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- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely
- De Edith en 05-24-19
De: Virginia Woolf
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
- 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself
- De: Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, y otros
- Narrado por: Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not all the stories are complete
- De SteffiT en 10-21-13
De: Henry James, y otros
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Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Short Stories
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Bob Thomley
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,310
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,165
All of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection.
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3 out of 5 stars
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NEVERMORE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-23-15
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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Crome Yellow
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 169
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 136
One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bloomsbury in a blender, 1922
- De Adeliese Baumann en 01-02-17
De: Aldous Huxley
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Night and Day
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Written before she began her experiments in the writing of fiction, Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day, is a story about a group of young people trying to discover what it means to fall in love. It asks all the big questions: What does it mean to fall in love? Does marriage grant happiness? What is happiness? Night and Day is a conventional novel; however, it maps out for us the world of Virginia Woolf in its wondrous prose: For her it was the beginning, leading on to a prolonged engagement with her search for the means to express the "inner life".
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4 out of 5 stars
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"After all, what is love?"
- De Eman Abd Allah en 12-13-16
De: Virginia Woolf
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Death in Venice
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 210
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 182
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A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A problem with the narration
- De Erez en 03-19-12
De: Thomas Mann
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The Yellow Wallpaper
- De: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrado por: Jo Myddleton
- Duración: 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 918
Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Visceral Reaction
- De Em en 05-02-12
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David Copperfield
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Richard Armitage
- Duración: 36 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 7,373
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,812
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,770
Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage ( The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens' most famous characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A PERFECT narration of an English classic!
- De Wayne en 09-03-17
De: Charles Dickens
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Three Men in a Boat (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Jerome K. Jerome
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
In 1889, satirist Jerome K. Jerome fully intended to write a serious travel guide when he and his two best friends embarked on a boating trip up the river Thames to Oxford. But his musings on landmarks and local history were soon hijacked by his own digressive, waggish voice. And so, what began as a peaceful and edifying two-week exploration soon floated upriver into farce - aided, quite naturally, by a portly ration of cheese, some very bad weather, and a dog named Montmorency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious and lovable!!
- De Erika C. en 03-23-21
De: Jerome K. Jerome
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Two Horror Classics: Frankenstein and Dracula
- De: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 28 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
In Frankenstein, a classic tale of bio-engineering gone horribly wrong, Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. When Frankenstein abandons his experiment in horror, the Monster embarks on a quest that results in the ultimate revenge. In Dracula, a timeless gothic vampire romance, young solicitor Jonathan Harker must shield his fiancé, Mina, from the predations of the insatiable Count Dracula. Mysteriously drawn to the Count, Mina, however, struggles to break free from the psychic grip of the mysterious dark stranger from Transylvania.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful rendition of two Gothic Horror classics!
- De Teela'Na en 10-03-19
De: Mary Shelley, y otros
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 145
In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, G. K. Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future. Auberon Quinn, a common clerk who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen standing on his head, is one day told that he has been randomly selected to be His Majesty the King. He decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement - with delightful results.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Competent but over-stylized reading of great book
- De Nierestel en 02-16-18
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 735
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 631
The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the Jewel began to die in a mysterious and violent way, with the marks of a strangler around their neck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mother of all Mummy-Stories
- De Dorothea en 03-15-08
De: Bram Stoker
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Dracula
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Nick Sandys
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula - the pinnacle of Gothic horror for generations - rises again. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania on the eve of Saint George's Day, he cannot shake a strange feeling of uneasiness. The air grows colder as he arrives at his destination: the castle of Count Dracula. Jonathan has been summoned by the count for business, and while he finds his new host obliging and polite, he can't help but notice the man's pallid skin, odd lack of appetite, and long daytime absences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bram Stoker + Nick Sandys = Pure Satisfaction
- De linny en 01-09-19
De: Bram Stoker
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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Heart of Darkness (Unabridged)
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 4 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Long hailed as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Joseph Conrad's tale of one man's descent into the mysterious and deadly Congo jungle to find a messianic ivory trader is a journey into the depths of man's own greed and quest for power. Marlow, our narrator, relates his story of his slow upriver quest to meet the strange and enigmatic Kurtz, who lives isolated in the jungle and is revered by the natives he exploits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Narrator!
- De BOA en 09-25-20
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Most Dangerous Game
- De: Richard Connell
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,940
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,698
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,700
A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts. And what, you ask, is the most dangerous game? It is the manner and substance of his nightly killings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A TRUE COSMOPOLITE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 08-02-16
De: Richard Connell