Justine
The Alexandria Quartet, Book 1
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Narrado por:
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Nicholas Boulton
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De:
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Lawrence Durrell
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Justine is the first volume in the Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy businessman Nessim, a Mari complaisant. Her emotional and sexual wildness fuels a highly charged atmosphere that, caught famously by Durrell’s poetic language, made Justine (1957), and the three novels that complete the Quartet - Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960) - both a critical and a popular success.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 232
The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it, but please mark as Abridged!
- De Meredith Ramirez en 09-14-21
De: Gerald Durrell
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Stanley Tucci
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 432
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 435
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tucci's performance of "Postman" is exquisite!
- De Christopher en 06-25-12
De: James M. Cain
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 287
A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Performance makes a fatal mistake. No Trini accent
- De Christopher en 01-04-19
De: V. S. Naipaul
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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
- De: Anthony Powell
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 21 h
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 735
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 498
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is no good being a beauty alone...
- De Darwin8u en 02-24-16
De: Anthony Powell
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Ulysses
- De: James Joyce
- Narrado por: Jim Norton
- Duración: 27 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,440
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,948
Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ulysses (Unabridged)
- De Peter Deane en 01-22-09
De: James Joyce
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 947
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 938
The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
- De Eric en 01-06-17
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The Remains of the Day
- De: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,847
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,448
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,435
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and ever relevant
- De bbots en 07-04-20
De: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Dramatised)
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Peter Flannery
- Narrado por: James Purefoy, full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 40 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 936
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 795
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 794
One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WARNING!!! Not the book.
- De Jeff en 04-21-18
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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Such a subtle reading of human relationships!
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