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As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz’s heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps Fuentes’ masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz is a haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
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Great Writing
- De Kelly B. en 05-01-14
De: Carlos Fuentes, y otros
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Tortilla Flat
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging—men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.
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A Good Book
- De LTCKEL en 09-06-14
De: John Steinbeck
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Galilee
- De: Clive Barker
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 23 h y 56 m
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The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
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An Audiophile's Dream
- De Joseph en 09-01-11
De: Clive Barker
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Augustown
- De: Kei Miller
- Narrado por: Dona Croll
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Ma Taffy may be blind, but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do.
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- De ** en 06-25-17
De: Kei Miller
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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The Damnation Game
- De: Clive Barker
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h
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Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.
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Damned If You Do
- De Wag The Fox en 04-05-14
De: Clive Barker
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Journey to the End of the Night
- De: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every minute of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty, and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the public in Europe, and later in America.
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Miserable Ride with Cynic Supreme
- De W Perry Hall en 03-15-17
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The Heart of the Matter
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Scobie, a police officer in a West African colony, is a good and honest man. But when he falls in love, he is forced into a betrayal of everything that he has ever believed in, and his struggle to maintain the happiness of two women destroys him.
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Starts Very Slowly then Boom!
- De Michael en 05-21-17
De: Graham Greene
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The Quiet American
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Joseph Porter
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Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
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Terrible narrator nearly derails Greene novel.
- De Richard en 07-12-12
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The Ministry of Fear
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
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On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from a nest of Nazi spies who want him dead.
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- De Jeremy Mumford en 12-11-23
De: Graham Greene
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Our Man in Havana
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true....
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Brighton Rock
- De: Graham Greene
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Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.
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Awful Reader
- De daniel J.conley en 04-13-11
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The Comedians
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Joseph Porter
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Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where corruption and terror reign. Disillusioned and noncommittal, they are the “comedians” of Greene’s title, hiding from life’s pain and love behind their chosen masks.
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We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men
- De Darwin8u en 11-20-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Heart of the Matter
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Scobie, a police officer in a West African colony, is a good and honest man. But when he falls in love, he is forced into a betrayal of everything that he has ever believed in, and his struggle to maintain the happiness of two women destroys him.
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Starts Very Slowly then Boom!
- De Michael en 05-21-17
De: Graham Greene
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The Quiet American
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Joseph Porter
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Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
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Terrible narrator nearly derails Greene novel.
- De Richard en 07-12-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Ministry of Fear
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
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On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from a nest of Nazi spies who want him dead.
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SKIP THE INTRODUCTION
- De Jeremy Mumford en 12-11-23
De: Graham Greene
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Our Man in Havana
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true....
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Brighton Rock
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
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Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.
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Awful Reader
- De daniel J.conley en 04-13-11
De: Graham Greene
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The Comedians
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Joseph Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where corruption and terror reign. Disillusioned and noncommittal, they are the “comedians” of Greene’s title, hiding from life’s pain and love behind their chosen masks.
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We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men
- De Darwin8u en 11-20-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Human Factor
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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When a leak is traced back to a small sub-section of SIS, it sparks off security checks, tensions and suspicions - the sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made. This novel opens up the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the Secret Service.
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Non-traditional Espionage Novel that Subverts ALL
- De Darwin8u en 06-25-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Confidential Agent
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Trusted by no one, trusting nobody, the Confidential Agent is sent to England. But before his mission has barely begun, he comes face to face with an agent from the other side. As the car he is driving is run down in the fog, a thought strikes him: "It isn't probable - not in England, but it seems to be true, nonetheless - they're going to kill me."
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approach it as a fable
- De connie en 10-18-08
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The End of the Affair
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Colin Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
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Colin Firth Kills It
- De Em en 05-09-12
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The Man Within
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Philip Battley
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Graham Greene's first published novel tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. Elizabeth persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court, but neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.
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The Third Man (Dramatized)
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Kelsey Grammer, John Mahoney, Tom Virtue, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks "the third man", who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. The police don't care to investigate, but novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend, and his search for the killer makes for electrifying drama.
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This is NOT Greene's The Third Man
- De Fade Up en 06-06-12
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The Captain and the Enemy
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Kenneth Branagh
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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Victor was only 12 when the Captain took him away from school to live with Liza, his girlfriend. He claimed that Victor, now reborn as Jim Smith, had been won as the result of a bet. Having reached his 20s, Jim attempts to piece together the story.
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"Who is This King Kong?"
- De Mel en 07-07-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Living Room
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Julian Sands, Kirsten Potter, Morgan Sheppard, y otros
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London in the 1950s: a mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets, and a love affair turns to tragedy. Graham Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based this play on his own passionate, doomed affairs and his conflicted view of Catholicism.
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Another great Graham Greene experience 💜
- De BobMGre en 02-13-22
De: Graham Greene
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Our Man Down in Havana
- The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel
- De: Christopher Hull
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Combining biography, history, and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one. This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. Exploiting a wealth of archival material and interviews with key protagonists, Our Man Down in Havana delves into the story behind and beyond the author's prophetic Cuban tale, focusing on one slice of Greene's manic life: a single novel and its complex history.
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Entertaining and informative
- De Nancy en 03-17-21
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The Diary of a Country Priest
- De: Georges Bernanos
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
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A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned to his first parish, a sleepy village in Northern France. Though his faith is devout, he finds nothing but indifference and mockery. The children laugh at his teachings, his parishioners are consumed by boredom, rumours are spread about him and he is tormented by stomach pains. Even his attempts to clarify his thoughts in a diary fail to deliver him from worldly concerns. Yet somehow, despite his suffering, he tries to find love for his fellow humans and even a state of grace.
