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Muriel Spark
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From the internationally acclaimed author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie comes a provocative, disturbing, but hilarious tale of mortality, morality, and the phenomenon called old age.
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Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. But not in quite the same way as most other guests who are relaxing at this hotel on the banks of the Nile. Maggie, a compulsive fixer of other people’s lives, may have found herself in hot water at her last hotel in Switzerland and just might have needed to get out of there fast. But here at the Royal Karnak, under the hot Saharan sun, she has a comfortable suite, a loyal confidante in the hotel manager, Ahmed, and a handful of sympathetic friends. One morning, however, Maggie notices a new arrival at check-in.
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- De Erin G en 01-11-25
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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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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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- De: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- De Ximena Enriquez en 08-31-24
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A Far Cry from Kensington
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Pamela Garelick
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired young war widow, she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“of very good books”) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house. At work and at home Mrs. Hawkins soon uncovered evil: shady literary doings and a deadly enemy; anonymous letters, blackmail, and suicide.
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Truth Teller In The Midst Of Posers & The Clueless
- De Sara en 10-03-15
De: Muriel Spark
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The Hunting Party
- A Novel
- De: Lucy Foley
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, y otros
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During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of 30-something friends from Oxford meets to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students 10 years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.
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I bought this for 7 bucks; I wouldn't pay 8
- De Lucy en 12-01-19
De: Lucy Foley
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The Girls of Slender Means
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions." Thus begins Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club building itself - "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit" - its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, practicing elocution and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown.
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please please try again
- De Consolation en 03-24-20
De: Muriel Spark
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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- 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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- Cougar
- 12-31-20
great listen
the perfect book for the perfect narrator. well written and well delivered. the narrator brings the book to life.
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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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