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Rayner Bourton
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H. G. Wells
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'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a remote valley where a tribe lives completely cut off from the rest of the world. A hereditary illness has meant that for 15 generations all the members of the tribe have been born blind. As a result, they now have a highly evolved sense of hearing, scent and touch. 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,' thinks the mountaineer. But he finds that the gift of sight is far less useful or appreciated that he had expected in the country of the blind.
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- De: Arthur Machen
- Narrado por: Shea Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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classic horror
- De Shantee en 05-04-16
De: Arthur Machen
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The Third Policeman
- De: Flann O'Brien
- Narrado por: Jim Norton
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.
Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.
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Hell is other people's bicycles.
- De Darwin8u en 03-01-15
De: Flann O'Brien
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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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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A very mixed review
- De Michael Mayer en 08-05-15
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Summer
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.
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Excellent first audible purchase!
- De lilyglint en 08-23-04
De: Edith Wharton
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The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In The Invisible Man, a scientist theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. In The Time Machine, we follow the Time Traveller to the year 802,701 A.D.. He finds a golden race of small, soft, innocent people. But what is it that lurks in the dark shadows?
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When The Invisible Man ends and The Time Machine begins
- De kíli en 04-08-18
De: H. G. Wells
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Jacob's Room
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Jacob's Room was the first of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published by the Hogarth Press, founded with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in their home at Hogarth House in Richmond in 1917. It is an episodic tale that attempts to evoke the inner life of Jacob Flanders and his social milieu during the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century.
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A good listen
- De Cecilie Malling en 03-21-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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The King in Yellow
- De: Robert W. Chambers
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.
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Great Introduction to Robert Chambers
- De David S. Mathew en 11-23-16
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Crome Yellow
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.
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Bloomsbury in a blender, 1922
- De Adeliese Baumann en 01-02-17
De: Aldous Huxley
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
- De: Sax Rohmer
- Narrado por: Gary Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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The first of the popular mystery series introduces a pair of English detectives to their archnemesis, the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu. Flavorful atmosphere, fast-paced action, and colorful characters enliven this classic of the genre.
De: Sax Rohmer
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Dracula
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Nick Sandys
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula - the pinnacle of Gothic horror for generations - rises again. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania on the eve of Saint George's Day, he cannot shake a strange feeling of uneasiness. The air grows colder as he arrives at his destination: the castle of Count Dracula. Jonathan has been summoned by the count for business, and while he finds his new host obliging and polite, he can't help but notice the man's pallid skin, odd lack of appetite, and long daytime absences.
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Bram Stoker + Nick Sandys = Pure Satisfaction
- De Jared en 01-09-19
De: Bram Stoker
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, G. K. Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future. Auberon Quinn, a common clerk who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen standing on his head, is one day told that he has been randomly selected to be His Majesty the King. He decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement - with delightful results.
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Competent but over-stylized reading of great book
- De Nierestel en 02-16-18
De: G. K. Chesterton