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- Narrado por: Heather Wood, K. Anderson Yancy
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Immediately following the death of her young son, distraught and heartbroken, a woman sends a heart-wrenching letter to the only man she has ever loved, chronicling their love affair, opening with, "To you, who have never known me."
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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Bend Sinister
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fantastic fairytale of fascism
- De Darwin8u en 12-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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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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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 123
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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 Best Ghost Stories Ever Told
- Best Stories Ever Told
- De: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrado por: J. M. Badger, Imelda Pot
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 202
A big, brilliant, spooky collection of classic and contemporary ghost stories that will make you hesitate before turning off that light.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A very mixed review
- De Michael Mayer en 08-05-15
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The Satanic Verses
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,936
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,679
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,669
Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel’s publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie’s comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The book begins with two Indians plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their airliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
- De David Edelberg en 11-24-12
De: Salman Rushdie
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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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Buddenbrooks
- The Decline of a Family
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 26 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 615
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 613
First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where Have You Been All My Life, Thomas Mann?
- De Virginia Waldron en 03-30-17
De: Thomas Mann
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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 1,157
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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 Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 3: End of the Chapter
- De: John Galsworthy
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 30 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
The third volume of this gripping family saga, End of the Chapter, shifts to the Cherrells - cousins of the Forsytes by marriage. Young Dinny Cherrell in particular cherishes their ancestral home, Condaford Grange, which represents stability in a rapidly changing world. Through his depiction of the lives and loves of this family, Galsworthy throws a brilliant spotlight on the social and political upheavals of the 1930s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable
- De Jonathan Kalkstein en 11-28-22
De: John Galsworthy
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Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- De: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- De Susie en 12-17-12
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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 283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 256
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 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 923
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 813
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 822
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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- 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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