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Middlemarch
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Maureen O'Brien
- Duración: 32 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,850
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,648
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,642
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed: this is not a never-ending story
- De M. Leavell en 01-23-16
- Middlemarch
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Maureen O'Brien
All time favorite
Revisado: 01-29-19
I wish the narrator had given Dorothea a more enlivened voice, Celia a less dead one, and Lydgate a less gruff one. But on the whole the narration was excellent.
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Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Lucy Paterson
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 232
Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light. Going beyond an exploration of the queen merely as a monarch, Worsley considers Victoria as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gloriana!
- De Karen en 01-21-19
Love Lucy Worsley
Revisado: 01-29-19
Lucy Worsley peeks into corners that other historians do not see and comes up with wonderful little nuggets and keen perceptions. I'm sorry she did not narrate the book herself as she is delightful, but the narrator did a good job for her.
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Peter the Great
- His Life and World
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 43 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,217
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,028
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable curiosity, everywhere looking, asking, tinkering, and learning, fired by Western ideas.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrater ruins everything
- De BrendaLouQuilts en 12-30-11
- Peter the Great
- His Life and World
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
Narrator slurs words
Revisado: 01-29-19
The author's book is excellent. I had read it before and wanted to enjoy an audible version. The narrator reads fast, which would not be a problem except that he slurs his speech and has the extremely irritating habit of leaving off the "s" at the end of many words, converting the plural into the singular, and imposing his own style excessively. The narration is overly affected with an arrogant ennui, as if it is such a bore for the narrator to have to read the book aloud. This may appeal to some people but I found it much overdone and hard to endure for the entire book.
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