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Dearbhla Molloy
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Edna O'Brien
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But Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion Dilly prayed for. And in her hasty departure, Eleanora leaves behind a secret journal of their stormy relationship--a revelation that brings the novel to a shocking close.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Listener beware
- De Little old lady from Iowa en 06-11-23
De: Robert Hillman
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Owls Do Cry
- De: Janet Frame
- Narrado por: Heather Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her idea behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: 'Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters.'
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4 out of 5 stars
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well told but a wee bit depressing.
- De Muzza en 11-03-19
De: Janet Frame
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 144
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Placeholder en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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Maggie-Now
- A Novel
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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no unabridged
- De sally en 08-03-21
De: Betty Smith
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The Third Daughter
- A Novel
- De: Talia Carner
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 379
The turn of the 20th century finds 14-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon, she discovers that she’s entered a waking nightmare. Her new “husband” does indeed bring her to America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant novel based on shocking truth
- De Rochelle Jewel Shapiro en 07-05-20
De: Talia Carner
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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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House of Trelawney
- De: Hannah Rothschild
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
The seat of the Trelawney family for over 700 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets, and follies. But as the centuries passed the Earls of Trelawney, their ambition dulled by generations of pampered living, failed to develop other skills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really fun read
- De Ruthi en 04-12-20
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,049
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,499
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,490
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
De: Kerry Greenwood
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- De: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better alternatives for Chekhov
- De Carol V. Macvey en 03-04-21
De: Anton Chekhov, y otros
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Old Filth
- De: Jane Gardam
- Narrado por: Bill Wallace
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an 80-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literature at its finest!
- De M. Dyson en 07-29-23
De: Jane Gardam
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Jacob's Room
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
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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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen
- De Cecilie Malling en 03-21-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
- De: Susan Vreeland
- Narrado por: Loren Lester, Sheryl Bernstein
- Duración: 5 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 136
A professor shows a colleague a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer - but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of stories that trace ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's inspiration.
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4 out of 5 stars
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wonderful
- De Sybil en 04-07-03
De: Susan Vreeland
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrado por: Elaine Wise
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Though he embodies neither wealth nor a lavish persona, Charles Bovary - a somewhat established doctor - takes a chance in marrying the young, vibrant, and ambitious farm girl Emma Rouault. At first, Emma is delighted to be married and away from her father's farm, but her thirst for the rich and ornate lifestyle that she witnesses other people living soon drives her away from her husband and into the arms of various suitors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Madame Bovary doesn't disappoint
- De Arlene Olsen en 12-11-16
De: Gustave Flaubert
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Jane of Lantern Hill
- De: L.M. Montgomery
- Narrado por: Lauren Saunders
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 195
For as long as she can remember, Jane Stuart and her mother have lived with her controlling grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead, so she was shocked to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. But from their very first meeting, Jane fell in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage. During her stay with him, she even found herself daring to dream that there could be such a house back in Toronto.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adore the book. The recording needs to be EDITED!
- De Island Girl en 06-17-20
De: L.M. Montgomery