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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
First published in 1865 by The Russian Messenger, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is considered to be one of the longest novels ever written, although Tolstoy himself did not consider this book "a novel". Interspersed between narrative chapters concerning five aristocratic families are several philosophical and historical chapters against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, where Tolstoy weaves a tale of drama with characters that include statesmen and generals of that era, mixing domestic life, balls, and war councils into one epic story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Loved It
- De Angela Tremari en 09-17-21
De: Leo Tolstoy
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A Hero of Our Time
- De: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin's cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sarcastic Title
- De SmartShopper en 04-23-24
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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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Recollections of Rifleman Harris
- De: Benjamin Harris, Henry Curling
- Narrado por: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Rifleman Harris was a soldier in the elite 95th Rifles, one of Britains most prestigous infantry units during the Napoleonic wars. In this memoir, Harris relates his experiences in Denmark, the Peninsular, and at Walcheren. This is no history of grand plans and movements controlled by the lofty generals. Rather this relates the tale of a front line soldier who's concerns run much more with keeping shoes on his feet, a shirt on his back and, most importantly, food in his belly. Among other details, this book relates the horrors of the retreat to Corruna and the even more disasterous Walcheren expedition where an entire army was struck down by pestilence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Review
- De Mr.Grey en 02-01-22
De: Benjamin Harris, y otros
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- De: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrado por: John Michaels
- Duración: 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
"Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him." This line was written by Ambrose Bierce in his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Death by execution has historically been ritualized, perhaps to absolve those accomplishing the execution from guilt or blame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and Clever
- De ben scotti en 01-17-20
De: Ambrose Bierce
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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The Centurions
- De: Jean Larteguy, Robert D. Kaplan - foreward
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the "age of heroics is over". As relevant today as it was half a century ago, The Centurions is a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superbly read. Unbelievably timely
- De Benjamin en 05-05-21
De: Jean Larteguy, y otros
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Les Miserables
- De: Victor Hugo
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 57 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,228
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,561
Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Miserables follows Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, he is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert.
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4 out of 5 stars
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one happy insomniac
- De Kathryn en 01-27-05
De: Victor Hugo
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Hospital Sketches
- An Army Nurse's True Account of Her Experience in the Civil War
- De: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 2 h y 53 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 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In Little Women, Mr. March went off to war. But in real life it was Jo (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such A Wonderful Story Beautifully Read
- De Teresa en 10-29-15
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Sword of Honor
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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At least one chapter missing
- De Sviatoslav en 08-17-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Les Misérables
- Penguin Classics
- De: Christine Donougher, Victor Hugo, Robert Tombs
- Narrado por: Adeel Akhtar, Natalie Simpson, Adrian Scarborough, y otros
- Duración: 65 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 165
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Policeman, Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Great Translation, 5 Great Narrators
- De Rain Wiegartner en 06-07-20
De: Christine Donougher, y otros
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- De: Baroness Orczy
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel's daring rescues of French nobility from the threat of the guillotine and the evil Chauvelin's efforts to track him down are all part of the intrigue in this swashbuckling adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will probably listen to this again
- De Regan en 07-05-19
De: Baroness Orczy
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A Christmas Carol
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Benjamin May
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his adventures on Christmas Eve continue to teach an important lesson, even to this day. Author Charles Dickens introduces us to the main character by painting him in a negative light, a selfish and miserly old man who will barely pay enough money to keep his office heated. When Scrooge returns home after work, the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, visits him and tells him that because of the wrongdoing he had done during his life, he has been condemned to walk in his ghost years shackled....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fine audio Interpretation
- De Lee Gregory Stewart en 02-03-23
De: Charles Dickens
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Plenty Under the Counter
- Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics
- De: Kathleen Hewitt
- Narrado por: Elliot Levey
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
London, 1942. Flight Lieutenant David Heron, home on convalescent leave, awakes to the news that a murder victim has been discovered in the garden of his boardinghouse. With a week until his service resumes, David sets out to solve the murder. Drawn into a world of mystery and double-dealing, he soon realises that there is more to the inhabitants of the boardinghouse than meets the eye and that wartime London is a place where opportunism and the black market are able to thrive. Can he solve the mystery before his return to the skies?
De: Kathleen Hewitt
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Shadow of the Moon
- De: M. M. Kaye
- Narrado por: Tara Ochs
- Duración: 34 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 299
The author of The Far Pavilions returns us once again to the vast, intoxicating romance of India under the British Raj. Shadow of the Moon is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress come home to her beloved India. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall, her protector, who aches to possess her. Forged in the fires of a war that threatens to topple an empire, their tale is the saga of a desperate and unforgettable love that consumes all in its thrall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Has always been a great story.
- De Sian en 06-08-14
De: M. M. Kaye
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Burmese Days
- A Novel
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 271
Colonial politics in Kyauktada, India, in the 1920s, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations but of lives. Amid this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory, a Brit with a genuine appreciation for the native people and culture, stands as a bridge between the warring factions. But he has trouble acting on his feelings, and the significance of his vote, both social and political, weighs on him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Sad, Fierce and Ambitious Colonial Novel
- De Darwin8u en 11-08-12
De: George Orwell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sevastopol Sketches
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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
- Peter W. Kalnin
- 02-21-24
Tolstoy at His Most Powerful
With his jeweler's eye for details, Tolstoy gives us a living experience of being in the Crimea campaign of the 1850s. Beautiful prose and great imagery brings us right into the action of a terrible war.
Jonathan Keeble does a fine job of narrating.
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