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The Haunted Bookshop
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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In 1917, Christopher Morley published Parnassus on Wheels, a love letter to the art of bookselling. Its suspenseful sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, finds his beloved characters married and still in love with both mystery and literature.
Set in a lovingly evoked Brooklyn just after the end of World War I, The Haunted Bookshop cleverly juxtaposes a pair of middle-aged bookshop owners and two young lovers with a nest of German saboteurs, complete with mysterious clues, red herrings, blushing romance, derring-do, a desperate race to the rescue, and an explosion. More important, the novel is an eloquent hymn to the bookseller’s trade and a fervent plea for the revivifying and redemptive power of literature. The unifying thread of this book, and indeed of the life and work of its author, is its passionate avowal: all that the world and everybody in it needs is a good book.
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- By: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 26 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Sharply observant and wickedly funny, E.F. Benson's six Mapp and Lucia novels satirize the upper-middle-class social climbers in 1920s and '30s rural England. Games of bridge and cups of tea fuel hilarious gossip and vindictive plots a-plenty. It is a masterfully sustained spotlight on the minutiae of village life - a clever and ultimately heart-warming series that seems tailor-made for audio. Volume 1 contains the first three books.
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At last!
- By Grace M-T on 06-15-21
By: E. F. Benson
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Cocaine Blues
- By: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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A series that just gets better
- By Barbara Kindle Customer on 02-01-11
By: Kerry Greenwood
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The Blue Sapphire
- By: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrated by: Hilary Neville
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On a beautiful spring day, Julia Harburn sat on a seat in Kensington Gardens enjoying the sunshine. She was wearing a white frock and a large straw hat with a sapphire-blue ribbon which exactly matched her eyes - a strange coincidence, as it turned out, for the blue sapphire was to have a far-reaching influence upon her life. So far, her life had been somewhat dull and circumscribed; but quite suddenly her horizons were enlarged. She began to make new friends.
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A meandering journey
- By Anonymous User on 07-10-14
By: D. E. Stevenson
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Martin Eden
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created.
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My favorite Jack London book.
- By j daly on 11-26-14
By: Jack London
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Sanshiro
- Penguin Classics
- By: Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
- Narrated by: Andrew Koji
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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This story had no point.
- By icelandicponies on 12-30-21
By: Natsume Soseki, and others
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Emily of New Moon
- By: L.M. Montgomery
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Similar to the Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels follow the life of a young orphan girl. After her father dies of tuberculosis, she is raised by aunts Elizabeth and Laura, one of whom is strict and will stand no nonsense, whereas the other shows kindness and sympathy for a young orphan. Throughout the novel, Emily shows that she is a girl with a love for the beauty and nature and art, loyalty and her friends, a thirst for knowledge, and a passionate dedication to her writing.
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It was fun…however
- By Suzie Q in Texas on 05-10-23
By: L.M. Montgomery
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life.
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Gordon's Grey World is Colored with Grant
- By Timothy on 09-25-11
By: George Orwell
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Aunt Crete's Emancipation
- By: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Aunt Crete has spent a lifetime of toil catering to the needs of her family, especially her waspish sister, Carrie, and social-climbing niece, Louella. When a telegram from a nephew from out west announces his imminent arrival, mother and daughter hasten a trip to the shore to escape the "country cousin" who they are sure will shame them.
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Cute Story with a Great Moral
- By Stephanie Aguilar on 08-03-16
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Scoop
- By: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrated by: Simon Cadell
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
- By Michael on 07-19-15
By: Evelyn Waugh
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- YDS
- 01-12-21
Refreshing change from modern literature!
I so enjoyed listening to this book written in 1919! It was so refreshing to read a book without foul language without characters texting, Making phone calls or stealing information from computers. Refreshing to see a romance budding without sexual content. I enjoyed seeing the mystery develop And as always loving for the Gallant young man coming to rescue the Young woman in danger! The kind of story that is a good mystery and leaves you feeling good with a good ending! I appreciate the patriotic content
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- virginia Hopkins
- 01-12-22
haunted bookshop
so enjoyed the twists and variety of language of a 1919 mystery. Please read you will enjoy!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-14-21
Entertaining to the End
I thoughly enjoyed this book. The narration was perfect. It provided a fun romp through literature.
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- Marion
- 01-18-22
Adorable!
