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Kate Chopin
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Kate Chopin is a widely considered the forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race and gender, her short stories largely center on life in rural Louisiana.
In "The Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard has just learned that her husband is dead - believed to have died during a train accident. Her family fears that the news will kill Louise, who suffers from a weak heart.
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In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Japanese pronunciation a problem
- De CT en 01-20-21
De: Lafcadio Hearn
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The Complete Stories
- De: Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration and Great Selection of Stories
- De Robert en 05-03-15
De: Michael Sims
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
- 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself
- De: Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, y otros
- Narrado por: Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not all the stories are complete
- De SteffiT en 10-21-13
De: Henry James, y otros
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The Minister's Black Veil
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Walter Zimmerman
- Duración: 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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The Minister's Black Veil was first published in the 1836 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. It later appeared in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837. Hawthorne's inspiration for this story may have been a true event. A clergyman named Joseph Moody of York, Maine, nicknamed "Handkerchief Moody", accidentally killed a friend when he was a young man and wore a black veil from the man's funeral until his own death.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One of those "why do I have to read this" books
- De Jack en 07-14-14
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Two Horror Classics: Frankenstein and Dracula
- De: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 28 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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In Frankenstein, a classic tale of bio-engineering gone horribly wrong, Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. When Frankenstein abandons his experiment in horror, the Monster embarks on a quest that results in the ultimate revenge. In Dracula, a timeless gothic vampire romance, young solicitor Jonathan Harker must shield his fiancé, Mina, from the predations of the insatiable Count Dracula. Mysteriously drawn to the Count, Mina, however, struggles to break free from the psychic grip of the mysterious dark stranger from Transylvania.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful rendition of two Gothic Horror classics!
- De Teela'Na en 10-03-19
De: Mary Shelley, y otros
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The Essential Poe According to Joe
- Poems & Stories
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Joe Arden
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
Beware the black cat. Good luck escaping the pit. Don’t go to that party without your masque. Delight in these and many more stories and poems from the master of dark prose, Edgar Allan Poe. This collection has been specially curated and performed by award-winning audiobook narrator Joe Arden. Dive in to the darkness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow just wow ...worth the purchase so buy it 😁😁
- De Jodi lucas en 10-21-21
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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The House of the Seven Gables
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 403
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 318
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Thriller
- De E. Pearson en 12-03-10
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
- De: Stefan Zweig
- Narrado por: Heather Wood, K. Anderson Yancy
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
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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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The Willows
- De: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrado por: Nick Sampson
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slowly building dread.
- De Barks Books en 12-19-16
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Crime and Punishment
- Penguin Classics
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oliver Ready
- Narrado por: Don Warrington
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Best translation on audible – mediocre narrator
- De Fantod en 04-29-20
De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, y otros
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The Finding of Jasper Holt
- De: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
Jean Grayson is traveling alone to visit her sister out west when a terrible accident occurs and she is saved from certain death by a stranger. Together they make their perilous way through the wilderness. His name is Jasper Holt, and their care for each other blossoms on their journey. But Holt warns Jean that when they reach the safety of their destination, she'll find that her relatives and the townsfolk have nothing good to say about him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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this was one of my favorites!
- De Tc en 01-08-21
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Christmas Stories
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Charles Dickens was a major contributor to the romantic revival of Christmas traditions that occurred in the Victorian era. With their heart, humor and good morals, Dickens' Christmas stories have made the author's name synonymous with the season. Here we present four charming novellas to complete his series that began with "A Christmas Carol", with echoes of sleigh bells throughout. The stories include "The Chimes", "The Cricket on the Hearth", "The Battle of Life", and "The Haunted Man" - the perfect companion for the yearly celebrations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Tad Davis en 08-22-16
De: Charles Dickens
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,475
First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What An Unexpected Delight!
- De Mimi en 10-22-08
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Ruth
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Eve Matheson
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 617
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 530
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The orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced by wealthy Henry Bellingham who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. Their affair causes her to lose her home and job to which he offers her shelter, only to cruelly abandon her soon after. She is offered a chance of a new life though shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son. When Henry reappears offering marriage she must choose between social acceptance and her own pride.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fallen Woman Finds Redemption
- De Susan en 12-06-12