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This work contains sections in which the author chronologically recounts individual legal cases involving witchcraft, citing about three instances in each section. He examines the reasonable explanations for the supernatural accusations, as well as the cultural us context that explains the fervor with which many of the supposed witches were persecuted.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 555
On a tour through history that's both whimsical and startling, we'll encounter 17th-century children flying around inside their New England home "like geese". We'll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we'll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Christan witch book
- By Nicole on 09-01-20
By: Susan Fair
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The Salem Witch Hunt
- A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today. Populated by colonists, many of them a generation or less from life in an England bathed in religious turmoil, Massachusetts was not the safe haven that the fleeing Puritans had hoped it would be. Persecuted for their faith in Europe, the Puritans had pictured a kind of utopia founded on biblical principles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love the the book but......
- By Regan Gibson on 11-21-20
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- By: John Foxe
- Narrated by: Robin Lawson
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 166
Originally published in the 16th century, this is the classic history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the early Christian martyrs. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truely a Great Book
- By Steve on 10-03-06
By: John Foxe
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Waverley
- By: Sir Walter Scott
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4 out of 5 stars 117
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By Tad Davis on 04-12-18
By: Sir Walter Scott
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Life Among the Lowly
- By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,542
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,297
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,299
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." A thrilling and important piece of American literature!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration
- By Linda on 04-14-16
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The Ruin of All Witches
- Life and Death in the New World
- By: Malcolm Gaskill
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Michael on 11-18-22
By: Malcolm Gaskill
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Dombey and Son
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- By Philip on 03-25-08
By: Charles Dickens
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 76
In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudun is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's nonfiction masterpiece.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strange book strange tale
- By Grant on 09-08-20
By: Aldous Huxley
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America Bewitched
- The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
- By: Owen Davies
- Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers of intolerance and persecution. The refrain 'Remember Salem!' was invoked frequently over the ensuing centuries. As time passed, the trials became a milepost measuring the distance America had progressed from its colonial past, its victims now the righteous and their persecutors the shamed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
- By BraveSparrow on 07-30-16
By: Owen Davies
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Strange Tales of Scotland
- Jack's Strange Tales
- By: Jack Strange
- Narrated by: George Ellington
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Strange Tales of Scotland all deal with a particular aspect of Scottish mysteries. You'll learn of the ghost that appeared at the wedding of King Alexander II, and of monsters such as the Shellycoat and Water-horse that were thought to inhabit Scotland’s lochs...Finally, we have a look at the legend of the phantom armies of Scotland; soldiers who refuse to fade away even centuries after their wars have been fought, and their causes faded in history. Welcome to the Strange Tales of Scotland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will listen again & again
- By Kathryn Lamb on 09-01-20
By: Jack Strange
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God's Traitors
- Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
- By: Jessie Childs
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
For many Catholics, the Elizabethan "Golden Age" was an alien concept. Following the criminalization of their religion by Elizabeth I, nearly 200 Catholics were executed, and many more wasted away in prison during her reign. Torture was used more than at any other time in England's history. While some bowed to the pressure of the government and new church, publicly conforming to acts of Protestant worship, others did not - and quickly found themselves living in a state of siege.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched, well-written
- By Charles on 03-23-15
By: Jessie Childs
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,278
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,257
With his trademark mirth and boundless charisma, actor Nick Offerman brought the loveable shenanigans of Twain's adolescent hero to life in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Now, in yet another virtuosic performance, the actor proves that despite being separated by a span of over a century, his connection to the author and his work is undeniable and that theirs is a timeless collaboration that should not be missed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mark Twain and Nick Offerman are a perfect match
- By Philip M. Chute on 10-23-17
By: Mark Twain
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Light from Old Times
- Or, Protestant Facts and Men
- By: J. C. Ryle
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The 19th century was an age that witnessed great progress in many areas of exploration and learning. However, according to J. C. Ryle, it was an age of great ignorance too. What particularly distressed Ryle was the scant knowledge of the English Reformation evident amongst his contemporaries. In this lay a grave danger: one of the reasons so many congregations drift from their evangelical foundations is their sheer ignorance of Christian history, and their lack of understanding of the major doctrinal controversies and why they matter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Church History
- By Wes H. on 08-06-18
By: J. C. Ryle
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- By: Jules Verne, Lisa Church - editor
- Narrated by: Rebecca K. Reynolds
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4 out of 5 stars 10
Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero - Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris - on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Didn't enjoy the performance.
- By Nick A. Wyse on 12-10-19
By: Jules Verne, and others
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Heidi
- By: Johanna Spyri
- Narrated by: Marnie MacAdam
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 216
Heidi is sent to live with her embittered grandfather high in the Swiss Alps. Heidi's innocent joy of life and genuine concern and love for all living things become the old man's salvation. From the goat - herder Peter and his family to the sickly girl Clara and her desperate father, Heidi's special charm enriches everyone she meets. Unselfish to the core, Heidi's goodness overcomes all obstacles - even those seemingly insurmountable.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Auditory quality not acceptable
- By D. A. Smith on 07-28-13
By: Johanna Spyri