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Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet. Maugham’s portrait of her makes his novel fairly glow with witty observations of the contemporary literary scene. Features Willie Ashenden, who resurfaces in Maugham’s Ashenden.
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
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Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by river to Angkor Wat. From there he went down river to Saigon, then by ship to Hue and Haiphong. He ends the audiobook with an anecdotal story of his fellow passengers while on shipboard to Haiphong.
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- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son, Tony, set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbor, George Knox, has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beginning of a journey
- De Jerri C en 11-04-16
De: Angela Thirkell, y otros
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,356
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,048
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,028
Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De Vieux Carré Blonde en 12-12-12
De: Evelyn Waugh
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A Room with a View
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Rebecca Hall
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,423
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lovely performance, and a wonderful story
- De Robert en 01-19-19
De: E. M. Forster
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The Turmoil
- De: Booth Tarkington
- Narrado por: Harry Shaw
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Bigger, newer, faster. Demolish and rebuild, then demolish and rebuild again. Smoke, soot, and noise are the badges of prosperity, and growth is for growth's sake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fast and heartwarming
- De dfjord en 08-06-24
De: Booth Tarkington
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The Enchanted April
- De: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 818
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 603
This is a journey of both escape and discovery for four exquisitely different women, a month of bliss and privacy for four weary souls. Their refuge on the Italian Riviera provides the perfect backdrop for a story about the search for spiritual harmony within and without.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, excellent narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 02-26-05
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Decline and Fall
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Black Humor, Satire, and the Absurd
- De Gypsi en 06-09-18
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Young Clementina
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charlotte's world turns topsy-turvy. Beloved author D. E. Stevenson captures the intricacies of post-World War I England with a light, comic touch that perfectly embodies the spirit of the time. Alternatively heartbreaking and witty, The Young Clementina is a touching tale of love, loss and redemption through friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Miss Dean's Dilemma
- De Jerri C en 05-02-18
De: D. E. Stevenson
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The Lark
- De: E. Nesbit
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he has made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside and a modest bank account.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It has that wonderful charm of the tales of old...
- De Lidia Chymkowska en 10-03-18
De: E. Nesbit
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Howards End
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 246
Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger". When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home - Howards End - to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Narration in Delightful Story
- De Wren en 05-05-18
De: E. M. Forster
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The Complete Mapp and Lucia, Volume 1
- De: E. F. Benson
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 26 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 81
Sharply observant and wickedly funny, E.F. Benson's six Mapp and Lucia novels satirize the upper-middle-class social climbers in 1920s and '30s rural England. Games of bridge and cups of tea fuel hilarious gossip and vindictive plots a-plenty. It is a masterfully sustained spotlight on the minutiae of village life - a clever and ultimately heart-warming series that seems tailor-made for audio. Volume 1 contains the first three books.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At last!
- De Grace M-T en 06-15-21
De: E. F. Benson
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 149
On the face of it Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. But behind the mask where passion seethes, the captain's "good" life was rotting away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Treachery in the Troops
- De Mel en 01-08-15
De: Ford Madox Ford
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Daisy Miller
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Ellie Kendrick
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved the story
- De Dominick Garcez en 02-18-23
De: Henry James
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Oblomov
- De: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing. Not that he leads a dissolute life of extravagance, balls and entertainment. Instead he is a dreamer, a sybarite, content above all to spend most of the day supine, in bed. The novel opens with Oblomov thus ensconced, attended only by his dirty, grumbling, indolent servant Zahar, who has looked after him since childhood, catering to his every need.
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5 out of 5 stars
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funny and smart
- De Bennett Weiss en 07-29-20
De: Ivan Goncharov
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Catalina
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human. Two eminent persons, natives of the city, were arriving after an absence of many years, and great doings had been arranged in their honor. In the Lady Chapel of the church a crippled girl prayed to the Blessed Virgin whose day it was, too. No greater things were planned for the girl, Catalina, but greater things awaited her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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From a W. Somerset Maugham's fan: No!
- De Mitzi en 11-21-21
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 868
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 767
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 771
Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Bostonians
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 16 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?
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5 out of 5 stars
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insightful and intricate portrayal of women from multiple perspectives in history of womens suffrage movement
- De Sharryn Bowman en 08-24-24
De: Henry James
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The Moon and Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great, simply great
- De reggie p en 10-10-05
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The Narrow Corner
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meets good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly Great
- De SouthwestDude en 09-08-19
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Adam Bede
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 23 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- De Terri Tinkham en 03-11-19
De: George Eliot
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Catalina
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human. Two eminent persons, natives of the city, were arriving after an absence of many years, and great doings had been arranged in their honor. In the Lady Chapel of the church a crippled girl prayed to the Blessed Virgin whose day it was, too. No greater things were planned for the girl, Catalina, but greater things awaited her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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From a W. Somerset Maugham's fan: No!
