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This is a story from the Classic Women's Short Stories collection....
Five stories from influential women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.
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Dawn of the Morning is the story of a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s. Having never known a loving home, she is sent away to school by her hard and unfeeling father and stepmother, and a marriage is arranged for her to a man she dislikes and fears.
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Outstanding!
- De MrsAlex en 05-07-19
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The Good Earth
- De: Pearl S. Buck
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.
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Wow
- De Ryan en 05-08-10
De: Pearl S. Buck
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The Harvester
- De: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrado por: Mary Starkey
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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This is the charming story of David Langston, a young man in search of the woman of his dreams. She came to him in a vision and he knows he must find her.
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Possibly My Most Unusual Listen Ever
- De Kathy in CA en 11-16-16
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Ethan Frome
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena.When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage.
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Slow is smooth and smooth is Fast until it isn't
- De Darwin8u en 05-29-13
De: Edith Wharton
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Snow Country
- De: Yasunari Kawabata
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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The story of the doomed love affair of a wealthy sophisticate, Shimamura, and the geisha Komako, at a mountain hotspring resort in western Japan, one of the snowiest regions on earth.
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A beautifully written book
- De just asking for some common sense en 03-19-19
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Pavilion of Women
- De: Pearl S. Buck
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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On her 40th birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after 24 years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed.
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Horrible narration!
- De C. Boatenreiter en 06-17-15
De: Pearl S. Buck
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To the Lighthouse
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nicole Kidman
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.
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A book that will challenge you to think.
- De Kelly en 04-23-17
De: Virginia Woolf
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline.
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My favorite of Hesse's novels, wonderfully read.
- De David en 10-21-11
De: Hermann Hesse
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Old New York
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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Spanning four decades in the mid-19th century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out in vivid detail the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style.
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- De Alissa en 01-31-23
De: Edith Wharton
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The Last Summer
- De: Judith Kinghorn
- Narrado por: Jane Wymark
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Clarissa is almost 17 when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled.
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The Last Summer Delivers
- De Carmen dela Cruz en 05-22-16
De: Judith Kinghorn