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A unique novel about life in a fourteenth-century convent by one of England’s most original authors
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the listener in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community.
What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
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- De: Anne R. Bailey
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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This is the story of Joan de Geneville, wife to one of England's most infamous traitors: Roger Mortimer. After the death of her father in 1292, Joan becomes one of the greatest English heiresses of her generation. In a time when women are subservient, she is raised by her mother to command. Educated by her tutors, she becomes a formidable woman in her own right. When Joan is married her husband's lust for power knows no bounds. She is forced to choose between her duty to her King and her loyalty to her husband.
De: Anne R. Bailey
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Winter in the Air
- De: Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Duración: 10 h
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Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.
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Lolly Willowes
- De: Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Narrado por: Helen Keeley
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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When Laura Willowes’s beloved father dies, she is absorbed in the household of her brother and his family. There, she leaves behind “Laura” and enters into the state of “Aunt Lolly,” a genteel spinster indispensable to the upbringing of her nieces. For twenty years, Lolly is neither indulgent nor impulsive, until one day when she decides to move to a village in the Chilterns, much to her family’s chagrin.
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In a Dark Wood Wandering
- De: Hella S. Haasse
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 26 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years' War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Challenging, but worth it!
- De Ina en 03-25-17
De: Hella S. Haasse
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Headshot
- A Novel
- De: Rita Bullwinkel
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 61
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Narrator
- De love it en 08-09-24
De: Rita Bullwinkel
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Corner That Held Them
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- Dr. D
- 04-06-24
nothing I have read quite like it. the turns of phrase can be extraordinary.
the story is barely a story. it is held together by careful observations and details of lives unknown to most of us
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- barbara Turner
- 09-18-22
Fascinating view into the medieval mind and life
The story weaves in an out about individuals at a Nunnery and has the unique feature it seems of giving us insights into the challenging lives of people in the 14th century
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- Liz Ryan Cole
- 10-05-23
Unusual and enjoyable
This was an unusual and enjoyable view of life in the middle ages. I really am happy I listened to it
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