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Laurence Olivier plays Nunez, a mountaineer in Ecuador, in the adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic short story The Country of the Blind, first published in 1904 in The Strand Magazine. One day, Nunez falls into a lost land where all of the inhabitants are blind.
This is one of the episodes of "Theater Royal", the only radio series in which Olivier starred and was first broadcast in 1952.
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- De SteffiT en 10-21-13
De: Henry James, y otros
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H.G. Wells Fiction Collection
- The Invisible Man, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: Roberto Scarlato, Charles King - Introduction
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In what many refer to as one of the first and greatest science fiction thrillers, a mysterious stranger wanders into an inn, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages. What lies beneath the bandages is something even more mysterious. As Wells tackles issues of identity, deception, and the deterioration of the human mind, listeners will be drawn into the story of the mysterious man, whose own mistakes end up whisking him into a whirlwind of deceit, terror, and even murder. In the end, the question will be asked: when your sense of self and identity vanish, who will you become?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super organized, captivating narrator
- De Jackie Harwood en 04-28-20
De: H. G. Wells
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Tales of Terror
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Jack Foreman
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Edgar Allan Poe, the master of terror, wrote some of literature's most entertaining and influential short stories, works that invented or anticipated modern detective novels, science fiction, and the horror genre. Tales of Terror collects nine of Poe's best-loved stories, all performed in chilling, highly dramatic readings by Jack Foreman. This collection includes such classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and what many consider his masterpiece, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poe's Best Horror by an Outstanding Narrator
- De Gary en 08-29-04
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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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
- Versión completa
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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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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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
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The Voyage Out
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Kenneth Branagh
- Duración: 3 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,008
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,000
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,975
A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disgusting Revision
- De Long_Schlong_Silver en 09-27-18
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- De: Arthur Machen
- Narrado por: Shea Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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classic horror
- De Shantee en 05-04-16
De: Arthur Machen
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The Third Policeman
- De: Flann O'Brien
- Narrado por: Jim Norton
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 409
Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.
Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hell is other people's bicycles.
- De Darwin8u en 03-01-15
De: Flann O'Brien
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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 Best Ghost Stories Ever Told
- Best Stories Ever Told
- De: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrado por: J. M. Badger, Imelda Pot
- Duración: 24 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
A big, brilliant, spooky collection of classic and contemporary ghost stories that will make you hesitate before turning off that light.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A very mixed review
- De Michael Mayer en 08-05-15
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Summer
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 679
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 560
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent first audible purchase!
- De lilyglint en 08-23-04
De: Edith Wharton
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The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
In The Invisible Man, a scientist theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. In The Time Machine, we follow the Time Traveller to the year 802,701 A.D.. He finds a golden race of small, soft, innocent people. But what is it that lurks in the dark shadows?
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5 out of 5 stars
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When The Invisible Man ends and The Time Machine begins
- De kíli en 04-08-18
De: H. G. Wells
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Jacob's Room
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Jacob's Room was the first of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published by the Hogarth Press, founded with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in their home at Hogarth House in Richmond in 1917. It is an episodic tale that attempts to evoke the inner life of Jacob Flanders and his social milieu during the first decade-and-a-half of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen
- De Cecilie Malling en 03-21-05
De: Virginia Woolf
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The King in Yellow
- De: Robert W. Chambers
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 704
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 627
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 627
There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Introduction to Robert Chambers
- De David S. Mathew en 11-23-16
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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 Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
- De: Sax Rohmer
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Inspector Nayland Smith has unearthed a plot that could mean the end of civilization as we know it. He's just arrived in London, chasing the greatest criminal mind ever to come from the East. But when he arrives to warn Sir Crichton Davies that he is in danger, he finds he is too late. Sir Crichton has become the first victim of the insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pulp Fiction of the day
- De Anniebligh en 12-12-12
De: Sax Rohmer
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Dracula
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Nick Sandys
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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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 Napoleon of Notting Hill
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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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