- European Literature (3,772)
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Beyond Good and Evil
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
Attacking the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile. The summaries are a godsend
- By MR on 05-02-2019
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Mark Twain. The Complete Novels
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: James Hamill
- Length: 88 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This Audiobook contains the complete novels of Mark Twain: "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"...
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Bronte
- Narrated by: Thandie Newton
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 216
Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a lovely old love story
- By Lynnette on 09-09-2017
![The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
By:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by:
Constantine Gregory
Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
94 ratings
Overall 4.4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DpA-g11JL._SL320_.jpg)
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By David on 26-05-2015
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Beyond Good and Evil
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
Attacking the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile. The summaries are a godsend
- By MR on 05-02-2019
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Mark Twain. The Complete Novels
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: James Hamill
- Length: 88 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This Audiobook contains the complete novels of Mark Twain: "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"...
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Bronte
- Narrated by: Thandie Newton
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 216
Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a lovely old love story
- By Lynnette on 09-09-2017
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By David on 26-05-2015
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Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Brian Kelly
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, "Notes from Underground" marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutally exquisite!
- By Robert Stockton on 25-11-2018
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Anne of Green Gables
- By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Narrated by: Rachel McAdams
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 201
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Story5 out of 5 stars 200
When an aging brother and sister adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative redheaded girl who is mistakenly brought to them....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely divine
- By Laurel on 14-12-2016
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Professor Aronnax, a French naturalist, begins an extremely hazardous voyage to pursue a little-known and terrifying sea monster....
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of my favourites
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-2018
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Brian Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the moral decline of its title character, Dorian Gray. When Dorian has his...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: Tim Curry
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of literature’s earliest works of science fiction. It vividly animates a fantastical subterranean world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disbelief suspended
- By Tristan Berrell on 12-03-2019
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The War of the Worlds
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Michael Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This story begins at an observatory in England where the narrator witnesses explosions on Mars. This event is followed by what is thought...
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Kate Lock
- Length: 40 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores....
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Bleak House
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Stacy Newman
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
"Bleak House" is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to...
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The Anne of Green Gables Collection
- Anne Shirley Books 1-6 and Avonlea Short Stories
- By: L. M. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis, Tara Ward
- Length: 73 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 8
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 8
This audiobook collection includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Seriously the worst, do not bother.
- By Anonymous User on 13-02-2019
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The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki
- By: Matsuo Basho, Kamo no Chomei
- Narrated by: Togo Igawa
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki are two of the best-loved works of their kind, famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition....
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Listen Before You Die 2
- By: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Kate Chopin, and others
- Narrated by: Brian Kelly, Sinead Dixon, Claire Walsh, and others
- Length: 74 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This Audiobook contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names: "Emma" by Jane Austen, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë...
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Mansfield Park
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Nicole Owens
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Taken from the poverty of her parents' home, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank...
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Rudyard Kipling - the Collection
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Brian Kelly, Sean Murphy, Josh Smith, and others
- Length: 57 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook contains the Collection of Rudyard Kipling: - "The jungle book" - "Just So Stories" - "Kim" - "Captains Courageous"....
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The Aeneid
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history...
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The Plague
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: James Jenner
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth, only to die as bloody heaps in the streets....
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Cleopatra
- By: Henry Rider Haggard
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A novel written by the author H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines and She.....
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too hard to enjoy as an audio book
- By Vicky Finn on 08-10-2016
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The Book of Five Rings
- By: Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson (translator)
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai....
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Cry, the Beloved Country
- By: Alan Paton
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Beautifully wrought with high poetic compassion, Cry, the Beloved Country is more than just a story, it is a profound experience of the human spirit....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cry the Beloved Country, has anything changed?
- By Dominic Carroll on 17-05-2015
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The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Abridged
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....
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Ulysses
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Tadhg Hynes, Kayleigh Payne
- Length: 31 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Tadhg Hynes, a Dubliner, narrates James Joyce's revolutionary masterpiece....
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The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's crowning life work and stands among the best novels in world literature....
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A classic but trying
- By Ryan Morrow on 04-04-2018
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
The Devil comes to Moscow; but he isn't all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption. And a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Read it!
- By jdk on 25-07-2016
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What I Believe
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1885, "What I Believe" is part of series of books by novelist Leo Tolstoy that outline his personal interpretation of...
