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Juliet Stevenson
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Shirley Hazzard
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Shirley Hazzard
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First time available as an audiobook! Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and featuring archival audio of Shirley Hazzard reading from the book on the stage of the 92NYC.
"One of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century.”–The Paris Review
"Hazzard's prose is magic on the page, somehow at once surgical and symphonic . . . Read it now, so you can read it again soon."—Tad Friend, The New Yorker
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves
“An almost perfect novel” (The New York Times), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal.
Caro, gallant and adventurous, has been courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death, and two secrets wait in ambush for them.
In exquisite prose, Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a tantalizing love story that will transport listeners with “its plushness, patient description, [and] etherizing beauty” (Parul Sagal, The New York Times).
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Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective—she doesn’t, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her “pictures” foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical cultural context
- De Tullamore en 05-09-24
De: Margot Livesey
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The Beauty of Falling
- A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
- De: Claudia de Rham
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson shares the story of a world-renowned physicist who seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.
De: Claudia de Rham
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The Jane Austen Society
- A Novel
- De: Natalie Jenner
- Narrado por: Richard Armitage
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,242
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,237
One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now, it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people - a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others - could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Why so much bad language? Ruined a good book
- De Anonymous User en 08-12-20
De: Natalie Jenner
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Woodcutters
- De: Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock - translator
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife-a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literary fiction with a spectacular narrator
- De Glenn en 03-06-25
De: Thomas Bernhard, y otros
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The Odd Women
- De: George Gissing
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 16 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
The young Monica Madden cries for two days before her marriage to Edmund Widdowson; the ensuing claustrophobia, which opens the door for the more desirable Bevis, contrasts with Rhoda's independence - yet Rhoda's own principles are tested when she falls in love rather by accident.... The Odd Women is a remarkable book, ultimately optimistic in its hope for a societal shift that will benefit both men and women alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent novel beautifully read
- De Merlin en 07-28-22
De: George Gissing
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Collected Stories
- De: Shirley Hazzard, Zoe Heller - foreword
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short-story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Collection of Elegant, Sophisticated Short Stories - Extremely Well Read
- De Frank Donnelly en 01-06-21
De: Shirley Hazzard, y otros
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The Angel Tree
- De: Lucinda Riley
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 19 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
Thirty years have passed since Greta left Marchmont Hall, a grand and beautiful house nestled in the hills of rural Monmouthshire. But when she returns to the Hall for Christmas she has no recollection of her past association with it – the result of a tragic accident that has blanked out more than two decades of her life. Then, during a walk through the wintry landscape, she stumbles across a grave in the woods and the weathered inscription on the headstone tells her that a little boy is buried here.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible story
- De PegCot en 03-05-23
De: Lucinda Riley
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Whale Fall
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth O'Connor
- Narrado por: Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyworth, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book for audible
- De Lilly en 01-01-25
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This Bird Has Flown
- A Novel
- De: Susanna Hoffs
- Narrado por: Susanna Hoffs, Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she’s seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight—the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired.
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3 out of 5 stars
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love her but please get another narrator
- De Holly Viola en 04-12-23
De: Susanna Hoffs
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The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
- A Novel
- De: Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 510
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 459
In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives an unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire. One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah’s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah’s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Gave up
- De Isabella Piestrzynska en 10-27-18
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Fry's Ties
- The Life and Times of a Tie Collection
- De: Stephen Fry
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Fry
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In this utterly charming volume, Stephen Fry excavates his epic collection of neckties and shares the stories behind them. From the traditional "egg and bacon" colors of the Marylebone Cricket Club to the exuberant Dalmatian pattern of a 1980s Nicole Miller design, each tie tells a story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it!
- De Saeedeh en 09-01-23
De: Stephen Fry
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House of Names
- De: Colm Tóibín
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson, Pippa Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 671
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 615
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 616
"I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband, King Agamemnon, left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover, Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Power. Control. Restraint.
- De David en 06-27-17
De: Colm Tóibín
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Before the Light Fades
- A Memoir of Grief and Resistance
- De: Natasha Walter
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General5 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
One day in December, Natasha Walter's mother Ruth took her own life. At first, the grief and guilt that Natasha felt were overwhelming. As the author of feminist books and the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women, Natasha had always been active in movements for social justice. But in the aftermath of her mother's suicide, her personal grief intertwines with a sense of political despair. Gradually, she starts to search back through Ruth's history, trying to understand how her life led to this death.
De: Natasha Walter
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The Exhibitionist
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte Mendelson
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 5
Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art–the first in many decades–and one he is sure will burnish his reputation for good. His three children will be there: eldest daughter Leah, always her father’s biggest champion; son Patrick, who has finally decided to strike out on his own; and daughter Jess, the youngest, who has her own momentous decision to make.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Where are the strong female characters?
- De Irene Parra en 08-05-23
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On the Marble Cliffs
- De: Ernst Jünger, Jessi Jezewska Stevens - Introduction by, Tess Lewis - Translated by, y otros
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards.
De: Ernst Jünger, y otros
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The Never-Ending Summer
- De: Emma Kennedy
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin. For Agnes's mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can't help feeling that something is missing. As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe, both will discover a world of possibilities they never could have dreamed of.
De: Emma Kennedy
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
- De: Marguerite Yourcenar
- Narrado por: Stéphane Varupenne
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Cette œuvre est à la fois roman, histoire et poésie. En imaginant les Mémoires d'un grand empereur romain, l'auteur a voulu "refaire du dedans ce que les archéologues du XIXe siècle ont fait du dehors". Jugeant sans complaisance sa vie d'homme et son œuvre politique, Hadrien n'ignore pas que Rome finira un jour par périr, mais son réalisme romain et son humanisme hérité des Grecs lui font sentir l'importance de penser et de servir jusqu'au bout.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What's not to like!
- De Omar en 10-20-23