Can You Continue Using Audiable Audiobooks After Free Trial Expires
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The Three Musketeers
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Alexandre Dumas, Marty Ross
- Narrated by: David Ahmad, Rachel Atkins, Catherine Bailey, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Original Recording
Swashbuckling classic adventure, with an updated twist placing Milady in the role of narrator. Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band, D'Artagnan's loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu's machinations.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!!!
- By Rochlle Finchum on 10-30-19
The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas, and others
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 55 mins
- Abridged
Michael Maloney reads Daniel Defoe's timeless tale of a man who has to use all his own skills to survive alone on an island. Robinson Crusoe has a great desire to see the world and, against his father's wishes, goes to sea. After surviving a terrible shipwreck, however, Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only person on a deserted island, far from any shipping routes or rescue.
- 1 out of 5 stars
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NOT whole book
- By Amazon Customer on 11-18-20
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
By: Daniel Defoe
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Around the World in 80 Days
- By: Jules Verne, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Toby Jones, George Blagden, Don Gilet, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
One of the most celebrated tales of all time, Around the World in 80 Days is part high-octane thriller, part fascinating fantasy travelogue. Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just 80 days, right down to the minute. Fetching his newly appointed French valet, Fogg embarks on a fabulous journey across land and sea - by steamer, rail, and elephant - to win the bet of a lifetime.
- 3 out of 5 stars
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Good Dramatization but Abridged Version of Story
- By Dennis & Veronica on 09-18-20
Around the World in 80 Days
By: Jules Verne, and others
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A Tale of Two Cities
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Simon Callow - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.
- 4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good But Not The Best On Audible--
- By Gillian on 02-08-18
A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Will Poulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
Often considered one of the first ever psychological thrillers, Crime and Punishment is a gripping tale of a poverty-stricken young man in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who hatches a plan to kill someone for money. Once the deed is done, he finds himself racked with guilt, confusion and disgust for his act. In this new recording, Will Poulter gives new life to the troubled protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, in a performance that will have you questioning where we draw the line between right and wrong.
Crime and Punishment
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Madame Bovary
- By: Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Hopkins - translator
- Narrated by: Ronald Pickup
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines. Now married to an ordinary country doctor her life is not the romantic ideal she imagined and seeks an escape through having extra-marital affairs. This devastating spiral into deceit and despair leads to catastrophic consequences. Emma Bovary continues to be enjoyed to this day because of its profound humanity, still as fresh today as when it was first written.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Narrator
- By A. Laprade-velasco on 07-18-10
Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert, and others
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Orlando
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- By Mayca on 05-31-05
Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today's listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Tad Davis on 11-14-21
War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy, and others
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A Christmas Carol
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Hugh Grant
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
First published in 1843, it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come and given a glimpse of the many homes and lives which Scrooge has touched in his wretched life to date. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Christmas Classic Given New Life
- By E-Hank3 on 12-26-20
A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 38 hrs
- Unabridged
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, amazing narration
- By Marcus Vorwaller on 08-02-08
Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Gulliver's Travels
- By: Jonathan Swift
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Abridged
Andrew Sachs reads Jonathan Swift's humorous and unforgettable tale of a strange man in some very strange lands. Gulliver had always wanted to see the world. But whenever he steps on board a ship, bad luck always seems near at hand. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned and mutinied against - and each time lands in a strange and curious place.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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another great abridgement
- By Brendan on 08-25-22
Gulliver's Travels
By: Jonathan Swift
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Agnes Grey
- By: Anne Brontë
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family. Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By Kerry on 05-22-10
Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë
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Fathers and Sons
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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The greatest novel I'll ever read
- By Dan Harlow on 07-07-13
Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev
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Beowulf
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Svanur Thorkelsson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
The Old English epic poem Beowulf, recorded in its original Saxon dialect for the first time. Performed by Icelandic poet, playwright, professional storyteller and performer Svanur Thorkelsson, Audible's production gives listeners the opportunity to experience how it might have felt to hear bards recite sections of the 3000-line poem from memory in Anglo Saxon dining halls. Audible's Beowulf recaptures the heroic style and vast scale of what can be considered 'England's first native audiobook'.
- 3 out of 5 stars
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Recorded in Anglo-Saxon, not Modern English
- By Christopher Mclaughlin on 10-15-20
Beowulf
By: Anonymous
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Hard Times
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Bertie Carvel, Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and excellent performance
- By DFK on 07-08-19
Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Lady Audley's Secret
- By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Narrated by: Olivia Poulet
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
From the author of The Christmas Hirelings comes this Audible Exclusive production of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's classic sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret. English actress Olivia Poulet gives an assured and captivating narration; a cornerstone of the genre and a scandal at the time of its publication, Lady Audley's Secret is an entertaining and shocking tale of high drama and shifting perceptions.
