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- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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A fast-paced Victorian thriller that will delight audiences today as it did 100 years ago, Lady Audley's Secret has subterfuge, kidnapping, jealousy, and fraud, all thrown into the mix and shaken up for good measure.
A mystery which keeps a listener guessing until the last moments, this production is a must-listen for anyone who enjoys playing detective.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator creates the listen
- De connie en 02-06-12
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Middlemarch
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 35 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,081
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Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audible book ever
- De Molly-o en 12-25-11
De: George Eliot
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Scenes of Clerical Life
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, through vignettes of his life, portrays a character who is hard to like and easy to ridicule. Many people do ridicule as well as slander and despise him, until his suffering shocks them into fellowship and sympathy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first work...from a very old soul
- De Theodoc en 04-07-21
De: George Eliot
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Cranford
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Prunella Scales
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 553
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A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women, relating the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of satirical vignettes, Gaskell sympathetically portrays changing small town customs and values in mid-Victorian England....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quietly, subtly sweet and heartwarming
- De T. en 03-26-12
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Jane Eyre
- De: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrado por: Thandiwe Newton
- Duración: 19 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 19,867
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Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect!!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-21-16
De: Charlotte Brontë
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Dramatized)
- De: Orson Welles
- Narrado por: Orson Welles
- Duración: 59 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Starring Orson Welles, Anges Moorehead, and Ray Collins, The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantès, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Château d'If. His escape and ultimate revenge on those who wronged him makes this one of the most thrilling stories in French literature, as compelling now as when it was first published in 1846.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Stefanie en 05-19-14
De: Orson Welles
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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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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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 Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 30 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the 18h-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it much more than expected!
- De Blue Ridge Book Lover en 05-29-12
De: Charles Dickens
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North and South
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,183
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,386
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,390
Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature. When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Sally en 01-04-10
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Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Tolstoy brings to these brief tales the same psychological depth and spiritual insight found in his larger works. In fact, his short stories are an excellent place to begin reading this great author. In them, you will find the same challenging themes of morality, forgiveness, redemption and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unusual and enjoyable
- De Tad Davis en 06-17-11
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Oblomov
- De: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 77
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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 Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- De: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Narrado por: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date". And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic, and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hidden masterpiece
- De C. Park en 08-09-18
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Fathers and Sons
- De: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 700
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When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The greatest novel I'll ever read
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: Ivan Turgenev
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The Count of Monte Cristo [Classic Tales Edition]
- De: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 52 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 648
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Trust. Betrayal. Revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo is the quintessential masterpiece of Alexandre Dumas. In Edmond Dantes we find an early materialization of the modern superhero. He is a dashing young sailor imprisoned unjustly for treason. While in prison he meets a holy man who imparts to him all his wisdom. The "abbe" also divulges the profound secret of a hidden treasure. Dantes realizes that with such immense wealth, one could wreak a hateful vengeance on one's enemies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The proof is in the narrator!
- De J. Fraas en 12-21-15
De: Alexandre Dumas
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Jude The Obscure
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Stephen Thorne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 246
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Staggering
- De Tad Davis en 02-16-10
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Red and the Black
- De: Stendhal
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 348
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 259
So what would Al Gore choose if he had a book club? Gore named Stendhal's The Red and the Black, a 19th century classic chock full of adultery, betrayal, and moral vacuity, as his favorite book on a recent broadcast of Oprah. It's a bit shocking of a choice, given his wife and running mate's position on clean, wholesome literature. Listen and decide for yourself the merit of this presidential pick.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect
- De Erez en 05-29-08
De: Stendhal