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A River Not Yet Tamed
- All the Rivers Run, Book 1
- By: Nancy Cato
- Narrated by: Kate Hosking
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper, a beautiful and independent woman....
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Lady Susan
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Carla Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Rebecca McDonnell
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Dickens's Little Nell became one of his best-known heroines when "The Old Curiosity Shop" was first published in 1841. Virtuous and stoic, Nell takes...
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Siddhartha
- By: Hermann Hesse
- Narrated by: Harish Bhimani
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, takes place in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC).....
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my all time favorite books.
- By Nathan Bell on 27-12-2018
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Love in the Time of Cholera
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A meander through the ages and stages
- By Danelle Kenny on 05-10-2014
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Norse Mythology: Tales of Norse Myth, Gods, Goddesses, Giants, Rituals & Viking Beliefs
- By: Kory Aumont
- Narrated by: Anna Hoffman
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Even though thousands of years have passed since these cultural stories were first shared around the forges and fires of the Nordic populations, they still entrance and inspire us with the great deeds of the human race and the incredible gods who watched over them. Find your own wealth of inspiration among the tales of the great gods and goddesses once worshipped by the Vikings.
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....
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1 out of 5 stars
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many many pages missing in audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-2018
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Burning Daylight
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: David Moran
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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"Burning Daylight", Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed Burning Daylight was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith
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The Valley of the Moon
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Valley of the Moon" (1913) is a novel by American writer Jack London. The valley where it is set is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California where Jack London was a resident; he built his ranch in Glen Ellen. A road novel 50 years before Kerouac, "The Valley of the Moon" traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through central and northern California in search of beautiful land they can farm independently.
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Wuthering Heights
- By: Emily Brontë
- Narrated by: Ciara Trant
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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"Wuthering Heights" is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
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Oliver Twist
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
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Emily of New Moon
- By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Emily is growing up as a talented, unique person with great insight, wit, and imagination, and conveying it in poetry and her diary.
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of "wooden ships and iron men" are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing vessel carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. She has a "bughouse" crew of misfits and incompetents. This book was published in 1915 and some actions of some of the characters seem odd to us today. There is romance, but it is strangely platonic.
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Burning Daylight
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: David Moran
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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"Burning Daylight", Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed Burning Daylight was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith
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The Valley of the Moon
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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"The Valley of the Moon" (1913) is a novel by American writer Jack London. The valley where it is set is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California where Jack London was a resident; he built his ranch in Glen Ellen. A road novel 50 years before Kerouac, "The Valley of the Moon" traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through central and northern California in search of beautiful land they can farm independently.
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Wuthering Heights
- By: Emily Brontë
- Narrated by: Ciara Trant
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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"Wuthering Heights" is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
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Oliver Twist
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Pryce
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.
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Emily of New Moon
- By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Emily is growing up as a talented, unique person with great insight, wit, and imagination, and conveying it in poetry and her diary.
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of "wooden ships and iron men" are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing vessel carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. She has a "bughouse" crew of misfits and incompetents. This book was published in 1915 and some actions of some of the characters seem odd to us today. There is romance, but it is strangely platonic.
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Agnes Grey
- By: Anne Brontë
- Narrated by: Rebecca McDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. "Agnes Grey" was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was in financial difficulty. She has only a few choices for employment. Agnes experiences the difficulty of reining in spoiled children and how wealth can corrupt morals.
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Boyhood
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"Boyhood" is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including "Childhood" and "Youth", published in a literary journal during the 1850s.
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Master and Man
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Moran
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.
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Youth
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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"Youth" is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including "Childhood" and "Boyhood", published in a literary journal during the 1850s.
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The Sebastopol Sketches
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Moran
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in the army. The three "Sebastopol Sketches" - December', May' and August' - re-create what happened during different phases of the siege and its effect on the ordinary men around him.
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The Island of Dr Moreau
- By: H.G. Wells
- Narrated by: Paul Murphy
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.
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Childhood
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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"Childhood" is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by "Boyhood" and "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.
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The Iron Heel
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the future, "The Iron Heel" describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London's multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial half of the 20th century.
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Kevin McCarthy
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution.
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The Prince and the Pauper
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles - a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters.
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The Gilded Age
- A Tale of Today
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Anthony Maher
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. Co-written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, this rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust.
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The Game
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: David Moran
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.