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Babel
- Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift. Until it became a prison. But can a student stand against an empire?
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5 out of 5 stars
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great mix of linguistics, history and magical realism
- By Anonymous User on 12-28-24
- Babel
- Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
Cool concept and world.
Reviewed: 11-18-24
I appreciate the difficulty of having a single voice pronounce words natively in so many different languages, but editing individual words in was nonetheless annoying.
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