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This Penguin Classic is performed by Billy Howle, known for his roles in Dunkirk, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and On Chesil Beach. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David Bradshaw.
The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is provided by John Dowell, the husband he deceives. Gradually Dowell unfolds a devastating story, in which everyone's honesty is in doubt. This extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal is a masterpiece of narrative skill and emotional depth.
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Honoré de Balzac uses his classic style of detail to describe a most controversial setting in his novel Le Pere Goriot. The story takes place in Paris just after the fall of Napoleon in 1819. The story focuses on three characters, Rastignac, a student who wants to try and make it big in the capital, Vautrin, an interesting and funny character who is also quite mysterious, and the main character, Goriot, that carries a heavy burden that only a loving parent would endure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A minor masterpiece
- De Jack Rock en 03-04-18
De: Honoré de Balzac
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate search for truth in a cruel world. We follow his growth to manhood, his educational progress, his first loves, and the wrenching tragedies and disappointments that life has in store for him. In some of the finest prose of the 20th century, Maugham has presented us with the timeless story of one man's search for the meaning of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatly Unsettling
- De Michael en 10-04-14
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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An intimate, evocative, often funny, and always vital portrait of India at the peak of the British Raj. Written at the age of 22, they immediately show Kipling's natural and prodigious talent. Timeless, they can be listened to forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gentle irony
- De Simon Bowler en 01-25-06
De: Rudyard Kipling
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A Room with a View
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Rebecca Hall
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,423
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lovely performance, and a wonderful story
- De Robert en 01-19-19
De: E. M. Forster
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Howards End
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 246
Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger". When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home - Howards End - to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Narration in Delightful Story
- De Wren en 05-05-18
De: E. M. Forster
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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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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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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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North and South
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,469
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,655
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,659
Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature. When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Sally en 01-04-10
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Middlemarch
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 35 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,194
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,700
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,663
Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audible book ever
- De Molly-o en 12-25-11
De: George Eliot
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Anna Karenina
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 38 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,039
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,605
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,593
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, amazing narration
- De Marcus Vorwaller en 08-02-08
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Cranford
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Prunella Scales
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 603
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 494
A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women, relating the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of satirical vignettes, Gaskell sympathetically portrays changing small town customs and values in mid-Victorian England....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quietly, subtly sweet and heartwarming
- De T. en 03-26-12
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Anna Karenina
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Nikolay Trifilov
- Duración: 43 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
Znamenityj roman vvodit nas v bogatyj, raznoobraznyj, udivitel'no uyutnyj i privlekatel'nyj mir russkoj dvoryanskoj zhizni Moskvy i Peterburga. Tolstoj vystupaet zdes' pevcom povsednevnoj zhizni, kotoruyu on poehtiziruet i v kotoroj vidit filosofskuyu glubinu, primiryayushchuyu stol' razitel'nye protivopolozhnosti, kak tragicheskaya nezakonnaya svyaz' Anny Kareninoj s Vronskim i schastlivaya semejnaya zhizn' Kiti s Cherbackoj i Levina.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic narration!
- De Anastasia Lattanand en 03-10-16
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 2
- A Modern Comedy
- De: John Galsworthy
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 34 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
John Galsworthy's magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. The complete Chronicles are divided into three volumes, containing nine books and four interludes in total. Volume 2, A Modern Comedy, focuses on Soames's vivacious daughter, Fleur. Soames tries constantly to protect her but is baffled by the carefree attitudes in post-war London. Fleur and her husband Michael Mont host society gatherings, but her previous affair with Jon Forsyte leaves embers of a passion that are ready to ignite - with dreadful consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very worthwhile
- De Jonathan Kalkstein en 09-27-22
De: John Galsworthy
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Lady Audley's Secret
- De: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Narrado por: Olivia Poulet
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,982
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,831
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,821
From the author of The Christmas Hirelings comes this Audible Exclusive production of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s classic sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret. English actress Olivia Poulet gives an assured and captivating narration; a cornerstone of the genre and a scandal at the time of its publication, Lady Audley’s Secret is an entertaining and shocking tale of high drama and shifting perceptions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic 19th Century “sensation novel”
- De Susan en 08-20-19
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts of deception, hypocrisy, and betrayal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A tragic, dramatic classic
- De Adeliese Baumann en 10-24-13
De: Ford Madox Ford
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The Good Soldier Svejk
- De: Jaroslav Hasek
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 28 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
The Good Soldier Švejk, written shortly after the First World War, is one of the great antiwar satires - and one of the funniest books of the 20th (or any) century. In creating his eponymous hero, Jaroslav Hašek produced an unforgettable character who charms and infuriates and bamboozles his way through the conflagration that tore through the heart of Europe, upending empires and changing social history. It is the closing period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination at Sarajevo has just occurred and armies are on the march.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is real!
- De Lorenzo Coopman en 10-08-20
De: Jaroslav Hasek
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Parade's End: The Complete Tetralogy
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 34 h y 27 m
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Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, written in the aftermath of World War I, was originally published in four parts in the 1920s: Some Do Not…; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up —; and Last Post. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order in a world embroiled in war, the story details Tietjens' turmoils in both his personal life and on the warfront—and what follows when some of those struggles become one and the same.
De: Ford Madox Ford
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: Cherry Jones
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,010
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,429
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,431
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do yourself a favor
- De Barbara en 06-08-05
De: Carson McCullers
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Greg Carter
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General2 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:1.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 4
The tragic story of two couples, one American and one English, traveling together through Europe for an extended amount of time told by a seemingly unreliable narrator John Dowell.
