old-fashioned fishing port he has just discovered. But was finding Brodmaw Bay more than a happy accident? What is the connection between the village and his beautiful wife? When his friendly new neighbours say they'd welcome some new blood - in a village where the same families seem to have lived for generations - are they telling the whole truth?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Quite The Equal Of Its Promise
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 08-23-12
De: F.G. Cottam
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Siddhartha
- Booktrack Edition
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Paul Ansdell
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Siddhartha, the ninth book written by Hermann Hesse, is about a young Indian boy who leaves his home in hopes of finding enlightenment with the wise "Goutama", which in this story is the Buddha. After learning what he can from Goutama, he decides to go off into the busy city and leads a life of greed and lust. When he realizes that the lifestyle is not fulfilling, and he reflects on his life, he goes to a river and contemplates suicide. However, it is here that Siddhartha meets a man who will change his life and help lead him to enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of a Kind
- De Anonymous User en 04-04-20
De: Hermann Hesse