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A "Bucket List" Book to Read
- De S. Cremona en 05-11-22
De: Georges Bernanos
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Stamboul Train
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe towards Constantinople, a relationship develops between Carleton Myatt and Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl. Around them a web of espionage, murder and lies twist in this spy thriller.
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Poignance and Power on the Orient Express
- De Darwin8u en 07-10-12
De: Graham Greene
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Silence
- De: Shusaku Endo
- Narrado por: David Holt
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels". Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.
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Remarkable
- De Helgi Sigurbjörnsson en 10-12-17
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It's a Battlefield
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Graham Mack
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During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer—Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover's single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts.
De: Graham Greene
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- Caitlin
- 01-07-13
Probably Greene's best book
Although not his best known, this is probably Greene's best, and certainly most powerful, book, depicting the holiness of a priest who does know know he is holy, and in fact believes the opposite is true. Well worth listening to!
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- Huggles
- 09-20-17
Wonderful story after the first few hours
This story was very intriguing, but it took a long time to get into. It transitions between characters and families without introduction.
Character list:
Whiskey priest: main character but unnamed.
Padre Jose: a cowardly married priest
Fellows Family: Banana farmers who hide the whisky priest.
Half-caste: a homeless guy who is a sort of a Judas type person.
Mr Tench: a dentist with stomach ailments. He befriends the whiskey priest.
Luis and his family: this is a 14 year old boy whose mother is a Christian and reads her children books about martyrdom .
Lehr brother and sister: Lutherans who house and nurse the whiskey priest while he is sick.
The Lieutenant: a kind but anti religious man. He is on the hunt to obliterate priests.
This is pretty much who you need to know. All these people have stories going on at the same time and The author switches between them.
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- E. D. Kelly
- 06-03-13
Wonderful
What made the experience of listening to The Power and the Glory the most enjoyable?
It had been a LONG time since I had read Graham Greene. This book made me glad that I had returned and led me to read or listen to two or three others immediately -- and I will do more.
What did you like best about this story?
The power of the characters as woven into the plot.
Which scene was your favorite?
Not sure I can pick one.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I was ready to cry as it finished. We were listening in the car and I turned to my wife and said, 'That is not just fiction. It is too powerful." That led me to read some biographical information on Greene which confirmed that in fact the affair was probably based on one in his own life. Normally on a long car trip I finish one book on tape and start the next one. I could not start another one for a good while after finishing this -- I wanted silence.
Any additional comments?
I try to be positive in general, but for me to give something 5 stars across the board is VERY unusual. Highly recommended.
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- Stephen R. Bickel
- 10-09-22
Outstanding!
Amazing story, dripping with humanity, extremely well read. It really draws you in and by the end you’re fully in its grasp.
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- Alberto
- 09-17-20
Great story, old recording
Geniously written, this story talks about the figure of priesthood transcending human weakness and the transformative power of the holy spirit. Based on true historic circumstances, the Cristero persecution in Mexico during the presidency of Elias Calles.
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- Eric
- 05-19-20
The worst narrator ever
This is the worst narration I have encountered in my many years with Audible. Usually I don't mind even the most idiosyncratic narrators.
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- Leslie M.
- 10-22-18
May become a all time favorite
At first, the narrator bothered me, but I now see how perfect his voice was for this book. I did knock off one point for the quality of the recording, but it wasn't so bad that it ruined the story for me.
More importantly, this is such a well crafted story, and Green understood better than most how to tell the truth about the Christian life. Powerful, not preachy.
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- Rebecca
- 10-13-12
Examination of Evil
This is one of Greene's novels that examines evil.
A "whiskey" priest repeatedly escapes a lieutenant who is part of the regime suppressing Catholicism in Mexico. The priest questions his own worth, and towards the end comes to terms with God as he faces his execution.
I've seen many movies based on novels by Graham Greene, but this is the first I've read.
Based on the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles. Calles' regime was known for its represive anti-Catholic phase.
Quality of the audio book was horrible. I listened at 1.5x speed, which seemed to help.
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- Ksjo
- 10-27-11
Wow! I love this book!
I keep listening to this book over again something always gets to me that I didn't fully get before. The image of the nameless Father being continually pared down to his essence, which is so pure, is compelling and strangely comforting. The narration is striking and quite funny in parts. Mr. Mayes has unusual voice that drew me in right away. I highly recommend this book.
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- Patricia
- 12-09-12
A Graham Greene Masterpiece
What did you love best about The Power and the Glory?
This is classic Gramham Green struggling with his love/hate relationship with Catholicism. The "hero" is an alcoholic priest on the run from persecution in Mexico. He is a coward, he has fathered a child and yet he struggles to serve. He is totally believing of a very narrow Catholicism that condemns him. Today even many Catholics would consider his beliefs almost superstitious and yet he is true to them and is indeed heroic in many ways. I don't know if readers who are not familiar with the Catholicism of those times will understand or find it believable yet it is a powerful story.
What did you like best about this story?
The beautiful writing, the way Greene pulls you completely into the characters and their struggles. There is so much poverty, superstition, hatred and yet so much hidden strength. And how he faces the weaknesses in people - he has seen it all, including his own.
What does Bernard Mayes bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He read beautifully. He did not try to over-act the voices. He is the kind of reader I like.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The scenes when the priest on the run encounters people who initially disgust or frighten him and how he struggles to see them as they really are.
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