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Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance!
- De mz en 04-03-20
De: Soseki Natsume, y otros
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 902
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 797
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 806
John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 923
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 790
Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated - and misunderstood - figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
- De John Norton en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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The Love Note
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Jasmine Blackborow
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Villa in Italy. Blue lives a charmed life. From her family's townhouse in Richmond, she lives a life of luxury and couldn't want for anything - well, on the surface at least. Then, on the night of her 21st birthday, her father makes a startling toast: he will give his daughter's hand to whichever man can capture her heart best in the form of a love letter. But Blue has other ideas, and, unwilling to play at her father's bewildering games, she sets out on her own path to find her own destiny....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Love Note❣️
- De Leslie Gail Mnich en 10-25-20
De: Tracy Rees
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Cold Hand in Mine
- De: Robert Aickman
- Narrado por: Reece Shearsmith
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full. The listener is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ("Pages from a Young Girl's Journal") but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aickman is unique
- De Stark en 08-19-23
De: Robert Aickman
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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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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
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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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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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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Maurice
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Peter Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 964
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 967
'Ah for darkness...not the darkness of a house which coops up a man among furniture, but the darkness where he can be free!' Maurice Hall knows he must choose between living life in the shadows or denying himself a chance at love and fulfilment. Aware of his attraction to the same sex, in a time where it was considered unlawful and immoral to have homosexual desires, Maurice must decide whether to battle or submit to a prejudiced 20th-century English society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!!! It's past time!
- De Christopher P. en 11-18-10
De: E. M. Forster
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Sanshiro
- Penguin Classics
- De: Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
- Narrado por: Andrew Koji
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This story had no point.
- De icelandicponies en 12-30-21
De: Natsume Soseki, y otros
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The Young Clementina
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charlotte's world turns topsy-turvy. Beloved author D. E. Stevenson captures the intricacies of post-World War I England with a light, comic touch that perfectly embodies the spirit of the time. Alternatively heartbreaking and witty, The Young Clementina is a touching tale of love, loss and redemption through friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Miss Dean's Dilemma
- De Jerri C en 05-02-18
De: D. E. Stevenson
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The Nanny
- A Novel
- De: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, Ben Eliot
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,533
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,118
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,104
In this compulsively listenable tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart. Diabolically clever, The Nanny reminds us that sometimes the truth hurts so much you’d rather hear the lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great gripping story!
- De Jordan Zenzel en 10-01-19
De: Gilly Macmillan
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A Suitable Boy (Dramatised)
- De: Vikram Seth
- Narrado por: Ayesha Dharker, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, full cast
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 345
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 276
A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families: the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans, and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with.
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2 out of 5 stars
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would prefer unabridged naration
- De Tamshine en 07-07-11
De: Vikram Seth
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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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The Golden Notebook
- De: Doris Lessing
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 27 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 515
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 425
Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive "golden notebook" that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life – emotional, political, and professional – amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ‘50s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcendent narration of a masterpiece.
- De @vmarinelli en 07-03-12
De: Doris Lessing
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Crome Yellow
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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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 Enchanted April
- De: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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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