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Vanity of Duluoz
Featured Article: The top 100 classics of all time
Before we whipped out our old high school syllabi and dug deep into our libraries to start selecting contenders for this list, we first had to answer the question, "How do we define a classic?" The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might guess, though there’s a lot to be said for the old adage, "You know it when you see it" (or, in this case, hear it). Of course, most critically, each of our picks had to be fabulous in audio. So dust off your aspirational listening list—we have some amazing additions you don’t want to miss.
Best Sellers
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,435
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,783
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,777
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing....
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Narration and a Wonderful Book
- By Guillermo on 09-17-09
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 10-18-07
- Language: English
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Vanity of Duluoz
- An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 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
Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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all of our
- By Kindle Customer on 12-18-24
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Vanity of Duluoz
- An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-17-24
- Language: English
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 644
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Brought to Life
- By Sil A. on 11-25-16
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-08-15
- Language: English
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Tristessa
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Mike Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Kerouac fell under the spell of Esperanza's dark allure and exotic surroundings, and hoped to re-experience the "fellaheen nights" of his joyous adventures with Mexicans in his past....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gritty
- By William on 06-09-18
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Tristessa
- Narrated by: Mike Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-25-16
- Language: English
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Visions of Cody
- Selections from the Novel
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Graham Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Kerouac examines his own New York life in a collection of colorful stream-of-consciousness essays. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady—here named Cody Pomeray—along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who inspired much of his work.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying
- By A. Yerkes on 07-20-09
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Visions of Cody
- Selections from the Novel
- Narrated by: Graham Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher Jr. - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 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 collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Jack Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Jack's adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well curated collection.
- By Stewart king on 08-01-24
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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Visions of Gerard
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 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 first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother....
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Visions of Gerard
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-23-24
- Language: English
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Doctor Sax
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 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
In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator knows rhythm.
- By john in RI on 09-28-24
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Doctor Sax
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-24-24
- Language: English
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed Jacks biography of The Buddha
- By Joel on 07-10-23
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-07-09
- Language: English
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac at his most honest
- By MckyD’z on 12-01-22
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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The Dharma Bums
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 782
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 673
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 668
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans whose quest for Truth leads them on an odyssey....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical Rendition
- By Michael E on 04-28-20
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The Dharma Bums
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Big Sur
- By: Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan - foreword
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 226
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4 out of 5 stars 187
A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing Ethan Hawke Performance
- By L E Stewart on 11-10-20
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Big Sur
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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On the Road
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: David Carradine
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 264
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Story4 out of 5 stars 217
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."
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1 out of 5 stars
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not the full book
- By Hannah on 12-11-17
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On the Road
- Narrated by: David Carradine
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-28-08
- Language: English
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The Dharma Bums
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4 out of 5 stars 215
Two friends in 1950s San Francisco Bohemia explore Buddhism Zen - hipster style. On the road to finding...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy abridged versions of novels.
- By Ronald C. Wagner on 12-28-09
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The Dharma Bums
- Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-15-99
- Language: English
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The Haunted Life
- And Other Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Liev Schreiber, Luke Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
Jack Kerouac wrote The Haunted Life in 1944 when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liev Schreiber should read more
- By Asmarranda on 04-21-21
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The Haunted Life
- And Other Writings
- Narrated by: Liev Schreiber, Luke Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-11-14
- Language: English
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The Subterraneans
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid and breathless masterwork of Beat literature—from the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums—The Subterraneans is Jack Kerouac’s intoxicating love story of two young bohemians.
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The Subterraneans
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-21-25
- Language: English
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Mexico City Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books.
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Mexico City Blues
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 05-27-25
- Language: English
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On the Road
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Matt Dillon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible a great way to “reread” old classics
- By Alan M Grant on 05-12-20
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On the Road
- Narrated by: Matt Dillon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-16-06
- Language: English
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Book of Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rhythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment.
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Book of Blues
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 05-27-25
- Language: English
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Los Vagabundos del Dharma
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Ignasi Burniol
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Una de las obras capitales de Jack Kerouac, el escritor paradigmático de la Generación Beat. Ambientada en California, expone su descubrimiento del...
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Los Vagabundos del Dharma
- Narrated by: Ignasi Burniol
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-27-24
- Language: Spanish
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