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H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.
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Not all the stories are complete
- De SteffiT en 10-21-13
De: Henry James, y otros
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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The Christmas Card Crime
- And Other Stories
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin, Anne Dover
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping. And lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.... This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season, from unexplained disturbances in the fresh snow to the darkness that lurks beneath the sparkling decorations.
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Aahhh... Just The Right Blend Of Mystery, Murder And Christmas.!!
- De John en 12-04-18
De: Martin Edwards
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The Invisible Man
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room? Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the local villagers bring it upon themselves to find the answers.
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Way ahead of its time!
- De Brian en 06-06-13
De: H. G. Wells
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Arsène Lupin, o ladrão de casaca [Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief]
- Série Arsène Lupin
- De: Maurice Leblanc, Luciene Ribeiro dos Santos - tradução
- Narrado por: Mauro Ramos
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Arsène Lupin, que conseguiu ser mais famoso que seu criador, nasceu por encomenda do editor Pierre Lafitte ao escritor Maurice Leblanc. Este audiolivro reúne as nove histórias A prisão de Arsène Lupin, Arsène Lupin na prisão, A fuga de Arsène Lupin, O viajante misterioso, O colar da rainha, O sete de copas, O cofre de Madame Imbert, A pérola negra e outros. Quando Lupin é preso ao descer do navio em Nova Iorque, seu biógrafo já o acompanha, pois Watson sempre acompanhará Sherlock Holmes.
De: Maurice Leblanc, y otros
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All Creatures Great and Small
- The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
- De: James Herriot
- Narrado por: Christopher Timothy
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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In this first volume of his memoirs, then-newly-qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss? The local farmers? And what will the animals think? This program is filled with hilarious and touching tales of the unpredictable Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, and Herriot's first encounters with a beautiful girl named Helen.
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A Wonderful Listen--Stories That Never Get Old
- De Sara en 09-10-14
De: James Herriot
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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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Watt
- De: Samuel Beckett
- Narrado por: Dermot Crowley
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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Watt tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Itself a critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that are littered with mistakes, both major and minor.
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Great performance!
- De Russell Atwood en 02-18-24
De: Samuel Beckett
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
- De: Sax Rohmer
- Narrado por: Edward E. French
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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The year is 1920. Dr. John Petrie, a physician and our narrator, meets his friend Denis Nayland Smith, who served as British police commissioner in Asia. Smith seems to know all things Asia and has the innate ability to get all the support he needs from British government officials. Smith stands for everything good, proper, and most importantly, British. Petrie is, of course, knowledgeable in medicine, forensics, and chemistry and an ace with a pistol - for good measure. Together they must thwart Dr. Fu-Manchu’s diabolical plan to restore China to its former glory.
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Summer
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.
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- De lilyglint en 08-23-04
De: Edith Wharton
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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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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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At Swim-Two-Birds
- De: Flann O’Brien
- Narrado por: Alan Smyth
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading, he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing.
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Worth waiting for
- De Ken Watkins en 02-04-20
De: Flann O’Brien
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The Third Policeman
- De: Flann O'Brien
- Narrado por: Jim Norton
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
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Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, it is read by Irish master reader Jim Norton.
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Riveting
- De Stephany en 07-02-16
De: Flann O'Brien
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The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
- De: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque "The Nose", where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative "The Overcoat", about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd.
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Brilliant writer, fantastic narration, plus TOC
- De Reader en 04-01-22
De: Nikolai Gogol
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Millennium People
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife. Infiltrating a shadowy protest group responsible for her death, David finds himself succumbing to the charismatic charms of the group's leader, who hopes to incite a violent rebellion against the government by his fanatical adherents, the spiritually and financially impoverished members of Britain's white middle class.
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A vicious boredom ruled the world
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: J. G. Ballard
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Straight Man
- A Novel
- De: Richard Russo
- Narrado por: Sam Freed
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park.
