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This American short-story writer and poet is known for his suspenseful and oftentimes gory tales of horror and darkness, but with "Landor’s Cottage", Poe’s final short story, first published in 1849, we get to see a whole other side to the revered author.
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This is a short piece of descriptive writing that shouldn’t be missed by any real discerning Poe appreciator.
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- De TS en 09-23-18
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 636
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect pairing of prose and narrator
- De chris en 11-05-12
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Pale Fire
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 525
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 444
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 445
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing feat for such a unique novel
- De AmazonCustomer en 03-27-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1
- Classic Horror Stories
- De: Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, Saki, y otros
- Narrado por: Doug Bradley
- Duración: 2 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent stories and wonderful performance
- De Gavin Lees en 10-12-18
De: Charles Dickens, y otros
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Phantastes
- De: George MacDonald
- Narrado por: Brad Powers
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
A young man named Anodos experiences dream like adventures in Fairy Land, where he meets tree spirits, endures the presence of the overwhelming shadow, journeys to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The story conveys a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death.
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1 out of 5 stars
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THIS IS LIBRIVOX'S FREE RECORDING
- De C. M. W. en 12-24-18
De: George MacDonald
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H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection - Second Edition: The Prime Years: 1926-1936
- De: H. P. Lovecraft, Finn J.D. John
- Narrado por: Finn J.D. John
- Duración: 34 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft’s life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Go to YouTube
- De brian d wilkerson en 08-10-18
De: H. P. Lovecraft, y otros
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The End of the Story
- Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 1
- De: Clark Ashton Smith
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper, Allan Robertson, Joe Knezevich, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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variety is the spice of life
- De Alaskapenny en 12-29-15
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- De: Arthur Machen
- Narrado por: Shea Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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classic horror
- De Shantee en 05-04-16
De: Arthur Machen
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Stories
- De: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
H.P. Lovecraft never found fame during his lifetime and died in 1937 in relative obscurity. But in the decades that followed his death, his importance as a unique and original visionary in the genre of science fantasy and 'weird fiction' has grown monumentally, so that even talents such as author Stephen King and film-maker John Carpenter have described him as a prime influence upon their creative lives. Here, then, is a selection of his stories.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great selection of Lovecraft
- De Kit Barrie en 02-06-15
De: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Gold-Bug
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
The grand-prize winner of a writing contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, "The Gold-Bug" was one of Poe's most popular stories during his lifetime. Similar to his ratiocination tales - early versions of what we now call detective fiction - "The Gold-Bug" is full of mystery and adventure and includes a cryptogram, invisible ink, a scarab-like bug, and pirate treasure.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Joseph A. Ciecierega en 03-13-18
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Gift
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.
One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A complex and rich Künstlerroman
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Orlando
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Clare Higgins
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 870
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 875
Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- De Mayca en 05-31-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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My First Summer in the Sierra
- De: John Muir
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
It was June of 1869 when John Muir reluctantly accepted a job herding sheep from the central valley of California to the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne Rivers, high into the Sierra Nevadas and deep into the Yosemite region. He felt ill equipped for the work, and yet the opportunity thrilled his adventurous spirit. With a notebook tied to his belt, he set out for a summer he would never forget. My First Summer in the Sierra is Muir’s classic account of that extraordinary journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost every line is quotable
- De Kacy en 08-30-13
De: John Muir
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The Wild Places
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Simon Bubb
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- De Jennifer en 01-27-22
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume I: 1917-1926
- De: H. P. Lovecraft, Finn J.D. John
- Narrado por: Finn J.D. John
- Duración: 23 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 931
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 842
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 840
This is volume one of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghostwritten material, and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)
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5 out of 5 stars
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I really enjoyed this collection
- De J.J. en 09-26-16
De: H. P. Lovecraft, y otros