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Growth of the Soil
- Narrado por: BJ Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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Growth of the Soil, Hamsun's Nobel Prize winning novel, is a classic of Scandinavian literature.
The farmer Isak scarcely acknowledges the values of modern living. Illiterate but capable of carrying out the business of running a farm, he has physical strength and works with his hands. Although initially amazed by Isak's prowess - his wife Inger, who came into contact with modern society when imprisoned for killing her infant due to its birth defect, return to the home much less impressed by the country life.
Isak's deeply held passion for the Norwegian countryside is contrasted against the cosmopolitan and intellectual traits expressed in his son Eleseus. Despite his superior mental faculties, Eleseus frequently spends his money carelessly on his travels, exasperating his parents with requests for financial support.
Growth of the Soil openly displays the conflicts between the old traditions of agrarian society, and the ever-mounting wonders and conveniences offered by modern society.
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Painting the Light
- A Novel
- De: Sally Cabot Gunning
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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Martha’s Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston’s renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed “unthinkable” for women to take and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and altogether unreliable husband.
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Slow the narrator to speed 8 and it’s beautifully read
- De Storytellersrus en 04-21-22
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Cousin Phillis
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Joe Marsh
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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Cousin Phillis – a miniature masterpiece – is set in the 1840s, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed forever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.
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Delicate Story
- De Mama C en 01-08-11
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Jennifer Dixon
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles is the 19th century novel lately thought to be one of the inspirations of E .L.James' Fifty Shades of Grey. It depicts the life of an impressionable, naive, somewhat educated young woman who yearns to be free to live her own life, but finds herself constricted by the bonds of the sexual, religious and socially hypocritical customs that have surrounded her from birth.
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Jenny Dixon
- De Amazon Customer en 08-09-15
De: Thomas Hardy
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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Far from the Madding Crowd, which first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in monthly installments back in the late 19th century, features the love life of the young Bathsheba Everdene who is as poor as she is beautiful. Fortunately, Bathsheba's uncle leaves her his farm, which she goes to manage in the small town of Weatherbury. Before she leaves, however, she has an interesting encounter with a young farmer, Gabriel Oak, for whom she does a tremendous favor ,and he becomes indebted to her....
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Loved this delightful listening experience !!!
- De Robin Wardle en 07-15-16
De: Thomas Hardy
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Sons and Lovers
- De: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives.
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Momma's Boy (The Dangers of Overbearing Parenting)
- De W Perry Hall en 02-01-14
De: D. H. Lawrence
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Nordic Tales
- Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark
- De: Chronicle Books
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner, Juha Sorola
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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Trolls haunt the snowy forests, and terrifying monsters roam the open sea. A young woman journeys to the end of the world, and a boy proves he knows no fear. This collection of 16 traditional tales transports readers to the enchanting world of Nordic folklore. Translated and transcribed by folklorists in the 19th century, and presented here unabridged, the stories are by turns magical, hilarious, cozy, and chilling. They offer a fascinating view into Nordic culture and a comforting wintertime listen.
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Really fun
- De Olivia en 10-14-19
De: Chronicle Books
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The Book of Ebenezer le Page
- De: G. B. Edwards
- Narrado por: Roy Dotrice
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late 20th century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between England and France yet a world away from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the story of those he has known.
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I miss Ebenezer
- De Mel en 01-15-18
De: G. B. Edwards
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Three Men in a Boat (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Jerome K. Jerome
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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In 1889, satirist Jerome K. Jerome fully intended to write a serious travel guide when he and his two best friends embarked on a boating trip up the river Thames to Oxford. But his musings on landmarks and local history were soon hijacked by his own digressive, waggish voice. And so, what began as a peaceful and edifying two-week exploration soon floated upriver into farce - aided, quite naturally, by a portly ration of cheese, some very bad weather, and a dog named Montmorency.
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Hilarious and lovable!!
- De Erika C. en 03-23-21
De: Jerome K. Jerome
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
- De: Thomas Hughes
- Narrado por: Hugh Bonneville
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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The story of young Tom Brown's seemingly hideous years spent at rugby school and his spirited and astonishingly stalwart response to the institutionalised bullying prevalent at the 'Great' British public schools became exactly the campaigning tool its author hoped it would. The regimes at these schools had been largely unchallenged, with the assumption being that the education and training received were the best.
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The Greatness of Britain
- De Julian en 07-28-17
De: Thomas Hughes
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Beautiful Joe
- De: Margaret Marshall Saunders
- Narrado por: John Michaels
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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First published in 1893 as a children's book to encourage the humane treatment of animals, Beautiful Joe has taken it's place along with Black Beauty, becoming a favorite of several generations of youngsters. Beautiful Joe narrates the story of his mutilation at the hands of a cruel master and the love he finds in the home of a caring family full of kids and animals.
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My Appeeciation
- De Linda Niebanck en 04-28-17
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
- De: William Dean Howells
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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Howells’ best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners. After garnering a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position. The consequences of this endeavor are both humorous and tragic as the greedy Silas brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy.
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Important for the Era
- De Brent en 03-19-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Growth of the Soil
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- Dionysus Sotirios
- 08-28-24
Norwegian New Realism
Reader sounded like an AI voice when narrating, but did the voices of the characters well.
Not quite like any novel you’ve probably read or listened to before. Hamsun’s rejection of modernity and embrace of rural primitivism. Supposedly this was one Joseph Goebbels’s favorite books and he had it translated into German and issued to Nazi troops. Given that book is full of Norwegian hicks and infanticide, not sure why.
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- forestlife
- 02-22-24
A worthwhile read
I’m glad I read this book. The setting in the country of Northeast Norway was enjoyable.
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- 06-03-24
Type of Story I Love
Loved it all. I listen to stories to go to sleep, but these books are NOT BORING. They take my mind away from thinking about troubles, to think about the people in the stories. So hearing nice stories like this one, and listening to good narration, is important to me.
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- Pete
- 05-17-21
Top of my all time favorites list
Classic for a reason, timeless, and exactly what I needed. Most effective narration I’ve ever had the pleasure to hear. I’ll be listening to Growth of the Soil again.
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- Bill
- 10-22-24
Story of a pioneer family
A story of the first man to settle in an area and begin a farm and family. More people begin to move into the region, some to farm others to open businesses. Two generations later the area is still growing and thriving.
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