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Title: The Hole in the Wall

Author: Arthur Morrison

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-11

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur Morrison... grew up in the East End of London and was familiar with life on the dockside. He tells the story of The Hole in the Wall through the eyes of young Stephen Kemp, taken to live with his grandfather after the death of his mother. Nat Kemp is determined to keep his grandson apart from the seamier side of the Docklands but Stephen has a natural inquisitiveness that will not be quelled. What is the secret behind the collapse of the shipping firm Viney and Marr? What are the sins Stephen speaks of when he says, My grandfather was a Publican and a sinner as you will see. His public house was The Hole in the Wall on the river's edge at Wapping and his sins, all of them that I know of, are recorded here. Listen and find out as the yarn, full of skulduggery, rattles along to the finish.

Critic Reviews:

About Assembled Stories: Over the years the national press have reviewed Assembled Stories titles as "excellent", "remarkable", "entrancing", "superb", "magic for sure", "masterly", "wonderful", "a class act" and "a splendid example of audio at its best".

Members Reviews:

Enjoyed it.

Another old novel, based in tragedy and hardship, working its way through misadventures and ruthless selfishness, coming out .... well, no spoilers, OK? There's nothing profound or startling here, but it's a good story and I enjoyed it.

a late victorian Oliver Twist

An interesting take on the East End narrated through the eyes of a young boy although the narratorial style gets a little ham-handed at times.

The Hole in the Wall

It's Ok, but just that.

A must read!

This is another great work from England. All I can say is read this. I wished my Grandfather was as loving as the one portrayed in this short novel.

Wow

This book is gold medal because it very fun to read read and because the mystery makes me bite my nails.

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Title: Tobermory

Author: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-11

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. Hector Hugh Munro at his most masterful!

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Title: Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Geraldine James

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-11

Publisher: The Copyright Group

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Although set in the heart of rural England, in a place still untouched by industrial development or social upheaval, Silas Marner is no idyllic country tale. Eliot depicts village life good and bad: Silass suspicious neighbours are far from perfect and both the squires sons are deeply flawed characters. The hero himself is a naïve individual and in his unhappiness becomes a miser. But the long suffering Silas finds new meaning to life through the love for an orphaned child, and finally this gentle moral fable has a happy ending.

Members Reviews:

"Hope for the Hopeless . . ."

This was a fine story and novel, almost a novella as it is not lengthy. This is a story about a weaver and the weaving trade in days gone by.

It is a story about a steady personality (the protagonist) who overcomes devastating adversity and personal cruelty under small favourable circumstances which are both unpredictable for the reader and could be true to life. This novel, could be based on a true story for its detail and convincing authenticity of trade and character development. The storyline lent itself well to being dramatized with Sir Ben Kingsley playing "Silas"

in the 1980's BBC production which adheres well to the intention expressed in the novel by George Eliot

The paperback by George Elliot makes a fine gift for a young person starting life.

not just for high school students

Most of my friends read Silas Marner in high school English and still shudder, but my high school marched to a different drummer (or none) and I had never read it. No one would pretend that it is one of George Eilot's masterpieces -- it's no Middlemarch, not by a long shot. But even in its much smaller way, it has all the germs of her intelligence, literary style, and human compassion, even when tainted by a certain predictability and triteness of plot. It also has Eliot's greatest weakness, which is that she seems to lose interest in the central situation she creates once it has been fully developed, and as in many of her (greater) books, rushes to the end once it is in sight.

Still, no person who wishes to be thought literate in English literature should not have read Silas Marner. For whatever shortcomings it may have, it's a page turner by a literary master.

It's a classic!

I very much enjoyed this classic book. I was never required to read it in school, so had no preconceived opinion about it. It was a sad tale with a happy ending of the "and they lived happily ever after type." The only reasoning I rated it 4 stars instead of 5 is because of all the detail. Like a lot of classics, there was so much detail that I neither wanted nor understood. For the most part, I just skimmed over it. Nevertheless, I found it a good story, well worth the time to read.

