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Harriet Scott Chessman
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Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia Cassatt contemplates her world with courage, openness, and passion. As she addresses and comes to accept her own position as her sister's model, she asks stirring questions about love and art's capacity to remember.
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incest, a game the Whole Family Can Play
- De Darwin8u en 08-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Beauty
- A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Charlotte Parry
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,586
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,442
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448
New York Times best-selling author Robin McKinley has won numerous awards for her writing, including the prestigious Newbery Medal. Though her two sisters are beautiful, Beauty, despite her name, is thin and awkward - but she's also courageous. So when her father makes a terrible promise to a Beast living in an enchanted castle, Beauty knows she must volunteer to be the Beast's prisoner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best version of B&tB I've ever read, seen, heard.
- De ShySusan en 08-11-13
De: Robin McKinley
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The Beekeeper's Daughter
- De: Santa Montefiore
- Narrado por: Lucinda Clare
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the marquess and marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and what the future holds - that is until her father dies. Her childhood friend, Freddie, has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her father's duties. But there is another man who she just can't shake from her thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- De AlecZander en 05-12-15
De: Santa Montefiore
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
- De: Dominic Smith
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography's founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre's invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year, he creates his "Doomsday List", 10 items he must photograph before the final day. It includes a woman he has always loved but has not seen in half a century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dud
- De Deborah en 01-31-08
De: Dominic Smith
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- De: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrado por: Brian Keeler
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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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 Lost Wife
- A Novel
- De: Alyson Richman
- Narrado por: George Guidall, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,025
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,476
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,469
In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the strength of memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, Strength & Survival
- De Sara en 01-27-14
De: Alyson Richman
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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,970
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alternate title for "The House at Riverton"
- De Karen en 12-22-13
De: Kate Morton
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The Girl from the Savoy
- A Novel
- De: Hazel Gaynor
- Narrado por: Jennifer Jones, Lucy Rayner, Paul Fox
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Dolly Lane is a dreamer, a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but her life has been fractured by the Great War. Memories of the soldier she loved, of secret shame and profound loss, by turns pull her back and spur her on to make a better life. When she finds employment as a chambermaid at London's grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly takes a step closer to the glittering lives of the Bright Young Things who thrive on champagne, jazz, and rebellion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFUL‼️❤️❤️❤️
- De Leslie Gail Mnich en 12-05-19
De: Hazel Gaynor
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The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,098
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,406
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,399
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
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Moonlight over Paris
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Jane Copland
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
It's the spring of 1924, and Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr has just arrived in France. On the mend after a near-fatal illness, she is ready to embrace the restless, heady allure of the City of Lights. Her parents have given her one year to live with her eccentric aunt in Paris, and Helena means to make the most of her time. She's quickly drawn into the world of the Lost Generation and its circle of American expatriates, and, with their encouragement, she finds the courage to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A pleasant trip to 1924 Paris
- De RueRue en 05-09-16
De: Jennifer Robson
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The Last Summer
- De: Judith Kinghorn
- Narrado por: Jane Wymark
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Clarissa is almost 17 when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Last Summer Delivers
- De Carmen dela Cruz en 05-22-16
De: Judith Kinghorn
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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 Muse
- A Novel
- De: Jessie Burton
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Maria Elena Infantino
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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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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Mrs. Dalloway
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,352
It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Tough Read Perfectly Delivered
- De Chris en 06-11-12
De: Virginia Woolf
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis - translator
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 297
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ironic, humorous, and restrained
- De Esther en 05-13-13
De: Gustave Flaubert, y otros