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Can an ordinary object - a watch, a piece of furniture, or an old rug - change the course of one's life? "Listen and find out" suggests an underappreciated master of Russian classical literature, Alexander Kuprin.
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- De: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Narrado por: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date". And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic, and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hidden masterpiece
- De C. Park en 08-09-18
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis - translator
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 371
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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
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The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
- De: Hermann Hesse, Jack Zipes - translator
- Narrado por: Donovan
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Step into a world of visions, philosophy, and passion in which dreamers, seekers, princesses, and wandering poets dwell. The 6 wonderful, romantic tales in this collection are reminiscent of ancient Oriental and German fairy tales. The selections, "The Poet," "The Flute Dream," "The Dwarf," "Faldum," "Ziegler," and "Dream of the Gods" were hand-picked by the narrator, legendary folk and rock musician Donovan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The reading is quiet and heavenly
- De Atalante Lemuria en 11-12-20
De: Hermann Hesse, y otros
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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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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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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Dreamers of the Day
- A Novel
- De: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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A 40-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as an historic Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions - and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie - enters into the company of the historic luminaries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Little Big Woman
- De W.Denis en 10-02-08
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The Gift
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.
One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A complex and rich Künstlerroman
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 369
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Emma Bovary is not content to be the mere dutiful wife of a French country doctor. She yearns for excitement and a sense of romance that pulls at her so strongly she is powerless to resist, even though pursuing her dreams will exact a terrible price. Learn why Gustave Flaubert's compelling heroine has enchanted and puzzled readers for centuries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Now Here's a Story
- De P. Giorgio en 09-06-03
De: Gustave Flaubert
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 31 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these 68 tales — 14 of which have been translated into English for the first time - display all the shades of Nabokov’s imagination.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidoscope of Nabokov Bábochkas
- De Darwin8u en 01-11-15
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Serpent Garden
- De: Judith Merkle Riley
- Narrado por: Alison Larkin
- Duración: 18 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Susanna Dallet is the daughter of a Flemish painter and wife to a philandering husband, living in the court of Henry VIII. When her husband is murdered, Susanna is suddenly left with a household to provide for and nothing to her name. Her days of anonymity are over when Susanna finds that guild rules preventing women from working do not apply at the king’s court, and she manages to secure a position as a miniature-portrait painter. Before long, she has not only made a name for herself, she is close to those who surround Princess Mary. But even in this lofty company, Susanna is not safe....
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3 out of 5 stars
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DON'T FALL FOR THE PRINT VERSION AMAZON REVIEWS
- De The Louligan en 03-06-14
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The Count of Monte Cristo (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrado por: Guy Mott
- Duración: 55 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 192
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After fourteen years of wrongful imprisonment, merchant sailor Edmond Dantès escapes his grim island fortress. With the promises of youth erased and his betrothed now married to someone else, Dantès lives for one purpose: revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best narrated version on Audible
- De Amazon Customer en 06-13-21
De: Alexandre Dumas
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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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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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Oblomov
- De: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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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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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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My Name Is Red
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 561
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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of 16th-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and interesting
- De Kathleen en 05-13-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
- De: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright, and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation....
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3 out of 5 stars
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needs glue
- De connie en 11-13-11
De: Gyles Brandreth
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Russell Tovey
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,064
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,151
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,118
A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A twisted tale of vanity and poisonous people
- De Shantastic en 10-02-19
De: Oscar Wilde