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Ninety-Three
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo's inspired last novel, that tumultuous year's events are woven into an epic masterpiece that brilliantly captures the moment that shaped the destiny not only of France but of all European monarchies.
Critic Reviews
"The book is full of pregnant and splendid sayings. There are scenes of inimitable workmanship. Ninety-Three is equal to anything that Hugo has ever written." (Robert Louis Stevenson)
"One of the loftiest achievements of Hugo's genius." (Saturday Review)
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- Julie
- 08-04-13
Stuffy
What would have made Ninety-Three better?
This is a great book. Narrator.... well.... ruined it.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Blah, blah, blah. Monotone. Where did you get this guy?
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- Robert Vlach
- 03-03-11
Terrible narrator
This is by far the worst title I have ever purchased on Audible. Frederick Davidson is terrible narrator, so painful to listen to. Buy this audiobook and suffer.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-08
My Favorite Audiobook so far!
This is a great book and well narrated. I'm almost finished listening to it for the second time and am enjoying it even more this time than I did the first time. FIVE STARS!
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- Rich
- 06-12-16
Never again
I will never again listen to a book read by Frederick Davidson. After Le Miserable' I knew I had to buy 93. But almost quit listening as soon as I started because of the nasally unimpassioned voice of Davidson. I truly had to force myself to stay with this one to the end. If you can find this book read by anyone else, buy it instead. This could have been so much better if not for the narrator.
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- marian
- 14-08-16
Davidson Sucks
The narrator's powdered wig, pinch of snuff, patronizing, arrogant, condescending landed gentry, I'm so much better than everybody else I can hardly stand it tone of voice totally killed it.
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- Jonathan
- 17-03-12
This is a brilliantly written novel
What made the experience of listening to Ninety-Three the most enjoyable?
This is my first introduction to Victor Hugo. I had no idea what a brilliant author he was. The characters are really captivating, and the plot tense and exciting. I was listening to this book on my iPod while fishing with tears running down my face. It has been weeks since I finished this book, and I still think about it. I really like this book.
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- Ugo
- 16-11-10
Hugo's 93
Written a century after the events described, each character is modern and fascinating, while the author rivets the attention of the reader on each of them. Hugo is master.
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- Paul Lemke
- 30-09-21
To know the future
The greatest novel I have listened to in all my life. The pronunciation is flawless, the inflections superb. The content is required reading for the future of civilized man. The theme is more relevant now than ever. What does freedom require? The knowledge of man as a rational being and that motivations of individuals matter.
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- Lester C Liby
- 11-08-19
How to write non-fiction.
Great story ! I thing Victor Hugo showed the best method of writing fiction. Ayn Rand thought so , and was very thankful for him showing how to write a novel. Just read Ayn Rand's novels such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged . Atlas Shrugged is the greatest novel ever written!
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- robb
- 10-07-19
Hugo + Davidson=perfect
Hugo and Davidson...I'm immediately launching into Hunchback with Davidson...I don't deserve to have this much fun...
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- Gillian
- 28-12-09
reading a shopping list
This could have been a good book, but I did not download this title as the excerpt was so dreadful. The narrator reads the novel as if reading a shopping list. I will read the book myself!
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- Grainne
- 30-04-08
Five stars for Hugo's work 3 for the recording!
Ok I'll be quick and simple this is a great story
Victor Hugo wrote this book to show how people act in battle (the novel is set in the year 1793 in the French Revolution). And he shows how familys faught against each other in the fight e.g. the Villian in this novel is an uncle and the Hero is a nephew of that uncle and they are on different sides. Fighting for different reason's so if you like 'Notre dame de Paris' and 'Les Mis?rables' his other two great novels you'll like this.
Now for the down side the recording it's self....
It says it's 'unabridged' but it's not it keeps skiping chapters like in one book (the story is split into differnt books and chapters) it gose from chapter 1 to 3 and skips two and in the same book gose from chapter 4 to 6 skiping 5.
This is either a mistake with 'Blackstone audiobooks' which is the company which released this recording or Audible it's self.
And I might add that when I bought 'Notre dame de Paris' it had the same problem it even skiped a complete book so I had to get another rendition of 'Notre dame de Paris' to read the full thing and now there is no other copy of Ninety-Three' so I can't get the full book just warning you.
But beside that it is a very, very good book the characters are wonderful and moving but it would help if you knew some history of the year 1793 in France and the whole revolt sense Hugo acts like his readers already know the historical fact's he put's down.
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- Milton
- 01-01-19
Great historical story
This is a great story in one turbulent year, 1793, of the French Revolution taken from both a Royalist and the Revolutionary point of view. I really enjoyed it from a historical and a fictional perspective. I liked the way Victor Hugo includes different levels of society at the time from peasant to foot soldier, politician to general. The Audible narrator, Frederick Davidson, has an unusual style - a sort of aristocratic Georgian way of speaking. It took a while to get used to but he is really good at acting all the different characters and after a while drew me in. There are some long bits of author pontification, like many novelists of the period, but it all adds to the overall flavour of the time and I was interested in seeing the long view of the French Revolution from a French 19th century view point. I completely loved Les Miserable on Audible and now I'm starting The Hunchback... Victor Hugo rocks!
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- Anonymous User
- 13-05-23
Not suitable as an audiobook
Victor Hugo's style of diversionary essays within his novels, and his interminable lists, can be challenging in audio form, because you can't easily detect the novel's form the way it's possible to do in the written text. The same can be said of Les Miserables to an extent, but there the story is much more engaging and forms a more unified strucrure. The narrators haughty and disenganging tone isn't appealing here. Better to read the book instead, or listen to a different Hugo novel.
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- alpineangel
- 21-04-23
An excellent insight into the complicated history of France
This is the second Victor Hugo novel I have listened to, narrated by Frederick Davidson. His style does take a little time to get used to, but patience will be rewarded.
Hugo’s writing combines an involving story interspersed with short essays explaining the details of life and culture of the times.
An excellent book and very well read by a man who narrated about 700 books in his lifetime.
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