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Straight Man
- De Holly Abery-Wetstone en 10-17-03
De: Richard Russo
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The Hearing Trumpet
- De: Leonora Carrington
- Narrado por: Siân Phillips
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....
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fantastical ride
- De Edward Berry en 01-12-21
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- De: Flann O’Brien
- Narrado por: Alan Smyth
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading, he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing.
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Worth waiting for
- De Ken Watkins en 02-04-20
De: Flann O’Brien
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The Third Policeman
- De: Flann O'Brien
- Narrado por: Jim Norton
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
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Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, it is read by Irish master reader Jim Norton.
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Riveting
- De Stephany en 07-02-16
De: Flann O'Brien
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The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
- De: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque "The Nose", where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative "The Overcoat", about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd.
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Brilliant writer, fantastic narration, plus TOC
- De Reader en 04-01-22
De: Nikolai Gogol
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Millennium People
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife. Infiltrating a shadowy protest group responsible for her death, David finds himself succumbing to the charismatic charms of the group's leader, who hopes to incite a violent rebellion against the government by his fanatical adherents, the spiritually and financially impoverished members of Britain's white middle class.
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A vicious boredom ruled the world
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: J. G. Ballard
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Straight Man
- A Novel
- De: Richard Russo
- Narrado por: Sam Freed
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park.
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Straight Man
- De Holly Abery-Wetstone en 10-17-03
De: Richard Russo
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The Hearing Trumpet
- De: Leonora Carrington
- Narrado por: Siân Phillips
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....
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fantastical ride
- De Edward Berry en 01-12-21
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This Is Shakespeare
- De: Emma Smith
- Narrado por: Emma Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant.
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Excellent and accessible listen
- De Amanda L. Hughes en 01-05-21
De: Emma Smith
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
- De: François Rabelais
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 34 h y 50 m
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Here is a grotesque and carnivalesque collection of exuberant, fantastical stories that takes us from the ancient world through to the European Renaissance. At the heart of these tall tales are the giant Gargantua and his equally seismic son, Pantagruel. Containing magical adventures, maniacal punning, slapstick humor, erudite allusions, and just about any bodily function one can think of, here is quite possibly the zaniest, most risqué book ever written.
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The king of all the narrators
- De amazon en 02-13-20
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The Atrocity Exhibition
- De: J. G. Ballard
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. This edition features explanatory notes from the author. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown.
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Ballard's extreme experiment - bizarre & brilliant
- De Miriam en 08-30-14
De: J. G. Ballard
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The Waves
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Frances Jeater
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, we are drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience. It is read with affection and skill by Frances Jeater.
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Not an easy read but worth it
- De Lena en 03-26-16
De: Virginia Woolf
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Bluebeard
- The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.
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Kurt Vonnegut explores the arts
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Troubles
- De: J. G. Farrell
- Narrado por: Kevin Hely
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.
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Absolutely delightful read
- De E. Kim en 02-25-20
De: J. G. Farrell
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Old Filth
- De: Jane Gardam
- Narrado por: Bill Wallace
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an 80-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life.
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Literature at its finest!
- De M. Dyson en 07-29-23
De: Jane Gardam
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Patrick Melrose: The Novels
- Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last
- De: Edward St. Aubyn
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 27 h
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Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can listen to all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his listener the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose's story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age.
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beautifully, brilliantly wrought
- De Michi Belan en 12-12-15
De: Edward St. Aubyn
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Pale Fire
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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An amazing feat for such a unique novel
- De AmazonCustomer en 03-27-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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Under the Volcano
- A Novel
- De: Malcolm Lowry
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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On the Day of the Dead, in 1938, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and ruined man, is fatefully living out his last day, drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
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Excellent...but not for everyone
- De Melinda en 12-07-10
De: Malcolm Lowry
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- 05-18-10
Rambling and funny
Flann O'Brien is an acquired taste but give him a chance - he's worth it.
He has a free associative style of writing and sometimes you wonder where you're going and where you've been - but he's funny, very funny.
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- 08-19-21
Well-crafted and a verbal masterpiece.