Sorry I didn't read it earlier

I was supposed to read this book in 9th grade but didn't. Fudged my way through. Now, fifty-four years later, I regret not doing my assignments. Eliot accurately captures the lifestyle and culture of 19th century rural England. She also clearly demonstrates the unconscious loss a hoarder and a loner sustains. Is there a moral here? Perhaps more of a reminder to us of where gold really lies.

An outstanding story.

This is a fabulous story. I have read it many times in a regular edition. This edition is very large with small print. It is like a large sheet of paper.

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Title: The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

Author: Anne Bronte

Narrator: Carole Boyd, David Rintoul

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-11

Publisher: The Copyright Group

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When a beautiful young woman, thought to be recently widowed, suddenly moves into the half ruined Wildfell Hall with her five year old son, young squire Gilbert Markham and the local residents are intrigued. Gilbert meets the aloof newcomer Helen Graham by chance, falls in love with her, and she with him. Their passion is held in check by her mysterious relationship with the handsome but cruel Arthur Huntingdon. Her dramatic flight from him is revealed in her journal a story within a story.

Members Reviews:

Anne Bronte's masterpiece

First of all, I'm a big fan of 19th century Victorian British literature. I love Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, and so on. Unfortunately, this novel by Anne Bronte has not been given its due. It has definitely taken a back seat to her sisters more famous novels, the eldest Bronte, Charlotte's "Jane Eyre," and the middle sisters, Emily's "Wuthering Heights." Anne died very young of illness in her early 20s, and Emily died too, around the same time. Apparently her surviving older sister, Charlotte had the idea that Anne had written an offensive, inappropriate, and possibly embarrassing book, so she suppressed it.

Charlotte seems to have believed that Anne had no authority to write on the subject matter, which delves into some dark places, including just about every kind of human abuse - spousal, emotional, physical, child, drug, alcohol, financial, and even animal cruelty. Apparently for these reasons, Charlotte blocked further publications of Anne's major novel, posthumously, for some time. Also, once it finally resurfaced, sadly, apparently it was largely rewritten by male writers, unauthorized, and what we have today is probably not exactly as Anne Bronte intended, but we can only hope that enough of her story and her personal touch remains.

A woman leaving an abusive husband is not so shocking or unusual in terms of today's standards, but in Victorian times, it was not just frowned on and shocking, it was illegal for a woman to leave her husband for ANY reason, or to live off her own income or labor. At that time, unfortunately for all women, the law in Britain still followed the Napoleonic Code, which said that women were basically sub-human, in the same category as children, and mental incompetents. Women had no legal rights to speak of, but that soon began to change for the better, as laws reformed. Nevertheless, our heroine reaches her limits, and at last rebels against her cruel, belittling, abusive husband, for the sake of her child, and they flee.

There is a lot of excitement in the story, and twists in the plot. It seems to me, true to life, as far as spousal abuse, and other dysfunctional forms of human relationships. Apparently Anne may have gotten some of her ideas of dysfunctional relationships from observing her brother, who seemed to have substance abuse problems, and her experiences observing the lives of the very wealthy through her time working in aristocratic homes, as a governess. These experiences probably informed her creation of our aristocratic, proud, uncompromising, talented, highly intelligent, but rebellious heroine. However, Anne's personal experiences alone could not have produced this surprising, dark, and unusual story, which in many ways is ahead of its time. Apparently Anne had skill in story telling, and great imagination.

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Title: Hamlet (Dramatised)

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: John Gielgud, Pamela Brown

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-10

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarried to the murderer, his uncle. This is widely regarded as the definitive performance of Hamlet, starring Sir John Gielgud and Pamela Brown.

Members Reviews:

Not all Hamlet

They skip scenes and entire paragraphs from Shakespeare's Hamlet. I am very upset with this book.

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Title: Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

Narrator: Philip Jackson

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-10

Publisher: CSA Word

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Gullivers Travels has been in print since its first publication in 1726, due to its popularity with young and old alike. As well as a wildly imaginative tale of travel and adventure, it is a comment on human nature and an overblown explorers story, rich in symbolism and humour. Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon, sets sail on expeditions to extraordinary worlds. He is twelve times larger than the inhabitants of Liliput, who recruit him into their military, and equally as small to the people of Brobdingnag.

