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Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all featuring star-studded casts with the likes of Jacqueline Bisset, Miriam Margolyes, James Marsters, Alfred Molina, Roger Rees, Yeardley Smith, Eric Stoltz, and many more. This audio also includes a chilling dramatization of Wilde's sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Collection
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De: Oscar Wilde
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Pavilion of Women
- De: Pearl S. Buck
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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On her 40th birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after 24 years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narration!
- De C. Boatenreiter en 06-17-15
De: Pearl S. Buck
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- De: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Narrado por: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date". And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic, and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hidden masterpiece
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Jonathan Kent
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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This dark story, set in medieval Austria, hinges on unearthly and hidden mental powers. It also gives an insight to the author's psyche during his final days.
The other stories in this edition include "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Story of the Bad Little Boy", "The Diary of Adam and Eve", "Edward Mills and George Benton", "The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune", and "A Fable".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bad text, humdrum narration
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Jane Eyre
- De: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrado por: Thandiwe Newton
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Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect!!
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De: Charlotte Brontë
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Ruth
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Eve Matheson
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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The orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced by wealthy Henry Bellingham who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. Their affair causes her to lose her home and job to which he offers her shelter, only to cruelly abandon her soon after. She is offered a chance of a new life though shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son. When Henry reappears offering marriage she must choose between social acceptance and her own pride.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fallen Woman Finds Redemption
- De Susan en 12-06-12
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Mary Barton
- A Tale of Manchester Life
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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When her father assassinates Henry Carson, his employer's son and Mary's admirer, suspicion falls on Mary's second admirer, Jem, a fellow worker. Mary has to prove her lover's innocence without incriminating her own father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mrs. Gaskell was so far ahead of her time
- De Pat en 08-20-13
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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Ramona
- The Heart and Conscience of Early California
- De: Helent Hunt Jackson
- Narrado por: Boots Martin
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Termed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, Ramona is the story of 3 cultures - Indian, Mexican, and Anglo - locked in combat. The upheaval and injustice are humanized through the romance of a beautiful half-Indian orphan who grow up as the ward of Señora Moreno in privileged surroundings, then falls in love with an Indian and joins him in a life of poverty and tragedy. The Ramona Pageant in Hemet, California, based on this romance, has played each year since 1923, reenacting the transition period between Mexican traditions and the new U.S. and state governments.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not The Full Book
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Demian
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A pre-Great War, gnostic, Jungian bildungsroman.
- De Darwin8u en 07-13-12
De: Hermann Hesse
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Demian
- De: Hermann Hesse
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- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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The passionate account of a young man's growing awareness of his own identity, of his involvement in the secret and dangerous world of petty crime, and how, influenced by a precocious schoolmate, he rebels against convention and discovers not only the great joy of independence, but his own new powers for good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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i came here because of kpop
- De Christine K. en 09-07-16
De: Hermann Hesse
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Ethan Frome
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena.When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow is smooth and smooth is Fast until it isn't
- De Darwin8u en 05-29-13
De: Edith Wharton
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Peony
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- De: Pearl S. Buck
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive family unfolds in this profound tale, based on true events in China over a century ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jews in China
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Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Tolstoy brings to these brief tales the same psychological depth and spiritual insight found in his larger works. In fact, his short stories are an excellent place to begin reading this great author. In them, you will find the same challenging themes of morality, forgiveness, redemption and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unusual and enjoyable
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De: Leo Tolstoy
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- JK
- 06-07-22
WELL WORTH
This is an interesting story, unlike I have listened to in a long time.
The style of writing is poetic, flowing.
I did not expect otherwise from mr. Rabindranath Tagore.
The narrator, Deepti Gupta, did an excellent job. Her accent so fits the reading of this book.
That said, I think it is better to read the book, instead of an audio book, there is too much to be absorbed.
My thanks to all involved in making this book available to us, JK.
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