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Historia4 out of 5 stars 281
Meet the Stevens family as they prepare to embark on their yearly holiday to the coast of England. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens first made the trip to Bognor Regis on their honeymoon, and the tradition has continued ever since. They stay in the same guesthouse and follow the same carefully honed schedule - now accompanied by their three children, 20-year-old Mary, 17-year-old Dick, and little brother Ernie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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life-affirming and magical
- De Victoria en 11-23-21
De: R.C. Sherriff
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Summer
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 678
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 563
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 559
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent first audible purchase!
- De lilyglint en 08-23-04
De: Edith Wharton
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Three Comrades
- De: Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Wesley Wheen - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Braun
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can have never imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love and friendship in a dying world.
- De Tarquin en 03-18-19
De: Erich Maria Remarque, y otros
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A Happy Death
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early 20s and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Camus Secret Masterpiece
- De Samuel Cohen en 08-03-19
De: Albert Camus
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 176
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrado por: Elaine Wise
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Though he embodies neither wealth nor a lavish persona, Charles Bovary - a somewhat established doctor - takes a chance in marrying the young, vibrant, and ambitious farm girl Emma Rouault. At first, Emma is delighted to be married and away from her father's farm, but her thirst for the rich and ornate lifestyle that she witnesses other people living soon drives her away from her husband and into the arms of various suitors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Madame Bovary doesn't disappoint
- De Arlene Olsen en 12-11-16
De: Gustave Flaubert
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Great Gatsby
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Tanner Buchanan
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Hailed as one of the Great American Novels, The Great Gatsby delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tale of obsession, love, and the gritty underbelly of the American dream. Through the eyes of unassuming narrator Nick Carraway, the story follows the enigmatic Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The great American novel!
- De Karen Creeden en 11-12-22
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 689
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 609
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 603
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the duke and duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stick with it!
- De Colleen en 07-17-19
De: Beatriz Williams
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 136
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Turtle en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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Jacob's Room
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
Jacob's Room was the first of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published by the Hogarth Press, founded with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in their home at Hogarth House in Richmond in 1917. It is an episodic tale that attempts to evoke the inner life of Jacob Flanders and his social milieu during the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen
- De Cecilie Malling en 03-21-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Frances Jeater
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, we are drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience. It is read with affection and skill by Frances Jeater.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not an easy read but worth it
- De Lena en 03-26-16
De: Virginia Woolf
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Monday Starts on Saturday
- De: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Andrew Bromfield - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 161
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings - a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, and many more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Maybe I should have read this one.
- De M. Gage en 08-08-18
De: Arkady Strugatsky, y otros
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Exile and the Kingdom
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom.
De: Albert Camus
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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Lucy Gayheart
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair—and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins—Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dazzlingly sad
- De Ionthepage en 04-24-22
De: Willa Cather
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Despair
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Russian emigre candy dandy murderers R my weakness
- De Darwin8u en 10-02-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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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 40
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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A dry run at big, complex themes
- De Darwin8u en 12-08-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Laughter in the Dark
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Death is often the point of life's joke
- De Darwin8u en 05-19-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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King, Queen, Knave
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A non-Euclidean German love triangle.
- De Darwin8u en 04-01-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Transparent Things
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)
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4 out of 5 stars
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Moments of absolute and immortal genius
- De Darwin8u en 10-15-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Eye
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 25
Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow émigrés who are too distracted to pay him any heed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ego vero, ergo sum
- De Darwin8u en 12-18-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Despair
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Russian emigre candy dandy murderers R my weakness
- De Darwin8u en 10-02-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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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 40
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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A dry run at big, complex themes
- De Darwin8u en 12-08-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Laughter in the Dark
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Death is often the point of life's joke
- De Darwin8u en 05-19-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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King, Queen, Knave
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A non-Euclidean German love triangle.
- De Darwin8u en 04-01-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Transparent Things
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)
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4 out of 5 stars
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Moments of absolute and immortal genius
- De Darwin8u en 10-15-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Eye
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 25
Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow émigrés who are too distracted to pay him any heed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ego vero, ergo sum
- De Darwin8u en 12-18-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Gift
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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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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Ada, or Ardor
- A Family Chronicle
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incest, a game the Whole Family Can Play
- De Darwin8u en 08-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 31 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these 68 tales — 14 of which have been translated into English for the first time - display all the shades of Nabokov’s imagination.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidoscope of Nabokov Bábochkas
- De Darwin8u en 01-11-15
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Enchanter
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nabokov's black salad devouring a green rabbit
- De Darwin8u en 10-14-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Bend Sinister
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fantastic fairytale of fascism
- De Darwin8u en 12-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Pale Fire
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 524
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 444
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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mary
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Elisabetta
- 11-23-11
Nabokov, you know?
One of the top world' writer at his best even in this less known sad, emigree, so Russian tale.
Nabokov paint an indoor scene as no one.
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- Darwin8u
- 12-22-13
There IS something about Mary!
No. I did like this. Really.
Amazing to think Nabokov was starting his journey here. While Nabokov's first novel purports to be about Mary, it is really about memory, nostalgia, that yearning for the past. It is also about anticipation: the exile's return, the lover's arrival, all the emotions of expectancy. 'Mary' centers on émigré Lev Glebovich Ganin. He is trying to separate himself from Lyudmila (a woman he no longer loves or even likes), while waiting for fellow pension dweller, Alfyorov's wife (an early love?) to appear. Yes, Mary is much anticipated. All the while, Ganin basically ignores Klara, the eponymous 'girl next door', who adores him.
This tangle of relationships all takes place in a small setting -- a Berlin pension filled with Russian expats. The setting (almost a closed circle mystery sans mystery) reminded me a bit of Eric Ambler's 'Epitaph for a Spy' in that it all takes place largely among a hotel/pension with various characters interacting.
Anyway, it was good Nabokov ... just not great.
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- The Flash Fiction Ponder
- 01-30-18
Genius can be Developed
I started off with Lolita, and based on that brilliantly written book I decided I wanted to read all of Nabokov's books, so here I am with his first. A pretty good story about nostalgia, but 29 years between the two definitely shows the fact that genius does not always come from some great predetermined power. That it indeed can be developed.
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