His journeys grow more and more strange. Satirical and absurd in its twists and turns, which invariably see Gulliver either fleeing or ejected by the strange tribes of people he meets, this CSA WORD production will be a welcome addition to any audio collection. Now an epic film starring Jack Black and Emily Blunt.

Members Reviews:

Three adventure tales and biting satire on human nature.

JoeDanDonigi

Each adventure he encounters radically different problems. The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver include first, people six inches tall, second a land of giants seventy or so feet tall, and people living in an island-cloud. The fourth voyage, were his men mutiny, foreshadowing the darker side of human nature that follows. They desert on an island where the Houyhnhnms rule. A land of noble talking horses, who can't believe Gulliver has intelligence, ala Planet of the Apes, because the humans/Yahoos on their island seem but. This causes a series of discussions with Gulliver and his "master" a horse who can't grasp lying, greediness and all the various other human frailties. A in his discussions with his master causes Gulliver to be more and more disgusted with the Yahoos on their island and even the humans back home. If knew more about 1850's English history I might of understood the societal, political times of England and Europe in general at that time. There is also an annotated volume which includes more detail. But I didn't read it so don't feel qualified to make an opinion on it, just letting people who are interested informing them it's out there.

Photoman35mm

A classic

I recommend the classic novels in literature to everyone, however, this Novel test your endurance. The beginning of the novel is very good very interesting and reads well. The last roughly 3rd slows down a bit and is difficult to stay with . Over all I did enjoy reading this book .

KINDLE VERSION FORMATTING SUCKS

THIS REVIEW SPECIFICALLY FOR THE KINDLE EDITION--

I was disappointed with the formatting on this classic. At least on my Kindle Fire, the footnote and endnote shortcuts seem to malfunction. Some bad line breaks and lots of small annoying things contribute to an overall less than satisfactory experience.

But it is free.

A Fantastic Voyage

This is far better than any of the various film versions of this novel. A tv mini series starring Ted Danson seems to get the author's satarical nature instead of just being a voyage to four fantastical lands.

Since this was one of my grown son's favorite books, I gave this book to his son ...

Since this was one of my grown son's favorite books, I gave this book to his son (my grandson) for Christmas. He loved it!

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Título: El retrato de Dorian Gray I [The Picture of Dorian Gray I]

Autor: Oscar Wilde

Narrador: Víctor Prieto

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 7 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 12-06-10

Editor: NEAR, S.A.

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Classics, British Literature

Resumen del editor:

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Oscar Wilde nació en 1854, en Dublín. Hijo del cirujano William Wills-Wilde y de la escritora Joana Elgee. Oscar Wilde combinó sus estudios universitarios con viajes por Italia, Grecia, Estados Unidos y Francia, al tiempo que publicaba en varios periódicos y revistas sus primeros poemas. Fue excepcionalmente bien recibido en las universidades y centros culturales británicos y franceses. El éxito de Wilde se basaba en el ingenio punzante que derrochaba en sus obras, dedicadas casi siempre a fustigar las hipocresías de sus contemporáneos. Tuvo una enorme popularidad como dramaturgo, con obras como Salomé, o La importancia de llamarse Ernesto. Su éxito, sin embargo, se vio truncado en 1895 cuando el marqués de Queenberry inició una campaña de difamación en periódicos y revistas acusándole de homosexual. El 27 de mayo de 1895 Oscar Wilde fue condenado a dos años de prisión y trabajos forzados. A pesar de las numerosas peticiones de clemencia de toda Europa, el escritor fue obligado a cumplir por entero la pena. La sentencia supuso la pérdida de todo lo conseguido durante sus años de gloria. Cumplida la condena, emigró a París, donde vivió sus últimos años de vida, con nombre falso, entre penurias económicas y problemas de salud, hasta su muerte, el 30 de noviembre de 1900. El retrato de Dorian GrayEl retrato de Dorian Gray, es la única novela de Wilde, y su autoría le reportó feroces críticas desde sectores puritanos y conservadores debido a su tergiversación del tema de Fausto. En esta novela, Oscar Wilde indaga sobre el mito de la eterna juventud, al recrear el tema de un pacto diabólico para conservar la belleza y permanecer eternamente joven. Un pintor queda fascinado por la extraordinaria hermosura de Dorian, su joven modelo, que vive en plena era victoriana satisfaciendo todos sus deseos, sin límites ni prejuicios. El pintor declara que sería dichoso si Dorian pudiese permanecer para siempre exactamente como es. Este deseo se traduce en un pacto que lleva a Dorian a cometer todo tipo de atrocidades, hasta llegar al crimen. A medida que se desarrolla la novela y que el protagonista se sumerge en el vicio en contraposición con el desesperado anhelo de eterna juventud, se presiente un final terrible. El retrato de Dorian Gray es una extensa alegoría que sondea las profundidades del ser humano y cuya vigencia sorprende en cada nueva lectura de esta magistral obra.

