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Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of 40 men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty - a gripping and visceral story, impossible to pause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Phil en 06-14-21
De: John Hersey
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The Ventriloquists
- A Novel
- De: E. R. Ramzipoor
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 20 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: Turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much love story for me
- De Melissa en 01-04-21
De: E. R. Ramzipoor
![Rumpole of the Bailey [Recorded Books] Audiolibro Por John Mortimer arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51O9XmlyaGL._SL320_.jpg)
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Rumpole of the Bailey [Recorded Books]
- De: John Mortimer
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
In the first of six witty short stories, 60s-something English barrister, Horace Rumpole, takes on the younger generation both at home and in the hallowed courtroom—while offending his esteemed colleagues and his draconian wife, Hilda.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great fun
- De Amazon Customer en 09-28-16
De: John Mortimer
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The Armies of the Night
- History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left - hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals - came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last tool left to history
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-19
De: Norman Mailer
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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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In the First Circle
- De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 31 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 478
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 476
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state - or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps, and almost certain death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the five finest novels written in the 20th Century
- De Ellis D Vener en 04-08-19
De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, y otros
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- De: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 25 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 953
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 821
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 817
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading in US schools
- De Richard en 01-01-21
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The Noise of Time
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Daniel Philpott
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 253
In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Art belongs to everybody and nobody.
- De Darwin8u en 06-13-16
De: Julian Barnes
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Stasiland
- Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- De: Anna Funder
- Narrado por: Denica Fairman
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
In Stasiland, Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship, and of those who worked for its vicious secret police, the Stasi. She meets Miriam, who as a 16-year-old was accused of trying to start World War III. She visits the regime’s cartographer, a man obsessed to this day with the Berlin Wall, then gets drunk with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the east, once declared by the authorities “no longer to exist.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Achievement
- De Sil A. en 08-11-21
De: Anna Funder
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- De: Anita Anand
- Narrado por: Anita Anand
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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more interesting history
- De Autodidact en 09-07-19
De: Anita Anand
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The Constant Rabbit
- A Novel
- De: Jasper Fforde
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 444
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 381
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 381
An inimitable blend of satire, fantasy, and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing creative genius. England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphising Event 55 years before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-20
De: Jasper Fforde
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- De: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrado por: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Duración: 21 h y 53 m
- Versión resumida
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,041
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,634
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,622
The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- De Arlon James en 11-07-20
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No Name in the Street
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 5 h
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 383
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 330
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 326
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-20
De: James Baldwin
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Prince of Spies
- The Richard Prince Thrillers, Book 1
- De: Alex Gerlis
- Narrado por: Rupert Bush
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 198
1942: a German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him.... In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife. Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival - and the war effort - hangs in the balance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An excellent story, however...
- De A Happy Sort Of OCD en 03-23-22
De: Alex Gerlis
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Pulse
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
In these 14 brilliant stories, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending examines longing and loss, friendship and love, the historical past and contemporary life - all with his trademark wit and sharply observant eye.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Little Bit Stiff Upper Lip
- De Kate Juliff en 06-30-21
De: Julian Barnes
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Before She Met Me
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert’s Parrot.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not his best effort
- De Peter Bassing en 12-09-20
De: Julian Barnes
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Mitzi en 09-01-23
De: Julian Barnes
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The Man in the Red Coat
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker, and man of science with a famously complicated private life....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pathetic narration makes this title unbearable
- De Chris Quigg en 02-27-20
De: Julian Barnes
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Something to Declare
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Barnes’ appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyperliterate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.
De: Julian Barnes
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The Sense of an Ending
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Andrew Lim en 06-14-21
De: Julian Barnes
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Pulse
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
In these 14 brilliant stories, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending examines longing and loss, friendship and love, the historical past and contemporary life - all with his trademark wit and sharply observant eye.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Little Bit Stiff Upper Lip
- De Kate Juliff en 06-30-21
De: Julian Barnes
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Before She Met Me
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines between film and reality, past and present become terrifyingly blurred in this sad and funny tour de force from the author of Flaubert’s Parrot.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not his best effort
- De Peter Bassing en 12-09-20
De: Julian Barnes
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Mitzi en 09-01-23
De: Julian Barnes
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The Man in the Red Coat
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker, and man of science with a famously complicated private life....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pathetic narration makes this title unbearable
- De Chris Quigg en 02-27-20
De: Julian Barnes
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Something to Declare
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Barnes’ appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyperliterate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.
De: Julian Barnes
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The Sense of an Ending
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Andrew Lim en 06-14-21
De: Julian Barnes