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Dombey and Son
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 40 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
This novel centers around Mr. Dombey, a wealthy merchant who struggles to cope with the death of his wife and the care of his infant son as the story opens. He hires a nurse to bring up little Paul. Meanwhile, other new characters are brought into the story, including Captain Cuttle, Sol Gills, and Walter Gay. As their lives come into contact with the Dombey household, complications arise. When Dombey discovers that Walter, a lowly clerk in his office, is infatuated with his daughter, Florence, he sends him to the West Indies to prevent any possibility of a romance developing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing narrator for a new Dickens novel for me
- By Doree on 04-19-15
- Dombey and Son
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
Great narrator!
Reviewed: 01-09-24
I have read some reviews which fail to do justice to the narration. Charton Griffin, in my opinion, brilliantly brought to life the multifarious characters with just the right ironic edge.
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The Spoils of Poynton
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Maureen O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
Mrs Gereth, a wealthy widow, is dreading the day that her son, Owen, gets married. She hopes that he will marry a woman who will appreciate their home and all of its treasures as she does. So she enlists the help of Fleda Vetch to try to corrupt the impending marriage of her son and Mona Brigstock - a philistine who is determined to marry Owen in order to inherit Mrs Gereth’s valuable possessions and home by any means. Meanwhile, Fleda hides her real feelings towards Owen. Even when he ends up feeling the same way, Fleda cannot bring herself to marry him as this would force him to break his engagement to Mona, and thus betray all of her own ideals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By LCantoni on 07-31-10
- The Spoils of Poynton
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Maureen O'Brien
I expected good and got great instead
Reviewed: 05-01-23
This was magnificent. The narration was great as well. Indeed the narration may have been why it was so magnificent. I love James but was surprised by this lesser known work of his.
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The Beast in Man
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Sex, betrayal, murder and corruption form the basis of this sensational novel by one of the leading French authors of the 19th century. Jacques Lantier is a man with a hereditary homicidal lust. When he sees Roubaud and his wife Severine slit the throat of a wealthy nobleman, it is the catalyst for a string of murders in a convoluted plot full of horror and suspense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Furious pace
- By Tad Davis on 08-10-18
- The Beast in Man
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
Not for the faint of heart
Reviewed: 12-16-20
Stunning, brilliant and deeply disquieting. Wikipedia, in its summary of the life and works of Emile Zola, has a whole section on him as an optimist. Look for that, perhaps, in his other writings, because there's not the least basis for that conclusion based on The Beast in Man. At the end of the book I struggled to find any character with any significant redeeming quality to counteract the inherent evil which permeates virtually all of them. I can think of one, maybe. If I had known how the plot would proceed I probably would not have read the book. It would have been my loss.
The narrator is terrific.
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The Professor
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 340
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Story4 out of 5 stars 304
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- By ilene on 12-26-16
- The Professor
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: James Wilby
no wonder it was originally rejected for publicati
Reviewed: 07-15-20
Written with precision and elegance, the story itself is predictable and maudlin. The main female character is faultless to the point of saintliness. Other characters, for the most part, are also lacking in any verisimilitude and are one dimensional. The narrator is excellent. In sum, anyone who enjoys the Bronte sisters will find this worthy of reading so long as expectations are not great.
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