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Lucy Raynor
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Helen DeWitt
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A modern amorality play about a 17-year-old girl, the wilder shores of connoisseurship, and the power of false friendsMaman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge’s, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite so that the necessary hours of practice will not be inflicted on fellow guests. One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris (whose genius has been supported by purchase of suitable premises). All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned. Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the sharks of New York?
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories, read by the author. Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved authors and an acclaimed storyteller. This exclusive compilation includes eight of his best tales, collected together for the first time. Here is his celebrated, iconic memoir 'The Lady in the Van'; as well as two fascinating autobiographical accounts of his family and childhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dry witted… amusing
- De DeniseB en 01-28-23
De: Alan Bennett
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Lightning Rods
- De: Helen DeWitt
- Narrado por: Dushko Petrovich
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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"All I want is to be a success.That's all I ask." Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then he fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat hundreds of pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel so sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet his for frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brain storm, Lightning Rods, Inc., will take Joe to the very top - and to the very heart of corporate insanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wild tale, enveloping reader
- De Josh en 11-11-11
De: Helen DeWitt
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Some Trick
- Thirteen Stories
- De: Helen DeWitt
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Emily Sutton-Smith, James Langton, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 16
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For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a listener as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Down the Rabbit Hole
- De Billye Kay en 02-15-20
De: Helen DeWitt
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Self-Portraits
- Stories
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing.
De: Osamu Dazai
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Weather
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Offill
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 233
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Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read This Article Before Listening to Weather
- De MOR Denver en 04-28-20
De: Jenny Offill
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Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
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Brother, I'm Dying
- De: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Award-winning, best-selling author Edwidge Danticat taps her exceptional storytelling gifts for this memoir of the two men who raised her. When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with the love and devotion of a father, despite facing many hardships in politically turbulent Haiti.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Superb Reflection
- De Chandra en 12-29-07
De: Edwidge Danticat
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Sorrow and Bliss
- A Novel
- De: Meg Mason
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
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Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed -- 2.75 Stars
- De Sharlotte en 06-07-21
De: Meg Mason
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33 Place Brugmann
- A Novel
- De: Alice Austen
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio, Jilly Bond, Nicholas Boulton, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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On the eve of the Nazi occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of 33 Place Brugmann is about to change forever. Charlotte Sauvin, an art student raised by her beloved architect father in apartment 4L, knows all the details of the building and its people: how light falls on wood floors and voices echo off the marble staircase, the distinct knock of her dear friend, Julian Raphaël, the son of the art dealer’s family across the hall. Then the Raphaëls disappear, leaving everything behind but their priceless art collection, which has simply vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful book
- De iggynut en 04-12-25
De: Alice Austen
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Bear
- A Novel
- De: Julia Phillips
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 121
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Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Depressing drudgery
- De Catherine en 08-09-24
De: Julia Phillips
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De Vieux Carré Blonde en 12-12-12
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Secrets of Adulthood
- Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
- Duración: 1 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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The right idea, invoked at the right time, can change our lives. Drawing from her long studies of happiness, and also from the challenges she’s faced herself, writer Gretchen Rubin has discovered the “Secrets of Adulthood” that can help us manage the complexities of life. To convey her conclusions, she turned to the aphorism—the ancient literary discipline that demands that a writer convey a large truth in a few words.
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2 out of 5 stars
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this is just an audiobook of someone saying phrases that other people have already said.
- De Jaclyn Smith en 04-02-25
De: Gretchen Rubin
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You Should Be So Lucky
- A Novel
- De: Cat Sebastian
- Narrado por: Joel Leslie
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Would recommend a listen
- De Cody Harden en 07-07-24
De: Cat Sebastian
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The End of the Affair
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Colin Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 11,481
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,430
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10,382
Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Colin Firth Kills It
- De Em en 05-09-12
De: Graham Greene
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
- De: Anne de Marcken
- Narrado por: Jessica Preddy
- Duración: 3 h y 38 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 10
Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The manner of which this book was written
- De Vanessa en 03-31-25
De: Anne de Marcken
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This Strange Eventful History
- De: Claire Messud
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Be Prepared for a Jarring Narration
- De Thomp/Suis en 05-17-24
De: Claire Messud
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Vanishing Treasures
- A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
- De: Katherine Rundell
- Narrado por: Lenny Henry, Katherine Rundell
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Passionate and Impassioning
- De Anonymous en 12-11-24
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The English Understand Wool
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- Brenda Hoffman
- 04-19-25
Bad taste is no way to live your life.
The slow burn of this short book made me read it again. A 17-year-old supposed girl who comes across as “cold” to her editor with bad taste is a hero to me and role model to friends with whom I’ve spleen to about this gem!
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- unco
- 01-12-25
Thought Provoking
This is a gem of a book. I was surprised by character's astuteness and also by their understanding of the value of their education. I will be thinking about this for a long time. I had not yet encountered Helen Dewitt. This novella has introduced me to her as an author. I intend to read more.
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- CCB
- 03-06-25
short story
excellent story. unexpected but likable characters. Interesting concept. I definitely wanted to hear more about the lead.
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- AudiobookMaven
- 11-24-24
The wild and crazy story, narrated brilliantly!
Utterly inventive story that grabs the reader's attention in the first sentence. International sensory stimulation and a truly inspired narrator
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- mswnola
- 01-09-25
The English understand humor
I loved the use of irony! And the compact length of the book made it a juicy and refreshing snack after the 40+ hour saga that was my last “read”.
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