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| Alexandre Dumas
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Count of Monte Cristo
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55h
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Listen to the original story and judge for yourself how the main idea of revenge as a highly positive and commendable human aspiration has been misinterpreted by modern and not so modern Western movies....
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| Charles Dickens
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Pickwick Papers
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36h30m
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Very funny. Widely regarded as the most famous of all pre-Victorian novels....
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| Alexandre Dumas
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MUSKETEERS 1 - The Three Musketeers
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25h30m
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The 1st book of Musketeers adventures....
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| Sir Walter Scott
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Quentin Durward
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20h
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The only Walter Scott's book we like....
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| Arthur Conan Doyle
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White Company
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17h30m
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Tough English mercenaries fighting in the bitter and bloody wars of XIV century France. A roistering, devil-may-care time brought vividly to life....
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| Bram Stoker
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Dracula
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17h15m
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The original story is more terrifying than any movie....
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| P C Wren
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Sowing Glory
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15h45m
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Adventures of English woman disguised in male attire and joined French Foreign Legion. Very interesting book but too much of "officers club verbal banter". Lots of different foreign accents....
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| Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Nigel
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15h30m
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Medieval knights wars and adventures. Prequel to The White Company...
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| Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe
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15h
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Never-ending adventures of Robinson Crusoe, including his famous 28 years on the uninhabited island....some of it not very PC now...
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| Mark Twain
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Yankee In King Arthurs Court
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15h
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Hilarious adventures of a Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court...
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| Joseph Conrad
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Lord Jim
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14h
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Jim is chief mate on the steamship Patna. During a voyage towards Mecca, with its cargo of pilgrims, disaster occurs when the ship strikes a submerged object......
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| Ernest Bramah
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
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13h
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Chinese adventures. Gentle parody of Chinese writing, philosophy, tradition ant proverbs. Intellectual pleasure....
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| Erskine Childers
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Riddle of the Sands
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13h
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Regarded as the first great modern spy story...
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| Charles De Coster
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Tyl Ulenspiegel
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12h44m
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The Legend of the glorious adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders and elsewhere. As an envisagement of the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition this very anti-Catholic book is probably without parallel....
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| Joseph Conrad
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Secret Agent
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11h
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Brilliant depiction of a terrorist underworld, ruthless irony and black satire...
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