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1 out of 5 stars
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tune
- De Daniel Alves en 11-22-22
De: Ford Madox Ford
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- De: Flann O’Brien
- Narrado por: Alan Smyth
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading, he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth waiting for
- De Ken Watkins en 02-04-20
De: Flann O’Brien
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts of deception, hypocrisy, and betrayal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A tragic, dramatic classic
- De Adeliese Baumann en 10-24-13
De: Ford Madox Ford
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The Good Soldier Svejk
- De: Jaroslav Hasek
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 28 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
The Good Soldier Švejk, written shortly after the First World War, is one of the great antiwar satires - and one of the funniest books of the 20th (or any) century. In creating his eponymous hero, Jaroslav Hašek produced an unforgettable character who charms and infuriates and bamboozles his way through the conflagration that tore through the heart of Europe, upending empires and changing social history. It is the closing period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination at Sarajevo has just occurred and armies are on the march.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is real!
- De Lorenzo Coopman en 10-08-20
De: Jaroslav Hasek
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Parade's End: The Complete Tetralogy
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 34 h y 27 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, written in the aftermath of World War I, was originally published in four parts in the 1920s: Some Do Not…; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up —; and Last Post. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order in a world embroiled in war, the story details Tietjens' turmoils in both his personal life and on the warfront—and what follows when some of those struggles become one and the same.
De: Ford Madox Ford
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: Cherry Jones
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,010
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,429
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,431
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do yourself a favor
- De Barbara en 06-08-05
De: Carson McCullers
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Greg Carter
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:1.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 4
The tragic story of two couples, one American and one English, traveling together through Europe for an extended amount of time told by a seemingly unreliable narrator John Dowell.
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1 out of 5 stars
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- De Daniel Alves en 11-22-22
De: Ford Madox Ford
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- De: Flann O’Brien
- Narrado por: Alan Smyth
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading, he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth waiting for
- De Ken Watkins en 02-04-20
De: Flann O’Brien
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Under the Volcano
- A Novel
- De: Malcolm Lowry
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 303
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 298
On the Day of the Dead, in 1938, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and ruined man, is fatefully living out his last day, drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent...but not for everyone
- De Melinda en 12-07-10
De: Malcolm Lowry
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An American Tragedy
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 38 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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This story follows a true crime murder case from New York in 1906. Clyde Griffiths is the impoverished young man from a family of street preachers who dreams of bettering his station in life. However, his dream ends in murder and he is subsequently arrested and put on trial—putting the media in a frenzy.
De: Theodore Dreiser
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 149
On the face of it Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. But behind the mask where passion seethes, the captain's "good" life was rotting away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Treachery in the Troops
- De Mel en 01-08-15
De: Ford Madox Ford
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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 Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Kerry Shale
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Two couples, two marriages; both seemingly perfect, both falling apart. Beneath the surface gentility of the American John Dowell with his wife Florence and the landed grace of Edward and Leonora lie fictions and deceit. There are secret desires, hidden power-games, suicides and madness. Everyone is hiding something; even the narrator can’t be trusted. Brilliantly inventive, tragic and ironic, The Good Soldier is one of the great novels of the 20th century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misogynistic
- De Dulce en 03-30-12
De: Ford Madox Ford
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The Day of the Locust
- De: Nathanael West
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 292
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage, and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes-actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles.
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3 out of 5 stars
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great writing, bleak story
- De Amazon Customer en 06-08-21
De: Nathanael West
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Stalingrad
- De: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Duración: 37 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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war and peace
- De L. Kerr en 12-19-24
De: Vasily Grossman, y otros
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Journey to the End of the Night
- De: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 303
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every minute of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty, and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the public in Europe, and later in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Miserable Ride with Cynic Supreme
- De W Perry Hall en 03-15-17
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Nostromo
- A Tale of the Seaboard
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In Sulaco, a harbor town in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver can be preserved from the hands of venal politicians.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Page-turning masterpiece garbled by narrator
- De Thomas M en 03-22-21
De: Joseph Conrad
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Sons and Lovers
- De: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 312
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Momma's Boy (The Dangers of Overbearing Parenting)
- De W Perry Hall en 02-01-14
De: D. H. Lawrence
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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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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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Midnight's Children
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Lyndam Gregory
- Duración: 24 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,011
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,596
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Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book, superb narration
- De MarcS en 06-09-09
De: Salman Rushdie
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Good Soldier
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- Christopher Neal Verdi
- 03-07-24
Wonderful Intro Read at the End
So glad they included the introduction and that they decided to provide it at the end of the recording so that the story was not spoiled. I enjoyed it!
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- noah
- 09-19-23
Humorous Take on Conceptually Tragic Circumstance
Being that this novel is as old as it is - more then 100 years now - Maddox Ford’s comedic approach to tragedy, that being adultery and violent suicide, is somewhat remarkable… A good read/listen. Well worth your time. Note that the introduction is placed at the conclusion of the recording, a great choice in my opinion; listening to the remarks of a Maddox Ford academician after finishing the novel itself offered usual information and criteria that helped me better form my opinions about not only the work but the writer himself.
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Total1 out of 5 stars
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- Dr. W. J. Dailey
- 09-05-24
Worst book in recent memory
Could have been said in 1/3 the space. No wonder Hemingway could not stand Ford Madox Ford. I forced myself to listen to 25% of it and then shut it off.
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