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The Favourite
- De: Ophelia Field
- Narrado por: Natalie Boscombe
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough, was the glamorous and controversial subject of hundreds of satires, newspaper articles and publications both during her lifetime and after her death. This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bursting with Detail
- De Kelsey A en 02-14-19
- The Favourite
- De: Ophelia Field
- Narrado por: Natalie Boscombe
Bursting with Detail
Revisado: 02-14-19
While I personal had some audio issues with the recording (skipped sentences, weird echo), the story itself and very entertaining and well researched. I definitely enjoyed Fields’ writing style!
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Lucrezia Borgia
- Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
- De: Sarah Bradford
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 48
The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance: incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as best-selling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Could have been better....
- De Sherray en 08-27-09
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
- De: Sarah Bradford
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
Just Not Enough
Revisado: 02-09-19
The start of the book promised to "give back Lucrezia's voice" so I was expecting the whole book, as one might assume from reading a biography, to have her at the center which the whole thing revolves around. I was surprisingly disappointed. I felt like the story spent more time talking about what was going on with the men in her life instead of what Lucrezia herself was doing. There is probably more evidence left of their actions than of hers, but I just felt like she was a supporting character in her own biography. I've read Bradford's biography about Princess Diana and absolutely raved about it. This however was not her best work. Lastly, and I admit this may sound incredibly silly, having an American narrator really took me out of the story: her voice was fine and pace was good, but I for some reason would've preferred someone British.
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