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- De Mario en 12-12-16
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Mortal Mischief
- De: Frank Tallis
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Vienna, 1902: A beautiful medium has been found shot dead, and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been locked from the inside, and a cryptic note suggests a malevolent supernatural power is at work. Using the new science of psychoanalysis, Liebermann probes the minds of the suspects in an attempt to unravel this bewildering crime.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ho-hum Victorian mystery
- De Nancy E Day en 09-17-12
De: Frank Tallis
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
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The Magic Mountain
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 37 h y 27 m
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Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Magical Journey
- De Paul en 08-20-20
De: Thomas Mann
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The Royal Game
- A Chess Story
- De: Stefan Zweig
- Narrado por: Dan Mellins-Cohen
- Duración: 2 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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The fame of the The Royal Game is evident in the number of translations. The last work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig can be read today in over 60 languages. The first translation into English appeared in New York in 1944. In Germany, the book has become a constant bestseller. The first-person narrator learns of the presence of the world chess champion Mirko Czentovic on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires. Together with his acquaintance Mc Connor and other chess players, the first-person narrator manages to challenge the world champion to a game of chess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brief but wonderful
- De Cat S. en 02-17-21
De: Stefan Zweig
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 219
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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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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but 10, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The position of the feet during reading...
- De literate rose en 02-09-18
De: Italo Calvino
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The Lost Melody
- De: Joanna Davidson Politano
- Narrado por: Amy Scanlon
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant’s father dies, he leaves to her the care of a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. Vivienne had no idea the woman existed, and yet her portrait is shockingly familiar. When the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New favorite!!!
- De Lisa Scott en 12-13-22
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Marley
- De: Jon Clinch
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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A masterful reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol with this darkly entertaining and moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marley earned those chains
- De John F. Kaess en 10-11-19
De: Jon Clinch
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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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 Widows of Champagne
- De: Renee Ryan
- Narrado por: Karen Peakes
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Champagne, 1939. Gabrielle Leblanc Dupree is taking her family's future into her hands. While she should be preparing for a lavish party to celebrate two centuries of champagne making, she secretly hides Chateau Fouché-Leblanc's most precious vintages behind a fake wall in the cellar in preparation for the looming war. But when she joins the resistance, the coveted champagne isn't the most dangerous secret her cellar must conceal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good but a bit religious
- De Far North en 03-31-23
De: Renee Ryan
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Mrs. Osmond
- A Novel
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 113
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Isabel Archer is a young American woman swept off to Europe in the late 19th century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and - as Isabel finds out too late - cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clever Continuation of Henry James
- De Fate_D en 03-18-18
De: John Banville
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Darkness at Noon
- De: Arthur Koestler
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 828
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A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literature as the ‘living memory’ of nations
- De ESK en 01-23-13
De: Arthur Koestler
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Guesthouse for Ganesha
- A Novel
- De: Judith Teitelman
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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In 1923, 17-year-old Esther arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a 22-year journey, woven against the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A captivating and thought-provoking journey
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 03-16-21
De: Judith Teitelman
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Standing by the Wall
- The Collected Slough House Novellas
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Please
- De Katy en 01-27-23
De: Mick Herron
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Survival
- Species Imperative, Book 1
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Angele Masters
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Herself a biologist, Julie E. Czerneda has earned a reputation in science fiction circles for her ability to create beautifully crafted, imaginative, yet believably realized alien races. In Survival, the first novel in her new series, Species Imperative, she draws upon this talent to build races, characters, and a universe which will draw listeners into a magnificent tale of interstellar intrigue, as an Earth scientist is caught up in a terrifying interspecies conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I study salmon!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-05-20
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The Mad Women’s Ball
- De: Victoria Mas
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
The Salpêtrière Asylum: Paris, 1885. Genevieve is a senior nurse. After the childhood death of her sister, Blandine, she shunned religion and placed her faith in both the celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Charcot and science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugénie, the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family that has locked her away in the asylum. Because Eugénie has a secret: She sees spirits.
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4 out of 5 stars
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British accents?
- De KS en 05-22-22
De: Victoria Mas
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- John Edward
- 09-18-20
Alan Cumming is a genius
The Caretaker is filled with beautiful, expressive, poetic writing but demands your absolute attention and that's okay. I was falling in love with everything. I'm still not sure I understand the point of it all but God, it was so much fun to immerse my brain into all that glorious language. Of course, I think I could listen to Alan Cumming read the phone book but hearing him read all these luscious, provocative phrases is heaven. There's nothing sexual here but none the less, I was getting turned on.
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