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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 145
In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, G. K. Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future. Auberon Quinn, a common clerk who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen standing on his head, is one day told that he has been randomly selected to be His Majesty the King. He decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement - with delightful results.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Competent but over-stylized reading of great book
- De Nierestel en 02-16-18
De: G. K. Chesterton
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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 Scarlet Pimpernel
- De: Baroness Orczy
- Narrado por: Stephen Crossly
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 642
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 582
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 587
The French Revolution is at the height of its fury. Daily, hundreds of aristocratic heads fall from the guillotine. Emotions run high, and anyone suspected of sympathy toward the nobility is in mortal danger. Only one man is daring enough to lead a small band against popular opinion - the Scarlet Pimpernel. Using masterful disguises and clever strategies, the Scarlet Pimpernel smuggles noblemen and women from France to safety in England. His success is a thorn in the side of the Revolution. As he vanishes from each escapade, he leaves no trace behind except an image of the colorful flower that is his emblem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite stories!
- De M. Cook en 08-06-18
De: Baroness Orczy
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The Man Who Was Thursday
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 362
The story begins when two poets meet. Gabriel Syme is a poet of law. Lucian Gregory is a poetic anarchist. As the poets protest their respective philosophies, they strike a challenge. In the ruckus that ensues, the Central European Council of Anarchists elects Syme to the post of Thursday, one of their seven chief council positions. Undercover. On the run, Syme meets with Sunday, the head of the council, a man so outrageously mysterious that his antics confound both the law-abiding and the anarchist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Indescribably good
- De Erez en 06-11-10
De: G. K. Chesterton
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
- 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself
- De: Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, y otros
- Narrado por: Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
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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3 out of 5 stars
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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 Willows
- De: Algernon Blackwood
- Narrado por: Nick Sampson
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Perhaps Blackwood's most celebrated story, The Willows was influenced heavily by his own trips down the Danube River. It tells the story of two campers who pick the wrong place to sleep for the night, a place where another dimension impinges on our own. H.P. Lovecraft considered this the finest supernatural tale in English literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slowly building dread.
- De Barks Books en 12-19-16
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The Return of the Soldier
- De: Rebecca West
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
In this lyrical and poignant story of a wounded man and the three concerned women who seek to heal him, Rebecca West explores the complexity of the mind and its subtle strategies for coping with life's painful realities. Only when Chris has the courage to face one pivotal moment of truth in his married life will he be able to awaken from his boyish fantasy and become, indeed, "every inch a soldier".
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5 out of 5 stars
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a gem
- De beatrice en 09-08-21
De: Rebecca West
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Death in Venice
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 210
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 184
A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A problem with the narration
- De Erez en 03-19-12
De: Thomas Mann
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Steppenwolf
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Peter Weller
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,557
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,252
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Save this Hesse novel for your midlife crisis.
- De Darwin8u en 03-02-14
De: Hermann Hesse
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Orlando
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Veronika Hyks
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
Virginia Woolf's semi-biographical novel, inspired by her life changing love affair with Vita Sackville-West, takes us on an exhilarating, fantastical roller coaster, tracing 400 years of English history, in the company of her shape-shifting, gender-bending, time-travelling hero Orlando, whose inner conflicts and triumphs challenge our preconceptions of the nature of love, the battle of the sexes, posing socal and metaphysical questions including what we now call climate change.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Strange Inexplicable Tale, Beautifully Narrated.
- De Ilana en 07-24-15
De: Virginia Woolf
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Siddhartha
- Booktrack Edition
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Paul Ansdell
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Siddhartha, the ninth book written by Hermann Hesse, is about a young Indian boy who leaves his home in hopes of finding enlightenment with the wise "Goutama", which in this story is the Buddha. After learning what he can from Goutama, he decides to go off into the busy city and leads a life of greed and lust. When he realizes that the lifestyle is not fulfilling, and he reflects on his life, he goes to a river and contemplates suicide. However, it is here that Siddhartha meets a man who will change his life and help lead him to enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of a Kind
- De Anonymous User en 04-04-20
De: Hermann Hesse
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration and Great Selection of Stories
- De Robert en 05-03-15
De: Michael Sims
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Villette
- De: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 22 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 436
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 382
Hailed as Charlotte Brontë’s “finest novel” by Virginia Woolf, Villette is the timeless semi-autobiographical tale of Lucy Snowe. Left with no family and no money, Lucy goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck’s school for girls. During her stay, she falls in love—twice—and discovers an independent, inner strength rarely seen in women of her time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Divine Ms. Porter delivers as always
- De peachnmario en 03-17-15
De: Charlotte Brontë
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
- De: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrado por: Samantha Bond
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 394
The story of Lady Chatterley and her love for her husband's gamekeeper outraged the sensibilities of Edwardian England. Lawrence had already been dismissed as a purveyor of the obscene for the attitudes to sex that he had shown in The Rainbow, which had been fiercely suppressed on its publication in 1915. Chatterley, written in several versions around 1928 in Italy in the final part of Lawrence's life, was a deliberate choice on the author's part to address sex head on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing reader of classic great novel
- De Programmer en 05-02-16
De: D. H. Lawrence