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To Those who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine. Small medieaval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let Furnished for the month of April. This small advertisement sparks something long dormant in the reluctant hearts of two downcast London women - the possibility of happiness.
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My absolute favorite book.
- De JKJanson en 06-19-18
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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Madame Bovary
- De: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrado por: Elaine Wise
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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Though he embodies neither wealth nor a lavish persona, Charles Bovary - a somewhat established doctor - takes a chance in marrying the young, vibrant, and ambitious farm girl Emma Rouault. At first, Emma is delighted to be married and away from her father's farm, but her thirst for the rich and ornate lifestyle that she witnesses other people living soon drives her away from her husband and into the arms of various suitors.
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Madame Bovary doesn't disappoint
- De Arlene Olsen en 12-11-16
De: Gustave Flaubert
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Something Fresh
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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As Wodehouse himself once noted, "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion, there are two imposters, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot - despite the distractions caused by the Honorable Freddie Threepwood's hapless affair of the heart.
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Not terrible - but not a must-have, either
- De SGW555 en 10-18-07
De: P. G. Wodehouse
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Crime and Punishment
- Penguin Classics
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oliver Ready
- Narrado por: Don Warrington
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
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This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues.
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Best translation on audible – mediocre narrator
- De Fantod en 04-29-20
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The Voyage Out
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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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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Lovely
- De Edith en 05-24-19
De: Virginia Woolf
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 2 m
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Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate search for truth in a cruel world. We follow his growth to manhood, his educational progress, his first loves, and the wrenching tragedies and disappointments that life has in store for him. In some of the finest prose of the 20th century, Maugham has presented us with the timeless story of one man's search for the meaning of life.
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Greatly Unsettling
- De Michael en 10-04-14
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Nicholas Nickleby
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 31 h y 20 m
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The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in 19th-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens's pantheon.
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Amazing
- De Terie en 07-12-07
De: Charles Dickens
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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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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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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Bel-Ami
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: Thomas Solivérès
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La Belle Époque. Georges Duroy se retrouve à Paris sans argent en quête d'ascension sociale. Un soir, il rencontre Forestier un ancien camarade de régiment qui va lui proposer un poste de journaliste à la Vie Française. Il fait alors la connaissance de Clotilde de Marelle, la cousine de Madeleine Forestier, qui va lui faire découvrir une éducation sentimentale très libre.
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Hailed as the father of the naturalist novel, French author and playwright Honoré de Balzac left a legacy of treasured literary works that include Père Goriot and Cousin Bette. The daughter of a wealthy but miserly man, Eugénie Grandet falls in love with her penniless cousin, Charles. The two plan to marry, but at the behest of her father, Charles must first go overseas to make his fortune. Returning years later, Charles calls off the engagement, leaving Eugénie heartbroken and vengeful.
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Unpleasant people
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The Entire Original Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: Cate Barratt
- Duración: 48 h y 19 m
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Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the day-to-day lives of characters, in which their hidden natures are often revealed. Many of his works also centered on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served.
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Definitely not "Entire" collection
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Bel Ami
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Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses, and wily financiers.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
- De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, Michael Hofmann - Afterword by, Alfred Döblin
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the 20th century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.
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Stephen Dadelus Has Nothing on Franz Biberkopf
- De Quijotic en 04-16-20
De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, y otros
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The Charterhouse of Parma
- De: Henri Beyle Stendhal
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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In the coming-of-age story, we follow a young Italian nobleman, Fabrizio Valserra, Marchesino del Dongo, on many adventures, including his experiences at the Battle of Waterloo, and romantic intrigues.
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Amazing novel finally available on audio!
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Bel-Ami
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: Thomas Solivérès
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La Belle Époque. Georges Duroy se retrouve à Paris sans argent en quête d'ascension sociale. Un soir, il rencontre Forestier un ancien camarade de régiment qui va lui proposer un poste de journaliste à la Vie Française. Il fait alors la connaissance de Clotilde de Marelle, la cousine de Madeleine Forestier, qui va lui faire découvrir une éducation sentimentale très libre.
