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The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Full-Cast Production Featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Full Cast Audio Drama, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
The most renowned and wittiest of Oscar Wilde's comedies, The Importance of Being Earnest ridicules Victorian sensibilities and is still strikingly relevant to this day. This full-cast audio adaptation featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Bracknell is unique yet at the same time reassuringly familiar, with wonderful performances from the Offstage Theatre Group.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The lack of expression!
- By trixie01 on 07-22-24
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Full-Cast Production Featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Full Cast Audio Drama, Tim Brooke-Taylor
The lack of expression!
Reviewed: 07-22-24
A sad performance of a hilarious play. Oscar Wilde would be terribly disappointed. So was I.
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The Shape of Water
- By: Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,019
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,467
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,450
The Shape of Water is set in Cold War-era Baltimore at the Occam Aerospace Research Center, which has recently received its most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man captured in the Amazon. What unfolds is a stirring romance between the asset and one of the janitors on staff, a mute woman who uses sign language to communicate with the creature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- By E. Chadwick on 03-29-18
- The Shape of Water
- By: Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
An Amazing Journey
Reviewed: 05-10-19
I did not think the book would be better than the movie. However with reading “The Shape of Water” I found that both the book and the movie are magnificent. The book wins. Rarely have I found myself crying at the end of the story but I did and I am still. Trying to put it into words does it a disservice so I will just say that I hope each reader decides for themselves to read and listen to perfection.
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,167
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,007
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,993
In this intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary, Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately "benefit humanity".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful reading, disturbing book
- By Tad Davis on 11-03-08
- Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Great Performance
Reviewed: 01-21-18
Dr. Childers!!! Anthony Heald rocks this version. Be ready for intense concentration and splendid entertainment!!
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 36 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 931
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 535
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Story4 out of 5 stars 531
This is the story of the unhappy family of Anna Karenina. The novel contains much concerning Tolstoy's spiritual crisis and his search for the meaning of life. But it is also chiefly about marriage, and the growth and death of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a good supplement
- By Victoria on 06-20-03
- Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
Listened to this four times, never will tire of it
Reviewed: 03-25-15
Would you listen to Anna Karenina again? Why?
Yes I will listen to it again and again. The book itself draws the listener to the story with it being one of the top 5 classics. And when it is read, it comes to life.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Levin, always Levin. He tries to figure things out, he is spiritual without realizing it. He is generous, faithful, evolving.
What does Davina Porter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I think her best characterizations are of Anna and Kitty. When she reads, these women become very real.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
My extreme reaction is that I am addicted to it.
Any additional comments?
Thank you Mr. Tolstoy for the gift of this novel.
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War and Peace, Volume 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,634
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,199
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,189
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Truly Great Book and a Truly Astounding Narrator
- By A Midwesterner in Jersey on 05-18-09
- War and Peace, Volume 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
Tolstoy Rocks
Reviewed: 02-11-15
What did you love best about War and Peace, Volume 1?
I love Tolstoy. I love the way he writes, his character development. I love everything about this book, even it's length.
What did you like best about this story?
War and Peace is brutally realistic and passionately written.
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War and Peace, Volume 2
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 31 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,106
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,754
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,753
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A long book, but at least the chapters are short
- By Tad Davis on 09-11-08
- War and Peace, Volume 2
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
Humanity by Tolstoy
Reviewed: 02-11-15
If you could sum up War and Peace, Volume 2 in three words, what would they be?
Realistic-life is unpredictable as are the lives of the characters in War and Peace. There is no escape from the horror of the war, all are touched. Thought provoking. Rich.
What did you like best about this story?
I enjoyed the way Tolstoy makes sure a character is revealed in great depth.
What does Neville Jason bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He was easy to listen to, and this book was a year long commitment for me when I read it!
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Wuthering Heights
- By: Emily Brontë
- Narrated by: Patricia Routledge
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 849
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Story4 out of 5 stars 754
The passionate and tragic story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is one of the high points of 19th-century Romantic literature. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, and in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors of its setting, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with a disregard for convention and an instinct for poetry and the darkest depths of the human soul in torment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved how much I hated everyone
- By Dan Harlow on 07-07-13
- Wuthering Heights
- By: Emily Brontë
- Narrated by: Patricia Routledge
My Favorite Audio Book
Reviewed: 02-11-15
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I recommend this audio book to all my friends! I could not tear myself away from this story and narrator.
What did you like best about this story?
The narrator took me to each scene in the book. I felt the presence of the characters, they were real. The best performance by a narrator. Incredible.
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