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Lovely
- De Edith en 05-24-19
De: Virginia Woolf
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Father
- De: Elizabeth Von Arnim
- Narrado por: Penelope Freeman
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Since her mother's death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own interests. While Jennifer is desperate to experience life on her own terms within her reduced financial means, her neighbour, Alice, is pre-occupied with ensuring her position as head of her brother's household is never challenged.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worse Audio Book I Have Ever Heard
- De Phyllis Woodford en 11-05-21
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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 209
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 181
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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 Unsettled Dust
- De: Robert Aickman
- Narrado por: Reece Shearsmith
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. 'The Unsettled Dust', 'The House of the Russians', 'No Stronger Than a Flower', 'The Cicerones' and 'Ravissante' first appeared in the Sub Rosa collection in 1968, but the stories were published together as The Unsettled Dust in 1990.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfectly read, sheds new light on this work
- De James Townsend en 04-10-17
De: Robert Aickman
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Far from the Madding Crowd, which first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in monthly installments back in the late 19th century, features the love life of the young Bathsheba Everdene who is as poor as she is beautiful. Fortunately, Bathsheba's uncle leaves her his farm, which she goes to manage in the small town of Weatherbury. Before she leaves, however, she has an interesting encounter with a young farmer, Gabriel Oak, for whom she does a tremendous favor ,and he becomes indebted to her....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this delightful listening experience !!!
- De Robin Wardle en 07-15-16
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Sea, the Sea
- De: Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie - introduction
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 21 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 283
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Murdoch Amazes
- De Sara en 08-30-17
De: Iris Murdoch, y otros
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The Good Apprentice
- De: Iris Murdoch
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity, and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity, and his motives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Squabble of Smartypants
- De Geoff Maddison en 09-10-12
De: Iris Murdoch
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,034
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 916
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 909
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Subtle yet grand
- De jb en 10-12-15
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Jennifer Dixon
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is the 19th century novel lately thought to be one of the inspirations of E .L.James' Fifty Shades of Grey. It depicts the life of an impressionable, naive, somewhat educated young woman who yearns to be free to live her own life, but finds herself constricted by the bonds of the sexual, religious and socially hypocritical customs that have surrounded her from birth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jenny Dixon
- De Amazon Customer en 08-09-15
De: Thomas Hardy
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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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The Fortnight in September
- De: R.C. Sherriff
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 282
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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The Kill (La Curee)
- De: Émile Zola
- Narrado por: Cate Barratt
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Émile Zola's The Kill is one part of the French author's 20-volume series about the fictitious Rougon-Macquart family during the Second French Empire, and it is rich with symbolism. Paris is awakening to unprecedented expansion, the future intoxicating, and in keeping with its penchant for excess, the aristocracy is caught up in the mad dash to devour as much of it as it can.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Whoever?!
- De Matthew Garcia en 07-07-21
De: Émile Zola
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The Crime at Black Dudley
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- De: Margery Allingham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 632
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 562
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When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I LIKE this narrator quite a lot!!!!
- De Meep en 11-16-13
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The Return of the Soldier
- De: Rebecca West
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
In this lyrical and poignant story of a wounded man and the three concerned women who seek to heal him, Rebecca West explores the complexity of the mind and its subtle strategies for coping with life's painful realities. Only when Chris has the courage to face one pivotal moment of truth in his married life will he be able to awaken from his boyish fantasy and become, indeed, "every inch a soldier".
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5 out of 5 stars
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a gem
- De beatrice en 09-08-21
De: Rebecca West
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The Enchanted April
- De: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
To Those who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine. Small medieaval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let Furnished for the month of April. This small advertisement sparks something long dormant in the reluctant hearts of two downcast London women - the possibility of happiness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My absolute favorite book.
- De JKJanson en 06-19-18
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration and Great Selection of Stories
- De Robert en 05-03-15
De: Michael Sims
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Bell
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Broxgirl
- 08-29-20
A classic masterpiece
What I noticed while listening to The Bell was the way in which things and events are described. Iris Murdoch uses a rich turn of phrase which embodies the work as if being painted in bright colours upon a canvas. It’s even seeping into the ether as I write this review.
A slow and meandering and fully immersive story of a bell and a group of people in a order who bring with them all the trials and emotions of their past lives.
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- Padmaja
- 09-29-19
A delightful story brilliantly told!
Enjoyed every bit of this enchanting story, delightfully told. there are flashes of humour interspersed with poignant moments; Murdoch's insights into what makes us human are precious.
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- M. J. Walsh
- 09-04-20
An uneven book gets a great reading
A small lay religious community living beside a closed order of Benedictine nuns forms the context for the uneven story told in this novel from the 1950s. And, yes, it is showing its age. Dated references and attitudes seem uninportant in great books, but this is not a great book. At times it is a good one, but those times only serve to indicate that Iris Murdoch's best work lay in the future.
The real triumph to be found is Miriam Margolyes' superb reading. She brings every character to life with her mercurial talent. The end result is closer to a fine radio play than a conventional book reading.
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