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Hailed as the father of the naturalist novel, French author and playwright Honoré de Balzac left a legacy of treasured literary works that include Père Goriot and Cousin Bette. The daughter of a wealthy but miserly man, Eugénie Grandet falls in love with her penniless cousin, Charles. The two plan to marry, but at the behest of her father, Charles must first go overseas to make his fortune. Returning years later, Charles calls off the engagement, leaving Eugénie heartbroken and vengeful.
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Unpleasant people
- De Tad Davis en 06-08-14
De: Honoré de Balzac
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The Entire Original Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his 13 volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing and, like Anton Chekhov, found inspiration for his stories in the day-to-day lives of characters, in which their hidden natures are often revealed. Many of his works also centered on the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served.
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Definitely not "Entire" collection
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Bel Ami
- De: Guy De Maupassant
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Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses, and wily financiers.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
- De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, Michael Hofmann - Afterword by, Alfred Döblin
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the 20th century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.
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The Charterhouse of Parma
- De: Henri Beyle Stendhal
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
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Amazing novel finally available on audio!
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Le Pere Goriot
- De: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
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At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was, at first, afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household.
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balzac rocks
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The Idiot
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
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In The Idiot, Prince Myshkin possesses a childlike innocence and trusting nature that leave him vulnerable to abuse by those around him. Returning to St. Petersburg to collect an inheritance, Myshkin realizes he is a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, manipulation and power.
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The Guy de Maupassant BBC Radio Drama Collection
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- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Adam Nagaitis, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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Guy de Maupassant is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protégé of Flaubert, he was celebrated for his naturalistic fiction, and wrote over 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volume of verse in his short but highly productive lifetime. He died in an asylum aged just 43. This collection brings together dramatisations of some of his finest works.
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First Class
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Cousin Bette
- De: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrado por: Johanna Ward
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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The Bette referred to in this magnificent novel's title is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot - appetites that will, in time, give Cousin Bette opportunity to exact her vengeance.
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Narrator!
- De Murasaki en 12-03-06
De: Honoré de Balzac
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Pierre et Jean
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: John McDonough
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A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal at that other little animal which had suddenly come to lie in his father's and mother's arms and to be loved and fondled by them.
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Needs more ratings! 5 star material!
- De winterspell en 06-05-16
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The Bostonians
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 16 h y 59 m
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From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?
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Interesting
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The Custom of the Country
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
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Edith Wharton stands among the finest writers of early 20th-century America. In The Custom of the Country, Wharton’s scathing social commentary is on full display through the beautiful and manipulative Undine Spragg. When Undine convinces her nouveau riche parents to move to New York, she quickly injects herself into high society. But even a well-to-do husband isn’t enough for Undine, whose overwhelming lust for wealth proves to be her undoing.
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Cannot recommend a better narrator!
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The Necklace
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- Narrado por: Andrea Giordani
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Madame Mathilde Loisel is sure she was meant to be an aristocrat, but she was born into a middle-class family and married off to a middle-class clerk. When her husband procures them invitations to a high-society party, Loisel goes all out to impress. She borrows a diamond necklace from a wealthy acquaintance and has the time of her life - until the necklace goes missing. In “The Necklace”, de Maupassant showcases his signature twists of fate and social commentary in a story that will leave you speechless.
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Excellent book
- De Anonymous User en 07-25-23
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Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man", a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature.
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Hands down the best version!
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The Kill (La Curee)
- De: Émile Zola
- Narrado por: Cate Barratt
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Émile Zola's The Kill is one part of the French author's 20-volume series about the fictitious Rougon-Macquart family during the Second French Empire, and it is rich with symbolism. Paris is awakening to unprecedented expansion, the future intoxicating, and in keeping with its penchant for excess, the aristocracy is caught up in the mad dash to devour as much of it as it can.
