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A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including:
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5,911
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,422
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First published in 1843, it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come and given a glimpse of the many homes and lives which Scrooge has touched in his wretched life to date. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
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Christmas Classic Given New Life
- By E-Hank3 on 12-26-20
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George Orwell’s 1984
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- By: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation
- Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,727
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,293
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,292
It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Revelation!
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A Christmas Carol: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,804
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18,698
A Signature Performance: Tim Curry rescues Charles Dickens from the jaws of Disney with his one-of-a-kind performance of the treasured classic. Our listeners loved this version so much that it inspired our whole line of Signature Classics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!!!
- By Alia on 12-11-09
By: Charles Dickens
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The Grandmother
- By: Jane E. James
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Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Underdevelop Ending
- By tanya on 12-16-24
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The Plight Before Christmas
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,053
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,895
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,890
Clark Griswold was onto something...at least with his annual holiday meltdown. And since the last three weeks of my life have been riddled with humbug—another breakup, a broken toe, an office promotion I deserved and didn’t get—I’m not at all in the mood to celebrate nor have the happ, happ, happiest Christmas EVER.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gaslighting and games
- By FMC on 12-22-22
By: Kate Stewart
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The Answer Is No
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- By: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- By joey1603 on 12-01-24
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Starship Troopers
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,089
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The definitive version!
- By Kristopher G. Hesson on 10-03-24
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Dead Med
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmm
- By Morgan Meaux on 08-22-24
By: Freida McFadden
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This Audiobook contains the following works : 1. Little women by Louisa May Alcott Start at Chapters 1, 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Start at Chapters 48, 3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Start at Chapters 109, 4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Start at Chapters 152, 5. The Odyssey by Homer Start at Chapters 186, 6. A Tales of Two Cities Start at Chapters 210, 7. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Start at Chapters 255, 8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Start at Chapters 268.
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solved download issues
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great short collection
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“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.”
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Represented here are 16 short stories by seven great American writers, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No Table of Contents - Frustrating
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- mikerpdx
- 02-12-24
This is a collection of old and stodgy stories.
To make matters worse, however, there are no titles listed on the player, so you need to sample 5 or 6 different stories before you find the one you're looking for, and only then, because you've managed to find the list of stories on the main order page. Some stories are told in one piece, others are told in as many as five separate "chapters." In other words, whoever put this together didn't care about the listener. Performances are often old and stodgy, as well. It's not something most people would enjoy these days, except perhaps by a few elitist snobs.
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- Jennifer Greenberg
- 09-04-16
I just can't listen to this narrator
I love these stories but just I could not bear this narrator. I tried - I really tried.
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Patrick J McKenzie
- 03-25-22
No chapter titles.
Great stories but the chapters should have titles so that you can easily access the story you want to hear.
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- Gerald Brissette
- 10-03-20
Tough listen
The content appeals to me greatly. I just didn't like listening to the reader. It didn't seem genuine to me.
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- Stephen O. Meredith
- 02-25-17
Narration is annoying
The sing-song voice of the British narrator was fine for the first story or so but was highly annoying in its sameness over time.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Lydia R
- 11-16-22
Really Wanted to Like This
As others have said, unfortunately the narrator’s voice is so annoying I can’t listen to the stories. I really wanted to hear these but it’s not worth it.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Rocco
- 11-09-24
Hard to listen to
Liked the stories but narrator was really difficult to listen to. Very sing song voice.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Ken Larsen
- 02-04-15
Wonderful group of short stories
A wonderful group of intriguing short stories, written by world class authors and performed with great enthusiasm which one can enjoy anytime.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Rebekah Collins
- 01-17-21
Terrible Narration . . .
I wish I had read the other reviews before purchasing this as I love short stories. Also there are no chapter titles and the narrator does not announce the author's name for each story either.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Jason
- 09-21-22
Bad Recording
I couldn’t even listen to it, I do t know if it was my connection or just a bad recording.
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