Surreal and engaging. Masterful word play. Delightfully read. The unnamed narrator compellingly shares his story so that I was glad to tag along through his adventures. The infinitely goofy de Selby is a wonderful invention and a caution to all philosophers to weigh carefully their commitment to facts and speculations.
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- 05-04-17
A Murderer Adrift in a Dantean Irish Wonderland
The narrator of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman (1940/1967) begins his story, "Not everybody knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade." The first chapter then relates how the narrator was abandoned and orphaned as a boy, educated at a good boarding school where he fell in love with the work of the physicist/philosopher/psychologist de Selby, graduated and lost his leg and gained a wooden one, came home to find John Divney running the family farm and pub, spent all his time and money on English, French, and German commentaries on his hero de Selby, and finally agreed to help Divney murder Mathers to get enough money to publish a "definitive" annotated de Selby index. For three years after the murder the narrator never let Divney out of his sight for fear that his "friend" would abscond with their victim's money, until Divney has the narrator go to the old man's house to retrieve the black cash box hidden under the floorboards there.
But when the narrator reaches under the floorboards, he experiences an "ineffable" fugue, after which he finds that the cash box (which he saw a moment earlier) is actually absent, while Mathers is present and sentient. The narrator has forgotten his name (which he has never revealed) and now embarks on an absurd, disturbing, fantastic adventure, ostensibly to locate the cash box. Cries of amazement regularly escape his lips. He wonders if he "was dreaming or in the grip of some hallucination." Has he entered an Irish Wonderland, Heaven, or Hell? Are the bicycle-obsessed policemen there eccentrics, angels, or devils?
The surreal situations are coherent and logical in a way worthy of Lewis Carroll. Sergeant Pluck, for example, explains that, due to "the Atomic Theory," by which atoms are "as lively as twenty leprechauns doing a jig on top of a tombstone," people who ride bicycles exchange particles with them, leading to this man being 23% bicycle or that bicycle 78% man, and so on. Did you ever notice that bicycles often don't end up right where you left them? (Thus Pluck locks his bicycle in the solitary confinement cell.) Best not to ponder what happens when a man rides a woman's bicycle or vice versa! Then there is the creative second policeman MacCruiskeen who plays a musical instrument whose notes are so high they are inaudible and displays a series of inter-nested chests ending in ones so small they are invisible. As for the crazy, third policeman, Fox, out on patrol for 25 years, the less said the better.
Meanwhile, the beginnings of the 12 chapters of the novel teem with footnotes relating to the theories, experiments, and writings of the narrator's crackpot idol de Selby as they prefigure the coming action of the chapters with topics like water, sleep, time, direction, roads, names, houses, and mirrors. The footnotes also mediate between de Selby commentators, like the two trusted experts, Hatchjaw and Bassett, and the "shadowy" Kraus and the "egregious" du Garbandier, some of whom may be pseudonyms or imposters, all of whom disagree on nearly everything. Isn't academia is prey to rivalries, forgeries, and unworthy subjects of study!
This opposing mirror infinity is a motif in the novel: footnotes inside footnotes, scholars inside scholars, codices inside codices, chests inside chests, rooms inside rooms, bodies inside bodies. . . It is vertiginous.
The narrator is odd. He is both honest and unreliable. We believe what he says, but note much that he leaves unsaid (like just what happened to his leg). After saying early on that he committed his "greatest sin" for de Selby, the narrator seems free from remorse for helping to murder an old man. He is both gullible and canny about "friend" Divney, knowing that the freeloader has been robbing their customers and him but letting himself get talked into killing Mathers for money and then refusing to be separated from Divney until the money has been divided. The narrator is not as bad as Divney, yet he is self-centered, as in his materialistic wants in "Eternity" and his big plans for "his" omnium (the essential divine building block of everything).
