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My Friends
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance90
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Story90
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed. Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history.
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History and feelings
- By Sally on 24-06-25
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My Friends
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-01-24
- Language: English
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I Who Have Never Known Men
- By: Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz - translator
- Narrated by: Sarah Lambie
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall926
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Performance877
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Story877
Brought to you by Penguin. THE HEART-BREAKING POST-APOCALYPTIC TIKTOK SENSATION Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, 39 women are kept in isolation in a cage. Aboveground, a world awaits. Has it...
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Amazingly engaging but skip the introduction
- By Sam J on 14-09-23
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I Who Have Never Known Men
- Narrated by: Sarah Lambie
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall773
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Performance691
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Story689
A workhouse orphan, Oliver experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal underworld. His companions, a thief, a whore, a pickpocket, and a fence, are destined for gruesome ends, but Oliver emerges unscathed from the darkness of the underworld.
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A classic story read to perfection
- By Ken Hill on 07-10-11
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Oliver Twist
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-01-06
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall916
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Performance811
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Story809
A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent, and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming, handsome, but erratic and untrustworthy. As these key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power, they must also come to face the horror that follows.
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Highly recommended
- By MaE on 04-06-14
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A Place of Greater Safety
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 22-04-13
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- By: Constance Garnett - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,019
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Performance891
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Story893
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.
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Beautiful, Addictive, Rewarding
- By Antti on 26-08-14
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-12-12
- Language: English
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North and South
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,129
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Performance2,797
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Story2,781
Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion that poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature. When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire....
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an interesting novel made special by the reading
- By Margaret on 27-12-10
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North and South
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-09-09
- Language: English
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One Good Turn
- (Jackson Brodie)
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall626
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Performance576
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Story572
Brought to you by Penguin. The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories): literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a...
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disappointing narration
- By 1ellisj on 03-08-15
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One Good Turn
- (Jackson Brodie)
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Series: Jackson Brodie, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-02-15
- Language: English
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Polo
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall621
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Performance569
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Story567
Ricky France-Lynch had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod who couldn’t wait to become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, and gloriously promiscuous. Perdita was a brat who loved only her horses and Ricky France-Lynch…
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Why is Jilly being ruined by such terrible, staccato narration?!
- By kiran dhillon on 03-01-20
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Polo
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 3
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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Intermezzo
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,352
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Performance1,277
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Story1,277
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.
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Disappointed
- By tomtcat on 28-09-24
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Intermezzo
- Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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The Magic Mountain
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 37 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall426
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Performance381
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Story381
Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
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Paint dries before the war.
- By Richard on 11-08-20
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The Magic Mountain
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 37 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-05-20
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Mercy Close
- From the author of the 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Again, Rachel
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Niamh Daly
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall804
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Performance633
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Story633
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Marian Keye's heartbreaking stunner of a novel, The Mystery of Mercy Close, read by the actress Niamh Daly. Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her...
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The mystery of mercy close
- By Amazon Customer on 28-09-12
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The Mystery of Mercy Close
- From the author of the 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Again, Rachel
- Narrated by: Niamh Daly
- Series: Walsh Family, Book 5
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-09-12
- Language: English
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Dubliners
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Chris O'Dowd
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall309
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Performance272
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Story268
Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.
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A great listen
- By mrs on 27-05-21
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Dubliners
- Narrated by: Chris O'Dowd
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-05-21
- Language: English
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,653
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Performance1,477
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Story1,478
**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER In 1960s Nigeria...
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In my living memory
- By julie on 19-10-17
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
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Wolf Hall
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,528
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Performance1,371
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Story1,365
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events.
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Great story but too many saliva sounds
- By K. Patel on 17-07-20
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Wolf Hall
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-06-20
- Language: English
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Whistler
- By: Ann Patchett
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again now, Daphne and Eddie feel that time has fallen away...
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Whistler
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-06-26
- Language: English
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Caledonian Road
- By: Andrew O'Hagan
- Narrated by: Michael Abubakar
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall906
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Performance872
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Story872
May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes. The second? Milo Manghasa, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan. Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed.
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Underwhelmed but great narrator
- By Kindle Customer on 21-04-24
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Caledonian Road
- Narrated by: Michael Abubakar
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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The Handmaid's Tale: Exclusive Bonus Content
- By: Margaret Atwood, Valeri Martin - essay
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall307
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Performance258
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Story257
Featuring an all-new interview with Professor Piexoto, this exclusive bonus content also includes a brand-new afterword from Margaret Atwood and an essay written by author Valerie Martin.
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Skip Chapter 1 if you listened via the library
- By Mr Rotivator on 01-02-21
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The Handmaid's Tale: Exclusive Bonus Content
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Series: The Handmaid's Tale
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall898
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Performance765
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Story763
At the tender age of 10, Fanny Price is 'adopted' by her rich relations and is removed from the poverty of her home in Portsmouth to the opulence of Mansfield Park. The transplantation is not a happy one. Dependent, helpless, neglected and forgotten, Fanny struggles to come to terms with her new life until, tested almost to the limits of endurance, she assumes her righful role...
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A reluctant Janeite not reluctant any more.
- By Colin Davey on 20-11-16
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Mansfield Park
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance57
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Story57
"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –Booklist In the vein of The Time...
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Clever story told with clarity.
- By ThymeLord on 07-04-26
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Professor
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance248
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Story247
The Professor is Charlotte Brontë's first novel albeit the last to have been published. Edited and distributed by Arthur Bell Nicholls, two years after Brontë's death, it is based on her experiences of living as a language student in Brussels. The Professor follows the career and love affairs of William Crimsworth, a reserved but compassionate aristocrat who has been ostracised by his family and left penniless.
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Beautfil use of the English language
- By Danielle on 20-04-07
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The Professor
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-09-06
- Language: English
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