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10 Essential Pieces of Literature

By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Carlo Collodi, Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Khalil Gibrán, H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Matthew Taylor
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This Audiobook contains the following works:

  • The prophet [Khalil Gibran],
  • Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson],
  • White fang [Jack London],
  • The Time machine [H. G. Wells],
  • The Battle of Life [Charles Dickens],
  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle],
  • The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas],
  • The adventures of Pinocchio [Carlo Collodi],
  • Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe],
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain].
©2019 Khalil Gibran (P)2019 MustRead Classics
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the sound is very good on my PC I have seen the movies but the books are mush better very good for the 1st book nice and long over 87h

very good for the 1st book nice and long

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If I really wanted to listen to various examples of outdated, now offensive literature, I would pick them up and read them. Problem is sticking them amidst some absolutely unmissable classics with no controls to skip books; paints all of the anthology with the same poor, racist, misogynistic, sadistic themes and leaves a bad taste in your mouth overall. A lot of readers/listeners who pick up collections such as these have no or little background knowledge as to the cultural relevances of the books - some may not even speak English as a first language; to then be faced with these particular examples might (and did) come as a shock.

The voice actor is one dimensional and inconsistent, favouring volume of work over quality, the recording has odd differences in quality and background noise (I think I heard a siren at one point) and there is at least one self reference to the voice actor’s own company snuck in in between chapters - so clearly not been edited by audible.

It really wouldn’t be too difficult to add sub chapter headings into the digital track to allow the listeners to seamlessly skip between books.

Some absolute banger classics - and some not so much needed any more

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Chapter 1 The Prophet
Chapter 42 White Fang
Chapter 79 The Time Machine
Chapter 86 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Chapter 102 The Three Musketeers
Chapter 179 The Adventures of Pinocchio
Chapter 206 The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 228 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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tedious and hard work, and very much a reworking of others works. I wont listen again, and wouldn't recommend it

hard work, but good performance and great prose

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The books the narrator and the performance is great, you just can’t download them very well!!!

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