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’Twixt Land and Sea is a collection of Joseph Conrad’s three short stories - “A Smile of Fortune”, “The Secret Sharer”, and “Freya of the Seven Isles” - published together in a single volume as Conrad meant them to be.
In “A Smile of Fortune”, a ship’s captain meets the seemingly genial Mr. Jacobus and his irritable brother while embarking in the tropics. One a respectable businessman with a considerable reputation, the other a confessed rogue and entrepreneur with no reputation left to lose, the captain is at a loss to determine which he should befriend. In this masterly tale of misplaced loyalty, family feuds, and illicit bargaining, the captain finds himself the unwitting partner in a deeply unorthodox transaction.
In “The Secret Sharer”, Leggatt, formerly chief mate of the Sephora, a neighboring ship in the Gulf, sneaks onto a young, untested captain’s ship and joins him on deck. Leggatt admits to killing a fellow crewman a few weeks ago, for which he was subsequently stripped of his duties and kept under arrest onboard. The captain hides him from his own crew...and must decide his fate.
Conrad explores how the lust for power can drive men to greatness - or its opposite - in “Freya of the Seven Isles”, a sweeping saga set against a turbulent background of barely suppressed hostilities between Dutch and British merchant navies in the Indian Ocean basin.
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- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 1 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 495
Herman Melville’s tale of corporate discontent, Bartleby, the Scrivener, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City. The business where he works handles the official financial paperwork of wealthy men. One day, Bartleby’s employer requests he proofread one of the documents he has copied. Bartleby declines the assignment with the inscrutable “I would prefer not,” the first of what will become many refusals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very strange, very haunting
- De Tad Davis en 11-24-11
De: Herman Melville
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Benito Cereno
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 237
This is the epic sea adventure, a harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship, is often regarded as Melville's finest short story. The balance of forces is complete, the atmosphere one of epic significance, the light cast upon the hero intense to the highest degree, the realization of the human soul profound, and the telling of the story orchestrated like a great symphony.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The literary equivalent of a caste painting from the same time
- De Auggie en 09-10-20
De: Herman Melville
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The Sea Wolf
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 784
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 668
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 674
Wealthy ne'er-do-well Humphrey Van Weyden is a castaway who is put to work on the schooner Ghost, run by brutal Wolf Larsen. Toughened by life at sea, Humphrey develops the strength to protect another castaway, Maud Brewster, and stand up to the increasingly deranged Larsen. Experience the crashing, relentless power of the sea through this compelling story, made hauntingly immediate by author London's vivid prose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great entertainment
- De Ross en 05-31-03
De: Jack London
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The Narrow Corner
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meets good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly Great
- De SouthwestDude en 09-08-19
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The Voyage Out
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely
- De Edith en 05-24-19
De: Virginia Woolf
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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Tales of Terror
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Jack Foreman
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Edgar Allan Poe, the master of terror, wrote some of literature's most entertaining and influential short stories, works that invented or anticipated modern detective novels, science fiction, and the horror genre. Tales of Terror collects nine of Poe's best-loved stories, all performed in chilling, highly dramatic readings by Jack Foreman. This collection includes such classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and what many consider his masterpiece, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poe's Best Horror by an Outstanding Narrator
- De Gary en 08-29-04
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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Sacred Hunger
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew, who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wise, Perceptive, Heart-breaking
- De S. Coldsmith en 04-16-16
De: Barry Unsworth
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Master and Commander
- Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 1
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,593
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,563
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Choice of Narrators
- De Frank R. Adams en 04-23-10
De: Patrick O'Brian
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration and Great Selection of Stories
- De Robert en 05-03-15
De: Michael Sims
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Death in Venice
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A problem with the narration
- De Erez en 03-19-12
De: Thomas Mann
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- De: Baroness Orczy
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel's daring rescues of French nobility from the threat of the guillotine and the evil Chauvelin's efforts to track him down are all part of the intrigue in this swashbuckling adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will probably listen to this again
- De Regan en 07-05-19
De: Baroness Orczy
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Night of a Thousand Stars
- De: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrado por: Anna Parker-Naples
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 133
On the verge of a stilted life as an aristocrat's wife, Poppy Hammond does the only sensible thing - she flees the chapel in her wedding gown. Assisted by the handsome curate who calls himself Sebastian Cantrip, she spirits away to her estranged father's quiet country village, pursued by the family she left in uproar. But when the dust of her broken engagement settles and Sebastian disappears under mysterious circumstances, Poppy discovers there is more to her hero than it seems.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Stick to the print edition for this one
- De Caz en 11-21-15
De: Deanna Raybourn
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Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Short Stories
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Bob Thomley
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,309
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,164
All of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection.
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3 out of 5 stars
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NEVERMORE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-23-15
De: Edgar Allan Poe
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Flora de Barral, the daughter of a bankrupt businessman and swindler, must find her own way in the world when her father is convicted of financial speculation. Unfortunately, this is no easy thing for a single and vulnerable young woman in turn-of-the-century London.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great match of substance and performance
- De J. Cuddy en 06-18-22
De: Joseph Conrad
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Typhoon
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Roger Allam
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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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4 out of 5 stars
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A great classic, very well narrated
- De Dennis en 11-19-12
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Agent
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: David Threlfall
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption, and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's tales. It follows a European secret agent, Adolf Verloc, 'a London shop owner' with anarchist leanings who becomes reluctantly involved in a plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Full of great characters, melodramatic irony and psychological intrigue the tale is far from simple....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Languid & loquacious language
- De Edward Ogden en 11-23-10
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Shadow-Line
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Fred Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece of his final period relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Reflexion on Maturity
- De Darwin8u en 01-05-17
De: Joseph Conrad
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Almayer's Folly
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it, he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a 25 year struggle against overwhelming odds. Though married to a bitter and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to accept the financial ruin which he has precipitated. Instead, he dreams of fantastic wealth and a return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving daughter, Nina.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Obsession, alienation, failure and forgetting.
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-13
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Mirror of the Sea
- Memories & Impressions
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 33 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 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life"....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Stefan Rudniki
- De DAChurches en 06-10-23
De: Joseph Conrad
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Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Flora de Barral, the daughter of a bankrupt businessman and swindler, must find her own way in the world when her father is convicted of financial speculation. Unfortunately, this is no easy thing for a single and vulnerable young woman in turn-of-the-century London.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great match of substance and performance
- De J. Cuddy en 06-18-22
De: Joseph Conrad
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Typhoon
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Roger Allam
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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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4 out of 5 stars
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A great classic, very well narrated
- De Dennis en 11-19-12
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Agent
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: David Threlfall
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption, and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's tales. It follows a European secret agent, Adolf Verloc, 'a London shop owner' with anarchist leanings who becomes reluctantly involved in a plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Full of great characters, melodramatic irony and psychological intrigue the tale is far from simple....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Languid & loquacious language
- De Edward Ogden en 11-23-10
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Shadow-Line
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Fred Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece of his final period relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Reflexion on Maturity
- De Darwin8u en 01-05-17
De: Joseph Conrad
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Almayer's Folly
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it, he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a 25 year struggle against overwhelming odds. Though married to a bitter and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to accept the financial ruin which he has precipitated. Instead, he dreams of fantastic wealth and a return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving daughter, Nina.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Obsession, alienation, failure and forgetting.
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-13
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Mirror of the Sea
- Memories & Impressions
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 33 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 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life"....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Stefan Rudniki
- De DAChurches en 06-10-23
De: Joseph Conrad