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5 out of 5 stars
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worth the wait
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The Secret Agent
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A Novel of Madness in a Time of Despair.
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Six Short Stories
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my all time favourites
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By: Joseph Conrad
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Nostromo
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator thrusts listener from the narrative
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 165
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Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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worth the wait
- By L. Kerr on 06-01-20
By: Thomas Mann
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The Secret Agent
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 101
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 103
This classic precursor to the modern-day spy novel was recently in headlines when it was revealed that the Unabomber drew considerable inspiration from its prophetic portrait of terrorism. Written in 1907 and set in Edwardian London, The Secret Agent resonates just as strongly in today's world, where a handful of fanatics can still play mad politics and victimize the innocent.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Novel of Madness in a Time of Despair.
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By: Joseph Conrad
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Victory
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- Narrated by: George Guidall
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Charting the geography of the soul
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Almayer's Folly
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- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
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.
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By: Joseph Conrad
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The Possessed
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 114
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Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.
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Womderful
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The Point of Honor
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- Narrated by: Lawrence Skinner
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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"Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a swashbuckler, and had little respect for tradition. Nevertheless, a story of duelling, which became a legend in the army, runs through the epic of imperial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage."
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4 out of 5 stars
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AKA The Duel
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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,457
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A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disgusting Revision
- By Long_Schlong_Silver on 09-27-18
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Youth [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Marlowe tells a tale of his youth before he ventured into the heart of darkness. After several false starts, he signs as second officer on a trading ship to Bangkok. Before their final disembarkation, he discovers that all the rats are abandoning ship before they had even left the dockyard. It isn't until Marlowe and his crew are halfway to Singapore that they discover the horror the rats have left behind.
By: Joseph Conrad
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The Rover
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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As the Revolution rages in France, a seafarer named Peyrol, a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly 50 years, rover of the outer seas, comes to the end of a lifetime lived on the seas and seeks refuge in a remote farmhouse on the French Riviera. As he attempts to settle into a peaceful existence, Peyrol struggles to redefine himself and returns to the sea for one final voyage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Conrad!
- By MEH on 07-29-20
By: Joseph Conrad
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Our Mutual Friend
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 265
A sinister masterpiece, Our Mutual Friend was Dickens' last completed novel. It is perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth six stars
- By Erez on 07-05-08
By: Charles Dickens
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The Secret Sharer
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Wendy Ellison Mullen
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
A young sea captain discovers a stowaway - and allows him to stay, eventually seeing in him a reflection of himself. Or perhaps that's all there ever was. Wendy Mullen's contralto voice captures the music of the sea; you'll be mesmerized by the telling and the tale. Conrad is at his best, and Mullen's reading captivates.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Conrad's literary rigging is tight.
- By Darwin8u on 04-06-13
By: Joseph Conrad
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- By: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amazing, Ultimate Guide to Weimar Germany 10/10
- By Vinko on 10-25-20
By: Eric D. Weitz
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Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An emotional, paranoid knot of contradictions, the spiteful narrator is also desperate to join a society he loathes, if only to prove his superiority to it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well produced
- By Adam Hahne on 05-01-19
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Night Train
- By: Martin Amis
- Narrated by: Linda Hamilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4 out of 5 stars 26
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A 15-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But this one case has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career, now top-brass, cop takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it … especially her father, Colonel Tom. Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of the Colonel, is ready to "put the case down." Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.
Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of a classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power, price and pride are brought to a low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fabulous narration
- By meredith mcarthur on 05-10-11
By: Martin Amis
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Joseph Conrad: The Short Stories
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents, becoming an orphan at 11, being thereafter raised by an uncle, who let the boy go to Marseille, where he began to work on merchant ships. At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit. Conrad brought to English literature both a fresh layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of works. In this audiobook we dwell among his numerous short stories.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sailors and anarchists
- By Adeliese Baumann on 04-17-13
By: Joseph Conrad
Publisher's Summary
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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- Robert in Ben Lomond
- 01-09-17
Perfect narrator, great story
George Guidall does a brilliant job of this psychological thriller. A genuine classic, reminded me of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Great insight into someone who is put into an impossible situation, unwillingly dragged into a terrorist act in tsarist Russia. Conrad is a great story-teller.
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