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Tough 2 Hear With Background Music & Sound Effects
- De DK en 09-19-15
De: Stefan Zweig
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To the Lighthouse
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nicole Kidman
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,028
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A book that will challenge you to think.
- De Kelly en 04-23-17
De: Virginia Woolf
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 924
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 814
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 823
John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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Sophie's Choice
- De: William Styron
- Narrado por: Norman Snow
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 251
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 213
In this brilliant, multi-layered novel, a young Southerner, Stingo, wants to become a writer. In Brooklyn, he meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman. She has a terrible wound in her past, one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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THIS IS ABRIDGED
- De J. Flynn en 07-25-16
De: William Styron
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Galilee
- De: Clive Barker
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 23 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 258
The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Audiophile's Dream
- De Joseph en 09-01-11
De: Clive Barker
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The Blue Guitar
- A Novel
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Amazon customer en 11-25-15
De: John Banville
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The Essex Serpent
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Perry
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,034
When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one. Wed at 19, this woman of exceptional intelligence and curiosity was ill-suited for the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space in the wake of the funeral, Cora leaves London for a visit to coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive 11-year old son, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbearable Narrator
- De ACB en 06-08-17
De: Sarah Perry
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Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
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Orlando
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Clare Higgins
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,084
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 911
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 916
Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- De Mayca en 05-31-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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The Leopard
- A Novel
- De: Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Archibald Colquhuon - translator
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human frailty imbue The Leopard with its particular melancholy beauty and power, and place it among the greatest historical novels of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timeless
- De Robert Massarella en 12-05-23
De: Giuseppe di Lampedusa, y otros
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
- A Novel
- De: Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdam - translator
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 83
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz’s heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps Fuentes’ masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz is a haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing
- De Kelly B. en 05-01-14
De: Carlos Fuentes, y otros
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- De: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrado por: Brian Keeler
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old man, and his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross paths with Alice, the woman who captures his heart. Because he appears to be a different person each time they meet, Max has three chances for true love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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odd premise, but it works!
- De Sean Dunnahoo en 03-03-04
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The Muse
- A Novel
- De: Jessie Burton
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Maria Elena Infantino
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed narration
- De Amy Fleury en 08-05-16
De: Jessie Burton
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Beware of Pity
- De: Stefan Zweig
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 219
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 216
In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite authors
- De Adeliese Baumann en 03-21-18
De: Stefan Zweig
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- Mardi Brayton
- 07-09-20
Wrong Narrator!!
I absolutely love the Alexandria Quartet, but Nigel is awful.
Does not fit the character at all and his portrayal of women is horrendous.
Too bad as it ruined the stories for me.
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