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Alexandra’s passion and shrewd instinct guide her towards success as she continues to buy more of the surrounding land and resist the challenges imposed by the harsh Nebraskan prairie. Different challenges await her when a former love resurfaces and her brother becomes romantically involved with a married woman.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
A biting satire that countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism, it was to some degree based on Lewis's own experience of growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Set in mid-1910s, it depicts the struggles of Carol Kennicott, a city girl, as she tries to adapt to small town life, having left her librarian job and St. Paul, Minnesota to marry Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. Dismayed by the town’s drabness and the conforming, petty inhabitants, Carol optimistically sets out to improve the town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Are Your Assumptions About Yourself & Others
- De Benny Fife en 02-06-20
De: Sinclair Lewis
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The Wapshot Chronicle
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful 1950s Great Expectations-like Novel
- De Darwin8u en 05-31-13
De: John Cheever
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Three Short Novels
- De: Katherine Anne Porter
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
The classic 1939 collection of three novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of the most brilliant prose ever written
- De Anonymous User en 03-21-23
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A Different Drummer
- De: William Melvin Kelley
- Narrado por: Jay Smooth
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state’s entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication in 1962, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful and moving story
- De E. en 10-25-19
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Sons and Lovers
- De: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 345
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 292
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Momma's Boy (The Dangers of Overbearing Parenting)
- De W Perry Hall en 02-01-14
De: D. H. Lawrence
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Freckles
- De: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrado por: Susan Iannucci, David Shears, Sarah Bacaller, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Freckles is the only name he has ever known. His right hand is missing at the wrist, and he is haunted by not knowing how it happened. Raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage, he speaks with a slight Irish accent and sings with a beautiful voice. Now, exhausted after many days of walking, he applies for a job with the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, guarding timber in the Limberlost Swamp from timber thieves. His Swamp Angel declares her love for him and promises that she will find his parents and prove that Freckles comes from "a race of men that have been gentlemen for ages."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Freckles
- De Bill Collier en 10-17-23
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- De: Robert Hillman
- Narrado por: Daniel Lapaine
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mezmerizing and Stirring
- De C. Cohen en 05-02-20
De: Robert Hillman
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
- De: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s a lot to take in.
- De Michael Cutler en 02-27-22
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Winesburg, Ohio
- De: Sherwood Anderson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town’s daily news. He ends up discovering the town’s deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly - and poignantly - to life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Isolation, Loneliness, Love & Midwest Grotesque
- De Darwin8u en 06-27-13
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The Great Gatsby
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Tanner Buchanan
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Hailed as one of the Great American Novels, The Great Gatsby delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tale of obsession, love, and the gritty underbelly of the American dream. Through the eyes of unassuming narrator Nick Carraway, the story follows the enigmatic Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The great American novel!
- De Karen Creeden en 11-12-22
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 920
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 753
Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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5 out of 5 stars
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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Jane of Lantern Hill
- De: L.M. Montgomery
- Narrado por: Lauren Saunders
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 175
For as long as she can remember, Jane Stuart and her mother have lived with her controlling grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead, so she was shocked to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. But from their very first meeting, Jane fell in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage. During her stay with him, she even found herself daring to dream that there could be such a house back in Toronto.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adore the book. The recording needs to be EDITED!
- De Island Girl en 06-17-20
De: L.M. Montgomery
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Denaker, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 283
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 211
This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds listeners of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this audiobook are such classics as "A Bear Hunt", "A Rose for Emily", "Two Soldiers", and "The Brooch".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Table of Contents (by Chapter)
- De Anonymous User en 09-27-20
De: William Faulkner
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Summer
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 679
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 560
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent first audible purchase!
- De lilyglint en 08-23-04
De: Edith Wharton
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Lighthouse
- De: Eugenia Price
- Narrado por: Tessa Richards
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Raised in post-Revolution Granville, Massachusetts, James Gould could only imagine the beauty and warmth of the lands to the south. It was there that he longed to build bridges and lighthouses from his very own designs and plans. His gripping story unfolds as Gould follows his dream to the raw settlement of Bangor on the Penobscot River, St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, lawless Spanish East Florida, and back - at last and finally - to St. Simons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Local history come to life!
