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Narrado por:
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Malcolm Hillgartner
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George Newbern
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David de Vries
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Jeff Cummings
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Gore Vidal
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.
©1962, 1964 copyright renewed 1990, 1992 by Gore Vidal. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong friend of Xerxes, spent most of his life as Persian ambassador for the great king Darius. He traveled to India, where he discussed nirvana with Buddha, and to the warring states of Cathay, where he learned of Tao from Master Li and fished on the riverbank with Confucius. Now blind and aged in Athens - the Athens of Pericles, Sophocles, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Socrates - Cyrus recounts his days as he strives to resolve the fundamental questions that have guided his life’s journeys.
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A Magnificent Tour de Force
- De Harry Haller en 01-31-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated - and misunderstood - figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
- De John in NC en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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The City and the Pillar
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Do not listen to the introduction!!!!!
- De Billmatto en 12-05-19
De: Gore Vidal
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligent, Amusing
- De David M Chesser en 06-02-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Messiah
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Messiah traces the collapse of Christianity and the rise of the next great religion of Western civilization: Cavism. Founded by undertaker John Cave, Cavism holds that it is a holy thing to die. Packaged by a marketing genius, the new religion conquers the world more quickly than any prior memeplex, but pockets of resistance remain. Eugene Luther, formerly an apostle of Cavism, now a hunted apostate, writes his memoirs as a last gesture of freedom while the noose of a totalitarian religious state tightens around him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Really Well Read Story And Very Professional Audiobook
- De Frank Donnelly en 05-02-21
De: Gore Vidal
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Point to Point Navigation
- A Memoir
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Gore Vidal
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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In this extraordinary memoir, Vidal recalls his accomplishments and defeats, discusses the friends and enemies he has made, and contemplates the nature of mortality. In the Navy, Vidal was forced to use point to point navigation whenever compasses failed. It is an apt analogy for his life, which has been filled with triumphs as well as controversies. Vidal has had relationships with innumerable luminaries, including President Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, and Greta Garbo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Digressive, like an old man's reveries
- De margot en 08-01-13
De: Gore Vidal
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The First Man in Rome
- De: Colleen McCullough
- Narrado por: David Ogden Stiers
- Duración: 6 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 366
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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In the first century B.C. at the height of the Roman Republic, two men set their sights on becoming the First Man - the Roman more respected than any other. Marius, a heroic man of strength and means, lacks the noble blood to contend for the First Man, but overcomes his common status when he marries into the patrician house of Caesar. Sulla, a pleasure-seeking aristocrat without money of his own, is transformed by his ambitions into a fierce and daring warrior. Together the two men will shape history as they are thrust into a raging storm....
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3 out of 5 stars
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MASSACRE! DON'T BUY ABRIGED BOOKS!
- De R. L. Roeck en 01-28-14
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Claudius the God
- De: Robert Graves
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 19 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 636
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Robert Graves continues Claudius' story with the epic adulteries of Messalina, King Herod Agrippa's betrayal of his old friend, and the final arrival of that bloodthirsty teenager, Nero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Deified King of Historical Fiction
- De Darwin8u en 12-27-12
De: Robert Graves
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Augustus
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The son of Caesar calls to you.
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-15
De: John Williams
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Fortune's Favorite
- De: Colleen McCullough
- Narrado por: Michael York
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Return to ancient Rome, where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who determines to leapfrog over the traditional milestones to Roman political pre-eminence by any means necessary.
