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Oroonoko
- Penguin Classics
- Narrado por: Isabel Adomakoh-Young, Kristin Atherton - introduction
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Isabel Adomakoh Young. Isabel's credits include The Provoked Wife with the RSC and playing Lady Macbeth in the West End with the National Youth Theatre Rep Company. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Janet Todd.
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Riotous, sexy and groundbreaking, Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, published in 1742, was one of the first English novels. Fielding was melding and parodying the two major forces battling for control of the fiction market at the time - the mock heroic, neoclassical tradition as practiced by Pope and Swift and the popular and populist fiction of the new novelists such as Defoe and Richardson.
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A perfect reader for Henry Fielding
- De TiffanyD en 07-27-17
De: Henry Fielding
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Tom Jones
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- De: Henry Fielding
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 37 h y 52 m
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Tom Jones, a foundling, is brought up by the kindly Mr. Allworthy as if he were his own son. Forced to leave the house as a young man after tales of his disgraceful behavior reach his benefactor's ears, he sets out in utter despair, not only because of his banishment but because he has now lost all hope of gaining the hand of the beautiful Sophia. But she too is forced to flee her parental home to escape an undesirable marriage and their stories and adventures intertwine.
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terrific story BUT
- De tom en 01-28-14
De: Henry Fielding
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal.
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Falstaff brooks no rebuttal.
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Harold Bloom
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Oroonoko
- De: Aphra Behn
- Narrado por: Clare Wille
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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A vivid love story and adventure tale, Oroonoko is a heroic slave narrative about a royal prince and his fight for freedom. The eponymous hero, Oroonoko, deemed royalty in one world and slave in another, is torn from his noble status and betrayed into slavery in Surinam, where he is reduced to chains, fetters, and shackles. But his high spirit and admirable character will not be suppressed.
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Outstanding Narration, Story Less So
- De Carsley en 07-14-18
De: Aphra Behn
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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
- De: Samuel Richardson
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett, Full Cast
- Duración: 21 h y 50 m
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Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, published in 1740, tells the story of a young woman's resistance to the desires of her predatory master. Pamela is determined to protect her virginity and remain a paragon of virtue; however, the heroine's moral principles only strengthen the resolve of Mr. B and Pamela soon finds herself imprisoned against her will. The young woman's affection for her captor gradually grows and she becomes aware of a love that combines eros and agape.
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The one, the only, Pamela!
- De Eve Howard en 09-07-17
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The Misanthrope
- De: Molière, Richard Wilbur - translator
- Narrado por: Brian Bedford, J. D. Cullum, Sarah Drew, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 50 m
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This timeless comedy of manners is considered one of Molière's most probing and mature works. While it's still an exemplar of 17th century farce, Molière went beyond his usual comic inventiveness to create a world of rich, complex characters, especially in the cynical title character Alceste, played here by the Tony Award-winning actor Brian Bedford.
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Good play, great translation, good performance
- De Timoteo en 03-08-18
De: Molière, y otros
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Candide (AudioGO Edition)
- De: Voltaire
- Narrado por: Jack Davenport
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
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When first published in 1759, Candide became an instant best seller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of human folly and intolerance found a perfect vehicle in this philosophical tale. A master storyteller, he combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and oriental tales with which his public was more familiar.
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Guaranteed to keep you smiling if not LOL
- De Robert en 08-09-12
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
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Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.
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WOW
- De Mitchell Drimmer en 02-25-15
De: Peter Ackroyd
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character.
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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom