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Down and out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.
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In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, she experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and neglect of its inmates, from inedible food to horrifyingly unsanitary conditions. Ten Days in a Mad-House established Bly as a pioneering female journalist and remains a classic of investigative reporting.
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- De Dana B. en 10-29-16
De: Nellie Bly
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Decline and Fall
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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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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Black Humor, Satire, and the Absurd
- De Gypsi en 06-09-18
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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The Barrakee Mystery
- De: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrado por: Peter Hosking
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, takes him to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well... mixed blood and divided loyalties.
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Story from another time....
- De VtAdrienne en 06-15-15
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history—the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills, and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition. Conveying the sights, sounds, and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting—the past not as something to be studied, but as lived experience.
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SKIP THIS BOOK
- De Lady Aristotle en 09-05-22
De: Ian Mortimer
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Scoop
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Cadell
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
- De Michael en 07-19-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Wapshot Chronicle
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly.
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Beautiful 1950s Great Expectations-like Novel
- De Darwin8u en 05-31-13
De: John Cheever
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Fifteen Postcards
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Book 1
- De: Kirsten McKenzie
- Narrado por: Tracey Llewelyn
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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Disappointing and disorganized
- De Miranda en 03-16-22
De: Kirsten McKenzie
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Pearl in a Cage
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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Queen of the Mersey
- De: Maureen Lee
- Narrado por: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Queenie is only 14 and has been deserted by her mother. Set in Liverpool and Wales at the outbreak of World War II, this story explores themes of female friendship and betrayal from the perspective of a group of women of widely different ages.
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Entertaining
- De W en 05-27-08
De: Maureen Lee
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
- De: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend.
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It’s a lot to take in.
- De Michael Cutler en 02-27-22
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.
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The King of Boldness, Clearness, and Audacity
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: George Orwell
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Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde-White
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
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With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell’s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move, and entertain.
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Great Content; Would benefit from chapter names
- De Laimis en 08-15-20
De: George Orwell
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Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Viewed as too libelous to print in England until 1968, the title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school and offers insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed. "Why I Write" describes Orwell's sense of political purpose, and the classic essay "Politics and the English Language" insists on clarity and precision in communication in order to avoid the Newspeak later described in 1984.
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Superb collection of essays, very well read
- De Christopher en 07-07-11
De: George Orwell
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Homage to Catalonia
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed.
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Excellent book, marred by narration
- De Kirby en 02-02-13
De: George Orwell
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Orwell: The Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.
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He understood the times
- De Wes en 08-19-23
De: George Orwell
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. Gordon has published a slim volume of verse and is determined to keep free of the “money world” of safe, lucrative jobs, marriage, and family responsibilities. This world, to Gordon, spells the end of art and aspidistra, the homely, indestructible house plant that stands in every middle-class British window.
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Vicisti, O aspidistra!
- De Darwin8u en 08-15-12
De: George Orwell
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.
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The King of Boldness, Clearness, and Audacity
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: George Orwell
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Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde-White
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
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With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell’s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move, and entertain.
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Great Content; Would benefit from chapter names
- De Laimis en 08-15-20
De: George Orwell
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Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Viewed as too libelous to print in England until 1968, the title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school and offers insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed. "Why I Write" describes Orwell's sense of political purpose, and the classic essay "Politics and the English Language" insists on clarity and precision in communication in order to avoid the Newspeak later described in 1984.
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Superb collection of essays, very well read
- De Christopher en 07-07-11
De: George Orwell
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Homage to Catalonia
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed.
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Excellent book, marred by narration
- De Kirby en 02-02-13
De: George Orwell
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Orwell: The Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.
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He understood the times
- De Wes en 08-19-23
De: George Orwell
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. Gordon has published a slim volume of verse and is determined to keep free of the “money world” of safe, lucrative jobs, marriage, and family responsibilities. This world, to Gordon, spells the end of art and aspidistra, the homely, indestructible house plant that stands in every middle-class British window.
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Vicisti, O aspidistra!
- De Darwin8u en 08-15-12
De: George Orwell
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- Chris Kirkendall
- 11-15-22
I love Orwell, but . . .
This version deleted swear words which seems silly and childish. The performance was good. The story a plea for the poor.
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- 09-03-24
Instructive honest account about life with vagabonds
They should have left the swear words rather than delete them. Better bring them back. The book is great though
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- toby Perry
- 05-24-22
excellent book
excellent book, well narrated but censoring all expletives from Orwell is beyond ridiculous. please undo
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- Joselo
- 03-10-23
I wouldn't recommend it.
Carl Mason has a great voice for narrating audiobooks, but in my opinion, he gets the tone completely wrong with this one. Also, he mispronounces even some of the simplest French words, which I found jarring and distracting.
Like other reviewers have pointed out, it's absurd that a work by the author of '1984' should be censored. I would have much preferred to listen to what Orwell wrote and then make up my own mind about whether it is problematic or not.
For example, I was surprised by a stereotypically villainous Jewish character (who is referred to as "the Jew"). It made me wonder if Orwell had been an anti-Semite, so I did a little online research and found that he repeatedly and unequivocally condemned anti-Semitism, most explicitly in his 1945 essay 'Antisemitism in Britain' (written over a decade after ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’). It's not clear to me if he had a change of heart or if this particular character was never representative of how he regarded the Jewish community in general. To me, these are interesting questions about Orwell as a person, so I’m glad that the publishers didn't delete that too.
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