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Woodcutters
- De: Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock - translator
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife-a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literary fiction with a spectacular narrator
- De Glenn en 03-06-25
- Woodcutters
- De: Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock - translator
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Dense yet Wonderful Exploration of Art
Revisado: 02-10-25
what did I like?
I found the narrator to be very helpful And Slowly found the repetition To be Almost Mesmerizing, wonderful use of craft!
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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- De: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: Claire Danes
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,366
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,349
Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home after the Trojan War, he doesn’t realize this simple undertaking will become a perilous journey of 10 years. Beset at every turn, he encounters obstacles, detours, and temptations—both supernatural and human—while his wife Penelope fends off would-be suitors desperate to take the throne.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Much better than I originally thought
- De Tad Davis en 01-28-19
- The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- De: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: Claire Danes
Just Wonderful
Revisado: 10-30-24
what did I like?
From the Lord of Lies, the OG unreliable narrator, comes some of the greatest adventures of ancient times! what a wonderful new translation!
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The Iliad
- De: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: Audra McDonald
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―rendering the ancient poem in contemporary language that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Work of Scholarship Accessible to All
- De KY-Barbara en 10-05-23
- The Iliad
- De: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: Audra McDonald
the most accessible iliad, made like a Shakespearean Blockbuster
Revisado: 09-01-24
what did I like? I loved that she not only translated The Iliad but she did so in imbic pentameter, giving an epic ring to every pronouncement and making the action all the more Epic and even relevant! I understand why Tolstoy was so enamored with the Iliad finally! thank you Emily Wilson
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Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- De: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pushkin and Falen are brilliant, Corkhill not bad
- De Jabba en 05-17-15
- Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- De: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
wonderful translation with equally terrific narration
Revisado: 08-17-24
what did I like?
pretty much everything! this reader felt perfect for this new robust translation of Onegin. his presentation of Tatiana's dream is are so much of pushkins lyrical masterpiece! weather for school or enjoyment, I'll definitely be relistening to this again!
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James
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 12,446
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,817
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11,817
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can we ever be free
- De J. Stirling en 04-04-24
- James
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
Just WOW, how much I learned!
Revisado: 08-15-24
book was so much more than I ever imagined it could be! the way it plays with language and communication as primary themes maybe even more mind-blowing than what Mark Twain originally pulled off. at the very least, this book had me laughing and near tears as many times as Huckleberry Finn did years ago, only teaching a whole new modern message that really moved me. this book taught me things. be open to this teaching as it's one of the most adventuresome, heartbreaking and entertaining classes I've ever taken in life!
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
- De: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and Petersburg Tales and arranged in order of composition, the 13 stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol encompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat”, Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads, combined with his overt joy in the art of storytelling, shines through in each of the tales.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quirky, funny stories
- De SmartShopper en 03-01-23
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
- De: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
Womderful Mew Translations! Difficult Narrator
Revisado: 07-27-24
Best part? this new P&V translation is terrific & more understandable, not to mention it has almost all of his great works, including all of his earliest
worst part? The Narrator for this was Terriblen loops were obvious & I had trouble w/ some of his earlier stories I found to be a bit weak, though fascinating still.
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,414
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,136
Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Apocalyptic
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-24
- Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
WOW
Revisado: 07-22-24
what I liked? this was the scariest book Iv ever read and could not put it down! author does wonderful job at narration!
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The Cossacks
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
Dissolute, disenchanted Dmitri Olénin decides to join the army as a cadet and is despatched to the Caucasus. There, he is transformed by seeing how the indigenous people live in harmony with nature, how their lives have more meaning than those of the superficial social elite in Moscow, and he finds a new sense of self and purpose. But nothing is ever quite that simple.
Love and loyalty are tested to the very limits in this semi-autobiographical novella, which is one of Tolstoy’s best-loved works.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A surprisingly quiet story
- De Tad Davis en 03-10-13
- The Cossacks
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver
fantastic story, nearly ruined by bad translation
Revisado: 07-08-24
what did I like &/or dislike?
I love the prose of Tolstoy, who truly brings an epic essence to this that's purely his. I read Peter Constantine's translation while listening & hearing Uncle called Daddy over & over again nearly ruined it! Still, a great early piece by one of the world's greatest writers of all time.
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Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad Performance
- De Evan Baas en 10-08-21
- Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
wonderful Translation
Revisado: 06-19-24
what did you like?
having read this in college, I found it Far funnier now and the translation makes the satirical overly literary humor much more apparent. Feel like I much better understood what the author was working towards. Truly the OG Incel, only book obsessed rather than social networking all day.
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Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. This audio edition of Notes from Underground is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad Performance
- De Evan Baas en 10-08-21
- Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
wonderful Translation
Revisado: 06-19-24
what did you like?
having read this in college, I found it Far funnier now and the translation makes the satirical overly literary humor much more apparent. Feel like I much better understood what the author was working towards. Truly the OG Incel, only book obsessed rather than social networking all day.
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