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Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Augustus come to life in their ambitions, their work, their loves and hates. In them we see reflected a picture of Roman life very different from that fixed in our minds through schoolroom days, and far livelier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not so bad
- De steve en 04-25-11
De: Edith Hamilton
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom)
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Michael Lunts
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the epitome of his famous aphoristic style. 'Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.'
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am now a full-fledged fan of Nietzsche
- De RS en 02-24-18
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The Club
- Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 294
In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually, the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club". In this captivating audiobook, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful survey
- De Tad Davis en 05-10-19
De: Leo Damrosch
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What Is Man?
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Carl Reiner
- Duración: 3 h
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
What Is Man? appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic, who debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and whether man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and avoid pain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm 21, this shit was crazy. But I loved it.
- De Trina en 10-16-17
De: Mark Twain
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The Education of Henry Adams
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, The Education of Henry Adams recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion, and the growth of the United States as a world power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book EVERYONE should read once.
- De Darwin8u en 04-17-12
De: Henry Adams
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The Renaissance
- Studies in Art and Poetry
- De: Walter Pater
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It was Pater’s cry of “art for art’s sake” that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Marked by elegant fluency, Pater’s essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre....no idea what I just listened to.
- De GogolGirl en 10-14-20
De: Walter Pater
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 286
Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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De Profundis
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 1 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
At its heart, De Profundis is a love letter and is better known as the De Profundis papers. Written in 1897, while Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol, De Profundis would become one of his best-known works. The papers include Wilde's account of living a lavish lifestyle and his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, both of which he credited for his eventual downfall and imprisonment. The second half of the papers is Wilde's account of prison life and his spiritual awakening.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Work Really Is Wilde Going Off...
- De James E. Lytle en 05-16-21
De: Oscar Wilde
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A Woman of No Importance
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes, Samantha Mathis, Rosalind Ayres, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 34 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the "best" houses, while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating drawing-room comedy, Oscar Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society's narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pitch Perfect Performance
- De Cheryl en 08-26-12
De: Oscar Wilde
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- De: Arnold Bennett
- Narrado por: Eric Brooks
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 444
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 375
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 369
This classic personal time-management book, originally published in 1908, has inspired generations of men and women to live deliberate lives. Not just another collection of timesaving tips, this book is more of a challenge to leave behind mundane everyday concerns, focus on pursuing one's true desires, and live the fullest possible life. Reflection, concentration, and study techniques make it easier to accomplish more truly rewarding undertakings than anyone ever dreamed possible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written, well read.
- De Lauren en 02-21-12
De: Arnold Bennett
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Looking Backward
- De: Edward Bellamy
- Narrado por: Edward Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This Book is socialist Propaganda
- De Paul en 04-26-04
De: Edward Bellamy
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A Wicked Company
- The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
- De: Philipp Blom
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach’s Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach’s house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In A Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional group of friends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book on Radical Enlightenment
- De EJJ en 02-15-15
De: Philipp Blom
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 543
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 453
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A nice petite primer on Proust
- De Darwin8u en 02-20-13
De: Alain de Botton
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James