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In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students. The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring.
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creme de la creme
- De Kathleen en 01-04-08
De: Muriel Spark
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Cold Hand in Mine
- De: Robert Aickman
- Narrado por: Reece Shearsmith
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full. The listener is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ("Pages from a Young Girl's Journal") but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing.
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Aickman is unique
- De Stark en 08-19-23
De: Robert Aickman
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Daughters of Eden
- De: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrado por: Kim Hicks
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- De XX en 09-11-05
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The Unsettled Dust
- De: Robert Aickman
- Narrado por: Reece Shearsmith
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. 'The Unsettled Dust', 'The House of the Russians', 'No Stronger Than a Flower', 'The Cicerones' and 'Ravissante' first appeared in the Sub Rosa collection in 1968, but the stories were published together as The Unsettled Dust in 1990.
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Perfectly read, sheds new light on this work
- De James Townsend en 04-10-17
De: Robert Aickman
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The Bedlam Detective
- De: Stephen Gallagher
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Sebastian Becker, a former Pinkerton man, lives in England and investigates wealthy eccentrics who may be too insane to care for their own affairs. He is asked to investigate rich landowner Sir Owain, but arrives to discover two young girls have been murdered, and it is not the first time children have come to harm in this small town.
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Satisfying!
- De Margaret en 03-26-12
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Put Out More Flags
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life - his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and sets forth to enjoy his finest hour - as a war hero. Basil's instincts for self-preservation come to the fore as he insinuates himself into the Ministry of Information and a little-known section of Military Security.
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Wickedly Funny
- De Chelz en 07-25-19
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Swimming Pool Library
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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Strong stuff
- De Peregrine en 05-15-11
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Driving on the Rim
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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Delightful
- De Roy en 01-05-11
De: Thomas McGuane
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Hornet Flight
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
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An Outstanding Spy Novel
- De C. McCoy en 03-13-05
De: Ken Follett
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- De: Jennifer Worth
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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The best book I've listened to this year
- De Richard en 06-12-13
De: Jennifer Worth