- De Mitzi en 11-21-21
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 868
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 767
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 771
Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Bostonians
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 16 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?
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5 out of 5 stars
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insightful and intricate portrayal of women from multiple perspectives in history of womens suffrage movement
- De Sharryn Bowman en 08-24-24
De: Henry James
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The Moon and Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great, simply great
- De reggie p en 10-10-05
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The Narrow Corner
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meets good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly Great
- De SouthwestDude en 09-08-19
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Adam Bede
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 23 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in "the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis". But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- De Terri Tinkham en 03-11-19
De: George Eliot
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The Comfort of Strangers
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 114
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has won the Booker Prize, Whitbread Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his masterfully accomplished fiction. The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets of Venice and frequently lose their way. When they are accosted by a man with a strange and alluring story to tell, they soon become entwined in a fantasy of violence and erotic obsession.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mysterious, bizarre
- De EVERETT en 07-21-07
De: Ian McEwan
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Cakes and Ale
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: James Saxon
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which Maugham wished to be remembered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De RueRue en 04-22-16
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
- Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings, Janet Maw, full cast
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining radio adaptations
- De scout86 en 08-23-21
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The Custom of the Country
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 344
Edith Wharton stands among the finest writers of early 20th-century America. In The Custom of the Country, Wharton’s scathing social commentary is on full display through the beautiful and manipulative Undine Spragg. When Undine convinces her nouveau riche parents to move to New York, she quickly injects herself into high society. But even a well-to-do husband isn’t enough for Undine, whose overwhelming lust for wealth proves to be her undoing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cannot recommend a better narrator!
- De Esther en 07-29-12
De: Edith Wharton
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,060
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,475
First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What An Unexpected Delight!
- De Mimi en 10-22-08
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The Moon And Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Hardy
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Roman a clef-abominable french artist Paul Gauguin
- De W Perry Hall en 01-22-14
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The Magician
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
Renowned English surgeon Arthur Burdon is engaged to the beautiful Margaret Dauncey, who is studying art in Paris. The match is met with approval from all sides, and everyone is happy - until the mysterious Oliver Haddo enters the picture. Both Arthur and his fiancée dislike the enormously fat and eccentric Oliver but are fascinated by his stories of black magic, by his demonstrations of a power that seems inhuman. And while they scoff at his boasts, their dislike turns to loathing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WSM Architypes Against Occultism Backdrop
- De Steven Marque en 12-30-20
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On a Chinese Screen
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In the winter of 1919 Somerset Maugham, at the age of 45, undertook an arduous journey up the Yangtze River in China. Ever the astute observer of people and places, he wrote down his experiences and collected them into 58 exquisite vignettes which were subsequently published a few years later. No one is spared his searching intelligence, especially the company managers, salesmen, missionaries, bureaucrats, military officials and adventurers he encounters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No story, just 58 short accounts of people WSM met
- De david h en 10-03-22
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The Portrait of a Lady
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 21 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as "a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action". She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bleak and believable
- De Karen en 04-26-09
De: Henry James
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by river to Angkor Wat. From there he went down river to Saigon, then by ship to Hue and Haiphong. He ends the audiobook with an anecdotal story of his fellow passengers while on shipboard to Haiphong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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the crummy music
- De Thomas F. Arnall en 01-28-25
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The Moon and Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a respectable London stockbroker who decides in middle age to abandon his wife and children and devote himself to his true passion: art. Strickland's destructive desire for self-expression takes him first to Paris to learn the craft of painting, and finally to Tahiti in the South Pacific. The Moon and Sixpence remains a complex and engaging novel echoing Maugham's own struggles between artistic expression and public respectability.
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Enjoyable novel, well narrated
- De Everett Leiter en 08-06-10
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The Summing Up
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
- De Eric Chevlen en 10-30-05
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- Bill
- 02-04-24
A look at infidelity and the creative spark
Infidelity and inspiration during a writer's career are explored. A tragedy is revealed to be the cause of both.
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- Thomas
- 01-03-19
Great character, a little slow towards the end
but still gratifying. narration is a perfect match for the tale. a soothing, thoughtful listen. recommended.
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- Vegel
- 10-11-23
Huh?
Slow start with a weak end… perhaps I am missing, or perhaps I need to know about the Author before going in…?
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- Woosie
- 08-25-24
It stunk.
Boring, boring, and then boring still. Let’s go over it one more time, this bores.
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