- De the Island en 05-07-21
De: Eugenia Price
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Springwater
- De: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrado por: Pilar Witherspoon
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Evangeline Keating came West because she had to: after her husband's passing, she needed to build a new life for her young daughter, and marrying a stranger from Montana Territory was her best chance. After a difficult winter journey, she arrives at an isolated outpost called Springwater Station. But the handsome man who's come for her is not her husband-to-be, and Evangeline soon finds herself thrust into a most inconvenient - and highly improper - arrangement.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Prolific foul language and graphic descriptions
- De Les Raymond en 03-04-20
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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My Antonia
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings, Ken Burns (introduction)
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,057
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,564
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,578
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book
- De Sher from Provo en 03-31-14
De: Willa Cather
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The Very Best of Willa Cather: My Antonia and O, Pioneers!
- De: WIlla Cather
- Narrado por: Andrea Giordani
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Willa Cather achieved recognition for her novels depicting American life on the prairie frontier.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The reader needs supervision during recording
- De M. Hill en 01-23-22
De: WIlla Cather
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Willa Cather's Prairie Trilogy
- O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Antonia
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sara Nichols
- Duración: 29 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
The Prairie Trilogy is a series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides to try to tough it out on the prairie.
De: Willa Cather
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 930
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 929
In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful story, perfectly read
- De Eugene en 01-25-17
De: Willa Cather
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The Professor's House
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gently compelling
- De TiffanyD en 08-12-19
De: Willa Cather
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O Pioneers!
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Betsy Bronson
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not sure why this is a classic
- De RueRue en 09-27-16
De: Willa Cather
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My Antonia
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings, Ken Burns (introduction)
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,057
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,564
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,578
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book
- De Sher from Provo en 03-31-14
De: Willa Cather
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The Very Best of Willa Cather: My Antonia and O, Pioneers!
- De: WIlla Cather
- Narrado por: Andrea Giordani
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Willa Cather achieved recognition for her novels depicting American life on the prairie frontier.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The reader needs supervision during recording
- De M. Hill en 01-23-22
De: WIlla Cather
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Willa Cather's Prairie Trilogy
- O Pioneers! - The Song of the Lark - My Antonia
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sara Nichols
- Duración: 29 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
The Prairie Trilogy is a series of three novels centered around life in the Midwest during the late 19th/early 20th centuries by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. First, in "O Pioneers!," we meet Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm after her father dies and leaves her to care for her three siblings. While many immigrant families are giving up their farms and moving back to the city (or to their home countries), Alexandra decides to try to tough it out on the prairie.
De: Willa Cather
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 930
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 929
In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful story, perfectly read
- De Eugene en 01-25-17
De: Willa Cather
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The Professor's House
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gently compelling
- De TiffanyD en 08-12-19
De: Willa Cather
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O Pioneers!
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Betsy Bronson
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not sure why this is a classic
- De RueRue en 09-27-16
De: Willa Cather
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My Ántonia
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Robert G. Slade
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Orphaned at the age of 10, Jim Burden moves to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. There he meets Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of an immigrant family from Bohemia, who have come to carve out a life for themselves in the harsh and bountiful Nebraskan landscape. At the urging of her father, Jim teaches Ántonia English and together they share adventures that will bind them throughout their lives, despite the vicissitudes of time and fate, and years of separation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing narration of a classic
- De BHMMary en 06-18-20
De: Willa Cather
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Louis B. Jack
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
This is One of Ours, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Willa Cather, America’s greatest writer of the prairie heartland. It is set in rural Nebraska in the early 20th century prior to the first World War that enveloped Europe and eventually the United States. The story focuses on the young Claude Wheeler, a well-to-do farmer’s son who secretly longs for something to take him away from the hum-drum agrarian life he has inherited. As he prepares to take over his family’s farm business, war intrudes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Opened my heart
- De georgette bartell en 06-28-19
De: Willa Cather
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O Pioneers!
