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First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented - defrauded, stolen from, blackmailed, or pressed to attend horrid séances - and then plunged, all together, into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium.
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philosophical black comedy
- De connie en 04-22-09
De: Muriel Spark
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The Complete Short Stories
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson, Emilia Fox, Richard E. Grant
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century. From the cruel irony of A member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent.
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A must for Muriel Spark fans!
- De Ilana en 09-04-12
De: Muriel Spark
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The Finishing School
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Nadia May
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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes 17-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers.
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Short but Sweet
- De Blythe en 08-13-07
De: Muriel Spark
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The Sweet Hereafter
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Dominic Hoffman, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: When the worst thing happens, who do you blame?
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Read the book, see the movie
- De RueRue en 11-24-20
De: Russell Banks
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A Room of One's Own
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
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A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.
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A Witty, Beautiful Plea for Androgynous Integrity
- De Jefferson en 08-20-14
De: Virginia Woolf
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The Sea, the Sea
- De: Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie - introduction
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Kimberly Farr
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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
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Murdoch Amazes
- De Sara en 08-30-17
De: Iris Murdoch, y otros
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North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
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An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
De: Daniel Mason
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Memento Mori
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- John
- 11-02-20
An Exhilarating and Life-Enhancing Read
Being Muriel Spark’s “first masterpiece”, and “one of the great novels of the 1950’s”, Memento Mori lies far beyond my poor powers to add or subtract, let alone say anything very intelligent. So, my title is borrowed from David Lodge who, some ten years ago, wrote a retrospective review of the book for The Guardian. All I can do is agree; he identifies the variegated strands of the novelistic tradition that Spark re-wove into the kind of book that, in 1959, was “virtually unprecedented”: the 19th Century’s omniscient narrator, a modern “speeded-up, throwaway style”, the secrets and scandals of the Victorian novel of sensation, a touch of mystery from the Golden Age of Detection, and a crowded cast of characters, all packed into fewer pages than one would believe possible. In the process she broke the guardrails of the realist, non-realist, and modernist schools simultaneously. Finally, “she added to the mix an element of the uncanny, through which the existence of a transcendent, eternal and immaterial reality impinges on the lives of her ageing characters, reminding them of their mortality”.
That exuberance of invention may be one of the elements that make this book so engaging and enjoyable. Certainly, the perspective of our narrator helps; though never blind to realities, her buoyantly humous outlook refuses to flag. And the failure of most characters to cope with the inevitable only makes the few who accept their lot that much more attractive to us. Unsurprisingly, as Mr. Lodge wrote, “[t]hose with religious faith, specifically of the Roman Catholic persuasion, seem to cope best…”. And Nadia May performs the novel as if Spark had written it with her specific narrative talents in mind.
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- Jules 57
- 08-10-21
fun, darkly comedic portrayals
This was copyrighted in 1959, but it's all still relatable and relevant. Not for everyone, but if you like dark humor or comedies of manners, you'll love it.
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- Therese Van Arsdale
- 05-29-21
Looking at London
I like to read books that feature London, even when the London is so far away it seems impossible to take in. This London features a whole.world.made up.of tiny spots you know no longer exist. Still, it is fun to look at . Or to read.
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- steffig
- 04-18-08
brilliant
I couldn't stop listening to this story. It's beautifully written and beautifully spoken. It's funny and shocking, and very perceptive about the petty strivings of people from so many different economic and educational backgrounds. Each character has a surprise or secret life. I was riveted!
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- MaryAnn
- 02-16-17
I had difficulty keeping track of all of the characters
It's not a comedy but there are some very funny occurrences. I got lost toward the end
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- jaded
- 10-18-21
Old age
Muriel spark makes old age seem like fun…a laugh, a little bitter sweetness.,, on the whole nothing to be afraid of.
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- Julie Maria Goggins
- 04-08-22
Ealing Comedy...
Read for this month's Book Club, reminded me of an Ealing Comedy! I think I enjoyed it, at least some of it!
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- hannah barrett
- 10-01-22
Great reading and hilarious and deep
The reader portrayed the various characters of which there are many, very convincingly. The narrative has many satisfying twists and turns as mortality is explored by mortals who can’t understand it.
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- Rebecca
- 11-15-20
The very driest humor.
This WW2 era murder mystery had me snorting back laughter, chortling with glee...this is the sort of novel you can enjoy repeatedly since the joy is in the subtle language.
An absolute pleasure for a certain kind of reader.
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- Karen
- 05-07-08
Sideswiped--in a good way
This novel was not at all what I expected. It sets the reader up to expect a standard sort of mystery, but the biggest mysteries remain unsolved. Yet I didn't have that sense of annoyance so likely with a cutesy "I'm going to toy with you" sort of book. Instead, I felt like I'd been immersed in the lively , complex world of the old and the very old, and taught the my understandings, my expectations of them and their world, were deeply inadequate.
Memento Mori indeed.
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