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Great assortment of stories
- De Himanshu Modi en 08-20-18
De: Franz Kafka
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Jude The Obscure
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Stephen Thorne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women.
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Staggering
- De Tad Davis en 02-16-10
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality, and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
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The Dark Human Heart
- De Jefferson en 01-30-11
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Mrs. Osmond
- A Novel
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Isabel Archer is a young American woman swept off to Europe in the late 19th century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and - as Isabel finds out too late - cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate.
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Clever Continuation of Henry James
- De Fate_D en 03-18-18
De: John Banville
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Lady Audley's Secret
- De: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Narrado por: Olivia Poulet
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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From the author of The Christmas Hirelings comes this Audible Exclusive production of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s classic sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret. English actress Olivia Poulet gives an assured and captivating narration; a cornerstone of the genre and a scandal at the time of its publication, Lady Audley’s Secret is an entertaining and shocking tale of high drama and shifting perceptions.
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Classic 19th Century “sensation novel”
- De Susan en 08-20-19
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Nostromo
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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One of the great adventure novels of our language creates a most engaging central character, Nostromo. A picturesque man of action and popular hero, Nostromo lives to be "well-spoken of" by the citizens of Costaguana, the mythical South American banana republic where the story takes place. Around this figure, Conrad spins a story of revolution, politics, and racial conflict as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself.
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Wow!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-11-03
De: Joseph Conrad
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Crime and Punishment
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Constantine Gregory
- Duración: 22 h y 2 m
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A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.
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A masterpiece
- De Timothy en 02-20-16
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Beware of Pity
- De: Stefan Zweig
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.
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One of my favorite authors
- De Adeliese Baumann en 03-21-18
De: Stefan Zweig
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The Shuttle
- De: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrado por: Tabi That
- Duración: 19 h y 44 m
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Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger sister Bettina, beautiful, intelligent and extremely rich, goes to England to find what has happened to her sister. She finds Rosalie shabby and dispirited, cowed by her husband's ill-treatment. Bettina sets about to rectify matters.
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More than Lovely
- De jTacy67 en 01-17-18
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The Riddle Of The Sands
- De: Erskine Childers
- Narrado por: Anton Lesser
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and is a classic of spy fiction.
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A great read and excellent for the WWI centennial
- De Phebe en 01-29-14
De: Erskine Childers
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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The Man Who Was Thursday
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week. The story begins when poet Gabriel Syme is recruited as a detective to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard by a shrouded, nameless person. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists who are intent on destroying the world and becomes known as 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council.
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A clever Christian allegory
- De Darwin8u en 02-11-13
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 70 h y 48 m
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Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.
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More collections like this, please!
- De Myusollo en 07-22-14
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The Woman in White
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Ian Holm
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
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Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.
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The outstanding narration is what I enjoyed most
- De Leslie Grey en 12-03-10
De: Wilkie Collins
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Typhoon
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Roger Allam
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However, when his steamer Nan-Shan blunders into a hurricane, he and his crew must pull together to survive. The steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate becomes a partnership vital to human survival as they are challenged from without by the elements, and from within by human doubts and fears.
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A great classic, very well narrated
- De Dennis en 11-19-12
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Riddle Of The Sands
- De: Erskine Childers
- Narrado por: Anton Lesser
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and is a classic of spy fiction.
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A great read and excellent for the WWI centennial
- De Phebe en 01-29-14
De: Erskine Childers
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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The Man Who Was Thursday
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week. The story begins when poet Gabriel Syme is recruited as a detective to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard by a shrouded, nameless person. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists who are intent on destroying the world and becomes known as 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council.
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A clever Christian allegory
- De Darwin8u en 02-11-13
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 70 h y 48 m
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Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.
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More collections like this, please!
- De Myusollo en 07-22-14
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The Woman in White
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Ian Holm
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
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Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.
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The outstanding narration is what I enjoyed most
- De Leslie Grey en 12-03-10
De: Wilkie Collins
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Typhoon
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Roger Allam
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However, when his steamer Nan-Shan blunders into a hurricane, he and his crew must pull together to survive. The steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate becomes a partnership vital to human survival as they are challenged from without by the elements, and from within by human doubts and fears.
