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The French Revolution, Volume 1
- The Bastille
- De: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrado por: Robert Bethune
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 27
Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of Thomas Carlyle himself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Great Disappointment
- De Charles en 12-28-09
- The French Revolution, Volume 1
- The Bastille
- De: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrado por: Robert Bethune
A Great Disappointment
Revisado: 12-28-09
I gave this entire series (The French Revolution: Bastille, Constitution and Guillotine) a rating of '1', only because I couldn't rate it any lower. Admittedly, I could only sit through the first two hours of the first volume. I honestly couldn't figure out what the author was trying to say.
The problem (for me) is that the entire book seems to be written in a style of stanzas (poetic), rather than a paragraph (narrative) form. Also the language style uses a psuedo-period (1770's) English, even a Shakespearian-like English, all put together in a rather poor attempt of something like Iambic Pentameter style. At least that's the impression I got while listening. Using every allagory, metaphore, simile, and every other literary trick in the book simply confused the verbage into such a tangle, that virtually nothing could be made out of any particular point. I assume a point was trying to be made.
Please don't take my word for all of this - I advise listening very closely to the sample that Audible provides before you buy. If you like this style, and can make out what's being said, by all means go ahead and buy it. If you have a problem, I can only assure you that it won't get any better.
I have been an Audible.com customer for many years, and have purchased many history genre books. Among my selections include such authors as Suetonius, Tacitus, and Horoditus, as well as Shelby Foote, Winston Churchill, Bruce Catton, David McCullough, and many other modern authors. 'The French Revolution' has to be my greatest disappointment in any historical genre book purchased from Audible, and has earned the only '1' rating in my entire collection.
A definite NOT recommended.
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The Outline of History, Volume 1
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 21 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H.G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds set about writing history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war...
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5 out of 5 stars
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A War of the Worlds Indeed
- De Charles en 02-02-04
- The Outline of History, Volume 1
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
A War of the Worlds Indeed
Revisado: 02-02-04
This book has been one of my best purchases from Audible.com yet. I've listened to both parts of "An Outline of History" twice now, and I'm still reading through it in print form. The only unfortunate thing I have discovered by reading the print version, is that the producers choose to record the original 1920 version of the book. This book has seen several revisions, first done by H. G. Wells himself, then carried on by his son after he died. The last revision was done in 1970, so includes W.W.II, the Atomic Age, Viet Nam, the Space Race, and many other subjects that H. G. Wells himself only dreamed of.
The narrative form of The Outline is simply inthralling. The observations and opinions as expressed by Mr. Wells are what makes this book the classic it deserves to be. This is certainly not the usual dry 'History Text' we all learned to hate in High School, but a living document of the Historical Adventure of mankind. Mr. Wells uncanny ability to pull together seemingly discordant bits of history into observations that fully explain some of the reasons why our present is like it is, make this book unlike any other history text.
If I am ever granted the chance of teaching High School World History again, I plan on using "An Outline of History" as the basis for my course.
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The Jungle
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 173
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle. It is the dramatic expose of the Chicago meat-packing industry at the turn of the century which prompted an investigation by Theodore Roosevelt, culminating in the pure-food legislation of 1906. The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Slav immigrant, who marries frail Ona Lukoszaite and seeks security and happiness as a workman in the Chicago stockyards.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A 20th Century Classic
- De Charles en 04-25-03
- The Jungle
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
A 20th Century Classic
Revisado: 04-25-03
Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle", was written in 1906, and has remained a classic piece of 20th Century Liturature. Both the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Beef Inspection Act were passed by congress and became laws of the land, less than six months from the appearance in book form of 'The Jungle'.
Strangly enough, a scant dozen pages of the book were devoted to the gruesome and unsanitary details of meat production. The novel was intended first of all as an appeal for socialism and as a protest against 'wage slavery'. It depicts what our country really is (in 1906), the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffereing, a human hell, a jungle of wild beasts and 'Robber Barons'. When read along with Upton Sinclair's other major work, "The Octopus", they bacame the focus of the labor movement in this country.
A most excellent read. Highly recommended.
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