-
Gigolo
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
Gigolo
Compra ahora por US$13.22
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
So Big
- A Novel
- De: Edna Ferber
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber’s greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago. So Big is the unforgettable story of the indomitable Selina Peake DeJong and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity in the face of a challenging marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
History of Chicago via One Family
- De Julie Gaunky en 01-03-21
De: Edna Ferber
-
The Ballad of the Sad Café
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 148
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Literate short stories
- De RueRue en 02-23-16
De: Carson McCullers
-
The Bell Jar
- De: Sylvia Plath
- Narrado por: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,607
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,685
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,656
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A must-read for every woman
- De Julie W. Capell en 05-06-16
De: Sylvia Plath
-
The Shell Seekers
- De: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrado por: Hayley Atwell
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,430
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,085
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,069
At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer...and it lies in her heart.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Narrator Speed
- De TB en 01-18-18
-
Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
- Duración: 21 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,158
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,836
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,868
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Anything but middle.
- De Michael en 05-04-03
-
September
- De: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 885
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 798
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 798
A place you will never forget. Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget. September...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. Rosamunde Pilcher's September...a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayals, forgiveness, and love.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
An old and much loved favorite
- De Jeanette Finan en 12-31-17
-
So Big
- A Novel
- De: Edna Ferber
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber’s greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago. So Big is the unforgettable story of the indomitable Selina Peake DeJong and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity in the face of a challenging marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
History of Chicago via One Family
- De Julie Gaunky en 01-03-21
De: Edna Ferber
-
The Ballad of the Sad Café
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 148
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Literate short stories
- De RueRue en 02-23-16
De: Carson McCullers
-
The Bell Jar
- De: Sylvia Plath
- Narrado por: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,607
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,685
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,656
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A must-read for every woman
- De Julie W. Capell en 05-06-16
De: Sylvia Plath
-
The Shell Seekers
- De: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrado por: Hayley Atwell
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,430
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,085
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,069
At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer...and it lies in her heart.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Narrator Speed
- De TB en 01-18-18
-
Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
- Duración: 21 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,158
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,836
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,868
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Anything but middle.
- De Michael en 05-04-03
-
September
- De: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 885
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 798
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 798
A place you will never forget. Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget. September...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. Rosamunde Pilcher's September...a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayals, forgiveness, and love.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
An old and much loved favorite
- De Jeanette Finan en 12-31-17
-
The Robber Bride
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 20 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 858
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 762
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 765
From the best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony - university classmates decades ago - were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
BORED with her own novel?
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-12
De: Margaret Atwood
-
Ariel Custer
- De: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
After the death of her last remaining relative and the sale of her Virginia home, Ariel Custer heads north to a promised job as a librarian's assistant. But when the job falls through, lovely Ariel's plea to God for help is realized when she meets Judson Grannis and her life takes a different turn.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Precious Book with Believable Characters
- De Auntie Anansi en 10-25-22
-
The Adventures of Augie March
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
- Duración: 22 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 611
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 493
Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
THAT part of the Universe visible from Chicago!
- De Darwin8u en 05-09-12
De: Saul Bellow
-
Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- De: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- De Susie en 12-17-12
-
Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
-
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 357
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 216
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
-
Babbitt (Dramatized)
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Ed Asner, Ed Begley Jr., Ted Danson, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión resumida
-
General4 out of 5 stars 91
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
This epic of the booming 20's captures the relentless culture of American business. A classic novel about conformity in small town America - celebrated for its comic tone, statire, and vivid dialogue. L.A. Theatre Works, then a fledgling radio theatre company, completed Babbitt in 1989. This production was so well received that L.A. Theatre Works has since become the world's premiere radio theatre company.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
American satire
- De Hal en 01-13-09
De: Sinclair Lewis
-
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
- De: Evan S. Connell
- Narrado por: Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión resumida
-
General4 out of 5 stars 1
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Historia2 out of 5 stars 1
For Walter Bridge, an ambitious lawyer, and his wife, whose focus is her household, affluence and material comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that cloaks the void within. Mr. Bridge is dominated by reason and common sense but is vaguely aware that something is missing from his life. Mrs. Bridge, now that her children have grown up, is slowly going mad from boredom. They wonder why there is no joy. As adventurous, free-thinking friends introduce new ideas into their household, they come close to making tiny steps toward change.
De: Evan S. Connell
-
Marjorie Morningstar
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 28 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 510
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 431
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 427
Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms of a brilliant, enigmatic writer.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Great story with really cheesy narration
- De James en 05-05-12
De: Herman Wouk
-
Babbitt
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 104
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks successful realtor George Babbitt's daily struggles to rise to the top of his profession while maintaining his reputation as an upstanding family man.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Makes You Think
- De E. Pearson en 02-21-13
De: Sinclair Lewis
-
Mildred Pierce
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 553
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 428
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 425
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Mildred -- you pierce my heart
- De P. Giorgio en 03-11-11
De: James M. Cain
-
The Amateur Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Anne Tyler
- Narrado por: Blair Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 227
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
They seemed like the perfect couple: young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother's grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Awesome Anne Tyler
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-25-04
De: Anne Tyler
Resumen del Editor
A beautifully crafted collection of eight short stories by Edna Ferber.
In Gigolo, Edna Ferber delves into the minds of eight diverse characters from all walks and stages of life: a handsome, oft-pursued mechanic who finds himself falling in love; a new widower who moves into the home of his son and daughter-in-law; a wounded pilot who discovers his family fortune has disappeared during the war and is reduced to making a living as a gigolo in Paris; a Broadway comedienne who is forced to reconsider her career options as she approaches the age of 40; an aspirational inventor who gets more than he bargained for when he marries a “home girl” whom he assumed would support his aspirations but ultimately furthers her own; a camping supply clerk who fancies himself a rugged outdoors man when in reality he has never traveled beyond Manhattan; a matriarch who grapples with turning 60 and managing her responsibilities to her grown children; and a young woman from Oklahoma who longs to escape her small town and discovers leaving home is hard to do.
