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Palladian Days
- Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
- De: Sally Gable, Carl Gable
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio built Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused new owners. Called by Town & Country one of the ten most influential buildings in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables’ enchanting journey into the life of a place that transformed their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So interesting, wow what a way to retire
- De Leslie en 03-07-09
- Palladian Days
- Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
- De: Sally Gable, Carl Gable
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
Charming and Well Narrated Memoirs
Revisado: 09-19-23
What an adventure this couple had by opening themselves up to a new, and at times challenging, life as owners of a Palladian villa! They capture the sense of community in a small Italian village along with the Veneto's rich history. The narrator deftly shifts between English and Italian without ever sounding affected. So many narrators mangle the foreign pronunciation, but this one caught the rhythm and beauty of Italian. This production was a joy.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Peter Firth
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 909
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 781
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 781
When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed. Sent by her ambitious parents to visit her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess attracts the attention of the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded by him and alone in the world, she finds work as a milkmaid and the love of Angel Clare. Yet his love cannot accept the truth about Tess's past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peter Firth gets this book
- De Claire en 04-11-10
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Peter Firth
Superb Narrator
Revisado: 06-06-23
This masterpiece was especially compelling thanks to the excellent narrator, who perfectly captured the character's speech. Stunning and evocative performance.
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The Namesake
- De: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrado por: Sarita Choudhury
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,959
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,000
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,004
The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite book - in print and audio
- De Diana - Audible en 04-16-12
- The Namesake
- De: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Narrado por: Sarita Choudhury
Superb Narrator
Revisado: 05-29-23
This is novel is deeply moving. The narration brought out Lahiri's impeccably crafted imagery to such a degree that I visualized what was being described. So many times a great work of fiction falls flat in an audio form because of a poor narrator. Not this one! She was flawless.
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A Time of Gifts
- On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
- De: Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Narrado por: Crispin Redman
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the listener with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events that were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world's grandeurs and courtesies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nobody Writes Like This Anymore
- De Jennifer Calderone en 07-09-18
- A Time of Gifts
- On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
- De: Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Narrado por: Crispin Redman
Superb Narration
Revisado: 02-22-23
Unlike most audible books, this narrator deftly pronounces foreign words and naturally weaves them into the English passages. If only more books were narrated this this skill!
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Plunder
- Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
- De: Cynthia Saltzman
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Cynthia Saltzman's Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent History Marred by Narration
- De Anonymous en 02-01-23
- Plunder
- Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
- De: Cynthia Saltzman
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
Excellent History Marred by Narration
Revisado: 02-01-23
Almost every other sentence of this book contains several French words, in the second part, yet the narrator cannot pronounce the language well and overemphasizes them. Her unnatural and affected French distracted me from listening to the story. Her Italian was fine, though, and the early section of the book, which focuses on Venice, was enjoyable.
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The Sun and Her Stars
- Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
- De: Donna Rifkind
- Narrado por: Heather Henderson
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an interesting story!
- De JAR en 11-06-23
- The Sun and Her Stars
- Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
- De: Donna Rifkind
- Narrado por: Heather Henderson
The Sun and Her Stars
Revisado: 01-23-22
An exquisitely written and researched biography that brilliantly weaves together a complex history. Rifkind masterfully depicts the cultural collision between Old Europe and Hollywood. A must read for anyone who wants to get a sense of Southern California's history, landscape, and the influence exiles had in shaping them. Alas, the narrator does not do Rifkind's work justice--while her narration is comprehensible, her repeated mispronunciation of foreign and English words is extremely grating. Someone reading this type of book should know that it's Porgy, NOT Porgie in Porgy & Bess! Covering a diverse, cultivated set of people, The Sun and Her Stars deserves a more culturally literate narrator. Well worth listening to, but the superb narrator of Viertel's memoirs, "The Kindness of Strangers," shows what a shame this flat narration is. Hers is wonderful companion to this book--she deftly captures the foreign accents and better reveals the cultural differences between Hollywood and Europe.
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