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Sense & Sensibility
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Susannah Harker
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 446
When two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, and their mother are left to the financial mercies of John Dashwood and his wife, they find themselves in drastically reduced circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration
- De Rebecca en 10-09-09
- Sense & Sensibility
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Susannah Harker
A comfort listen
Revisado: 05-28-15
I adore this book. Have done for years. I return to this reading of it again and again as a beautiful narration, easy to listen to, pleasurable and perfectly
highlighting the humour while capturing the painful moments. Perfect Austen audiobook!
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
One of the great novelists of British literature, Thomas Hardy caused quite a stir when this powerful novel was first published. Michael Henchard, down on his luck and drunk, sells his wife and child to a sailor for five guineas. As time goes by, Henchard becomes Mayor of Casterbridge—but he cannot escape the tragedy of his past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hardy--consummate teller of stories!
- De Kathi en 04-12-13
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
Excellent
Revisado: 05-19-15
This was a wonderfully engaging and sad Hardy novel and beautifully narrated. Thoroughly enjoyable and moving.
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The Real Jane Austen
- A Life in Small Things
- De: Paula Byrne
- Narrado por: Louise Hulland
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Since her death, people have got Jane Austen wrong. The real Jane - revealed for the first time in this landmark biography - was a less cosy, more spiky, more modern figure than she is usually imagined to be. Far from retelling a familiar story, Byrne’s book uses new research and new techniques to give us Jane Austen for the 21st century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Completely engrossing and illuminating
- De H. Gladman en 09-16-13
- The Real Jane Austen
- A Life in Small Things
- De: Paula Byrne
- Narrado por: Louise Hulland
Completely engrossing and illuminating
Revisado: 09-16-13
I've loved Jane Austen for a long time. i re-read her novels every year or so and yet I'd never really explored her biographies before. After I read her letters, I decided I needed more information and found this book. It's beautifully written, not at all dry, taking the bare bones of what I thought I knew about Austen and opening up her life, her context, her novels in a way that is still with me, weeks after finishing. Gorgeous.
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Persuasion
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,907
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,112
Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Juliet Stevenson is Simply Amazing
- De Em en 04-15-12
- Persuasion
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
Perfect
Revisado: 05-08-13
This is my favourite Jane Austen and Juliet Stevenson brings so much to it. I return to it again and again.
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Nella Last's Peace
- The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 50
- De: Patricia Malcolmson
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Nella Last's War established a housewife and mother from Barrow-in-Furness as one of the most powerful and moving voices of the Second World War, and inspired the award-winning television drama Housewife, 49 (starring Victoria Wood). In this next installment of her unique diaries, Nella Last describes how ordinary people rebuilt their lives after the war was over.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Sequel
- De H. Gladman en 05-08-13
- Nella Last's Peace
- The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 50
- De: Patricia Malcolmson
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
Wonderful Sequel
Revisado: 05-08-13
After falling in love with Nella Last's War, I desperately wanted more of the story. This continues in the same tone as Nella and her community try to adjust to life in post-war England. So wonderful.
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Nella Last in the 1950's
- De: Robert Malcolnson, Patricia Malcolmson
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
This third compelling volume sees Nella, now in her sixties, writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a modernising Britain. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of daily life at a time that shaped the society we live in today. It is an account that’s full of surprises as we learn more about her relationship with ‘my husband’ (never ‘Will’) and her fears of nuclear war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another great part of this series
- De H. Gladman en 05-08-13
- Nella Last in the 1950's
- De: Robert Malcolnson, Patricia Malcolmson
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
Another great part of this series
Revisado: 05-08-13
I love Nella Last's War and Nell Last's Peace - this was not quite as engaging as the first two but wrapped up her story in a satisfying way.
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South Riding
- De: Winifred Holtby
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In this rich and memorable evocation of the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire are the lives, loves and sorrows of the central characters. There is Sarah Burton, fiery young headmistress; Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, a councillor tormented by his own disastrous marriage; Jo Astell, a socialist fighting poverty and his own illness; and Mrs Beddows, the first woman Alderman of the district (like Winifred's own mother).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth Revisiting
- De Ilana en 11-04-12
- South Riding
- De: Winifred Holtby
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
Wonderful
Revisado: 05-08-13
I came to this after seeing the tv series and enjoyed it just as much. What started out as an apparently dry account of local council activities expanded into a wonderful and moving story.
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- De: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrado por: Jeanette Winterson
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sharing her story
- De cath en 07-02-12
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- De: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrado por: Jeanette Winterson
Superb
Revisado: 05-08-13
Would you listen to Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? again? Why?
I actually listened to this twice and read the book in paperback. Enormous Jeanette Winterson fan and to have her reading it was just the most wonderful treat.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It was short enough I knocked it over in a couple of sittings.
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Letters of Jane Austen
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw
- Duración: 2 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
It is to her elder sister Cassandra that most of her surviving letters are written, and through them we discover the intimate world of the English gentry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why did I wait so long?
- De H. Gladman en 05-08-13
- Letters of Jane Austen
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw
Why did I wait so long?
Revisado: 05-08-13
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes I would. Any Jane Austen fan knows that her letter writing is prized - much is written about how her letters are as funny and delightful as her novels and I wasn't disappointed. Even the most mundane details were fun to read about.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Jane Austen obviously.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
i very nearly did.
Any additional comments?
Beautifully read - love Fiona Shaw. I just wished it was longer.
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