Gigolo is a stirring collection from a best-selling and beloved chronicler of American working people.
Full contents:
- “The Afternoon of a Faun”
- “Old Man Minick”
- “Gigolo”
- “Not a Day over Twenty-One”
- “Home Girl”
- “Ain’t Nature Wonderful!”
- “The Sudden Sixties”
- “If I Should Ever Travel!”
Más títulos del mismo
Relacionado con este tema
-
So Big
- A Novel
- De: Edna Ferber
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber’s greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago. So Big is the unforgettable story of the indomitable Selina Peake DeJong and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity in the face of a challenging marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
History of Chicago via One Family
- De Julie Gaunky en 01-03-21
De: Edna Ferber
-
Main Street
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 128
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century "emancipated woman" found herself.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Time for a classic
- De Maureen en 10-21-09
De: Sinclair Lewis
-
Main Street
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 191
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
Widely hailed as a milestone in American literature, Sinclair Lewis' Main Street vividly describes a country on the verge of massive change, with traditional values being threatened by progress. The novel's heroine, Carol Milford, is a highly educated, ambitious woman who plans to join a newly enlightened society. But after marrying a small-town doctor, she finds herself trapped in the role of a dutiful wife. Carol's desires for social change conflict with the security of her comfortable married life, as she struggles to understand the cost of conformity...and rebellion. As relevant today as it was upon its 1920 publication, Main Street is both a masterful piece of writing and a fascinating microcosm of America's social evolution.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Delightful reading of an excellent book
- De Steve Bird en 06-14-05
De: Sinclair Lewis
-
Marjorie Morningstar
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 28 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 510
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 431
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 427
Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms of a brilliant, enigmatic writer.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Great story with really cheesy narration
- De James en 05-05-12
De: Herman Wouk
-
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 357
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 216
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
-
The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 2,070
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,382
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,375
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
-
So Big
- A Novel
- De: Edna Ferber
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber’s greatest achievement, So Big is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century Chicago. So Big is the unforgettable story of the indomitable Selina Peake DeJong and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity in the face of a challenging marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
History of Chicago via One Family
- De Julie Gaunky en 01-03-21
De: Edna Ferber
-
Main Street
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 128
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century "emancipated woman" found herself.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Time for a classic
- De Maureen en 10-21-09
De: Sinclair Lewis
-
Main Street
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 191
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
Widely hailed as a milestone in American literature, Sinclair Lewis' Main Street vividly describes a country on the verge of massive change, with traditional values being threatened by progress. The novel's heroine, Carol Milford, is a highly educated, ambitious woman who plans to join a newly enlightened society. But after marrying a small-town doctor, she finds herself trapped in the role of a dutiful wife. Carol's desires for social change conflict with the security of her comfortable married life, as she struggles to understand the cost of conformity...and rebellion. As relevant today as it was upon its 1920 publication, Main Street is both a masterful piece of writing and a fascinating microcosm of America's social evolution.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Delightful reading of an excellent book
- De Steve Bird en 06-14-05
De: Sinclair Lewis
-
Marjorie Morningstar
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 28 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 510
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 431
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 427
Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms of a brilliant, enigmatic writer.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Great story with really cheesy narration
- De James en 05-05-12
De: Herman Wouk
-
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 357
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 216
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
-
The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 2,070
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,382
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,375
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
-
Mildred Pierce
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 553
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 428
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 425
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Mildred -- you pierce my heart
- De P. Giorgio en 03-11-11
De: James M. Cain
-
The Ballad of the Sad Café
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 148
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Literate short stories
- De RueRue en 02-23-16
De: Carson McCullers
-
Around the World with Auntie Mame
- De: Patrick Dennis
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 190
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 171
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 170
Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A classic!
- De Miss Right en 03-22-22
De: Patrick Dennis
-
Up from Orchard Street
- De: Eleanor Widmer
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 460
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
Three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat. Long-widowed Manya is the family's head and its heart. But Manya is no soft touch, except, perhaps, where her granddaughter Elka is concerned. Precocious Elka is her closest companion and confidante. Through Elka's eyes we come to know the fascinating characters who move in and out of the Roths' lives.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Tenement Life From a Child's Point of View
- De Sara en 08-10-14
De: Eleanor Widmer
-
The Bride’s House
- De: Sandra Dallas
- Narrado por: Nicole Poole
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
The New York Times best-selling author of Whiter Than Snow, Sandra Dallas delivers a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house. While the house is under construction in 1880, a 17-year-old servant imagines living in the “Bride’s House” with one of her several suitors. Decades later, the legacy and secrets of earlier Bride’s House women cause the current occupant to question what she really wants and who she truly loves.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Skip this one!
- De Mom to 5 en 09-08-17
De: Sandra Dallas
-
Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- De: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- De Susie en 12-17-12
-
The 42nd Parallel
- De: John Dos Passos
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 278
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 234
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 235
This first entry in John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy paints a grand picture of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Powerful document of an all-too-familiar past
- De Ryan en 06-01-13
De: John Dos Passos
-
Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 142
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
-
East of the Sun
- De: Julia Gregson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 157
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
- De Richard en 05-24-16
De: Julia Gregson
-
The Professor's House
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Gently compelling
- De TiffanyD en 08-12-19
De: Willa Cather
-
The Bell Jar
- De: Sylvia Plath
- Narrado por: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,607
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,685
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,656
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A must-read for every woman
- De Julie W. Capell en 05-06-16
De: Sylvia Plath
-
Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison