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Title: Money

Author: Émile Zola, Valerie Minogue (translator)

Narrator: Napoleon Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.

Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful new bank and speculation on the stock market; Saccard meanwhile conducts his love life as energetically as he does his business, and his empire is seemingly unstoppable.

Saccard, last encountered in The Kill (La Curée) in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the first new translation for more than 100 years, and the first unabridged translation in English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes.

Members Reviews:

A forgotten gem

Wall Street shenanigans are nothing new. Zola wrote about the French equivalent in 1891. Zola's works stand the test of time and it's a shame he is read so little today. Saccard is deliciously bad. You can't help liking him just for his shear mendacity and financial chutzpah. A 19th c. version of Bernie Madoff . Napolean Ryan is perfect as a narrator every bit as brilliant with character voice as Fredrick Davidson.

Old School Bernie Madoff!

Amazing book about the rise and fall of a Madoff's great-great-great-great-great French grandfather! The greatest lesson we can learn from history is that history repeats itself and if we don't learn from the past then we are destined to repeat it.

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Title: Obyiknovennaya istoriya

Author: I. A. Goncharov

Narrator: Nikolay Savitskiy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-14

Publisher: Dmytro Strelbytskyy

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Roman Obyiknovennaya istoriya prines pisatelyu nastoyaschee priznanie. Stolknovenie dvuh tsentralnyih geroev romana - Adueva-dyadi i Adueva-plemyannika, olitsetvoryayuschih trezvyiy praktitsizm i vostorzhennyiy idealizm, - vosprinimalos sovremennikami kak strashnyiy udar romantizmu, mechtatelnosti, sentimentalnosti, provintsializmu. Sovremennyiy chitatel, veroyatno, vosprimet roman inache - kak samuyu obyiknovennuyu istoriyu ohlazhdeniya i otrezvleniya cheloveka, kak vechnuyu temu zhizni.

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Critic Reviews:

Roman Obyiknovennaya istoriya prines pisatelyu nastoyaschee priznanie. Stolknovenie dvuh tsentralnyih geroev romana Adueva-dyadi i Adueva-plemyannika, olitsetvoryayuschih trezvyiy praktitsizm i vostorzhennyiy idealizm, vosprinimalos sovremennikami kak strashnyiy udar romantizmu, mechtatelnosti, sentimentalnosti, provintsializmu. Sovremennyiy chitatel, veroyatno, vosprimet roman inache kak samuyu obyiknovennuyu istoriyu ohlazhdeniya i otrezvleniya cheloveka, kak vechnuyu temu zhizni.

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Title: Oblomov

Author: I. A. Goncharov

Narrator: Vjacheslav Gerasimov

Format: Original Recording

Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-14

Publisher: Dmytro Strelbytskyy

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Roman Oblomov (1859), zavoevav ogromnyj uspeh, sprovociroval burnye spory. Storonniki odnogo mnenija traktovali oblomovshhinu kak simvol kosnosti Rossii s sovershenno inertnym i apatichnym glavnym geroem romana. Drugie videli v romane filosofskoe osmyslenie russkogo nacional'nogo haraktera, osobogo nravstvennogo puti, protivostojashhego suete vsepogloshhajushhego progressa. Nezavisimo ot literaturnoj kritiki, my imeem vozmozhnost' soprikosnut'sja s tonkim psihologicheskim risunkom, dushevnoj glubinoj geroja, mjagkim jumorom i lirizmom avtora.

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Critic Reviews:

Roman Oblomov (1859), zavoevav ogromnyj uspeh, sprovociroval burnye spory. Storonniki odnogo mnenija traktovali oblomovshhinu kak simvol kosnosti Rossii s sovershenno inertnym i apatichnym glavnym geroem romana. Drugie videli v romane filosofskoe osmyslenie russkogo nacional'nogo haraktera, osobogo nravstvennogo puti, protivostojashhego suete vsepogloshhajushhego progressa. Nezavisimo ot literaturnoj kritiki, my imeem vozmozhnost' soprikosnut'sja s tonkim psihologicheskim risunkom, dushevnoj glubinoj geroja, mjagkim jumorom i lirizmom avtora.

Members Reviews:

Part 2 is missing.

What disappointed you about Oblomov?

Part 2 is missing. There are 4 parts of the book and whole part 2 is missing. Please fix it.

Loved this story!!!

Performance is a bit theatrical, but I loved everything about this story! Carries with it a great life lesson.

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. . Highly recommended!

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Title: Netochka Nezvanova [Russian Edition]

Author: F. M. Dostoevskij

Narrator: Tat'jana Telegina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-29-14

Publisher: Dmytro Strelbytskyy

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Netochka Nezvanova - povest, napisannaya vskore posle Belyih nochey. No v otlichie ot poeticheskih, hrupkih oschuscheniy goroda u geroya Belyih nochey zdes romanticheski zaostrennyie peterburgskie kontrastyi, boleznenno voshedshie v dushu rebenka devochki, prevrativshie ee zhizn v strannyiy, fantasticheskiy haos, kogda ee detskoe voobrazhenie ne v silah spravitsya s realnostyu etih kontrastov. Iz knigi G.B.Ponomarevoy Dostoevskiy: Ya zanimayus etoy taynoy

Critic Reviews:

Netochka Nezvanova - povest, napisannaya vskore posle Belyih nochey. No v otlichie ot poeticheskih, hrupkih oschuscheniy goroda u geroya Belyih nochey zdes romanticheski zaostrennyie peterburgskie kontrastyi, boleznenno voshedshie v dushu rebenka devochki, prevrativshie ee zhizn v strannyiy, fantasticheskiy haos, kogda ee detskoe voobrazhenie ne v silah spravitsya s realnostyu etih kontrastov. Iz knigi G.B.Ponomarevoy Dostoevskiy: Ya zanimayus etoy taynoy

Members Reviews:

Not His Best Work

IMO not F.D'.s best work by a long shot. Skip this one if you have not yet read C & P or the Brothers K. Far superior to N.N. I would also place the Idiot ahead of N.N.

Unforgettable Characters!

This is an unfinished novel which features some unforgettable character portraits. I'm thinking escpecially of Nitochka's step-father who is as memorable as any character ever created by Dostoyevsky. It is well worth reading even though it was unfinished because of Dostoyevsky's arrest for translating a banned book into the russian language. Dostoyevsky is often too wordy in all of his novels but he is still my favorite author because his novels are so compelling, his characters so real and his writing so beautiful and so hard to stop reading. If you haven't read Dostoyevsky (also spelled Dostoevsky) you may not want to start with this novel. I would start, as I did start a long time ago, with Crime And Punishment.

In defense of the third part

I am not in the habit of writing reviews, but I feel compelled to respond to the many negative comments regarding the third part of the story, which I regard as the best.

There is perhaps some merit to the claim that the last section lacks some of the polish and relative coherence of the rest of the book, but I don't regard this as a real deficiency. These very features help the reader experience some of the same doubt, uncertainty, and ungroundedness that is experienced and depicted by the narrator Netochka. This makes the final section feel especially vivid and alive.

The personalities of three main characters of the third section are all artfully depicted. The depiction of the husband is especially masterful. The letter is also brilliant, and seems to hint at times of the style, if not the substance, of Notes from Underground. Generally, this section seems to presage Dostoevsky's later masterworks more than the rest of the book. I wish he had been able to finish the novel, but the brilliant fragments to be found in this text make it well worth reading.

Dostoevsky never ceases to amaze, and this book is no exception

Dostoevsky never ceases to amaze, and this book is no exception. No words with how in awe I am of this story.

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Title: The Mysterious Island

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

During the Civil War, five Union soldiers and a dog quietly escape from the clutches of the Confederate Army at Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon. Their intention was to simply drift safely over to the Union lines and rejoin their own troops. Instead, while aloft, they were caught in a high wind and whisked hundreds of miles out to sea. The men carried no provisions for survival and had no idea where they were. Under those circumstances their future was bleak. Worse yet, the balloon was leaking air and slowly deflating. As the balloon made its slow descent from the sky, the men were fortunate to spot an island in the distance. As the balloon dropped lower and lower it also drifted closer to the island. When the basket hit the sea, the partially deflated balloon dragged it violently across the surface and scattered the men among the waves. The men were able to swim to their only refuge...the mysterious island. At first the island was accomodating, but then it became more mysterious as unusual and strange happenings occured. Something deep in the depths of the island seemed to have control...something mysterious and unidentifiable....

Members Reviews:

Old school still interesting

Great tale, with unexpected cameo appearance.

I especially enjoyed the narrator's characterizations. Ready for more.

the book is great but...

absolutely love the book! the narration on the other hand was a bit irritating at times. I'm not sure if he was too near the mic, but it was loud and almost as if he were spitting in the mic. There is also an echo that confused me because the echo came after what was spoken but the content was what was about to be spoken so it was ahead of the narrator.

Loved the movie so decided to try this . . .

This is not the Harryhausen movie at all but I really enjoyed it too. Dreaming of being on a deserted island is just that. This book has all the hard work it would take not just to survive but to thrive. I got to labor along with them and learn how it could be done. Wow! What an adventure! Incredible wildlife including animals and pirates. A lesson on life and redemption. Loved the narration too. Long and satisfying.

Fantastic Story

What made the experience of listening to The Mysterious Island the most enjoyable?

The listening experience had its ups and downs. In particular often times while listening there appeared to be some type of background noise by the performer.

What other book might you compare The Mysterious Island to and why?

It was such an incredible story I really can't compare it to anything else.

Which character as performed by Gene Engene was your favorite?

All the characters were terrific.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The problem solving in the book was exceptional to think how long ago this was written. An absolute treasure of a book.

Felt Like A Classic

The narrator does an excellent job, the story is refreshing and keeps interest. Well worth.

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Title: The Vicar of Wakefield

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrator: Nicholas Farrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-14

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1766 and a perennial favorite since then, The Vicar of Wakefield is built around the naïve but loveable figure of Dr Primrose. He and his family live in rural bliss until disaster threatens to destroy their happiness: abduction, impoverishment, and betrayal combine to lay them low, but a surprising figure brings hope when all seems lost.

Members Reviews:

Well narrated classic novel

The Vicar of Wakefield is a delightful book (from the late 18th or early 19th century), by Oliver Goldsmith (here narrated by Nicolas Farrell) that has held up as an engaging melodrama over a couple of centuries. The story concerns the Rev. Doctor Primrose and his family as they go from fortune to ruin, from living well to living precariously--typical of many stories of that time. If it seems a little predictable to us now, I suspect it was cherished by those who were reading it for the first time.

The story shows Rev. Primrose having to find ways to manage one crisis after another--whether losing his income, having his daughter fall into a bad situation, or people who are not what they seem. Throughout it all, he appears always to hold on to his optimism, indeed, others have likened him to (the Book of) Job in the Bible. Although less sophisticated than most of what we read these days, the story still is a good listen--and a reminder of what kind of stories used to excite an audience. (And by the way, there is much to take from it for our current times as well--certain human characteristics don't change that much). There is good tension among the characters, and certainly everything moves quickly--from one dilemma to the next. The Rev. Primrose and other characters are like the players in many novels of the time, in that they are, for the most part, rather two-dimensional.

Nicolas Farrell has done a very good job of bringing a fresh reading to us--and that is easily one of the best parts of this recording. If you are just yearning to have a fun read from the classics, this is quite good.

Hohum

Not much if you compare it to a dickens or a Trollope And the reader was beyond tiresome

Excellant Audiobook

This is an unexpected treat. Was not too sure if I should buy it, now very glad I did. I like stories of the past, anything from 12th C to 19th C. They give you a sense of how people thought, morals, & society in general.

Too many areas of the story to pin down to one specific moment. So much of interest happening in this.

Nicholas Farrell's calm melodious narration is why this book works for me. He takes you through the story in a good clear voice , with enough variation in tone to smoothly keep you interested to the very end.

Genuine feel good story

BEWARE plot spoilers.

This book is at times very funny, and at others very sad. The titular Vicar and his family descend from good standing and wealth, to near poverty. They lose their children's reputations to wicked seducers, other children to death, nearly all perish when their house is burned to the ground, get swindled regularly by tricksters, and end up in a debtors prison. However at the end, all is restored, and more, with even a dead child coming back to life! The vicar 'narrates' the book, so all opinions are given via him, showing his thoughts about his wife, his situation etc with a slightly skewed but funny view point.

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Titel: Nathan der Weise

Autor:: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Erzähler: Ernst F. Fürbringer, Edith Heerdegen, Erich Ponto, Elfriede Kuzmany, Lina Carstens

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 34 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-21-14

Herausgeber: SWR Edition

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Classics, European Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Als der Jude Nathan während eines Waffenstillstands des Dritten Kreuzzugs von einer Geschäftsreise zurückkommt, erfährt er, dass seine Pflegetochter Recha von einem jungen christlichen Tempelherrn aus dem Feuer seines brennenden Hauses gerettet worden ist. Der Ordensritter wiederum verdankt sein Leben dem muslimischen Herrscher Jerusalems, Sultan Saladin, der ihn begnadigt hat, weil er seinem verstorbenen Bruder Assad ähnlich sieht. Saladin befindet sich in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten.

Deswegen lässt er, auf Rat seiner Schwester Sittah, den vermögenden Nathan zu sich bringen, um dessen in ganz Jerusalem gerühmte Großzügigkeit auf die Probe zu stellen. Anstatt diesen aber direkt um Geld zu bitten, gibt Saladin vor, zunächst Nathans ebenfalls überall gepriesene Weisheit testen zu wollen, und fragt ihn nach der "wahren Religion". Nathan, von seinem Freund Al-Hafi bereits über Saladins Geldnöte unterrichtet und vor dessen finanzieller Leichtfertigkeit gewarnt, erkennt die Falle. Er entscheidet sich, Saladin "mit einem Märchen abzuspeisen", und beantwortet dessen Frage mit der Parabel, die drei großen Religionen als gleichwertige Ringe darstellt. Tief beeindruckt versteht Saladin dieses Gleichnis sofort. Von Nathans Humanität gerührt, bittet er diesen, von nun an dessen Freund sein zu dürfen. Nathan willigt gern ein und schenkt Saladin, ohne dass er darum gebeten worden wäre, obendrein ein großzügiges Darlehen. Der junge Tempelherr, der Recha zwar aus den Flammen gerettet, aber bisher als bloßes Judenmädchen kaum beachtet hat, wird von Nathan mit ihr zusammengeführt, verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in sie und möchte sie auf der Stelle heiraten. Sein Name jedoch lässt Nathan noch zögern, seine Einwilligung zu geben.

Regie und Bearbeitung: Paul Hoffmann, Musik: Rolf Unkel.

© Gemeinfrei (P)1956 SWR

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Title: Povesti Belkina

Subtitle: audiospektakl'

Author: Aleksandr Pushkin

Narrator: Oleg Bourdelov, Oleg Gerasimov, Artyom Karapetyan, Alexander Kovryzhnykh, Yuliya Lobanova, Nikolaj Denisov, Anastasiya Tarasova

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Povesti Belkina. Radiospektakl'V jetih istorijah, kak i v zhizni, tragedija tesno pereplelas' s ironiej, a vozvyshennoe so smeshnym. Nad oficerom Sil'vio smejalas' sama sud'ba v obraze blestjashhego i udachlivogo sopernika. Kak ni brosit' vyzov jetoj sud'be! I kak ni predostavit' ej pravo streljat' pervoj?

("VYSTREL")Mozhno li poljubit' cheloveka, s kotorym vy obvenchalis' po oshibke? ("METEL''") A najti svoe schast'e s tem, kto dolzhen byl brosit' tebja na proizvol sud'by? ("STANCIONNYJ SMOTRITEL''")Kogo priglasit' na novosel'e neljudimomu grobovshhiku, krome blagodarnyh mertvecov-klientov? ("GROBOVShhIK")I, nakonec, zachem znatnoj baryshne vydavat' sebja za krest'janku vo vremja svidanij? ("BARYShNJa-KREST''JaNKA")Soderzhanie:VystrelMetel'Stancionnyj smotritel'GrobovshhikBaryshnja-krest'janka.

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Title: Drakula

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Evgeniya Afanasyeva, Diomid Vinogradov, Sergey Kirsanov, Elena Morozova, Stepan Starchikov, Evgeny Ternovskiy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-13

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Roman Brema Stokera obshheizvestnaja klassika vampirskogo zhanra, a ego graf Drakula poistine bessmertnoe sushhestvo, perezhivshee mnozhestvo jekranizacij i stavshee voploshheniem vsego samogo kovarnogo i tainstvennogo, na chto tol'ko sposobna chelovecheskaja fantazija. Vam predstoit uslyshat' pjat' golosov, povestvujushhih o perezhityh imi koshmarnyh vstrechah s Drakuloj. Devushka Ljusi, poluchivshaja smertel'nyj ukus i postepenno stanovjashhajasja vampirom, ee vozljublennyj, ne nahodjashhij sebe mesta ot otchajan'ja, muzhestvennyj vrach, raspoznajushhij zloveshhie simptomy Otryvki iz ih dnevnikov i pisem shag za shagom budut priblizhat' vas k razgadke zloveshhej tajny.

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Title: Favorite Irish Fairy Tales

Author: Philip Smith

Narrator: Des Keogh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-13

Publisher: Dover Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Six Gaelic tales of wonder and adventure, read in an authentic brogue by actor Des Keogh, transport wee listeners to a magic world of leprechauns and giants.

Members Reviews:

Nice quick listen

Great quick lunch time listen of light stories. child appropriate. not Grimm Brothers style tales.