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When Cakes and Ale was first published in 1930 it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they recognised portraits of literary figures now no more. It is the novel for which Maugham wished to be remembered.
©2009 W. Somerset Maugham (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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You won't want it to end!
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The Moon And Sixpence
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- Narrado por: Robert Hardy
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
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Roman a clef-abominable french artist Paul Gauguin
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The Complete Short Stories, Volume One
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
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There have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham. His dry wit, worldweary loftiness, pungent cynicism, and penetrating powers of observation have contributed to the creation of some of the greatest short stories ever written.
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A masterful production of Maugham's short stories.
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The Summing Up
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- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
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Far Eastern Tales
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- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P & O, The Door of Oportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr. Know-all, Neil MacAdam, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.
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As perfect a reading as I've ever heard
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The Razor's Edge
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
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Of Human Bondage
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- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Moon And Sixpence
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Hardy
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.
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Roman a clef-abominable french artist Paul Gauguin
- De W Perry Hall en 01-22-14
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The Complete Short Stories, Volume One
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- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
There have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham. His dry wit, worldweary loftiness, pungent cynicism, and penetrating powers of observation have contributed to the creation of some of the greatest short stories ever written.
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A masterful production of Maugham's short stories.
- De J. J. Kuzma en 09-07-13
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The Summing Up
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
- De Eric Chevlen en 10-30-05
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Far Eastern Tales
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Robert Powell
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General
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Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included on this recording are Footprints in the Jungle, Mabel, P & O, The Door of Oportunity, The Buried Talent, Before the Party, Mr. Know-all, Neil MacAdam, The End of the Flight and The Force of Circumstance.
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As perfect a reading as I've ever heard
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The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection
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A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations and readings of W. Somerset Maugham’s fiction, with star casts including Alex Jennings, Dirk Bogarde, and Janet Maw.
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Entertaining radio adaptations
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The Narrow Corner
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- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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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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Stunningly Great
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 1
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Jewels!
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The Painted Veil
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This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic in China.
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Amazing story
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The Trembling of a Leaf
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- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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When noted English writer William Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, he gathered the materials and wrote the stories represented here. These are among Maugham's best, and the best stories ever written about the exotic South Seas.
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The Trembling of a Leaf
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Rain and Other Stories
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W. Somerset Maugham is one of the best-loved short story writers of the last 100 years. In this collection of his finest short work Maugham takes the listener to the sun-drenched Pacific islands where the Governor mercilessly abuses the inhabitants; to the story "Rain", in which the Reverend and the prostitute play out one of the most famous finales ever written; to the studies of chauvinistic Colonels, and snide conversations in Edwardian drawing rooms, as well as at the gates of heaven. As an introduction to one of the greatest writers in the English language Stephen Crossley's reading is the perfect place to start.
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Rain Down on Me
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Catalina
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- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Set in the time of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, Catalina is a novel both richly historical and affectingly human. Two eminent persons, natives of the city, were arriving after an absence of many years, and great doings had been arranged in their honor. In the Lady Chapel of the church a crippled girl prayed to the Blessed Virgin whose day it was, too. No greater things were planned for the girl, Catalina, but greater things awaited her.
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong
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- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by river to Angkor Wat. From there he went down river to Saigon, then by ship to Hue and Haiphong. He ends the audiobook with an anecdotal story of his fellow passengers while on shipboard to Haiphong.
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the crummy music
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Brideshead Revisited
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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Extraordinary
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George Bernard Shaw
- A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- De: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrado por: full cast, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, y otros
- Duración: 25 h y 48 m
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George Bernard Shaw - or Bernard Shaw, as he preferred to be known - was one of Ireland's foremost dramatists and thinkers. His plays range from contemporary satires to historical allegories, and are infused with ideas, insight, wit and wisdom. Included here are some of his best works, adapted for radio and brought together in reverse chronological order in one statement collection.
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King Magnus and Prime Minister Proteus
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Pnin
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.
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Why not leave their private sorrows to people?
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The Complete Short Stories, Volume One
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- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
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There have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham. His dry wit, worldweary loftiness, pungent cynicism, and penetrating powers of observation have contributed to the creation of some of the greatest short stories ever written.
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A masterful production of Maugham's short stories.
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The Surrendered
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- Narrado por: James Yaegashi
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At the end of the Korean War, the lives of orphan June Han and American soldier Hector Brennan collide. Thirty years later, they meet again and are forced to come to terms with the secrets of their devastating past.
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this bibliophile could not finish this book
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Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
- De: C.B. Lee
- Narrado por: Elyse Dinh, Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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When Brenda’s internet goes out right before an important scholarship deadline, she stumbles right into Kat’s family’s coffeeshop. Brenda is swept away by cool, confident Kat, who actually cares about Brenda’s 19-step plan to save the world through science. Meanwhile, Kat can’t stop thinking about Brenda, who is smart, passionate, and doesn’t seem to care that Kat is the prophesized Chosen One.
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The world building was amazing!
- De Anonymous User en 07-02-25
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On Such a Full Sea
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- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: B. D. Wong
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way listeners think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class.
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Literary dystopian fiction
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A Gesture Life
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- Narrado por: Greg Watanabe
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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A Gesture Life is the story of an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II.
