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An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of "The Avenger", they start to suspect something too horrific for words.
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3 out of 5 stars
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enjoyable
- De Pamela en 06-10-04
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Pygmalion
- De: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrado por: Shannon Cochran, Nicholas Pennell, full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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One of Shaw's most enduring works, Pygmalion is an insightful comedy of class relations and perceptions, as played out between a Cockney flower girl and the irascible speech professor who has taken her on as a pet project.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bilious Pidgeon
- De Chris en 05-14-03
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Aunt Crete's Emancipation
- De: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 115
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Aunt Crete has spent a lifetime of toil catering to the needs of her family, especially her waspish sister, Carrie, and social-climbing niece, Louella. When a telegram from a nephew from out west announces his imminent arrival, mother and daughter hasten a trip to the shore to escape the "country cousin" who they are sure will shame them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cute Story with a Great Moral
- De Stephanie Aguilar en 08-03-16
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America's First Female Serial Killer
- Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
- De: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Narrado por: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn’t put it down
- De Jason Hejna en 05-09-20
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A Soupcon of Poison
- De: Jennifer Ashley
- Narrado por: Anne-Marie Piazza
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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London, 1880. Kat Holloway, highly sought-after young cook to the wealthy of London, finds herself embroiled in murder when she’s accused of poisoning her employer, the loathsome Sir Lionel Leigh-Bradbury. Her only help as she works to clear her name comes from the mysterious Daniel McAdam, a handsome man-of-all-work who seems to know everyone and always happens to be in the right place at the right time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Mystery Reader en 05-09-20
De: Jennifer Ashley
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Freckles
- De: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrado por: Mary Starkey
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Freckles, a plucky young man, lands a job as a watchman for a lumber company that logs timber in a mysterious forest swamp called the Limberlost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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tear jerking, poor narration
- De Nadene en 09-01-12
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Daddy-Long-Legs
- De: Jean Webster
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 4 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Jerusha Abbott is the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home. Every day she helps scrub and dress the younger children - all 97 of them. Soon she will graduate from high school and be on her own. Where will she go, and how will she support herself? When an anonymous wealthy donor decides to send her to college, Jerusha can hardly believe her good fortune. All she must do in return is send him a letter once a month. With all the excitement of college life - classes, parties, new friends, and a special gentleman - Jerusha can hardly stop writing!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- De Greg and Sara Masarik en 04-06-15
De: Jean Webster
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A Duty to the Dead
- A Bess Crawford Mystery
- De: Charles Todd
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his patriotic footsteps, volunteering to serve her country as a nurse during the Great War. In 1916 she promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to a brother. When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother's last wishes with surprising indifference.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific period mystery
- De Anne en 12-04-10
De: Charles Todd
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A Christmas Journey
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Terrence Hardiman
- Duración: 3 h y 36 m
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It's Christmas and the well-born guests who have gathered at Applecross for a delicious weekend of relaxation are warmed by roaring fires, mistletoe, and gorgeously wrapped gifts. It's scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one - not even that clever young aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould - anticipates the tragedy that is to darken this light-hearted holiday house party. But soon one young woman lies dead, a suicide, and Vespasia must uncover the heartbreaking truth behind the tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never tire of Anne Perry
- De Joan en 12-22-17
De: Anne Perry
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The Dead Secret
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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A masterful blend of Gothic drama and romance, Wilkie Collins' mystery novel is an exploration of illegitimacy and inheritance. Set in Cornwall, the plot foreshadows The Woman in White with its themes of doubtful identity and deception and involves a broad array of characters. The "secret" of the book's title is the true parentage of the book's heroine, Rosamond Treverton, which has been written down and kept in an unused room at Porthgenna Tower. This is where, 20 years later, much of the novel's action is set.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Only complaint is I wish it were longer
- De alisammeredith en 03-15-22
De: Wilkie Collins
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Miss Kopp Investigates
- A Kopp Sisters Novel, Book 7
- De: Amy Stewart
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 106
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Winter 1919: Norma is summoned home from France, Constance is called back from Washington, and Fleurette puts her own plans on hold as the sisters rally around their recently widowed sister-in-law and her children. How are four women going to support themselves? A chance encounter offers Fleurette a solution: clandestine legal work for a former colleague of Constance's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great series
- De Mimi en 02-07-22
De: Amy Stewart
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The Yellow Wallpaper
- De: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrado por: Jo Myddleton
- Duración: 35 m
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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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Love of Life, and Other Stories
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. This collection includes "Love of Life", "A Day's Lodging", "The White Man's Way", "The Story of Keesh", "The Unexpected", "Brown Wolf", "The Sun-Dog Trail", and "Negore, the Coward".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review of Love of Life and Other Stories
- De Pre Paid Gift Card en 05-25-16
De: Jack London
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 2 m
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Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate search for truth in a cruel world. We follow his growth to manhood, his educational progress, his first loves, and the wrenching tragedies and disappointments that life has in store for him. In some of the finest prose of the 20th century, Maugham has presented us with the timeless story of one man's search for the meaning of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatly Unsettling
- De Michael en 10-04-14
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- De: Jennifer Worth
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've listened to this year
- De Richard en 06-12-13
De: Jennifer Worth
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,010
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,465
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,456
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
De: Kerry Greenwood
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ten Days in a Mad-House
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Jim99
- 04-25-18
Good book
Overall it's a good book with a great story. I didn't like the narration though because she sounded like a robot.
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- D. Wolk
- 06-07-21
amazing and sad
Just thank you to Nellie for what she did. It was a gift to the less fortunate. I am better for having learned this piece of history.
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- Ted Brown
- 02-18-23
Incredibly boring!
Don’t waste your time! This book has zero story line and has no redeeming value.
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- Joseph S.
- 04-05-19
SSSOOOO BORING!!!!!!
two hours of this stupid lady wondering if she will get caught trying to fake her way into an insane aslyum. the story is continually side tracked by pointless back and forth contemplation. she has the same conversation in her head over and over, will I get caught/ will they find me out. It is infuriating. I hoped the woman would be killed at the end, but no happy ending in this story. avoid, this story is not scary. interesting or worth listening to.
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