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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 180
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son, Tony, set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbor, George Knox, has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beginning of a journey
- De Jerri C en 11-04-16
De: Angela Thirkell, y otros
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The Berlin Stories
- De: Christopher Isherwood
- Narrado por: Michael York
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Christopher Isherwood's dramatized memoirs are prophetic images of a country preparing itself to embrace Hitler and the Third Reich. The Berlin Stories includes two works published together: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. These modern classics reveal in poignant detail the tragedy of mid-20th-century Germany.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nothing happens...
- De Tim Byers en 02-01-07
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,262
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,964
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,944
Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De Vieux Carré Blonde en 12-12-12
De: Evelyn Waugh
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A Room with a View
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Rebecca Hall
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,278
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,061
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,061
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
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The Turmoil
- De: Booth Tarkington
- Narrado por: Harry Shaw
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Bigger, newer, faster. Demolish and rebuild, then demolish and rebuild again. Smoke, soot, and noise are the badges of prosperity, and growth is for growth's sake.
De: Booth Tarkington
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The Enchanted April
- De: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 602
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 601
This is a journey of both escape and discovery for four exquisitely different women, a month of bliss and privacy for four weary souls. Their refuge on the Italian Riviera provides the perfect backdrop for a story about the search for spiritual harmony within and without.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, excellent narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 02-26-05
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Decline and Fall
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Black Humor, Satire, and the Absurd
- De Gypsi en 06-09-18
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Young Clementina
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charlotte's world turns topsy-turvy. Beloved author D. E. Stevenson captures the intricacies of post-World War I England with a light, comic touch that perfectly embodies the spirit of the time. Alternatively heartbreaking and witty, The Young Clementina is a touching tale of love, loss and redemption through friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Miss Dean's Dilemma
- De Jerri C en 05-02-18
De: D. E. Stevenson
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The Lark
- De: E. Nesbit
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he has made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside and a modest bank account.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It has that wonderful charm of the tales of old...
- De Lidia Chymkowska en 10-03-18
De: E. Nesbit
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Howards End
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger". When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home - Howards End - to one of the Schlegel sisters, a crisis between the two families is precipitated that takes years to resolve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Narration in Delightful Story
- De Wren en 05-05-18
De: E. M. Forster
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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The Good Soldier
- De: Ford Madox Ford
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
On the face of it Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. But behind the mask where passion seethes, the captain's "good" life was rotting away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Treachery in the Troops
- De Mel en 01-08-15
De: Ford Madox Ford
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Daisy Miller
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Ellie Kendrick
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved the story
- De Dominick Garcez en 02-18-23
De: Henry James
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Oblomov
- De: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing. Not that he leads a dissolute life of extravagance, balls and entertainment. Instead he is a dreamer, a sybarite, content above all to spend most of the day supine, in bed. The novel opens with Oblomov thus ensconced, attended only by his dirty, grumbling, indolent servant Zahar, who has looked after him since childhood, catering to his every need.
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5 out of 5 stars
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funny and smart
- De Bennett Weiss en 07-29-20
De: Ivan Goncharov
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The Moon and Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 226
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great, simply great
- De reggie p en 10-10-05
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,048
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,478
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,464
First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What An Unexpected Delight!
- De Mimi en 10-22-08
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Catalina
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human. Two eminent persons, natives of the city, were arriving after an absence of many years, and great doings had been arranged in their honor. In the Lady Chapel of the church a crippled girl prayed to the Blessed Virgin whose day it was, too. No greater things were planned for the girl, Catalina, but greater things awaited her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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From a W. Somerset Maugham's fan: No!
- De Mitzi en 11-21-21
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Cakes and Ale
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: James Saxon
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which Maugham wished to be remembered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De RueRue en 04-22-16
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 723
Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
- Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings, Janet Maw, full cast
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining radio adaptations
- De scout86 en 08-23-21
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The Moon and Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 226
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great, simply great
- De reggie p en 10-10-05
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,048
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,478
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,464
First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What An Unexpected Delight!
- De Mimi en 10-22-08
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Catalina
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human. Two eminent persons, natives of the city, were arriving after an absence of many years, and great doings had been arranged in their honor. In the Lady Chapel of the church a crippled girl prayed to the Blessed Virgin whose day it was, too. No greater things were planned for the girl, Catalina, but greater things awaited her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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From a W. Somerset Maugham's fan: No!
- De Mitzi en 11-21-21
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Cakes and Ale
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: James Saxon
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which Maugham wished to be remembered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De RueRue en 04-22-16
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 723
Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
- Eight Full-Cast Dramatisations and Readings
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings, Janet Maw, full cast
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining radio adaptations
- De scout86 en 08-23-21
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 997
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 880
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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 Complete Short Stories, Volume One
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
There have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham. His dry wit, worldweary loftiness, pungent cynicism, and penetrating powers of observation have contributed to the creation of some of the greatest short stories ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterful production of Maugham's short stories.
- De J. J. Kuzma en 09-07-13
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The Moon And Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Hardy
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Roman a clef-abominable french artist Paul Gauguin
- De W Perry Hall en 01-22-14
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The Gilded Age
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work that endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, but Audio Quality Not Always Good
- De BethGA en 02-27-24
De: Mark Twain
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The Summing Up
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
- De Eric Chevlen en 10-30-05
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate search for truth in a cruel world. We follow his growth to manhood, his educational progress, his first loves, and the wrenching tragedies and disappointments that life has in store for him. In some of the finest prose of the 20th century, Maugham has presented us with the timeless story of one man's search for the meaning of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatly Unsettling
- De Michael en 10-04-14
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Sophie Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 319
This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic in China.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story
- De RtooDtoo en 02-28-10
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Far Eastern Tales
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P & O, The Door of Oportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr. Know-all, Neil MacAdam, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As perfect a reading as I've ever heard
- De Ted en 05-30-16
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The Man in the Red Coat
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker, and man of science with a famously complicated private life....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pathetic narration makes this title unbearable
- De Chris Quigg en 02-27-20
De: Julian Barnes
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Liza of Lambeth
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
William Somerset Maugham's remarkable first novel was such an instant success that the 23-year-old medical student left school to become a full-time author. Liza, a vibrant but poverty-stricken London girl, is the most graceful and daring dancer that anyone has ever seen, wildly moving to the music of the Italian organ player on Old Kent Road. But her bright light begins to dim as the tragic effects of illness and poverty overtake her body, if not her spirit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narrator.
- De Richard Lieberman en 04-26-24
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 101
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quick and engaging, well-read
- De Bronwen en 12-28-11
De: Ian McEwan
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A Line in the Sand
- De: Gerald Seymour
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
Gerald Seymour’s international thrillers have topped best-seller lists in England and have been made into television movies in both the UK and the United States. Like Ken Follett and John le Carré, he is a master at putting strong characters in compelling situations. When sources reveal that Iran’s top assassin has targeted Frank Perry for his next kill, the British Security Service wants Frank to move from the quiet English seacoast village where he’s been hiding for five years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Paul en 08-25-16
De: Gerald Seymour
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- Thomas
- 01-03-19
Great character, a little slow towards the end
but still gratifying. narration is a perfect match for the tale. a soothing, thoughtful listen. recommended.
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- Bill
- 02-04-24
A look at infidelity and the creative spark
Infidelity and inspiration during a writer's career are explored. A tragedy is revealed to be the cause of both.
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- Vegel
- 10-11-23
Huh?
Slow start with a weak end… perhaps I am missing, or perhaps I need to know about the Author before going in…?
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