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Barbara McCulloh
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Life was hard on the Nebraska prairie, but for Alexandra Bergson, daughter of a Swedish immigrant family, her love of the land gave her courage and strength. When Alexandra's father dies, she takes over the care of her family and management of the farm, so that the Bergsons can stay in the place they've chosen for their home. O Pioneers! tells the story of a remarkable heroine, and draws on Cather's own experience growing up on the lonely and wild American prairies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lifted and carried lightly by some one very strong
- De Darwin8u en 03-24-13
De: Willa Cather
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Shadows on the Rock
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to 12-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful
- De carol perez en 05-18-21
De: Willa Cather
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A Lost Lady
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 3 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband, she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wish it had a warning
- De Apryl Morris en 09-29-21
De: Willa Cather
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Chasing Bright Medusas
- A Life of Willa Cather
- De: Benjamin Taylor
- Narrado por: Benjamin Taylor
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some show their full powers early, yet Cather was the opposite—she took her time and transformed herself by stages. The writer who leapt to the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) was already well into middle age. Through years of provincial journalism in Nebraska, brief spells of teaching, and editorial work on magazines, she persevered in pursuit of the ultimate goal—literary immortality.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Willa Cather
- De cathy shortsleeve en 12-21-23
De: Benjamin Taylor
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My Antonia
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Nick Mondelli
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
r the death of his parents, Jim was sent to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk Nebraska. There he befriended Antonia, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. Years later, Jim, now a successful lawyer in New York, returns to his childhood home and Antonia. Jim's love for Antonia has endured, much as she herself has endured tragic circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!!
- De Edward en 08-24-15
De: Willa Cather
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
- De: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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With humor and compassion we enter the world of a small seacoast village located in northern Maine, where courage and caring are beautifully exemplified.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful, under-read book
- De Eugene en 08-21-19
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My Ántonia (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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Orphaned at age ten, Jim is traveling west to his grandparents’ home in Black Hawk when he first meets Ántonia, the daughter of a Bohemian family who settles on a neighboring farm. Through sunbaked summers and frigid winters, Ántonia bears the hardships of a young immigrant as she longs for a vanishing past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely vignettes have a part of the country. I was not familiar with.
- De Tess en 04-30-24
De: Willa Cather
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A Lost Lady (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Stephen Dexter
- Duración: 4 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Marian Forrester arrives in Sweet Water as the treasured bride of a retired builder. To her husband she embodies the idealism of this railroad town on the Western plains. And to Niel Herbert, a smitten young local boy, she’s so perfect as to belong to a different world. But as Niel comes of age, the fortunes of Sweet Water decline, and as the promise of the frontier fades, his perception of the fallible woman he has idolized since boyhood is shattered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice listen/read
- De B&K en 07-21-23
De: Willa Cather
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The House of Mirth
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Margaret Melosh
- Duración: 13 h
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General3 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9
The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, a penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a wealthy man, a hothouse flower for conspicuous consumption. As an unattached woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her. Written in the style of a novel of manners, the writing itself is an illustration of American literary naturalism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor Quality Recording
- De Natasha Bray en 12-06-19
De: Edith Wharton
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Bleak House
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes
- Duración: 43 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 541
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 539
This Audible Exclusive performance features a unique introduction written and narrated by Miriam Margolyes. Recognised as one of Dickens' most accomplished titles, Bleak House has impressed critics and audiences alike since it was first published in 1852. The novel boasts one of the most intelligent and engaging plots in all of English literature and is sure to engage the listener's imagination as it transports us back in time to the seedy, grimy and hazardous streets of Victorian London.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Audiobook Ever?
- De MattB en 01-17-19
De: Charles Dickens
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre O Pioneers!
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- Alfsmom
- 12-02-23
Wonderful narrator
The narrator can make or break the story. This narrator has just the right combination of tone and pace. She reads each character with distinction and gives the reader a real sense of who they are. Wish that she would read all of Willa Cather.
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- Pamela
- 12-22-22
A must read classic
Willa Cather’s prose is gorgeous. Written in early 1900s but still relevant in terms of matters of the heart, family and community .
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- Anne C Woodley
- 01-31-23
Not a good book. At all. Debby Downer novelist.
Well written but crappy story. Bleh. Disappointed. Story twist is twisted. I was unimpressed. Won’t bother with Cather again.
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