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A great classic, very well narrated
- De Dennis en 11-19-12
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Lost World (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
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There’s only one way for Professor George Edward Challenger to prove that dinosaurs still roam the earth. He invites skeptical journalist Edward Malone to accompany him and a group of adventurers to see the creatures with his own eyes. But when they arrive at the fantastic volcanic plateau in the Amazon where time stands still, their expedition quickly becomes one of survival. With its cliff-hanging escapes, rousing humor, and nailbiting suspense, The Lost World is a pioneering work of fantasy-adventure that paved the way for every thrill ride to follow.
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Wonderful book!
- De Arron en 03-07-21
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The Tales of Max Carrados
- De: Ernest Bramah
- Narrado por: Stephen Fry
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened. This exclusive audio collection features 11 Max Carrados stories.
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A Very Difficult Thing to Do Properly
- De John en 11-30-16
De: Ernest Bramah
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The Moonstone
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Peter Jeffrey
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
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Considered the first full-length detective novel in the English language, T.S. Eliot described The Moonstone as 'the first and greatest English detective novel'. The stone of the title is an enormous yellow diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her 18th birthday, it mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been seen in the neighbourhood. Sergeant Cuff is assigned to the case....
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An engrossing detective novel
- De Lucie en 01-03-09
De: Wilkie Collins
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Russell Tovey
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.
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A twisted tale of vanity and poisonous people
- De Shantastic en 10-02-19
De: Oscar Wilde
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- De: Charles Dickens, Lucinda Hawksley
- Narrado por: Billy Howle, Lucinda Hawksley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Audible presents an original production of the aptly named The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens’ final, unfinished novel. Following his untimely death at the age of 58, Dickens managed to publish only six of the 12 planned instalments of the story. Though it has gone on to be one of his more popular titles and the source of inspiration for various television, stage and theatre adaptations, no one knows exactly how Dickens planned to end the mystery.
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Edwin Drood
- De Deedra en 01-29-24
De: Charles Dickens, y otros
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Kim
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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Kipling's masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written. It explores the life of Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment.
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A Stunning Experience
- De Jeanie en 09-19-12
De: Rudyard Kipling
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The Ash Tree
- De: M. R. James
- Narrado por: David Suchet
- Duración: 34 m
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The tale of a man who unwittingly angers a sorcerer, who is assumed by some Monty scholars to be based on the self-styled 'Great Beast,' occultist Aleister Crowley. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.
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Ggy
- De Anonymous User en 12-16-16
De: M. R. James
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The Warden
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Sandra Cullum
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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A quiet, unassuming man who loves nothing more than his daughter, his music, and his violincello. His life is seriously disrupted by a zealous young man who sees a disparity between the monies paid out to the Warden and the monies paid out to the 12 bedesmen that live in the hospital of Barchester Cathedral as charity cases, according to Hiram's Will.
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Don’t bother.
- De mags en 09-05-19
De: Anthony Trollope
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Hopkins - translator
- Narrado por: Ronald Pickup
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines. Now married to an ordinary country doctor her life is not the romantic ideal she imagined and seeks an escape through having extra-marital affairs. This devastating spiral into deceit and despair leads to catastrophic consequences. Emma Bovary continues to be enjoyed to this day because of its profound humanity, still as fresh today as when it was first written.
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Fantastic Narrator
- De A. Laprade-velasco en 07-18-10
De: Gustave Flaubert, y otros
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The Secret Agent
- Penguin Classics
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Luke Norris
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.
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drier then sandpaper
- De paul shire en 06-16-21
De: Joseph Conrad
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Marie
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Allan Quatermain, hero of King Solomon's mines, tells a moving tale of his first wife, the Dutch-born Marie Marais, and the adventures that were linked to her beautiful, tragic history. This moving story depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830s, involving the Boers, French colonists and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Hate and suspicion run high between the home government and the Dutch subjects.
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Confusing narration!
- De Browsing en 02-22-14
De: H. Rider Haggard
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Silas Marner
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.
