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- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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Values of a bygone era
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A Clergyman's Daughter
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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
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The Diary of Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to epitomize English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency.
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Hilarious and Suprebly Read
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The Town House
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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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Since her mother's death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own interests. While Jennifer is desperate to experience life on her own terms within her reduced financial means, her neighbour, Alice, is pre-occupied with ensuring her position as head of her brother's household is never challenged.
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Worse Audio Book I Have Ever Heard
- By Phyllis Woodford on 11-05-21
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Dombey and Son
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In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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Perfect pair
- By Philip on 03-25-08
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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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 !!!
- By Robin Wardle on 07-15-16
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers
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The Bastable children decide to help their father by seeking their fortune in amazing and amusing ways.
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Scoop
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In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
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The Voyage Out
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The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.
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Lovely
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By: Virginia Woolf
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- KCMC
- 11-04-21
Absolutely delightful!
This book deserves its well earned reputation as one of the funniest books ever written. If you like Jeeves and Wooster (Wodehouse) you will love this one. Think of 3 Woosters plus a dog and no Jeeves on a boat for 2 weeks…
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- Marilyn
- 01-17-22
Great narration
The first few times I read this book, I found parts exceptionally funny. It can be hard to recapture this as the surprise is no longer there. I found with this particular narration with the tones of the voices and the pacing of the reading, it took me back into the story and I found myself smiling and amused again.
I realise old English humour is not to everyone's taste, but I think this book is a rare gem for its tales and observations of people, and possibly of characters that you may recognise from your own circle of friends. Delightful and charming. We could do with more of these in the world!
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- Fara
- 04-07-09
An absolute gem of a book!
When I first saw this book, it came with the advice that one should not read it if one were in a place where sudden fits of uncontrollable laughter were frowned upon. What good advice that was. The story is an absolute stitch and the narrator perfect for it. I most heartily recommend it.
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- Z. Richardson
- 02-20-22
Jarring Anachronisms Aside, Pure Hilarity
I knew it was supposed to be a funny book, but I had no idea the hilarity would "keep" all these decades later. I literally chuckled and laughed aloud at several points.
There was one casual racial epithet that really took me out of the book for a minute, but other than that the satirical misadeventures of three fairly horrible hypocrites (and their dog) are pure fun all the way through.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-28-20
hmmm
struggled to finish. I think I missed the point of the book. all I remember is people eating and struggling to cook proper food.
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- S E Stainer
- 10-20-21
Brilliant English humor at it’s best! Okay
This was a favorite book of my English mother’s. (Born 1910.). I found it, finally, in 1965 after a long search by letters to American bookshops. I always got the feeling that she was a little sweeter to me after I presented it to her on the occasion of her fifty-fifth birthday. I don’t know how many times she read it before I got to borrow it in 1971. I think I even felt a little sweeter on her because I recognized her own sense of humor in Jerome’s story. It is brilliantly funny in an old English sense. She, and later this story, are the foundation of my own humor. When she died in 1977 the book came back to me. It’s one of my most treasured possessions.
The reader of of this story speaks it exactly as I hear it in my mind. I’m so pleased to have found it in your audible library. Thank you for a wonderful time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-27-21
Hilarious comedic adventure!
So funny! Very witty with lot's unexpected stories within the main story of aristocratics on a riverboat excursion.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-25-09
A Classic for a Reason
This is one of those books that you find authors referring to in the oddest places. After reading... or rather listen to...Connie Willis' "to Say nothing of the Dog" I was excited to see this in Audible. Now I will have to go back and re-listen to Willis's book.
The humor is so dry and so very British. You can see the the influence of this book on so many of the great British humorists of the modern day.
The author occasionally drifts in his descriptions but you will still want to reserve a seat on a boat on the Thames. A delightful listen to escape the commute.
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- SA
- 11-10-21
Excellent story and narration.
The book is a classic and a fun read. The narrator did a splendid job if bringing different characters to life.
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- Jesse
- 01-26-24
Really fun
Once I understood that the book was to be more of an anecdotal nature throughout, I really enjoyed the quips, the satire and whatever else Jerome throw at the reader in what is deservedly a well-beloved classic.
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