- 4 out of 5 stars
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Classic 19th Century "sensation novel"
- By Susan on 08-20-19
Lady Audley's Secret
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Little Dorrit
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 40 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
This Audible Exclusive production revisits Charles Dickens' tragi-comic novel Little Dorrit. Written during the Crimean War, it a story of fortunes won and lost and a masterly portrayal of the failings of Victorian Society, with the ever-present spectre of law enforcement and imprisonment looming over a fearful population. Divided into two parts, Book One: Poverty and Book Two: Riches, Little Dorrit satirises the debtors prisons and the detrimental effect of enforcing a British class system.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By Bunky on 09-19-19
Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens
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Remembrance of Things Past
- Swann's Way
- By: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past. In the opening volume, the narrator travels back in time to recall his childhood and to introduce the listener to Charles Swann, a wealthy friend of the family and celebrity in the Parisian social scene. He again travels back, this time to the youth of Charles Swann in the French town of Combray, to tell the story of the love affair that took place before his own birth.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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EXCELLENT!
- By Maggie on 08-18-10
Remembrance of Things Past
By: Marcel Proust, and others
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed. Sent by her ambitious parents to visit her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess attracts the attention of the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded by him and alone in the world, she finds work as a milkmaid and the love of Angel Clare. Yet his love cannot accept the truth about Tess's past.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Peter Firth gets this book
- By Claire on 04-11-10
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy
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The House of Mirth
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means. Now nearing 30 years of age and having rejected several proposals, forever in the hope of finding someone better, her future prospects are threatened. A damning commentary of 20th-century social order, Edith Wharton's tale established her as one of the greatest British novelists of the 1900s.
- 4 out of 5 stars
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Like Henry James but more accessible
- By Merlin on 08-19-12
The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
This audiobook is about the rise and fall of Michael Henchard. While out-of-work he gets drunk at a fair and impulsively sells his wife and baby for five guineas to a sailor. Eighteen years later he is reunited with his wife and daughter, who discover that he has gained wealth and respect and is now the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Though he attempts to make amends he is no less impulsive and once again loses everything due to bad luck and his violent, selfish and vengeful nature.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Tangled Webs
- By Joseph R on 12-22-09
The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy
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The Mill on the Floss
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, is considered one of George Eliot's most autobiographical works. Having formed a complex bond with her own family, George Eliot, now known to the public as Mary Ann Evans, depicts the loving yet volatile relationship between the Tulliver siblings and their doting father. Spanning over a period of 10 years, The Mill on the Floss follows the coming of age of the beautiful and idealistic Maggie.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent reading
- By In DC on 02-15-10
The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot
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The Pickwick Papers
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 32 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
When Samuel Pickwick decides to establish and preside over a travelling society, he unknowingly brings together three of the oddest men in all of London: Tracy Tupman, the loveless self-professed ladies' man, Augustus Snodgrass, the poet who's never put pen to paper, and Nathaniel Winkle, the endlessly clumsy sportsman. The 'Pickwickians' set off in search of new adventures outside of the confines of the city. Along with a host of other colourful Dickensian characters such as Mr Pickwick's love-struck landlady, Mrs Bardell, and his trusty sidekick, Sam Weller.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Done with gusto
- By Tad Davis on 12-26-19
The Pickwick Papers
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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The Way We Live Now
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Length: 32 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
In this world of bribes, vendettas, and swindling, in which heiresses are gambled and won, Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury is 'false from head to foot'; her son Felix has 'the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog'; and Melmotte - the colossal figure who dominates the book - is a 'horrid, big, rich scoundrel...a bloated swindler...a vile city ruffian'. But as vile as he is, he is considered one of Trollope's greatest creations.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!
- By Laurene on 06-05-10
The Way We Live Now
By: Anthony Trollope
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The Well of Loneliness
- By: Radclyffe Hall
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
After publication in 1928, it was banned for obscenity before going on to become an international best seller. It tells the story of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family who is ostracised for falling in love with another woman, Mary Llewellyn. Groundbreaking in its day, Radclyffe Hall's novel ultimately makes a very clear plea in regards to homosexuality: 'Give us also the right to our existence'.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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More Ell Potter as narrator!
- By Dawn on 09-09-20
The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
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Vanity Fair
- By: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Narrated by: John Castle
- Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Narration, One of the Greats
- By James Abraham on 05-18-13
Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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What Maisie Knew
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Maureen O' Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
Maisie is an innocent six year-old, torn between her divorced parents, pathetically isolated yet tragically involved.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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A great reader reads a great writer
- By Seth on 08-27-12
What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James
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Within a Budding Grove
- By: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalising love object. We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualised social performances to midsummer spontaneity and from Gilberte to her successor Albertine.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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insomniac's dream
- By beatrice on 10-04-09
Within a Budding Grove
By: Marcel Proust
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Wives and Daughters
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford, lost her mother when she was a child. Her father remarries wanting to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks. To Molly, any stepmother would have been a shock, but the new Mrs. Gibson is a self-absorbed, petty widow, and Molly's unhappiness is compounded by the realisation that her father has come to regret his second marriage.
- 5 out of 5 stars
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Superb! Story and Narration A++
- By Jo on 05-24-10
Wives and Daughters
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Typhoon
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However, when his steamer Nan-Shan blunders into a hurricane, he and his crew must pull together to survive. The steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate becomes a partnership vital to human survival as they are challenged from without by the elements, and from within by human doubts and fears.
- 4 out of 5 stars
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A great classic, very well narrated
- By Dennis on 11-19-12
Typhoon
By: Joseph Conrad
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