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A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eerie and fascinating
- De Jikai Zenshin en 03-19-21
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- De: Richard Cohen
- Narrado por: Richard Cohen
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing 20 pages from book
- De Rick, Austin en 04-23-22
De: Richard Cohen
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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Les Misérables: Translated by Julie Rose
- De: Victor Hugo, Julie Rose - translator
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 60 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,548
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,175
One of the great classics of world literature and the inspiration for the most beloved stage musical of all time, Les Misérables is legendary author Victor Hugo’s masterpiece. This extraordinary English version by renowned translator Julie Rose captures all the majesty and brilliance of Hugo’s work. Here is the timeless story of the quintessential hunted man—Jean Valjean—and the injustices, violence, and social inequalities that torment him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Made Me a Better Person
- De Jeff Diamond en 03-29-13
De: Victor Hugo, y otros
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Looking for the Good War
- American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
- De: Elizabeth D. Samet
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans - all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States' "exceptional" history and destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading for military officers and political decision makers.
- De Arlene S. Burke en 02-23-22
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
- The Legends and Mythologies That Inspired Robert Jordan
- De: Michael Livingston, Harriet McDougal - contributor, Robert Jordan
- Narrado por: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Take a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Jordan’s masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was, how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature. Origins of The Wheel of Time will provide exciting knowledge and insights to both new and longtime fans.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Agenda driven ideological bend.
- De Maxwell en 06-19-23
De: Michael Livingston, y otros
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 1599
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: James Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Note!--Abridged version
- De Scott en 01-05-16
De: James Shapiro
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The Fellowship
- The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- De: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 442
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If You Love Literature...
- De Ray M en 07-14-16
De: Philip Zaleski, y otros
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- De: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heyer as a person
- De Jerri C en 06-15-15
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Melville in Love
- The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
- De: Michael Shelden
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book". Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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intriguing
- De Jean en 06-18-16
De: Michael Shelden
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The Golden Age of Murder
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world's most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as an audiobook
- De Pat en 08-02-15
De: Martin Edwards
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The Novel of the Century
- The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
- De: David Bellos
- Narrado por: David Bellos
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general audience. Packed full of information about the book's origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revolution, a coup d'etat, and political exile.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The making of a classic!
- De Karen Creeden en 05-27-20
De: David Bellos
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- De: Gerald Martin
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, somewhat disappointing narrator.
- De Paola Herrington en 01-08-13
De: Gerald Martin
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Wonder Woman Unbound
- The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine
- De: Tim Hanley
- Narrado por: Colby Elliott
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 369
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 338
This close look at Wonder Woman's history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman with a golden lasso and bullet-deflecting bracelets. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits of matriarchy in the 1940s. At the same time, her creator filled the comics with titillating bondage imagery, and Wonder Woman was tied up as often as she saved the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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facts about how Wonder Woman has been portrayed
- De Midwestbonsai en 07-25-16
De: Tim Hanley
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The Ambulance Drivers
- Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
- De: James McGrath Morris
- Narrado por: Dean Temple
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense 20-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Morris always delivers interesting biographies...
- De NMwritergal en 04-08-17
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The Road to Monticello
- The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
- De: Kevin J. Hayes
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 25 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Boring Book
- De Greg en 05-13-14
De: Kevin J. Hayes
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A Life Observed
- A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis
- De: Devin Brown
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A beautifully written remembrance
- De Rob en 02-06-18
De: Devin Brown
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre I Have a Rendezvous with Death
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- R. Dean Smith
- 09-01-15
K. Anderson Yancy Brings Prose to Life
Would you consider the audio edition of I Have a Rendezvous with Death to be better than the print version?
Yes. K. Anderson Yancy brings prose to life. The intonations and inflections of his deep and distinctive voice move with the words and so do your interest in what lies ahead for the protagonist. You can hear the magnitude of the task ahead and the resolve to move forward. Well
Which character – as performed by K. Anderson Yancy – was your favorite?
The protaganist as portrayed by K. Anderson Yancy brings to mind the legendary Don Qiuote as he takes on the Impossible Dream.
Any additional comments?
Very well done! I am looking forward to listening to my next K. Anderson Yancy audio book.
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