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Dombey and Son
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- De: John Mullan - introduction, Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Owen Teale, John Mullan - introduction
- Duración: 41 h y 23 m
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Audible presents an original dramatisation of Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son, first published as Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. A literary masterpiece in which Dickens' gift for vivid characterisation is at its best, this is the story of a powerful man whose inability to appreciate those around him leads to his lonely demise and, later, his possible redemption.
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Fabulous
- De Jodi en 05-01-21
- Dombey and Son
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- De: John Mullan - introduction, Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Owen Teale, John Mullan - introduction
Wonderfully complex story
Revisado: 05-01-25
An engrossing story from start to finish. Super narration. The many characters are drawn in great detail. The 19th Century writing is highly approachable.
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James
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers/listeners of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
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This is the real story of Huck…
- De Poor Fisherman en 04-07-24
- James
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
A hard , necessary book
Revisado: 03-03-25
This is a description of the horror of life as a slave. It is a gripping, well-plotted story. The narration is superb. I am white. Black people know the story all too well. The truth of the story should be known by all.
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The Swans of Harlem
- Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
- De: Karen Valby
- Narrado por: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each other’s chosen family. She was the first Black company ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine, an Essence cover star; she was cast in The Wiz and in a Bob Fosse production on Broadway.
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Loved this book
- De Lee en 04-05-25
- The Swans of Harlem
- Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
- De: Karen Valby
- Narrado por: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Marcia Lynn Sells, Khadija Tariyan McKinney G., January LaVoy
An important story finally told
Revisado: 09-23-24
I am an eighty year old, straight, white man. I know little of ballet. This book is a fascinating description of the strength, determination, suffering, and sisterhood of superb artists in gaining the recognition that is so often denied black Americans. The story is sometimes hard to hear, but so very necessary to be told. I will be watching videos of these dancers and their ballets.
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The Earth Transformed
- An Untold History
- De: Peter Frankopan
- Narrado por: Peter Frankopan
- Duración: 29 h y 11 m
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Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history.
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A Thoughtful History of A Complex Phenomenon
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 04-21-23
- The Earth Transformed
- An Untold History
- De: Peter Frankopan
- Narrado por: Peter Frankopan
The effect of volcanic activity on climate over millennia.
Revisado: 12-30-23
The author consulted amount of world literature, from myth to peer reviewed research. He coordinated global literature that was written in response to specific events, such as volcanic activity, to illustrate effects over larger or smaller geographic and temporal scale. The author’s reading was very good.
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Ride the Pink Horse
- De: Dorothy B. Hughes
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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During Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town. It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what's his. It's the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for former senator Willis Douglass, trouble is just beginning.
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Great reading of a great noir novel
- De Steven J. Hoffman en 09-02-20
- Ride the Pink Horse
- De: Dorothy B. Hughes
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Enjoy this dark story
Revisado: 07-11-23
What really interested me was the very sympathetic depiction of Indians as very smart, sympathetic and patient. The delusional Chicago mug. The study of this guy was fascinating. Even though the end was obvious long before it was reached .
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All I Did Was Shoot My Man
- A Leonid McGill Mystery, Book 4
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella worked. Zella didn't remember shooting Harry, but she didn't deny it either. The district attorney was inclined to call it temporary insanity - until the police found $80,000 from the Rutgers heist hidden in her storage space. For reasons of his own, Leonid McGill is convinced of Zella's innocence. But as he begins his investigation, his life begins to unravel.
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I have fallen in love again!
- De Nicole en 04-05-12
- All I Did Was Shoot My Man
- A Leonid McGill Mystery, Book 4
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
Confusing story
Revisado: 06-19-23
The book was very hard to follow. Many characters and unrelated, convoluted plots. The relationship between Leonid and Zella was revealed early and I missed it. A difficult and confusing book to read . The reader was good
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Waverley
- De: Sir Walter Scott
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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Waverley by Sir Walter Scott is an enthralling tale of love, war and divided loyalties. Taking place during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the novel tells the story of proud English officer Edward Waverley. After being posted to Dundee, Edward eventually befriends chieftain of the Highland Clan Mac-Ivor and falls in love with his beautiful sister Flora. He then renounces his former loyalties in order actively to support Scotland in open rebellion against the Union with England. The book depicts stunning, romantic panoramas of the Highlands.
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Loved it
- De Tad Davis en 04-12-18
- Waverley
- De: Sir Walter Scott
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
Fascinating history
Revisado: 06-02-23
As I approach my 9th Decade I had never read anything by Walter Scott until now. This is a highly readable book. The writing is fully accessible (apart from long absence from Latin). I know nothing of Scottish history so am very pleased to have read this exciting account of a momentous time. There is so very much I just do not know of the history and religion of Scotland, but now I have a sense. The many and varied characters, main and subsidiary, were wonderfully drawn. Finally, Scott described the many places where this story is set in a way that makes me want to visit them. Finally finally, Mr Rintouil’s reading was superb. This is a highly engaging historical novel and I will be reading more from Sir Walter Scott.
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The Deerslayer
- De: James Fenimore Cooper
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
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The Deerslayer is the first of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Here we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. The action begins as Bumppo, called "Deerslayer", and his friend Hurry Harry approach Lake Glimmerglass, or Oswego, where the trapper Thomas Hutter lives with his daughters, the beautiful Judith and the feeble-minded Hetty. Hutter's floating log fort is attacked by Iroquois Indians, and the two frontiersmen join in the fight.
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things were slower them
- De Bill en 05-08-05
- The Deerslayer
- De: James Fenimore Cooper
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
Happy to have read Deerslayer
Revisado: 01-05-23
Classic American story. The reader was very good. Interesting that when Deerslayer was written, 1841, there was awareness of the sad consequences of colonization on Native Americans. Cooper understood that the notion of White cultural superiority was a poor myth, that Spirituality is not unique to white Christians and that not all Christians follow the teachings of their bible. The writer dwells overlong on moralizing, hitting the reader repeatedly and at great length on the fact of cultural equivalency , that Europeans and Indians each have their respective ‘gifts’ that are suited to their respective circumstances. Cooper is unduly harsh in judging Judith, not granting her the possibility that her love for Deerslayer revealed her basic goodness. She deserved better.
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The Air We Breathe
- De: Andrea Barrett
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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In the fall of 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. For all, time stands still.
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Rich and absorbing
- De JudyK45 en 11-18-07
- The Air We Breathe
- De: Andrea Barrett
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
Fascinating but difficult
Revisado: 12-15-22
The reading was superb. A fascinating book. But difficult. Subjects of giving up both bad and good by the promise of America only to be disappointed, and the slow emergence of recognition of the tremendous potential of women. Hard to read the failure of communication, the corrosive nature of obsession .
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