Plus, I learned so much about books I should already have read in my life, and which I will be reading ASAP.
I just loved the Book Man and his wife. If only everyone felt it their duty to teach others what they have learned!
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- Adayam mirsky
- 02-11-24
Very very good.
I loved this second part of parnassus on wheels. As charming and as engaging as the first. The narrator is amazing.
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- anon
- 08-26-22
Fun Little Msytery with a Side of Literature
This little mystery is set soon after WW I. It's not a ghost story. Some will find it quaint as it was written in its own time (1919), but that can be refreshing if you need a break from the graphic violence , sex and non-stop action in many current mystery/thrillers. It's a quick trip, but has good writing, well-drawn characters and a decent adventure. It also includes many references to great literature, several of which I bookmarked to look up later. Finally, if you come from the world of advertising, you'll get a kick out of one of the main characters, who is constantly translating his experience into concepts and slogans.
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- Lori
- 01-09-22
A book of essays with a story in the last 2 chapters
At the start this narration was only good for reading me to sleep. Sadly, the bulk of the story is just Roger Mifflin waxing on and on about the philosophical importance of literature without much glimpse of his lively character as seen in the Parnassus on Wheels. The only early evidence of author’s previous work is when Helen shows up to sparkle for a paragraph or two. Tatiana is also a well done character when she finally arrives. The “story” really doesn’t get going until the chapter 13 or 14 out of 16 - which is entertaining enough. The rest can be interesting for the purpose of hearing the contemplations of the author writing about his outlook on life and society at the end of WWI in 1918 (published in 1919) having come through the the old pandemic and common-man contemplations on statecraft. It’s interesting to hear how similar thoughts and life then are compared with 2022. Not a great book, though it got me through the last of my sweater crocheting!
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- Virago
- 12-25-22
Not thr sequel I was looking for...
3.75 stars.
This is the sequel to Parnassus On Wheels, but it felt nothing like a sequel.
The Haunted Bookshop (haunted by books and authors) was a strange tale about a bookseller and his wife doing a favor for a wealthy businessman man by hiring his daughter to teach her something about life and having a job. Then enter Aubrey, a representative from an advertising agency who wanted to represent The Haunted Bookshop. He is turned away but is so enchanted by the shop that he returns. Aubrey is instantly infatuated with the lovely Miss Tatania. After he is attacked on his way back from the bookshop, he thinks the neighborhood is much too dangerous for an unsoiled dove like Tatania. He then names himself her watcher/protector. In the end, he (stupidly) uncovers an insane plot and inadvertently foils it.
Aubrey was a most annoying character with his insane ideas and self-importance. A lot of the craziness could have been avoided if he had just gone to the police with his suspicions, which could have been proven by his attack. His ridiculousness kind of took me out of the rest of the narrative, which is why this got a much lower rating than Parnassus. Otherwise, it was a good mystery. And I always love hearing my home town (Philly) mentioned in books.
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- Gillian
- 05-19-15
Better Off Imagining A Sequel...
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Did poor narration make the sequel boring, or did writing that dragged and dragged and dragged give the narrator nothing to work with?
One of the problems is that "The Haunted Bookshop" seemed really conflicted about what it was trying to be. Charming? A tiny bit of that. Mystery? Tiny bit. Espionage? Tiny bit. Romance? Itty bit. SEVERAL bombastic lectures about many, many books, eras, authors, not even parsed out as discussions but vomited onto the page as diatribes? Oooooh, plenty, PLENTY of that! And keep in mind that Stefan Rudnicki's voice is that of an anchorman, or an historian. Considering that this novel takes place after World War I, I could easily hear Rudnicki narrating a lengthy historical work on the time period, and that would have been fine. This, however? What little charm there might have been was lost.
I would've missed Nadia May from "Parnassus On Wheels," but the characters were missing here, and she would've had nothing to work with. It was odd, really. In the last book, there was some scrapping that went on, but that just seemed like some hardheadedness. Here, I found individuals to be, quite simply, obnoxious and foul. Go figure.
I missed the characters, I guess.
Once again, I'll advise: If you do wish to listen to this: Get the kindle whispersync for cheap first, so you can get the special audible price. Trust me, you don't want to pay full price for this one...
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- Peggy S.
- 08-17-16
Old fashioned adventure yarn.
This is a sweet story about a man and his love of literature and the people who support him and find love in the haunted bookstore.
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