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The Pillow Book
- De: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite. Truly!
- De Erick DuPree en 01-10-23
- The Pillow Book
- De: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
The Elegant Japanese Middle Ages
Revisado: 09-05-24
An intriguing book. Good reading. An extremely hierarchical culture I wouldn’t have wanted to live in but am glad to know about.
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Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
- De: Machado De Assis
- Narrado por: Lincoln Hoppe
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of 20th-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963, and still lacks proper recognition today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Low effort to properly translate such a great work
- De May en 10-29-19
- Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
- De: Machado De Assis
- Narrado por: Lincoln Hoppe
This is not The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
Revisado: 06-29-23
This is a selection from The Collected Stories, which means it’s an abridgment of the book it claims to be a reading of. So it’s not as advertised.
The reading is only fair to middling.
Machado’s stories are sublime.
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
- The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
Beautiful!
Revisado: 03-26-23
Robert Musil's great unfinished masterwork is here wonderfully translated into English and extremely well read by John Telfer. Loaded with irony and shot-through with humor and essayistic erudition, this book is a pleasure to read and to listen to.
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