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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 1

By: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Homer, Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Charles Hubbell, James Ellis, Stephen Scalon, Beth Kesler, Lee Howard, Charles Purkey
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This Audiobook contains the following works :

  1. Little women by Louisa May Alcott Start at Chapters 1,
  2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Start at Chapters 48,
  3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Start at Chapters 109,
  4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Start at Chapters 152,
  5. The Odyssey by Homer Start at Chapters 186,
  6. A Tales of Two Cities Start at Chapters 210,
  7. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Start at Chapters 255,
  8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Start at Chapters 268,
  9. The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton Start at Chapters 288,
  10. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum Start at Chapters 300.
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Little women by Louisa May Alcott Start at Chapters 1,

 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Start at Chapters 48,

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Start at Chapters 109,

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Start at Chapters 152,

The Odyssey by Homer Start at Chapters 186,

A Tales of Two Cities Start at Chapters 210,

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Start at Chapters 255,

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Start at Chapters 268,

The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton Start at Chapters 288,

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum Start at Chapters 300.

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Happy to have had a go at reading this but not worth the problems.

However, it did not download properly and really messed up my Audible app. Now I’m faced with trying to get it off my phone 😱

P.S.: could have done without the philosophy piece. Also overall, in many of the stories, there were many mispronunciations. Many!

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Good idea, Bad delivery.

My one complaint is that there is no way of knowing where one novel begins or ends. it begins with chapter 1 and continues into the hundreds. so if you just want to read certain books, you don't know where to begin.
Good idea, terrible delivery. And I wasted 2 credits on this.

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Boring Narrator

Not worth a credit, the term masterpieces is subjective. Boring narrators, wizard of oz is good the rest are very hit or miss.

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Several selections are quite boring

While I might need to read these selections, they are unfortunately somewhat boring. The female reader is much better than most of the male narrators. The Marcus Aurelius entry is a real snorefest. I would not recommend this collection

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won't let me download the book

I'd like to read this book but I can't seem to download it. errors out. change your settings to download in parts ... I'll update my review after I've listened to the book.

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horrible narration

it's like listening to a high school student reading a book report. what a shame because the stories are classics.

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Poorly read masterpieces.

We listened to the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities before returning this Audible. It sounds as if an uneducated high school drama student reads it. He mispronounces even the most basic French words. Atrocious.

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What happened?!

I was on Chapter 288. A GK Chesterton story with 15 minutes to go when it switched over to some woman reading poetry!

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Difficult to navigate

Although the contents of this massive tome are wonderful in their own right, it is impossible to find where one book end and the other begins. It is also not possible to know what book is being like listened to. There is no table of contents available. I may want to experience some of these books but it is impossible lefto find where one begins and another ends.

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