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The Rat Catcher: A Love Story is a mischievous, fast-paced fable told with an irrepressible love for life, in all its marvellous forms, from bestselling author, Kim Kelly.
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Just as he’s wondering why any girl would want a no-hoper like him, opportunity knocks with the offer of a job as a rat catcher working for the city’s Plague Department, containing the spread of disease. But the job will bring him a lot more than a pay rise and a swift education on traps and poisons.
In the Public Lending Library, on the top floor of the Queen Victoria Building, above the bustling centre of Sydney, he comes face-to-face with a legendary rat called Old Scratch who will change the way he understands himself and the world forever.
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Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion Dallen.Although normally a Herald in his first year of Whites would be sent off on circuit, Mags is needed close to home for his abilities as a spy and his powerful Mindspeech gift.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story !!
- De T en 10-19-14
De: Mercedes Lackey
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The Colour of Magic
- Discworld, Book 1
- De: Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,805
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,585
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,576
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
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3 out of 5 stars
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TERRIBLE Narration!
- De Kayla I en 07-08-22
De: Terry Pratchett
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- De: Jennifer Worth
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,312
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,359
At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've listened to this year
- De Richard en 06-12-13
De: Jennifer Worth
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard E. Grant
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gordon's Grey World is Colored with Grant
- De Timothy en 09-25-11
De: George Orwell
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 140
Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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The Town House
- De: Norah Lofts
- Narrado por: Juliet Prague, Martyn Read
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another winner by Norah Lofts
- De Bird Lady 147 en 10-03-17
De: Norah Lofts
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Closer to Home
- Valdemar: The Herald Spy, Book 1
- De: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 971
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 870
Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion Dallen.Although normally a Herald in his first year of Whites would be sent off on circuit, Mags is needed close to home for his abilities as a spy and his powerful Mindspeech gift.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story !!
- De T en 10-19-14
De: Mercedes Lackey
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- De: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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4 out of 5 stars
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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Midnight Blue
- De: Simone van der Vlugt
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, 25-year-old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing, and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to Delft. There, her painting talent earns her a chance as a pottery painter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard to Be a Woman in 17th Century Holland
- De Cariola en 06-16-17
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Shades of Grey
- A Novel
- De: Jasper Fforde
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 960
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 967
Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. With his better-than-average red perception, he could well marry Constance Oxblood and inherit the string works; he may even have enough red perception to make prefect. For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good. But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected swatchman, to East Carmine. There, he falls in love with a Grey named Jane who opens his eyes to the painful truth behind his seemingly perfect, rigidly controlled society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow, weird... but a good set-up for sequels.
- De Roger en 01-09-10
De: Jasper Fforde
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Annie Dunne
- De: Sebastian Barry
- Narrado por: Caroline Lennon
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah’s small farm running. Suddenly, Annie’s young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Splendid
- De Shady en 06-21-23
De: Sebastian Barry
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The Fire Rose
- De: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrado por: Kate Black-Regan
- Duración: 13 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 621
Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children and only wants her to read to him through a speaking tube.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great story, poorly presented
- De Che en 02-26-10
De: Mercedes Lackey
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Murphy's Law
- De: Rhys Bowen
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,897
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,571
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,577
Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, under cover of a false identity, for the anonymous shores of late 19th-century America. When she arrives in New York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe easier. But when a man is murdered on Ellis Island, a man Molly was seen arguing with, she becomes a prime suspect in the crime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cream Puff Read
- De Jan en 12-19-13
De: Rhys Bowen
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Honor
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno, Piter Marik
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. Internationally best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complex but Compelling
- De Cariola en 04-14-13
De: Elif Shafak
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Journey to the End of the Night
- De: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every minute of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty, and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the public in Europe, and later in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Miserable Ride with Cynic Supreme
- De W Perry Hall en 03-15-17
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- De: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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HAND DANCING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-30-15
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Lights Out Liverpool
- De: Maureen Lee
- Narrado por: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Duración: 13 h y 59 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
As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson, a widow, it means never-ending worry when her twin boys are called up and sent to France; Sheila Reilly's husband, Cal, faces the terror of U-Boat attacks; Eileen Costello is liberated from a bitter, loveless marriage when her husband is sent to Egypt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Tansy Adderley en 10-03-18
De: Maureen Lee
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Dreamers of the Day
- A Novel
- De: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 138
A 40-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as an historic Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions - and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie - enters into the company of the historic luminaries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Little Big Woman
- De W.Denis en 10-02-08