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- De Matthew Garcia en 07-07-21
De: Émile Zola
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Bel ami
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: Jacques Roland
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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L'histoire d'un illustre inconnu qui, à force d'opportunisme, d'arrivisme et de culot, parvient à conquérir la capitale, à se faire un nom et une place. Une fresque des mœurs parisiennes où règnent l'ambition, l'ambiguïté sexuelle des discours et la décadence amoureuse au XIXème siècle.
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The Gambler
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions—and addictions—of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky faithfully depicts life among the gambling set in old Germany. This probing psychological novel explores the tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler, and Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves.
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Gravity of odds and the frailty of human hope
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- 08-25-21
Mediocre performance doesn't do justice
The narrator doesn't do enough voices to keep it interesting and varied. I wish there were more narrators to choose from. He's not bad, but not good. Considering how much scheming, intrigue and seduction there is, his voice does not sell it.
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- Bill
- 12-26-23
Grabbing power and status
Climbing the social ladder using good looks, charisma and no regard for others. With multiple marriages and numerous affairs a
man climbs from poverty to wealth and power.
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- Ashleigh
- 04-01-24
the readers voice with the accent was great
sometimes they cut a word short and say now chapter 10 or whatever the next one was
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- Neil Chisholm
- 12-03-13
Bel Ami or how to socially climb in 1885 Paris
Bel Ami starts as a penniless returned soldier and by the end of the book after affairs and marriages he is one of the most powerful men in Paris if not France. He tramples on all he meets, money and position become everything and his sexual gratification is the cherry on the top.
The women in the story seem to be strong but really are weak and bend to his every whim and it shows that the story is basically a story of human desire, weakness and determination. Maupassant was well know for his excellent characterisation and in Bel Ami the characters are brilliantly portrayed.
Listening to my favourite Maupassant has really stimulated my hunger for more French literature which I have read extensively in my 30s. However, having it read to me gives it a whole extra layer of richness and complexity (and correct pronounciation of the French names and places!).
This book is highly recommended - listen to it before you see the film. The movie has been given a bad review but if you go in knowing the story and the main characters you might get more from it. Certainly you will go in understanding better the times and morals and be less judgemental. I hope to see the movie myself shortly. Standby - I might add to this review after I have seen it!
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- Robyn
- 09-26-11
Thought-provoking commentary on the human conditio
Typical Maupassant story of a young man developing his character during an earlier era.. A social commentary on the mores of the times with a fascinating narrative of a young man finding his way in the world when marital fidelity amongst the upper classes was accepted.
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- Laura G. Marcantoni
- 01-04-19
No wonder it is a classic.
Bel Ami is a dispassionate , non judgmental and elegant description of people and society. The author keeps his distance and this makes the book more enjoyable and the characters more appealing and real. It could be a denunciation of the society of the time of just a portrait in any case it is done with such a mastery that this novel, even after two hundred years, it is very pleasant to read .
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- Mona Chipman
- 05-18-24
Fascinating
Being intrigued by the Belle Epoque Society of Paris & its literary geniuses like Proust, Guy De Maupassant has always fascinated me. Belle Ami, to some extent being autobiographical has me wondering to what degree was Georges Guy? Unscrupulous dangerous man.
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- D. Evans
- 11-27-12
Scary to think people like Bel Ami actually exist!
I listened and listened and kept hoping one of the characters -- any of the characters -- would give Georges Duroy a good thrashing!
If this story is any indication, Guy de Maupassant doesn't have a good opinion of women. Is there nothing he can do that would make them dump him?! Only one woman in this story had any self-respect, and even she gave in to him!
In any case, while this was written in 1885, I could see the exact same story being written about people today.
And that is scary!
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- I. D.
- 05-09-15
Pure excellence
This book is extremely well written. I don't understand that it's not more popular and how it didn't find its way to compulsory school literature.
Maupassant is a master story teller. Much more so than many other, far more famous, classic authors.
I was absolutely delighted by this read.
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- Jack Thiel
- 04-28-21
Learn but don't imitate
Though the main characters are of dubious moral standing, they still showcase quite a bit of things worth learning.
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