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1 out of 5 stars
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READ the Book Do Not Listen to Abridged Version
- De D A Casper en 02-22-16
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Myra Breckinridge
- A Novel (Myra and Myron, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal, Camille Paglia - introduction
- Narrado por: Michelle Hendley, Camille Paglia
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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"I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees. Fifty years after its first publication unleashed gales of laughter, delight, and ferocious dissent, Myra's moment to instruct and delight has once again arrived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well performed
- De Kenny D en 06-08-19
De: Gore Vidal, y otros
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I, Claudius
- De: Robert Graves
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 16 h y 47 m
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Here is one of the best historical novels ever written. Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars: the noble Augustus and his cunning wife, Livia; the reptilian Tiberius; the monstrous Caligula; and finally old Claudius himself. Filled with poisonings, betrayal, and shocking excesses, I Claudius is history that rivals the most exciting contemporary fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unsurpassed, addictive brilliance
- De Chris en 06-09-09
De: Robert Graves
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A Search for the King
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his faithful troubadour Blondel de Neel. But how? And what trials did the faithful and long-suffering lyricist have to overcome to find his king? Gore Vidal paints a broad, colorful, and poignant picture of a man searching for his master; for the symbolic king who is the goal of man’s eternal quest; for the spiritual centre of his life.
De: Gore Vidal
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Dominus
- A Novel of the Roman Empire
- De: Steven Saylor
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 20 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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A.D. 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Universal peace - the Pax Roma - reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Marcus Aurelius, as much a philosopher as he is an emperor, oversees a golden age in the city of Rome. The ancient Pinarius family and their workshop of artisans embellish the richest and greatest city on earth with gilded statues and towering marble monuments. Art and reason flourish. But history does not stand still. The years to come bring wars, plagues, fires, and famines. The best emperors in history are succeeded by some of the worst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent conclusion to the Trilogy
- De John f. Mc Cullagh en 07-26-21
De: Steven Saylor
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The Jewel in the Crown
- The Raj Quartet, Book 1
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 22 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Superb writing, subverted by spiritless narration
- De mgale en 10-13-10
De: Paul Scott
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Live from Golgotha
- The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Twisted and funny
- De Robert J. Englander en 05-21-23
De: Gore Vidal
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Roma
- The Novel of Ancient Rome
- De: Steven Saylor
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 3 m
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Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of Rome's first 1,000 years - from the founding of the city by the ill-fated twins Romulus and Remus, through Rome's astonishing ascent to become the capital of the most powerful empire in history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Plebian at best
- De Trustme en 05-18-07
De: Steven Saylor
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Ancient Evenings
- A Novel
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 29 h y 58 m
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Norman Mailer's dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer's reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile, and into the terrifying clash of battle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complete Drek
- De D.R. en 07-25-18
De: Norman Mailer
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Julian
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- Feya
- 10-04-23
Excellent
Fascinating story, beautifully written, especially since the subject hasn’t been explored in historical fiction. Not a fan of this author otherwise, nor his worldview, but the book itself is excellent.
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- E. Bucher
- 04-15-23
I love learning history
interesting story recounting the history of an unsung hero. I learned many things about the unfortunate rise of christianity.
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- Invingem
- 03-31-23
Heartbreaking
An excellent telling of the story of a man who fought against the inexorable march of time.
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- Atelier 14Parc
- 03-30-24
Brilliant!
I enjoyed thoroughly this wonderful book about the emperor Julian. Gore Vidal transports us that time and place and make us eyewitnesses of an extraordinary figure of ancient history. The narration was superb!
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- Daniel Soyer
- 07-27-23
A Sweeping History
Quite a scholarly book in the historical detail. I listened to it over a few weeks and lost track of some of the characters. Told by several different narrators, which enhanced the production.
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- Abhishek Deepak
- 10-23-19
Brilliant narration!
The narrator does justice to Vidal's masterpiece. Not one dull moment. The narration grips you instantly.
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- Amanda W.
- 01-22-23
Excellent
Off to find more Vidal! The fame of his wit is surprisingly well-founded. This is an excellent, intellectually dense novel and its performers were up to the task. Bravo!
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- Jay Jay
- 03-17-23
A peak of Rome
A worthy story for all ages!
Well done Audible
Best regards,
Gerald F. Joyce Sr.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-10-22
Vidal always provides a depth to historical fictio
Gore Vidal's historical fiction provides more insight than most other. His political courage is missed today.
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- Chris
- 06-18-23
Historical Fiction Done Well
I enjoyed listening to Julian's story. The narration was really spot-on. The narrators were diverse enough to not even have to think who was speaking as I already knew based on their voices. The story is also really interesting even if not all parts are historically accurate.
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