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Thomas Hughes
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The story of young Tom Brown's seemingly hideous years spent at rugby school and his spirited and astonishingly stalwart response to the institutionalised bullying prevalent at the 'Great' British public schools became exactly the campaigning tool its author hoped it would.
The regimes at these schools had been largely unchallenged, with the assumption being that the education and training received were the best. The revelations in Hughes' book of the beatings and the burnings uncovered a system which had been all but hidden.
Hughes had been a schoolboy at rugby school in the 1830s when the school was run by the educational reformer Dr. Thomas Arnold. Dr. Arnold's idealism transferred itself wholesale to the young Hughes, and the good doctor appears towards the end of Tom Brown's Schooldays as the young master, bearing the light of possible redemption.
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De: George Eliot
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The Psammead Trilogy
- Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
- De: E. Nesbit, Edith Nesbit
- Narrado por: Cathy Dobson
- Duración: 21 h y 8 m
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Edith Nesbit was to children in the early 20th century what J.K. Rowling is to today's young generation. Magic, mythical creatures, time travel, charms, words of power... Nesbit's stories have it all. This recording is the complete collection of Edith Nesbit's Psammead series, comprising three captivating stories:Five Children and It.The story begins when a group of five children - Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb - move from London to the countryside of Kent.
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A Truly Lovely Story!
- De Mary in SC en 03-20-17
De: E. Nesbit, y otros
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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Freckles
- De: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrado por: Susan Iannucci, David Shears, Sarah Bacaller, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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Freckles is the only name he has ever known. His right hand is missing at the wrist, and he is haunted by not knowing how it happened. Raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage, he speaks with a slight Irish accent and sings with a beautiful voice. Now, exhausted after many days of walking, he applies for a job with the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, guarding timber in the Limberlost Swamp from timber thieves. His Swamp Angel declares her love for him and promises that she will find his parents and prove that Freckles comes from "a race of men that have been gentlemen for ages."
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Freckles
- De Bill Collier en 10-17-23
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Jeeves & Wooster
- The Collected Radio Dramas
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: full cast, Michael Hordern, Richard Briers
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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A rollicking collection of six acclaimed dramatisations of P.G Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster novels, starring Michael Hordern and Richard Briers as Jeeves and Wooster. Also featuring Maurice Denham, Paul Eddington, David Jason, John Le Mesurier, Miriam Margolyes, Jonathan Cecil, Liza Goddard and Patrick Cargill.
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tracks out of order
- De Justin Sluyter en 06-02-19
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Decline and Fall
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze.
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Black Humor, Satire, and the Absurd
- De Gypsi en 06-09-18
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Growth of the Soil
- De: Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad - translator, Brad Leithauser - introduction
- Narrado por: BJ Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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Growth of the Soil, Hamsun's Nobel Prize winning novel, is a classic of Scandinavian literature. The farmer Isak scarcely acknowledges the values of modern living. Illiterate but capable of carrying out the business of running a farm, he has physical strength and works with his hands. Although initially amazed by Isak's prowess - his wife Inger, who came into contact with modern society when imprisoned for killing her infant due to its birth defect, return to the home much less impressed by the country life.
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Top of my all time favorites list
- De Pete en 05-17-21
De: Knut Hamsun, y otros
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Cousin Phillis
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Joe Marsh
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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Cousin Phillis – a miniature masterpiece – is set in the 1840s, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed forever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.
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Delicate Story
- De Mama C en 01-08-11
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Bless This House
- De: Norah Lofts
- Narrado por: Michael Tudor Barnes, Nicolette McKenzie
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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The house was built in the Old Queen's time: built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras, many reigns: it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. It became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a 20th century innkeeper. It saw wars, and lovers, and death. Children were born there, both heirs and bastards. It had ghosts and legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation.
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Bless This House - my take
- De Kalona1982 en 04-05-09
De: Norah Lofts
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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Far from the Madding Crowd, which first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in monthly installments back in the late 19th century, features the love life of the young Bathsheba Everdene who is as poor as she is beautiful. Fortunately, Bathsheba's uncle leaves her his farm, which she goes to manage in the small town of Weatherbury. Before she leaves, however, she has an interesting encounter with a young farmer, Gabriel Oak, for whom she does a tremendous favor ,and he becomes indebted to her....
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Loved this delightful listening experience !!!
- De Robin Wardle en 07-15-16
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Town House
- De: Norah Lofts
- Narrado por: Juliet Prague, Martyn Read
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.
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Another winner by Norah Lofts
- De Bird Lady 147 en 10-03-17
De: Norah Lofts
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Tom Brown's Schooldays
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- Patrick Martin
- 09-20-20
Hugh Bonneville more than just a screen actor!
A wonderful and eye-opening account of English public school life in the 1830s (although a fair amount of not irksome moralizing by the author) and a tremendous performance by Hugh Bonneville who is outstanding with voices and various types of British accents.
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- Simon
- 09-10-16
An entertaining story, and well read
I liked this story very much, both because of the reader, and the way in which it is written.
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- Lawrence E. Stewart
- 02-17-23
Definitive performance of an enchanting classic!
"Tom Brown's Schooldays" is a funny, poignant, and enchanting coming-of-age novel that is a true classic. It has been continuously in print since 1857, for good reason. Newcomers who discover this gem are immediately swept along with the likeable hero and his relatable scrapes. This novel created the genre of schoolboy stories, like "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and so many others, but "Tom Brown" remains the first among equals. I came to this book from the "Flashman" series of G. M. Fraser, which spins off from "Tom Brown," and I was not disappointed! The performance by Hugh Bonneville is perfect: Tom Brown comes to life under his narration, so much so that it hard to imagine a different voice for the character. HIGHLY recommended!!!
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- Julian
- 07-28-17
The Greatness of Britain
Half remembering the BBC adaptation from the early seventies ("That's dashed decent of you, East!!" became a catchphrase in my house for a time) and the riotous parody by Michael Palin (the school leopard, the maggot pit, the Hop...), I thought I knew what to expect, a ripping yarn of period schoolboy japes. How wrong I was! This was far more satisfying and though-provoking, in part thanks to Hugh Bonneville's sensitive performance (clearly a man with fond recollections of his own schooldays). The eternal question of what education is for rings through the recounted episodes, with its highest ideals embodied in the great Dr Arnold. (If this is a true account he must go down as one of the most influential Victorians, since Rugbeians would have been truly fitted by his tutelage to build a worldwide Empire. And all they were taught was Latin and Greek!!) The stalwart Tom is a clear forerunner of other British schoolboy heroes such as Biggles, Jennings, Billy Bunter, his namesake William, and Harry Potter in later years. For a compendium of the values that made Britain great, this recording cannot be highly enough recommended.
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- Happy user!
- 10-19-20
Read with passion!! Excellent!
This historical still in print book was read so well by the narrator that I highly recommend it!!
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- David Hopkins
- 04-01-21
A wonderful classic!
A coming of age novel that teaches the power of mentoring, friendship, and love. Tom Brown’s Schooldays touched my heart deeply.
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- LilFrog
- 03-04-22
Great!
I have enjoyed the 3 versions of the movie that I have seen. I was excited to find this on Audible! very well narrated by Hugh Bonneville! the book is very much different from the 3 movie versions, but still great! a must read!
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