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Superb
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Cakes and Ale
- or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
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- Narrado por: Neil Hunt
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist’s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image.
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Great character, a little slow towards the end
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The Complete Short Stories, Volume One
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- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
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A masterful production of Maugham's short stories.
- De J. J. Kuzma en 09-07-13
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The Surrendered
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- Narrado por: James Yaegashi
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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At the end of the Korean War, the lives of orphan June Han and American soldier Hector Brennan collide. Thirty years later, they meet again and are forced to come to terms with the secrets of their devastating past.
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this bibliophile could not finish this book
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Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
- De: C.B. Lee
- Narrado por: Elyse Dinh, Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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When Brenda’s internet goes out right before an important scholarship deadline, she stumbles right into Kat’s family’s coffeeshop. Brenda is swept away by cool, confident Kat, who actually cares about Brenda’s 19-step plan to save the world through science. Meanwhile, Kat can’t stop thinking about Brenda, who is smart, passionate, and doesn’t seem to care that Kat is the prophesized Chosen One.
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The world building was amazing!
- De Anonymous User en 07-02-25
De: C.B. Lee
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On Such a Full Sea
- A Novel
- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: B. D. Wong
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way listeners think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class.
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Literary dystopian fiction
- De David en 03-18-17
De: Chang-rae Lee
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A Gesture Life
- A Novel
- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: Greg Watanabe
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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A Gesture Life is the story of an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II.
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Superb
- De BooksRLife en 11-19-20
De: Chang-rae Lee
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Cakes and Ale
- or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Neil Hunt
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist’s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image.
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Great character, a little slow towards the end
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The Painted Veil
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
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What An Unexpected Delight!
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The Taken Ones
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- Narrado por: Carly Robins
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation. Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide—a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows her gut. Harry trusts in facts. They’re both desperate to catch a killer before he kills again.
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Please hire a Minnesotan narrator.
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The Satisfaction Café
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- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Joan’s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café, a place where customers can find connection through conversation.
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Satisfaction Cafe
- De Dona L. Warner en 07-11-25
De: Kathy Wang
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Night Watcher
- De: Daphne Woolsoncroft
- Narrado por: Helen Laser, Will Collyer, Daphne Woolsoncroft
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Nola Strate is being watched, again. After an encounter with a notorious serial killer in the Pacific Northwest as a child, Nola has grown up and tried her best to forget her traumatizing night with The Hiding Man. She installed security cameras outside her Oregon home, never spoke of her experience, and now hosts Night Watch, a popular radio call-in show her semi‑famous father used to run. When coincidences lead Nola to believe that she is being stalked, Nola is convinced that the killer has resurfaced and is coming for her.
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Couldn’t stop listening!!!
- De Laini en 07-14-25
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.
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You won't want it to end!
- De Rbjurnee en 04-18-11
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The Razor's Edge
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring 20s.
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An Classic of Love and the Desire for Meaning
- De Eric en 01-06-17
Love Maugham
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In spite of myself I liked the story so well I could hardly stop listening. The narrator is excellent, 90 out of 100.
A bit mercenary with Hugh Walpole
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One of Maugham's lighter and lesser novels
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Audio narration is very good, but I found the story, such that it was, boring. Whatever others like about it is lost on me. Perhaps one has to have an academic background in literature to "get" the satire here? If you're plugging along, hoping it gets better, highly unlikely.
Couldn't finish it
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Absolutely love this book
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What made the experience of listening to Cakes and Ale the most enjoyable?
The delivery was very good and the story was compelling.What was one of the most memorable moments of Cakes and Ale?
The scene where the narrator, as a boy, loses his virginity was written in a most humble and a-typical way. The events were described from a distance of 40 years or so, with near total objectivity and frankness.Which character – as performed by James Saxon – was your favorite?
You will never forget Rosie Driffield, and the author never forgot the woman who inspired her.Well crafted novel read very well
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Funny? Yes. Satirical? No doubt. Quotable? Undoubtedly. But does it hang together? Does it even have a plot? The openly sensuous nature of our somewhat cardboard-cutout demi-heroine makes it easy for Wikipedia to enthuse about her “frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom [that] make her a target of conservative opprobrium”. Yet until the very end we aren’t given the tragic detail in her life that may have made her more understandable. And even then, in the words of Professor Maitzen, “I’m not convinced”.
On the other hand, as a reader and writer myself I found Maugham’s dissection of the life literary addictively appealing. Our first-person narrator’s meditations on reputation, beauty, genius, and other matters may be only skin-deep, but they are engaging. And maybe that’s the point of the book: a sort of nihilistic denial of the reality of beauty, genius, monogamy, in the devastated between-the-world-wars world in which these characters, none of them heroic or even very likeable, reside.
Whatever the merits of the book, James Saxon’s narration is impeccable. He is a delight to listen to.
Note: if you do decide to listen, watch out for an egregious editorial error. The end of Chapter 7 somehow gets repeated at the end of Chapter 15. Chapter 15 should end with the words, “because she was fond of me”.
A Little Confection of a Book
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Delightful
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A classic worth reading
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Excruciating
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