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A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.
This audiobook is expertly read by Christopher Tester, with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
©1980 J. L. Carr and Michael Holroyd (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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When Cedric Charlton, an unsuspecting tax inspector, arrives at the door of the Pop Larkin farm, he soon forgets the purpose of his visit: The fun-loving Ma and Pop Larkin distract him at every turn with strawberries, cream, alcohol, and their attractive young daughter, Mariette. Well known by the popular TV series starring David Jason and Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Darling Buds of May is the quintessential feel-good country romp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even better read aloud
- De Amazon Customer en 04-05-20
De: H. E. Bates
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Something New
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Here, we have a glorious ensemble of Woodhousian characters knocking elbows to foreheads in the elegant and grand Blandings Castle. Meet Freddy Threepwood, the vagrant son of doddering old Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. Freddy has recently become engaged to Aline Peters, the American heiress of an irascible father. The snag is that Freddy seems to have at one point become enamored of a struggling actress, Joan Valentine, and written some impetuous and imprudent letters to her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Same book as Something Fresh
- De customer en 03-07-15
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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The Ipcress File
- De: Len Deighton
- Narrado por: James Lailey
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why is this such a popular book?
- De MLC en 05-18-24
De: Len Deighton
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The Summer Book
- De: Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal - translator
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer - its sunlight and storms - into 22 crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GORGEOUS. FULL OF GRACE. NEEDED THIS.
- De Annie Armstrong en 04-14-22
De: Tove Jansson, y otros
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The Outrun
- De: Amy Liptrot
- Narrado por: Tracy Wiles
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
At the age of 30, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want to start over at the beginning.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-06-16
De: Amy Liptrot
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Jane and Prudence
- De: Barbara Pym
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish. Prudence, a year shy of 30, lives in London, has an office job, and is self-sufficient and fiercely independent - until Jane decides her friend should be married. Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ruined by narrator
- De TX lilbit en 07-27-20
De: Barbara Pym
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Revolutionary Road
- Danish Edition
- De: Richard Yates
- Narrado por: Bent Otto Hansen
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General1 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:1 out of 5 stars 1
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"Revolutionary Road" er en roman om, hvordan et parforhold tidstypisk går til grunde som følge af livsløgne, arrogance og uindfriede drømme. De danske anmeldere har kun brugt de største superlativer. Året er 1955. Frank og April Wheeler bor i et nydeligt lille hus for enden af Revolutionary Road i et helt nyt forstadskvarter i Connecticut. Frank pendler til New York og sit kontorjob hver dag. April går hjemme hos børnene.
De: Richard Yates
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Address Unknown
- A Novel
- De: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro, George Newbern
- Duración: 1 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 113
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In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power. A powerful and eloquent tale about the consequences of a friendship - and society - poisoned by extremism, Address Unknown remains hauntingly and painfully relevant today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Literary Classic
- De MRM5217 en 07-18-23
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Hard Rain Falling
- De: Don Carpenter
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary connement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class - married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But they will meet again....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Well Read, American Noir Novel from The 1960s
- De Frank Donnelly en 01-19-20
De: Don Carpenter
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Marie
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Allan Quatermain, hero of King Solomon's mines, tells a moving tale of his first wife, the Dutch-born Marie Marais, and the adventures that were linked to her beautiful, tragic history. This moving story depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830s, involving the Boers, French colonists and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Hate and suspicion run high between the home government and the Dutch subjects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confusing narration!
- De Browsing en 02-22-14
De: H. Rider Haggard
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The Enchanted April
- De: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Narrado por: Eleanor Bron
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,642
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,458
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It began in a women's club in London on a February afternoon. A discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed to "Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine..." lures four very different women away from the dismal British weather to San Salvatore, a castle high above a bay on the sunny Italian Riviera. There, the Mediterranean spirit stirs the souls of Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Wilkins, Lady Caroline Dester, and Mrs Fisher, and remarkable changes occur.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oh, Gosh! What a Delightful Surprise!
- De Gillian en 01-27-14
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The Man in the Queue
- Inspector Alan Grant Series, Book 1
- De: Josephine Tey
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 245
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 222
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The first of Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant mysteries concerns the murder of a man, standing in a ticket queue for a London musical comedy. With his customary tenacity, Grant pursues his suspects through the length of Britain and the labyrinth of the city.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unerringly dull...
- De Marianna en 04-27-18
De: Josephine Tey
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Double Indemnity
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: James Naughton
- Duración: 3 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Morals be gone
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-31-11
De: James M. Cain
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,773
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,248
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of sadness and serenity
- De Anton en 10-13-12
De: John Williams
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The Stars My Destination
- De: Alfred Bester
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,809
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,599
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,604
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STILL AMAZINGLY GOOD AFTER 62 YEARS
- De charles watkins en 02-19-18
De: Alfred Bester
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A Room with a View
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Rebecca Hall
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,460
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,220
In this rich new audio production, acclaimed British American actress Rebecca Hall brings one of E. M. Forster's most admired works to life in this classic tale of human struggle. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, is wooed by both free-spirited George Emerson and wealthy Cecil Vyse while vacationing in Italy. Though attracted to George, Lucy becomes engaged to Cecil despite twice turning down his proposals. On hearing of the news, George confesses his love, leaving Lucy torn between marrying the more socially acceptable Cecil or George, the man she knows would bring her true happiness. Should Lucy choose social acceptance or true love?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lovely performance, and a wonderful story
- De Robert en 01-19-19
De: E. M. Forster
Honesty and love
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Gorgeous, sad, and deeply funny
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Bittersweet Brilliance
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