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“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.” Deep issues of conscience are explored in Ayn Rand’s dystopian tale of a man who dares to fight against a system that invades his very mind and identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Triumphant! A beautiful molding of the mind.
- De Kari en 02-17-16
De: Ayn Rand
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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
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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 Norton en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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Childhood's End
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer, Robert J. Sawyer - introduction
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,050
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Food for Thought
- De Kindle Customer en 11-17-08
De: Arthur C. Clarke
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
"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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Maurice
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: Peter Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 967
'Ah for darkness...not the darkness of a house which coops up a man among furniture, but the darkness where he can be free!' Maurice Hall knows he must choose between living life in the shadows or denying himself a chance at love and fulfilment. Aware of his attraction to the same sex, in a time where it was considered unlawful and immoral to have homosexual desires, Maurice must decide whether to battle or submit to a prejudiced 20th-century English society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!!! It's past time!
- De Christopher P. en 11-18-10
De: E. M. Forster
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Swann's Way
- De: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Swann’s Way is the first and best-known part of Proust’s monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past. Often compared to a symphony, this complex masterpiece is ideally suited for audio. Listening lets you appreciate anew the incredible beauty of Proust’s language and the uniqueness of his style. The novel’s narrator, Marcel, finds the true meaning of experience in memories stimulated by some random object or event.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, BUT
- De Michael en 02-04-13
De: Marcel Proust, y otros
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Letters
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on ethical issues and the nature of literature and storytelling. Within this audiobook is a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just Lewis
- De William en 02-07-21
De: C. S. Lewis
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The Bostonians
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic reading!
- De FranceyO en 07-15-11
De: Henry James
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Scythe
- De: Neal Shusterman
- Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21,108
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18,915
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18,892
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life - and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Teenage Thumbs up
- De Lila Reading en 04-01-17
De: Neal Shusterman
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The Stars, Like Dust
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 663
His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann - a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty of cruelty and domination among the stars. Farrill’s own father had been executed for trying to resist the Tyrann dictatorship and now someone was trying to kill Biron. But why? His only hope for survival lay in fleeing Earth and joining the rebellion that was rumored to be forming somewhere in the Kingdoms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Literary Master
- De Michael F. kloppel en 06-21-21
De: Isaac Asimov
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Night and Day
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Written before she began her experiments in the writing of fiction, Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day, is a story about a group of young people trying to discover what it means to fall in love. It asks all the big questions: What does it mean to fall in love? Does marriage grant happiness? What is happiness? Night and Day is a conventional novel; however, it maps out for us the world of Virginia Woolf in its wondrous prose: For her it was the beginning, leading on to a prolonged engagement with her search for the means to express the "inner life".
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4 out of 5 stars
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"After all, what is love?"
- De Eman Abd Allah en 12-13-16
De: Virginia Woolf
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The Titan
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: Stuart Langton
- Duración: 19 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Titan is the second volume in what the author called his "trilogy of desire," featuring the character of Frank Cowperwood, a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the faint of heart, but addicting!
- De P. Evans en 09-16-18
De: Theodore Dreiser
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The Aspern Papers
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: Jeremy Northam
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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One of the wittiest and most scathing of Henry James' novellas, The Aspern Papers chronicles the attempt to extract the valuable letters of the famous and recently deceased poet Jeffrey Aspern from the hands of his past lover and formidable adversary in the battle Juliana Bordereau. The plot was reputedly suggested to James by a story he heard of an illicit attempt to get hold of several of Lord Byron's letters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cat and mouse
- De Beyler Francois en 01-07-18
De: Henry James
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,224
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,066
Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOL Funny
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 07-08-16
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Passing
- De: Nella Larsen
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 414
First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two Negro women who pass for White in a deeply segregated world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If not for the Ending
- De William M Storm en 04-23-12
De: Nella Larsen
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Kate Harper
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great love story
- De Margaret en 02-03-23
De: Edith Wharton
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Creation
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 27 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A Magnificent Tour de Force
- De Harry Haller en 01-31-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Julian
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner, George Newbern, David de Vries, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant narration!
- De Abhishek Deepak en 10-23-19
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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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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Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 923
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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 Norton en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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A Search for the King
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great romp by a young Gore Vidal
- De Gail N. en 10-07-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
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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Creation
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 27 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A Magnificent Tour de Force
- De Harry Haller en 01-31-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Julian
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner, George Newbern, David de Vries, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant narration!
- De Abhishek Deepak en 10-23-19
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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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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Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 923
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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 Norton en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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A Search for the King
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great romp by a young Gore Vidal
- De Gail N. en 10-07-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
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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Inventing a Nation
- Washington, Adams, Jefferson
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht, Gore Vidal
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
Volumes have been written about George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Inventing a Nation does. Vidal's consummate skill takes you into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Reader Beware: Mixed with a political agenda
- De Robert en 09-09-04
De: Gore Vidal
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Duluth
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 6
Perhaps Vidal’s most outrageous novel, this is an indescribable fantasy purportedly set in the city of Duluth (which, however, is near the Mexican border) and involving a TV show also named Duluth (a parody of Dallas), a spaceship that has landed nearby, the antics of a policewoman, Darlene Ecks, and much else.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- De Amber en 03-26-20
De: Gore Vidal
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
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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Kalki
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Hope Day
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
To satisfy a public that longs for a savior, Vidal’s eponymous hero of Kalki, born and bred in America’s Midwest, establishes himself in Nepal, puts out the word that he is the last incarnation of the god Vishnu, and predicts an imminent apocalypse meant to cleanse the planet.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wrong reader
- De Gereg Jones Muller en 08-20-22
De: Gore Vidal
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 60 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov, and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992).
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5 out of 5 stars
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An entertaining anthology & a superb narration
- De S&DH en 11-13-21
De: Gore Vidal
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Thieves Fall Out
- De: Gore Vidal, Cameron Kay
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative years. By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a man caught up in events bigger than he is, a down-on-his-luck American hired to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll.
De: Gore Vidal, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Messiah
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Frank Donnelly
- 05-02-21
A Really Well Read Story And Very Professional Audiobook
I completely enjoyed every aspect of this novel, reading, and listening experience. This is a novel authored by an iconic writer and published in 1954. I have been reading numerous, although not all, Gore Vidal novels in the order of publication and this is my favorite thus far.
I am studying Gore Vidal as an author. Therefore I read a hard copy of this story, also on Kindle, as well as the audiobook. I found minor variations on all three, This audiobook is excellent, professional, and can be followed by listening, although the story, at times, is intricate and I was glad that I was also reading. Thank You...
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