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Title: King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Narrator: Walter Covell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-10

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

On an ocean liner bound for Natal, adventurer Alan Quatermain is engaged as a guide. Supplied with arms, courage, and determination, he and his group set out through Africa's beautiful but often dangerous and inhospitable wilderness. Their trek culminates in the discovery of a lost sacred mine that could bring them all riches...or death!

Members Reviews:

Great story, well read but audio could be better

What did you like best about King Solomon's Mines? What did you like least?

Good classic adventure tale, well read and certainly at a reasonable price. The audio quality is a little muffled, like an old AM radio.

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Title: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Author: Robert Tressell

Narrator: David Timson

Format: Abridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-10

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is the classic working-class novel. It was written in 1906 by an impoverished house painter, Robert Tressell, and within its framework contains a manifesto for socialism. It tells of the appalling working conditions of a group of painters and decorators and their struggle to survive at the most basic level. It is moving, grimly humorous, and tragic. It has sold over six million copies worldwide since it was published, and it has the power to change lives.

Editorial Reviews:

This 1914 political novel "of 12 months in hell, told by one of the damned" caustically depicts the plight of English workers, whom the author views as unwittingly complicit in their own exploitation. It's more heartfelt polemic than literature. Blind to their situation, these inadvertent "philanthropists" argue endlessly about it with confrere Frank Own, a clear-eyed socialist. Narrator David Timson excels at the regional and working-class accents the novel calls for. Perhaps of greater importance, he delivers the dialogue and frequently sardonic narrative with the fervor and outrage of a concerned eyewitness. A historically important novel enhanced by a fine oral performance.

Members Reviews:

I was recommended this...

This allegory is amazingly flawed. I was hoping for something to give me a socialist perspective. I was very disappointed.

Still relevant today

Classic and still so relevant. enjoyable from start to finish. Will reread time after time.

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Título: El diablo de la botella [The Bottle Imp]

Autor: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrador: Txema Regalado

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 1 hr and 24 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-14-10

Editor: NEAR, S.A.

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Classics, British Literature

Resumen del editor:

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - Novelista, ensayista y poeta escocés, algunas de cuyas obras se han convertido en clásicos de la literatura. Nació el 13 de noviembre de 1850 en Edimburgo. Hijo de un ingeniero, estudió también esta profesión y, más tarde, leyes en la universidad de su ciudad natal. Desde su niñez, sin embargo, siempre había sentido una especial inclinación hacia la literatura. Así es como acabó dedicándose a las letras, y perfeccionando su estilo de tal modo que en pocos años se situó entre los escritores más destacados de su tiempo. Enfermo de tuberculosis, se vio obligado a viajar continuamente en busca de climas apropiados a su delicado estado de salud. Murió en las islas Samoa el 3 de diciembre de 1894 y fue enterrado en la cima de una montaña, cerca de Valima, su hogar samoano.

El diablo de la botella

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Opiniones de los miembros:

Good classic tale

A pretty good narrator, but it was sometimes difficult for me to keep up due to the continuous loud background music.

Also the narration will stop and someone announces the page numbers. Very annoying things in what would otherwise be a nice Spanish rendition of a classic tale.