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B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.
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Hawthorne approached the Romantic notion of the ability of science to destroy art (or beauty) in the form of fictive "horror stories" of biological research out of control. This story is the best of that group. A devoted scientist marries a beautiful woman with a single physical flaw: a birthmark on her face. Aylmer becomes obsessed with the imperfection and his attempts to remove it via his scientific skills, thus rendering his bride perfect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bland uninspired
- De Holcomb en 10-02-12
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Wessex Tales
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories including "The Three Strangers", "The Withered Arm", and "The Distracted Preacher", deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love. Many of the tales have a supernatural tinge, and all are set around Hardy’s much loved homeland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Sampler
- De Tad Davis en 06-08-14
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Turn of the Screw
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Emma Thompson, Richard Armitage - introduction
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,792
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,772
Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James' Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw. When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she's seeing? Or is something far more sinister at work?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great, but Mightn't be the Best on Audible
- De Gillian en 03-16-16
De: Henry James
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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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Desperate Remedies
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Melody Grove
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston. Desperate Remedies contains sensational ingredients of blackmail, murder and romance, but with its insight into psychology and sexuality it already bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy’s future genius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absorbing early Hardy
- De P. D. en 04-22-19
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
- How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 268
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Told!
- De JodyB en 12-01-17
De: Les Standiford
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The Sun and the Moon
- Hoaxers, Showmen, and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th-Century New York
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how a series of articles in the Sun newspaper in 1835 convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. It quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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some very good some very bad
- De peter en 10-30-10
De: Matthew Goodman
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The Diamond Maker
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: David Ian Davies
- Duración: 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
One hot steamy night in London, on a bridge looking over the Thames, a gentleman meets what appears to be a vagabond. The drifter, though looking ragged, has some class about him, and tells a story of being very successful in business. The gentleman is at first amused and then amazed when the vagrant pulls from around his neck a bag of very large diamonds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slightly Inaccurate Publisher's Summary
- De Lorie en 08-23-04
De: H. G. Wells
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The Aspern Papers
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Jeremy Northam
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
One of the wittiest and most scathing of Henry James' novellas, The Aspern Papers chronicles the attempt to extract the valuable letters of the famous and recently deceased poet Jeffrey Aspern from the hands of his past lover and formidable adversary in the battle Juliana Bordereau. The plot was reputedly suggested to James by a story he heard of an illicit attempt to get hold of several of Lord Byron's letters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cat and mouse
- De Beyler Francois en 01-07-18
De: Henry James
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The Devil and Tom Walker
- And Hurst of Hurstcote, by E. Nesbit
- De: Washington Irving
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
Washington Irving paints an effulgent portrait of the New England countryside as Tom Walker walks with the Devil. Would you dare to bargain with the Devil for your soul? This audiobook also includes "Hurst of Hurstcote", by E. Nesbit. Here, a young man is so stricken by the passing of his wife that his sanity begins to stray. And, as madness spreads its paralyzing influence over him, he unearths a shocking conclusion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Go to the Devil
- De Russell Bernard en 04-26-18
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Swann's Way
- De: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Swann’s Way is the first and best-known part of Proust’s monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past. Often compared to a symphony, this complex masterpiece is ideally suited for audio. Listening lets you appreciate anew the incredible beauty of Proust’s language and the uniqueness of his style. The novel’s narrator, Marcel, finds the true meaning of experience in memories stimulated by some random object or event.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, BUT
- De Michael en 02-04-13
De: Marcel Proust, y otros
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The House of the Seven Gables
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 395
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 311
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Thriller
- De E. Pearson en 12-03-10
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Sentimental Education
- De: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil, and countless affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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When Crimes of Passion Were All the Fashion
- De W Perry Hall en 03-12-17
De: Gustave Flaubert
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Time Pieces
- A Dublin Memoir
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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‘loved it!
- De SandyK en 02-24-24
De: John Banville
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A Rogue's Life
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 249
Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank is introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life a challenge, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed medicine, portrait-painting, caricaturing, and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit to — until he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Twisting, Turning, Fun Book!
- De Joseph R en 06-15-09
De: Wilkie Collins
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The Mark on the Wall
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Teresa Gallagher
- Duración: 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
This is a story from the Classic Women's Short Stories collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just a stunning piece
- De Alfie en 08-07-22
De: Virginia Woolf