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Joseph Conrad - An Introduction
Born in Poland in 1857, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years, he lost both parents. As an orphan at age 11, he was raised by an uncle who let the 16-year-old boy go to Marseille to work on merchant ships where the colorful life of the sea was further enhanced by stints gun running and, intriguingly, political conspiracy. At age 36, his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit. In doing so, Conrad brought to English literature a further layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work.
He wrote many novels, rightly regarded today, as some of the finest in English literature. Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line and, of course, Heart Of Darkness. For this volume, we dwell among his numerous short stories. In these condensed, narrative structures, much is said in beautiful language.
His characters may be brave, comic, and serious, trapped by their own constraints, or as in The Brute, the ship itself, but are always fully formed and true to his word.
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- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
Captains Courageous is Rudyard Kipling’s classic fable of a boy’s initiation into the fellowship of men, played out on the high seas of the late 1800s. When he falls overboard from a luxury liner, Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American millionaire, is rescued by a small New England fishing schooner. To earn his keep, Harvey must prove his worth in the only way the skipper and his hardy crew will accept: through the grueling mastery of a fisherman’s skills.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A MINOR sea story and a MINOR Kipling
- De Darwin8u en 06-24-13
De: Rudyard Kipling
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The Sea Wolf
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Jack London worshiped strong and virtuous heroes, and his stories give great weight to the inevitable triumph of good over evil. His telling of the adventures of Humphrey van Weydon in The Sea Wolf is in keeping with this theme of moral man. His powerful and gripping saga of van Weydon's capture by a seal-hunting ship and the ensuing tangles with its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen, makes this a classic American tale of peril and victory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I won the lottery!
- De Bill en 08-11-17
De: Jack London
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The Unknown Shore
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 331
Inspired by the Wager disaster, The Unknown Shore is an immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that displays all the splendid prose and attention to detail that delight O'Brian's millions of fans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As Good as the Series
- De Robert Goldston en 08-09-06
De: Patrick O'Brian
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Flashman
- Flashman, Book 1
- De: George MacDonald Fraser
- Narrado por: David Case
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 738
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 650
The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. This is the first of George Macdonald Fraser's hilarious satires starring Harry Paget Flashman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real history, real drama, real comedy
- De Bob en 08-04-13
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 891
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 786
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 785
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- De: Charles Finch
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,119
Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like cozy
- De Sheryl en 05-21-12
De: Charles Finch
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The Narrow Corner
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meets good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancée, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly Great
- De SouthwestDude en 09-08-19
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Treasure Island
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the tale of the crew of the Hispaniola as they travel across the sea in search of the long-lost treasure of the infamous Captain Flint. When Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the sea chest of an old sailor who had been staying at his parents' inn, he sets off on an adventure in search of the captain's hidden fortune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forever classics
- De Alexander en 02-21-15
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
- De: Howard Pyle, Merle Johnson
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
Merle Johnson has here gathered together in one volume all of the nineteenth-century author-artist's classic pirate stories that had been scattered through many magazines and books. Well researched and with richly drawn characters, Pyle's work will appeal to students of history and adventure lovers alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and wonderfully read
- De Fletch en 09-08-06
De: Howard Pyle, y otros
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Lot No. 249
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 550
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 474
Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most significant of which is a 6'7" tall mummy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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YOUR AS WHITE AS A CHEESE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-12-17
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The Mark of the Beast
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 253
When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must listen again
- De uffdasuzanne en 10-06-17
De: Rudyard Kipling
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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Ramage
- The Lord Ramage Novels, Book 1
- De: Dudley Pope
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
In a daring foray, under the very nose of the French Mediterranean fleet, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is to sail his tiny cutter close in to the Italian shore and rescue a party of stranded aristocrats from Napoleon's fast-advancing army.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 10-04-14
De: Dudley Pope
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The Red Wolf Conspiracy
- De: Robert V. S. Redick
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 414
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 275
The Imperial Merchant Ship Chathrand is the last of her kind. Six hundred years old, the secrets of her construction long forgotten, the massive vessel dwarfs every other sailing craft in the world. It is a palace with sails, a floating outpost of the Empire of Arqual. And it is on its most vital mission yet: to deliver a young woman whose marriage will seal the peace between Arqual and its mortal enemy, the secretive Mzithrin Empire.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Bad, not great.
- De Aerindel en 10-15-09
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Brute
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- DAVID
- 09-05-20
Sea Story of a Man-Killing Ship
Story told in a cozy bar before a warm fire of a malevolent sailing ship seemingly determined to kill her crew each voyage. Conrad spins another most excellent yarn.
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