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The Elephant Vanishes
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance33
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Brought to you by Penguin. A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story 'Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite...
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So disappointing
- By Susanne on 10-04-21
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The Elephant Vanishes
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi, Susan Momoko Hingley
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Tales from the Gas Station, Volume Two
- By: Jack Townsend
- Narrated by: Jon Grilz
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Story23
Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.
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Gas station
- By Mark Liddicott on 05-01-26
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Tales from the Gas Station, Volume Two
- Narrated by: Jon Grilz
- Series: Tales from the Gas Station, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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Oblomov
- By: Ivan Goncharov
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
A member of the landed gentry, with a seemingly guaranteed income from his estate in the country, Oblomov lives in Petersburg, uninterested in the business that provides his living and barely aware that the revenue is diminishing. Not that he leads a dissolute life of extravagance, balls and entertainment. Instead he is a dreamer, a sybarite, content above all to spend most of the day supine, in bed. The novel opens with Oblomov thus ensconced, attended only by his dirty, grumbling, indolent servant Zahar, who has looked after him since childhood, catering to his every need.
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really dull
- By Prof on 22-06-20
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Oblomov
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance33
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Story33
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.
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Haunting and wonderfully sinister
- By S. Moorcroft on 22-03-22
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Invitation to a Beheading
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-11-10
- Language: English
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Antkind: A Novel
- By: Charlie Kaufman
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance73
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Story73
B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider - a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur 90 years to complete, B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity.
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The weirdest thing
- By Malwina Tritt on 18-01-21
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Antkind: A Novel
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Story17
I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of James and Erasure. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an...
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Confusing and frustrating
- By Jonathan Old on 28-02-26
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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Lenin of the Rovers: The Adventures of a Communist Football Club
- The Complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio Comedy
- By: Marcus Berkmann
- Narrated by: Alexei Sayle, Keith Allen, Phil Cornwell, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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Alexei Sayle stars in this comical story of Britain's first Communist football team A secret descendant of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, Ricky Lenin is a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist, fervently committed to overthrowing the decadent world of British football. As a midfield maestro, he's perfectly...
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What a total load of crap...
- By M J North on 17-02-24
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Lenin of the Rovers: The Adventures of a Communist Football Club
- The Complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Alexei Sayle, Keith Allen, Phil Cornwell, Andrew McClean, John Sessions, Jim Broadbent, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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The Metamorphosis tells the unsettling story of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into something entirely unexpected: “a monstrous insect.” This is not just a novel about physical transformation but also a deep reflection on alienation and loneliness. The listener will not only to enjoy Kafka’s incomparable style but also to confront the vital questions that only a masterpiece can provoke.
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AI slop ?
- By Anonymous on 22-12-25
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The Metamorphosis
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-12-25
- Language: English
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Vanishing World
- By: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.
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Murata Continues To Shock and Amaze!
- By Anonymous on 20-05-25
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Vanishing World
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Employees
- Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
- By: Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken - translator
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Brought to you by Penguin. On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them...
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The Employees
- Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Pale Fire
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance70
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Story70
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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It's all very clever but...
- By CMV on 28-04-17
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Pale Fire
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-12-10
- Language: English
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The Dice Man
- By: Luke Rhinehart
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall129
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Performance117
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Story115
The cult classic that can still change your life… Let the dice decide! When a bored psychologist hands over all of his decisions to chance, making choices on the roll of a die, he transforms his life – and the world. Because when you follow the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining...
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Dull
- By Mr. G. Booth on 20-11-18
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The Dice Man
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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Terminal Boredom
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- By: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Story39
At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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Obsessed- well worth reading!
- By Caitlin on 31-01-24
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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No Way Home
- A Novel
- By: T.C. Boyle
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Samara Naeymi, Eddie Lopez
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring” David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us. Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and...
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No Way Home
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Samara Naeymi, Eddie Lopez
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Dreaditation
- By: Andersen Prunty
- Narrated by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Who will become enlightened and what will be left of them? Scott Champion knows the meaning of life. And his life is great. He has everything a guy like him could want: a beautiful wife, a precocious daughter, a nice house in the perfect location, a great paying job that's so easy he doesn't even know what he really does, and a trust fund to help with his long-term goals. If he has a problem, it's other people, not himself. He's as surprised as anyone when he downloads the world's most popular meditation app and actually starts using it.
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Dreaditation
- Narrated by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 04-05-26
- Language: English
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Will and Testament
- A Novel
- By: Vigdis Hjorth
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance68
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When a dispute over her parents’ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled 20 years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different - a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured.
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Gripping and intense
- By Stella on 23-04-23
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Will and Testament
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Nano Nagle
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär. Das Original
- Die legendäre Originalversion der Lesung von Dirk Bach - pur, ungekürzt, virtuos
- By: Walter Moers
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Die legendäre Originalversion der Lesung von Dirk Bach – pur, ungekürzt, virtuos. Man schrieb das Jahr 2002, als Dirk Bach ins Studio ging und seine charakteristische Stimme dem berühmten Käpt'n Blaubär, dem Held des ersten Romans von Walter Moers, seine Stimme lieh. Und so wurde der phantastische Kontinent Zamonien samt seiner Bewohner von Bachs leidenschaftlicher Virtuosität zum Leben erweckt:
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Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär. Das Original
- Die legendäre Originalversion der Lesung von Dirk Bach - pur, ungekürzt, virtuos
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach
- Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-10-23
- Language: German
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- By: Walter Moers
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
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Ein Blaubär entführt den Hörer in eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Humor auf abenteuerliche Weise außer Kontrolle geraten sind. Dem Hörer geht es in dieser akustischen Neufassung wie der Hauptfigur: Gepackt vom Sog der Lesung Dirk Bachs geht es über sparsam, aber effektvoll eingesetzte Musik zu Zwergpiraten, Klabautergeistern und Gimpeln. Dramatische Klangbilder machen die Reise so plastisch, dass Finsterberge, der Große Wald, der Ewige Tornado, Atlantis u.v.m.
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Delightful Time-waster
- By Diane Severson on 04-10-22
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Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär
- Zamonien 1
- Narrated by: Dirk Bach, Wolfgang Völz
- Series: Zamonien, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-11-13
- Language: German
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The House of the Spirit Levels
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy
- By: Nick Revell
- Narrated by: Alistair McGowan, Maggie Steed, Peter Serafinowicz, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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When Tony Hardstaff breaks the bank playing ‘Snap!’ at the St Petersburg Casino, he is swept up in a maelstrom of romance and adventure. Seduced by the sultry Natassia Fillipovna Karamazov – a woman with curves so perfect they could make a geometry professor spontaneously combust – Tony is caught in flagrante by the Russian mafia, and flees for his life.
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The House of the Spirit Levels
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Alistair McGowan, Maggie Steed, Peter Serafinowicz, Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Morwenna Banks, Joanna Brooks, Nick Revell, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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Don Quijote de la Mancha [Don Quixote]
- By: Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Performance10
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FonoLibro, el líder en audiolibros en español, celebra los 400 años de la obra mas importante y universal de nuestra lengua Las Aventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha, mas conocida por el nombre abreviado de Don Quijote.
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la cabalgata de un patriarca
- By Jean-Pierre on 24-10-25
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Don Quijote de la Mancha [Don Quixote]
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-03-06
- Language: Spanish
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