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The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
- By: W E Bowman
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance92
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Story92
Brought to you by Penguin. First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as a mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought it inspired by the 1953 conquest of Everest. But Bowman had drawn on...
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Very good entertainment
- By S Anthony on 01-02-17
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The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-06-11
- Language: English
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Three Men on the Bummel
- By: Jerome K. Jerome
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance39
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Story39
George, Harris, and J. decide to take a cycling trip through the Black Forest - to be accomplished on a tandem plus one. Whether it is Harris's harrowing experience with a Hanoverian road-waterer or George's valiant attempt to buy a cushion for his aunt, their experiences are hilarious - - and they may even offer some important lessons to all who may be contemplating a cycling trip in the U.S.
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Disappointing!
- By Katie on 21-10-11
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Three Men on the Bummel
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Three Men, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-03-09
- Language: English
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The Quanderhorn Xperimentations
- By: Rob Grant, Andrew Marshall
- Narrated by: Cassie Layton, Ryan Sampson
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance56
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Story56
England, 1952. Churchill is Prime Minister for the last time. Rationing is still in force. All music sounds like the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. People like living in 1952: it's familiar and reassuring, and Britain knows its place in the world. Few have noticed it's been 1952 for the past 65 years...
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Red dwarf humour in 1950s England
- By Jon M on 02-04-19
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The Quanderhorn Xperimentations
- Narrated by: Cassie Layton, Ryan Sampson
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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Player Piano
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance147
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Story145
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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Uncanny prediction of today's world of automation.
- By Matthew on 18-09-16
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Player Piano
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-08-09
- Language: English
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Equal Rites
- (Discworld Novel 3)
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Tony Robinson
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Abridged
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Overall235
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Performance203
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Story203
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl...
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Shame there was no Nigel Planer Unabridged version
- By I. Ohr on 27-09-15
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Equal Rites
- (Discworld Novel 3)
- Narrated by: Tony Robinson
- Series: Discworld (abridged), Book 3, Discworld: Witches (abridged), Book 1
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 21-02-07
- Language: English
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Al Murray: The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense
- By: Al Murray
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Abridged
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Overall39
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Performance18
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Story17
We live in an age of waffle, mumbo-jumbo and bad thinking. We're forever being fed dodgy information by so-called experts, scientists, opinion-makers, politicians, journalists and jumped-up little graduates. Their combined bad thinking includes: *the idea that no one should win in running races...
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Funny
- By Nicholas on 21-01-08
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Al Murray: The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-12-07
- Language: English
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
- Forward collection
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall129
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Performance113
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Story113
When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.
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Well, that was depressing
- By Diane Severson on 05-12-19
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
- Forward collection
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Series: Forward Collection
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Should We Stay or Should We Go
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance169
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Story170
Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband, Cyril - both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early 50s - make a pact: to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned 80. A lot can change in 30 years, however....
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Odd narration, tedious story
- By Bookworm1984 on 16-08-21
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Should We Stay or Should We Go
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-06-21
- Language: English
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Come Knocking
- A Novel
- By: Mike Bockoven
- Narrated by: Ryan Haugen, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story13
When Come Knocking came to Los Angeles, the interactive theater production that took over six floors of an abandoned building was met with raves, lines for tickets, and reviews calling it the “must-see experience of a generation.” But after dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured on a bloody night of chaos during the show’s run, the nation was captured by one inescapable question: How could this happen?
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Good but not as good as fantasticland.
- By JG on 19-04-26
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Come Knocking
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ryan Haugen, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Help Wanted
- A Novel
- By: Adelle Waldman
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Story12
Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn’t schedule them for enough hours―most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs
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Genuinely loved it.
- By OHW on 02-04-26
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Help Wanted
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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I See You've Called in Dead
- A Novel
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person). As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.
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Exquisite
- By Andrea on 01-02-26
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I See You've Called in Dead
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-06-25
- Language: English
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Dr Fischer of Geneva
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Julian Wadham
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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Story29
Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the book of Revelation - Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich. Black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel.
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Great performance
- By Anthony Christie on 01-01-23
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Dr Fischer of Geneva
- Narrated by: Julian Wadham
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-03-20
- Language: English
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Solar
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall507
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Performance225
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Story224
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A...
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Roald Dahl meets Martin Amis
- By Martin Fogarty on 07-10-10
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Solar
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-03-10
- Language: English
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Light Over Liskeard
- From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- By: Louis de Bernières
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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Brought to you by Penguin. Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. A novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe...
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Compelling characters in a credible dystopian future
- By AndyCLondon on 29-04-24
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Light Over Liskeard
- From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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The Idiots' Club
- By: Tony Moyle
- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance103
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Story103
The last time Eric Gideon and Sean Heschmeyer were in the same place was the day of the accident. The day Eric’s dare landed Sean in hospital. The day the Idiots’ Club ceased to be. Now, exactly 20 years later, Sean is back, but he’s nothing like how they remember him. When former Idiots’ Club member and serial bankruptee Callum Jollie receives a surprise invite to a Heschmeyer Industries VIP bridge opening, he tries to persuade Sean to support his failing business. Sean agrees, but there’s only one problem. His money comes with conditions.
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Consistently Excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 09-12-21
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The Idiots' Club
- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-11-21
- Language: English
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Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger
- By: Catherine Cookson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance37
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Story36
Gravedigger John Gascoigne lives in Downfell Hurst with his wife, Florrie, their three children and his mother, Gran. John is a deep thinker but extremely taciturn - a man of few words and many grunts. Which is why everyone is alarmed when he's hit on the head by a cricket ball, and it suddenly seems as if the words won't stop. What's more, he says he is talking to Saint Christopher - only no one else can see the saint, and they're beginning to worry John's not quite right in the head.
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Saint Christopher and the gravedigger.
- By Kindle Customer on 02-12-17
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Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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Lies and Weddings
- The New York Times bestselling romance from the author of Crazy Rich Asians
- By: Kevin Kwan
- Narrated by: Jing Lusi
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS Eden Tong is used to feeling out of place. Growing up next door to Greshamsbury Manor, she spent her days in the shadow of the chilly matriarch Arabella and her children: free-spirited Augie, golden...
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The drama and attention to detail
- By Tavs on 22-12-24
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Lies and Weddings
- The New York Times bestselling romance from the author of Crazy Rich Asians
- Narrated by: Jing Lusi
- Series: Cities Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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The Closed Circle
- The hilarious sequel to The Rotters' Club from the bestselling author of Middle England
- By: Jonathan Coe
- Narrated by: Nicholas Burns
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance78
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe, read by Nicholas Burns. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in...
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Disappointing reader
- By LoveReading on 01-08-19
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The Closed Circle
- The hilarious sequel to The Rotters' Club from the bestselling author of Middle England
- Narrated by: Nicholas Burns
- Series: Rotters' Club, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-07-19
- Language: English
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Offshore
- By: Penelope Fitzgerald, Alan Hollinghurst - introduction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance68
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Story70
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the...
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Fabulous book, strangely affected reading
- By Struweltiger on 31-05-17
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Offshore
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-12-16
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
- By: Tobias Smollett
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Tobias Smollett, in his creation of the Scot Roderick Random, exposes the sheer incompetence and injustice of the Royal Navy, as well as the snobbery and hypocrisy prevalent in English middle-class society at the time. Set in the mid-18th century, this picaresque novel follows the life and adventures of Roderick, the eponymous hero who has been shunned by his gentleman father's family on the basis of the lowliness of his mother's family.
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Excellent story and rendition by the narrator
- By Layer on 02-04-23
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-01-21
- Language: English
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