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- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Brad Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story5 out of 5 stars 72
In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of government-sanctioned slavery of Africans in America. Here are 29 full narrations, as well as nine sections of excerpts related to particular aspects of slave life, from religion to plantation life to the Reconstruction era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Norficia Overton on 10-23-17
By: James Mellon
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The Known World
- By: Edward P. Jones
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 478
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Story4 out of 5 stars 478
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- By Daniel on 09-03-04
By: Edward P. Jones
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Barracoon
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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skip the introduction!
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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang in
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By: William Faulkner
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
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- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41,414
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Story5 out of 5 stars 41,265
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gift to be treasured
- By David Shear on 07-09-14
By: Harper Lee
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Mark Twain Collection
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: John Greenman, Phil Chenevert
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Sound interesting? Listen to Mark Twain Collection and experience the compelling world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I understand it was written in a different time
- By Chris on 08-16-21
By: Mark Twain
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The Ponder Heart
- By: Eudora Welty
- Narrated by: Sally Darling
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Originally published in The New Yorker in 1954, The Ponder Heart is easily Eudora Welty’s most comic novel, a lighthearted burlesque that rivals Caldwell’s Tobacco Road for capturing rural idioms, and the novels of Mark Twain for high farce.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great reader
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840 in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime. Although overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered a masterpiece of American literature.
By: Mark Twain
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- By: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 399
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- By Susan on 11-11-08
By: Ernest J. Gaines
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The Homeplace
- Singing River, Book 1
- By: Gilbert Morris
- Narrated by: Judith West
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
As the year 1928 begins, 14-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her mother is expecting her fifth baby. Lanie has dreams of going to college and being a writer. Then tragedy strikes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow to start. But hang in there. It’s worth it
- By paula wright on 02-24-19
By: Gilbert Morris
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Ava's Man
- By: Rick Bragg
- Narrated by: Rick Bragg
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 442
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Story5 out of 5 stars 439
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- By Kate on 08-12-03
By: Rick Bragg
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The Gospel Singer
- By: Harry Crews, Kevin Wilson - foreword
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
A gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds them in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion, and place and steps back to divulge the secrets of his characters - including a dead girl awaiting the gospel singer’s melodious eulogy, his dysfunctional family, a murderer, the zealous town residents, and a traveling freak show.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The gospel singer
- By L. Welsh on 07-13-22
By: Harry Crews, and others
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Mudbound
- By: Hillary Jordan
- Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 968
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- By Betty on 03-25-12
By: Hillary Jordan
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The Moonflower Vine
- A Novel
- By: Jetta Carleton
- Narrated by: Natalie Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
On a farm in western Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive - and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end!!!
- By Amanda H. on 01-20-21
By: Jetta Carleton
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Bound for Glory
- The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer
- By: Woody Guthrie
- Narrated by: Arlo Guthrie
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Legendary folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie left us with this funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, rounding an America going rotten from the top downwards. During the journey of discovery that was his life, Guthrie composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs are merely part of his legacy. Woody Guthrie left us this remarkable autobiography.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shame on Audible
- By Fig Newt on 01-03-22
By: Woody Guthrie
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
- A Novel
- By: Peter Troy
- Narrated by: John Keating, Allyson Johnson, Marrie Kreinik, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Four passionate performances give wings to story
- By Cheimon on 04-26-12
By: Peter Troy
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 43
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience. Traversing a wide range of settings—including the jazz clubs of Harlem, expansive natural landscapes, and seaside taverns—Hughes’s voice as a poet ties these various places together.
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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Mules and Men
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved. In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her home town of Eatonville, Florida, to collect and record the oral histories, songs, and sermons, many dating back to slavery times, that she remembered hearing as a child. These highly metaphorical folktales, "big old lies", and powerful songs helped her to recover her history, and preserve an important part of American culture.
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ABRIDGED version
- By Ben on 02-06-19
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Collected Early Works (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Kenya Brome, Cary Hite, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Zora Neale Hurston is best remembered today for her work as a novelist, but she was also an accomplished dramatist, short story writer, and folklorist. That range of interests and styles is on full display in this collection.
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Candide (AudioGO Edition)
- By: Voltaire
- Narrated by: Jack Davenport
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When first published in 1759, Candide became an instant best seller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of human folly and intolerance found a perfect vehicle in this philosophical tale. A master storyteller, he combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and oriental tales with which his public was more familiar.
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Guaranteed to keep you smiling if not LOL
- By Robert on 08-09-12
By: Voltaire
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The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.
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way better than the movie
- By Ms. Blacq on 10-13-19
By: Alice Walker
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- Lauren
- 05-02-12
Great Listening
What made the experience of listening to Their Eyes Were Watching God the most enjoyable?
This is a book that I found difficult to read. Listening to it was a joy. Ruby Dee does a wonderful job with this beloved novel.
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- Sunshine
- 02-17-18
I just loved this book
One of my favorite authors. A story of love, sacrifice, trust, and living authenticity. A wonderful read and an awesome performance.
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- Chanelle Monique
- 02-13-18
Absolutely wonderful!
It was incredible to listen to the legendary Ruby Dee reading the classic words of Hurston. I felt like I was in a trance absorbing every word.
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- PATRECE
- 09-22-16
Short but good
LOVE Ruby Dee and she will be missed.....good story...very short but full of twists and turns...good read
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- L Jones
- 02-06-17
Amazing
I am so glad I didn't return the book. The first chapter was hard to understand because of the dialect but it became such a great story. The performance was incredible! I am glad i have this book to listen to again! # blackhistory lifelessons lovestory
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- M. Bones
- 02-24-17
One of the top works of American literature, wonderfully delivered
Amazing, awe-inspiring poetry in every line. Fanastic reading, as rich & natural as the prose.
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- JD Davis
- 02-14-18
What’s me gon do now
Soooooo, Good. Not just an epic tale, but insight into life in the South for African Americans at that time. I can’t even begin to say (without giving things away) how good the story is. EXCELLENT.
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- Jessica Sawyer
- 03-30-15
A classic beautifully done
Ruby Dee brings this classic to life. Hurston's writing is so lyrical and vivid. One of my favorite audio books ever.
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- Craig Miller
- 12-05-18
Wonderful performance
Many thanks to the reader for the vivid and emotional delivery that helped do justice.
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- Jonah
- 05-15-16
Well Executed Narration
What did you love best about Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Their Eyes Were Watching God gives the reader a glimpse into the life of Janie, an oppressed black woman living in the early 20th century in the Florida area.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Tea Cake was my favorite character due to his charming and cunning nature.
What does Ruby Dee bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Ruby Dee captures several different voices and brings it together in a cohesive manner. This can be very helpful considering that the slang in the novel is not meant to be read in a monotone voice.
If you could take any character from Their Eyes Were Watching God out to dinner, who would it be and why?
If I could take any character from this novel out to dinner I would take Janie because she is reciting this whole story to Phoebe the entire time and therefore I feel that should would make a great conversationalist.
Any additional comments?
Excellent narration, enjoyable story line. Read a paperback version the first two times, but the audiobook was my favorite read.
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