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Tales of the Fish Patrol
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable old style yarn!!
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Under Western Eyes, Conrad's novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces a moral dilemma from which there is no escape. This masterwork, published six years before the Russian Revolution, is a chillingly accurate prophecy of what was to come.
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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4 out of 5 stars
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fantastic!
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- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, the arts, have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just can't listen
- By Michael on 06-25-05
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The Ghost Pirates
- By: William Hope Hodgson
- Narrated by: Luke Cardy
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4 out of 5 stars 26
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable old style yarn!!
- By C J on 04-09-19
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The Scarlet Plague [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 359
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Story4 out of 5 stars 315
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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"He travels fastest who travels alone...but not after the frost has dropped below zero 50 degrees or more." (Yukon Code) Jack London’s best short story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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never go alone in -50°
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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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Very few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important, but also his best work. He spent 12 years in research and many months in France doing archival work, and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell.
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The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish themselves in the islands.
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Jack London's tales of man's struggle against the forces of nature are universally popular. Best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, London was also a prolific writer of short stories. This collection brings together four of his finest, all depicting the harshness of life in the frozen arctic wastes.
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The Baron of Grogswig abandons his riotous ways of carousal and gaiety, and settles down - only to discover that simple domesticity is not the peaceful life he had envisioned. But, just when the Baron feels he can't take it any more, an unexpected visitor changes everything.
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Editorial Reviews
Tales of the Fish Patrol is a collection of seven stories written by Jack London, and based on his teenaged experiences as an oyster pirate-turned-Fish Patrolman. London describes his entanglements with Chinese and Greek poachers with his trademark verve and narrative brilliance, as well as the area surrounding the San Francisco Bay. Jonathan Reese gives a stolid, measured performance that captures London's self-possessed masculinity in the face of some truly dangerous scenarios. Tales of the Fish Patrol is a thrilling account, and an intriguing snapshot of life in San Francisco in late 1800s, by one of America's great storytellers.
Publisher's Summary
Placing us smack in the middle of San Francisco at the height of its most reckless days, Tales of the Fish Patrol is vintage Jack London, tales of adventure from a world-class raconteur.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Matt Malone
- 01-17-11
Good Book, Strange Reading
As are most of Jack London's books, this one didn't disappoint. The style of the reader however makes it difficult to fallow the story fluidly. He has a tenancy to read as though he is just reading a list of random sentences by vocalizing the last word of each sentence with the same tone and a long pause before beginning the next sentence.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- J. Nichols
- Warren, ME USA
- 05-10-18
How to ruin a good book
Suggest you re-record with a performer who doesn't give every sentence the same boring inflection.