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1961

A novel

by Peter Dann ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

1961. What a milestone year that would prove to be. Spook was happy before that time, with a creek to play in and Grandpa Doc to spoil him. But then his mum has to drag him down to Melbourne, to a crappy flat above a dress shop, and the dreadful Mrs Green, their landlady. For what? All because of that fuss about his father and a jumping tree? That makes no sense at all. Soon the sanctimonious ... Read more

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1961. What a milestone year that would prove to be. Spook was happy before that time, with a creek to play in and Grandpa Doc to spoil him. But then his mum has to drag him down to Melbourne, to a crappy flat above a dress shop, and the dreadful Mrs Green, their landlady. For what? All because of that fuss about his father and a jumping tree? That makes no sense at all. Soon the sanctimonious
... Read more

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1961

A novel

by Peter Dann ...

1961. What a milestone year that would prove to be. Spook was happy before that time, with a creek to play in and Grandpa Doc to spoil him. But then his mum has to drag him down to Melbourne, to a crappy flat above a dress shop, and the dreadful Mrs Green, their landlady. For what? All because of that fuss about his father and a jumping tree? That makes no sense at all.Soon the sanctimonious ... Read more

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1961. What a milestone year that would prove to be. Spook was happy before that time, with a creek to play in and Grandpa Doc to spoil him. But then his mum has to drag him down to Melbourne, to a crappy flat above a dress shop, and the dreadful Mrs Green, their landlady. For what? All because of that fuss about his father and a jumping tree? That makes no sense at all.Soon the sanctimonious
... Read more

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The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal (pen-name), Marie-Henri Beyle ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

19 hours 14 min

The Charterhouse of Parma is a historic novel by French author Stendhal and tells the life of a Lombard nobleman, born soon after the appearance of Napoleon's army in Italy.The tale is set in northern Italy in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The plot revolves around Fabrizio del Dongo, an idealistic young nobleman, his aunt Gina Sanseverina (who loves Fabrizio more than perhaps she ... Read more

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The Charterhouse of Parma is a historic novel by French author Stendhal and tells the life of a Lombard nobleman, born soon after the appearance of Napoleon's army in Italy.The tale is set in northern Italy in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The plot revolves around Fabrizio del Dongo, an idealistic young nobleman, his aunt Gina Sanseverina (who loves Fabrizio more than perhaps she
... Read more
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Moby Dick; or the Whale

by Herman Melville ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

23 hours 1 min

This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to an apparently malicious white sperm whale known in the fishery as Moby Dick.At times the compulsive and bombastic Captain Ahab sounds more like a figure from grand guignol than a reincarnated Lear, and listeners may find themselves wondering if the story of ... Read more

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This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to an apparently malicious white sperm whale known in the fishery as Moby Dick.At times the compulsive and bombastic Captain Ahab sounds more like a figure from grand guignol than a reincarnated Lear, and listeners may find themselves wondering if the story of
... Read more

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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable ... Read more

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Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable
... Read more

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The Red and the Black

by Stendhal (pen-name), Marie-Henri Beyle ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

18 hours 39 min

The Red and the Black is a historic novel by French author Stendhal and tells the life of young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son turned priest, who secretly models his behaviour after the heroics of Napoleon, in an era when the great man had only recently died at St Helena.Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal ... Read more

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The Red and the Black is a historic novel by French author Stendhal and tells the life of young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son turned priest, who secretly models his behaviour after the heroics of Napoleon, in an era when the great man had only recently died at St Helena.Julien Sorel - intelligent, handsome and who is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins. Stendhal
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The Mirror of the Sea

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

6 hours 3 min

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as ... Read more

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"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as
... Read more

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The End Of The Tether

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship's captain before his retirement. Faced with unexpected financial problems and a desire to help his married daughter earn her place in the world, Whalley is forced to sell his boat and buy his way back into service on a trade vessel. But Whalley is living so close to financial ruin that any small deviation from his course will ... Read more

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Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship's captain before his retirement. Faced with unexpected financial problems and a desire to help his married daughter earn her place in the world, Whalley is forced to sell his boat and buy his way back into service on a trade vessel. But Whalley is living so close to financial ruin that any small deviation from his course will
... Read more

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest ... Read more

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Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest
... Read more

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Typhoon and Other Stories

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and ... Read more

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In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In 'Typhoon' Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct and
... Read more

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The Arrow of Gold

A Story Between Two Notes

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling young heiress, with whom the young man is soon giddily in love. Told largely in the first person, the novel is unusual, for Conrad, in focusing largely on ... Read more

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In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling young heiress, with whom the young man is soon giddily in love. Told largely in the first person, the novel is unusual, for Conrad, in focusing largely on
... Read more

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An Outcast of the Islands

by Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad ...

Narrated by Peter Dann ...

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

I have been called a writer of the sea, of the tropics, a descriptive writer - and also a realist. But as a matter of fact all my concern has been with the 'ideal' value of things, events and people. That and nothing else - Joseph Conrad When Willems stepped off the straight and narrow path of his own peculiar honesty he thought it would be a short episode - a sentence in brackets, so to speak - ... Read more

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I have been called a writer of the sea, of the tropics, a descriptive writer - and also a realist. But as a matter of fact all my concern has been with the 'ideal' value of things, events and people. That and nothing else - Joseph Conrad When Willems stepped off the straight and narrow path of his own peculiar honesty he thought it would be a short episode - a sentence in brackets, so to speak -
... Read more

Also available as: eBooks