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amazing
- De Ramon en 06-04-12
De: George Eliot
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- Giulio
- 12-06-20
Exceptional reading of a classic from master
The reader is just exceptional.
The text is a classic from one of the great masters.
That said, I got a bit bored. I hoped for a political novel centered around the question of anarchism but instead is centered around the characters of the book. Anarchism is just an excuse to tell a story of some tragic figures.
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- Andrei
- 05-10-23
Thick but in some strange way brilliant
I do not know if I want followed the plot, but I got the gist of it with the help of reading some summaries. But that Conradian intriguing thickness of language and atmosphere. I am not surprised that Pynchon skipped all of his classed to read Conrod. His brilliant language is, in turn, Conradian in nature. As in the case of Lord Jim we have traverse the world of polyphonic universes. I think like I am not saying much- ah whatever. Open your ear to Conrad's sounds and that, in turn, is a reward of its own. The reading by David Threlfall was superb. Oh by way, read/listen to Golden Bowl- relax about verbosity (in a sense you can relax while reading/listen Finnegans Wake)- just let it be.
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- Adam H
- 03-22-24
Elements of Lady MacBeth and Crime & Punishment in a political spy novel but doesn't connect for me
I found the sequencing of the novel hard to follow even though the themes were apparent. The storytelling was just overly verbose that I think detracted from a clear narrative. I also listened while in a car so my focus was split. So at least given that listening scenario, I'm not sure I'd recommended unless you're a real Conrad fan or are looking for a spy novel that leans more on political ideology for it's plot driver (as opposed to like a action-based spy novel).
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- noah
- 03-26-24
Good, Though Other Conrad is Better.
Not as good as Nostromo but better than Lord Jim.
-Noah Balfour
03-26-24
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- Erika Spoden
- 10-28-23
Worth a listen!
Wonderful reading of what would otherwise have been a difficult text to get through. I would have loved this narrator to get me through 'Nostomo'- the subtlety of the narration and the voices for each character allow you to really appreciate how amazing a writer Conrad was.
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- Catniss Eberdeen
- 07-03-22
Conrad's Darkest Novel
At the end, I was speechless with horror at the darkness of Contad's view of human nature.
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- Taiger Murphy
- 03-18-21
Great story, great narration
Very thought provoking and relevant. The narrator is also gifted- expressive when needed, cold when needed. The demands of this complex drama and the remarkable characters are fully met- thank you.
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- Tedsky
- 11-05-23
A Corrupt and Greedy Man
The Secret Agent is an uncompromisingly brutal and penetrating portrayal of a man, Verlock, corrupted by money to betray his country, set against a very satisfactory dynamic of the limits of a wife’s regard for her husband, during a period of anarchy in England.
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- Scott Mendeloff
- 08-30-22
Amazing Book and Performance
Far from only a good spy novel, this is an incredibly written book and perhaps the best performance I have ever heard.
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- William Sessions
- 05-30-21
The world as anti-hero
I love Conrad, I rate "The Heart of Darkness" as his ultimate work, at lest on Audible, for the sense of looming disaster and the oppressive feeling of the world getting darker and darker. This story doesn't chill me until the ending.You think he gives away the ending early in the narrative, but that's the surprise. The darkness in the book is Conrad's view of society, the grim outlook on all levels; the revolutionaries, the police, and the government officials. That is why I link it to Hear of Darkness. This is a theme Conrad comes back to frequently in later works, especially in "Under Western Eyes." Our political world is the "anti-hero" protagonist here. I kept expecting to find a redeemable character, and of course there wasn't one, kind of the point! The narrative is filled with subtle cynicisms, perhaps there could have been more to sustain my interest. There are several sudden cuts to different characters and scenes, a technique I've read attributed to Hemingway, that I wasn't aware of in earlier works by this author. I think my three star rating for the story is due to the slow pace of plot development. Needs an editor. The narration is dramatic and he uses different voices that are fun and illuminate the dialogue. It's worth listening to it to get to the shocking conclusion. The Secret Agent is is rated as one of the best novels of the 20th Century, no. 46 in the Modern Library list.
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