All of the above is written by O'Brien with great humor humor, preventing things from getting too bleak, bizarre, or dry. The scenes where Pluck lists a series of names to see if one might be the narrator's, or a rescue company of one-legged men disguise their number, or the news that Hatchjaw was arrested in Europe for impersonating himself, or the explanation for how unerringly Pluck is able to locate a stolen bicycle, or Mathers' reason for saying no to every request, or the narrator's conversations with his soul ("Joe"), all these and many more are very funny.
Another saving grace of the nightmare is the frequently lyrical, pastoral beauty.
"Birds were audible in the secrecy of the bigger trees, changing branches and conversing not tumultuously. In a field by the road a donkey stood quietly, as if he were examining the morning, bit by bit, unhurryingly… as if he understood completely these unexplainable enjoyments of the world."
But O'Brien is also a master of the disturbing detail, as of the police barracks:
"I had never seen with my eyes ever in my life before anything so unnatural and appalling and my gaze faltered about the thing uncomprehendingly as if at least one of the customary dimensions was missing, leaving no meaning to the remainder."
Audiobook reader Jim Norton gives a marvelous reading of the novel. His Irish accent ranges from the slight and educated (the narrator) to the broad and working class (Sergeant Pluck). He's also an uncanny uptight pompous British scholar, a nasal dead old man, and an italics-voiced soul. He reads every word and pause with perfect intention and understanding.
If you'd like a richly written unique book with flavors of Waiting for Godot, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Divine Comedy, and the old Prisoner TV show, you should read The Third Policeman.
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- john in RI
- 02-14-14
Not a detective novel.....well sort of.....
Where does The Third Policeman rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I have only purchased one other audiobook-Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell. They are both excellent.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The narrator because it is his story, although he is telling it while dead.
What about Jim Norton’s performance did you like?
He was perfect.
Who was the most memorable character of The Third Policeman and why?
The narrator.
Any additional comments?
I have the feeling the people who hated this saw the word policeman in the title and expected one of those books located by the cash register in the supermarket. If you can't enjoy something because it doesn't "make sense" you won't like this. However if you like Samuel Becket or James Joyce you will find this very funny.
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- Gerald T. Davis
- 05-06-23
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So I queried GPTChat " Weird audible books" got 4 suggestions. Didn't look all that weird. Added new query "weirder." So arrived "The Third Policeman." Totally captivating as read! Jim Norton may have done the perfect job of conveying each character. Each syllable is a symphony dedicated to the soul. 7 hours of enjoyable nonsense.
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- Carson
- 09-25-21
Absolutely hilarious
One of the most absurd, charming, disturbing, perplexing, and HILARIOUS books ever written. I’m at a loss of words for what else to say about it. It’s definitely one I’m gonna keep handy for the rest of my life.
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- Shane Butler
- 10-26-21
Good Craic
This absurd novel will make you feel uncomfortable at times, thinking to yourself “what’s the point of what they’re saying or doing?”. What you should understand before you read is that feeling is what the writer wants you to feel, and is a comment on the futility of life itself or aspects of daily life that we cannot reasonably justify. “Comic” is the right word for the novel. While it is at times funny and borderline hilarious, the comedy is mostly resulting from laughing at this thing we call life and all the madness it contains. I should add that the introductions to most of the chapters feature some beautiful writing, clever phrasing and imagery, and you should keep an ear out for some memorable similes such as “as friendly and familiar as the pockets of an old suit.”
A great performance by the narrator made this a welcome break from your usual go-to audiobook, whatever that may be!
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- megacurley
- 02-19-22
excellent
an old favorite, beautifully narrated. i could not be happier with it. highly recommended.
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- Dennis
- 08-16-08
Patience
Stick with it; this book is surprisingly good,funny very Irish
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- Tim
- 09-29-15
Best-narrated audiobook on Audible.com. Seriously.
This book is far and away the best-narrated audiobook on all of Audible.com. Jim Norton is an absolute genius, without parallel.
You should listen to this audiobook to experience O'Brien's novel, which is surreal, funny, and disturbing. But you should also listen to it for Norton's incredible performance. Both Norton and O'Brien are one-of-a-kind geniuses.
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