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L. P. Hartley
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Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories.
This volume demonstrates Hartley's versatility, ranging from traditional ghost stories like "Feet Foremost" and "The Cotillon" to the wonderfully black humor of the horror masterpieces "The Travelling Grave" and "The Killing Bottle". Originally published in 1948 and long out of print, this collection features 12 of Hartley's best tales.
©1948, 2017 The Estate of L.P. Hartley (P)2017 Valancourt Books, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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During the long, hot summer of 1900, young Leo Colston is invited to stay for a month at a lordly, aristocratic manor in Norfolk. There he falls in love with his friend's older sister, who commissions him to ferry secret messages to the local farmer, her lover. His naiveté sustains their affair until ultimately leading to an event that will change their lives irrevocably.
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Great walk back in time.
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De: L. P. Hartley
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, y otros
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
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De: Bram Stoker
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The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to Baghdad
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
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The Man in the Brown Suit is Agatha Christie at her best, as a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station. In Agatha Christie’s classic crime adventure novel, They Came to Baghdad, a bright young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained for when a wounded spy expires in her hotel room.
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Agatha Christie and Emilia Fox are Fantastic!
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De: Agatha Christie
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1
- Classic Horror Stories
- De: Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, Saki, y otros
- Narrado por: Doug Bradley
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This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".
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Excellent stories and wonderful performance
- De Gavin Lees en 10-12-18
De: Charles Dickens, y otros
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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
- De: E. W. Hornung
- Narrado por: Roy Macready
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The first collection of the exploits of A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny Manders was published as The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. The characters of Raffles and Bunny were possibly inspired by his brother-in-law's creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, although they are on the opposite side of the law.
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The flip side of Sherlock Holmes
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De: E. W. Hornung
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Novels 1-3
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers
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The first three mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth: first, a body is discovered in a Battersea bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, on the same night that financier Sir Reuben Levy disappears from his Park Lane home. Then, Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murdering the fiance of their sister, Lady Mary, and a trial in the House of Lords looms; and finally, an overheard conversation in a restaurant begins an investigation of the strangely premature death of wealthy and terminally ill old lady Miss Agatha Dawson.
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Love Lord Peter
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The Mark of the Beast
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
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When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man.
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Must listen again
- De uffdasuzanne en 10-06-17
De: Rudyard Kipling
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Father Brown
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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These four stories test Father Brown in many ways, creating headaches a plenty. However, Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable and whilst Chesterton's stories are, in his own words, "very slight and improbable", his method is all his own. Bill Wallis captures perfectly the mood and tone of Father Brown in this collection.
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Short
- De chambs en 09-22-17
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Victory
- De: Joseph Conrad
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From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.
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Beautiful, sad and powerful
- De Darwin8u en 01-20-13
De: Joseph Conrad
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Rebecca
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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Easily the best audiobook I have ever heard!
- De Kid at Heart en 11-10-18
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The Four Feathers
- De: A. E. W. Mason
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
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Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham quits the military. He is immediately given four white feathers as symbols of cowardice, one by each of his three best friends and one by his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives. Having proven his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée.
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Deep Realistic Story Masterfully Read
- De Kappavpi en 07-05-04
De: A. E. W. Mason
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Evoking the Unspeakable
Would you listen to The Travelling Grave and Other Stories again? Why?
Probably not. While I enjoyed the experience as a novelty, I find I prefer to read books at my own pace, reread passages w/ ease, & often make marginal notes (I'm a teacher of English).
Who was your favorite character and why?
I don't think that in this volume anyway, Hartley creates any particularly likable characters. There are some we can sympathize with (e.g. Marion in "The Cotillon" or the watchman in "Night Fears") but hardly like as we might, say, Ishmael in *Moby-Dick.* The pleasure lies rather in the language and the tensions of the situations created.
Which scene was your favorite?
Where in "Feet Foremost." literally out of the blue, the plane crashes & Maggie finds herself in a situation analogous to one waiting for an organ transplant that will save the beloved's life - provided the victim of the accident dies ...
If you could rename The Travelling Grave and Other Stories, what would you call it?
Either "Podolo and Other Stories" or "The Killing Bottle and Other Stories." Probably the latter, since it would catch the eye of one unfamiliar with L.P. Hartley.
Any additional comments?
A collection of tales of very British horror largely but not exclusively involving ghosts or other supernatural phenomena, The Travelling Grave is written in lucid, nimble prose, rich in the exact descriptive details needed to concisely nail scene or atmosphere, and with a sense of humor at times quite delightful (e.g. “A Change of Ownership”), at others broadly satirical (“Three or Four for Dinner”). Doubles, animate shadows hugging material bodies, constitute a recurrent motif, whether demonic-animalistic (“Podolo”), tantalizingly Christlike (“Three or Four for Dinner,” again), or vengeful-spectral (“Feet Foremost”). Denouements are almost never spelled out: L.P. Hartley works through suggestion, leaving the reader to imagine what on some occasions are truly horrific scenarios, with the title story, “The Travelling Grave,” being a case in point. Frightening touches can build slowly—or quite suddenly, as in “The Cotillon,” where the explanation we then think we’ve worked out before the characters runs into 10 more minutes of surprises.
I was surprised to see Leon van Schoonneveldt’s critique of Guy Bethell’s reading-style, delivered in an Oxbridge accent appropriate to Hartley’s background. I got pretty much every word, rarely having to go back to listen a second time. Characters within each tale, moreover, are clearly differentiated by accent and timbre, and Mr. Bethell’s voice is perfectly attuned—in terms of both cadence and tempo—to the moment-by-moment requirements of the story, the tour de force here being “Feet Foremost,” also the piece that most richly mines the potential for the ghastly in commonplace dilemmas. In my impression, Mr. Bethell has put professional care and literary sensitivity into both preparing to read and reading this audiobook, and no small amount of pleasure awaits future listeners.
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