Giulia Lazzari, a Spy Detective Story by Somerset Maugham
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- "Giulia Lazzari" is a spy story by W. Somerset Maugham featuring British agent Ashenden during World War I. Ashenden is tasked with capturing an Indian nationalist, Chandra Lal, who is working against the British and is hiding in Switzerland. The British authorities enlist Giulia Lazzari, a beautiful and charming Italian woman, to lure Chandra Lal to France, where he can be arrested.
So much incivility for what one has been entertained and edified at no cost whatsoever...
Everything costs something . . . One way or another.
No one tells a tale better than Maugham ,& this gentleman delivers the stories brilliantly. Some readers grate on ones nerves but this one is soothing & convincing . ❤
This one can’t be used as a sleep story, because the pounding, dramatic music at the end WILL wake you.
Great twist at the end!
Wonderful story, especially the end! What if the watch actually contained poison or some secret information...
Frankly I enjoy this it's an audiobook
Maugham’s exceptional genius read by a disembodied digitizer voice deadens and degrades the human mind, yet I cannot stop listening for fear I will miss hearing another wonderful story.
"Disembodied digitizer". What's that ? A microphone to my ears. This has a strange rhythm but it's a human actor
Ridiculous comment! It’s definitely a human voice. Actually it’s read by the actor, Alex Jennings, and is part of the BBC’s Radio Collection.
@@davidland1212 This one isn't Jennings. Jennings wouldn't read out 'asterisk asterisk asterisk' as other recordings with this voice on this channel have had.' (Also, I listened to the Jennings recording earlier this week on a different channel. Totally different tonal qualities.)
@@davidland1212These are A.I. Read what neuralsurfer says in his description. The company they use is called Lab11. This is why the intonation is so often wrong.
@@davidland1212These are all A.I. Read neuralsurfer's comments on his channel, he uses a company that specialises in A.I called ElevenLabs. This is why the intonation is so often wrong and why we get the AI 'tourettes'.
Better than psychiatry
UA-cam must hate this channel. I think there are 15 or 20 commercials, usually two per interruption. The strategy is clearly to break it up so badly that the listener can't ever settle into it. What a user-hostile medium.
get an ad-blocker
@@простадівчина I know I know...
@dontaylor7315 I'm lucky in some way. I don't have an ad blocker but get little or no ads on this channel.
Great story. I agree with all the anti-bot comments. But I do so enjoy listening to the stories.
User- hostile such an appropriate term for the idiotic adverts selling windows/rentals / retirement homes- all sorts of listeners included! I am prepared to put up with such annoyances in exchange of my enjoyment of listening and enjoying such beautifully structured stories. Each character different, descriptive of such a wide range of humans. I wonder how gregarious SM must have been to have met some or all of the characters included in his stories.
@@user-pm9rx5sy2k He was well-traveled and I bet that as a writer he cultivated conversation with all sorts of people because you may never know what the other person's story is unless you can draw them out. I imagine Maugham saw the whole world as material.
Excellent! you can't think of everything.
Hi thank you 🙏
What a rough end.
Definitely not Ashenden's finest mission. Although in Gulia's position, I would rather have gone to jail than give the bastards what they wanted!
As much as I enjoy these stories the one thing that irks me is the racial conototains contained herein. Just goes to show the hypocrisy that these colonialists had.
🙏👏👏👏👏💕
Another video with the Tourette's outbursts in it, doesn't anyone review these before posting them?
My favorite part is always the a.i. glitches 😅
"Tourette's outbursts?" I didn't notice anything resembling language of that sort. The nearest thing to it that I'm aware of is the line "She flung foul names at him."
Yes free stories read to you
Why moan ?