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The Divine Magnet
- Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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They look alike, but they live in very different worlds. Tom Canty, impoverished and abused by his father, is fascinated with royalty. Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, is kind and generous but wants to run free and play in the river - just once. How insubstantial their differences truly are becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing - and roles. The pauper finds himself caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, and the prince wanders horror-stricken through the lower strata of English society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful author, terrific narrator, splendid book
- De Rahni en 10-01-17
De: Mark Twain
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What Is Man?
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Carl Reiner
- Duración: 3 h
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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What Is Man? appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic, who debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and whether man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and avoid pain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm 21, this shit was crazy. But I loved it.
- De Trina en 10-16-17
De: Mark Twain
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The Birthmark
- De: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrado por: Walter Covell
- Duración: 42 m
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Hawthorne approached the Romantic notion of the ability of science to destroy art (or beauty) in the form of fictive "horror stories" of biological research out of control. This story is the best of that group. A devoted scientist marries a beautiful woman with a single physical flaw: a birthmark on her face. Aylmer becomes obsessed with the imperfection and his attempts to remove it via his scientific skills, thus rendering his bride perfect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bland uninspired
- De Holcomb en 10-02-12
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Melville in Love
- The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
- De: Michael Shelden
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book". Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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intriguing
- De Jean en 06-18-16
De: Michael Shelden
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Self Reliance
- De: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrado por: Alana Munro
- Duración: 1 h y 20 m
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The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This essay is a considered a watershed moment in which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. An American classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy this
- De Leah L en 07-31-16
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- De: Lucasta Miller
- Narrado por: Sally Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment.
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A Romantic Life
- De David en 05-03-22
De: Lucasta Miller
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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Letters to a Young Poet
- De: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrado por: Stephen Mitchell
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
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Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
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Priceless Recordings of Intense Feeling
- De David en 10-08-04
De: Rainer Maria Rilke, y otros
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Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Collection
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Philippe Duquenoy
- Duración: 48 h y 26 m
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Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific authors of his time, eventually gaining recognition for his tales of horror and his uncanny ability to paint a macabre picture with words. The Complete Works Collection of Edgar Allan Poe contains over 150 stories and poems, separated into individual chapters, including all of Poe's most notorious works such as The Raven, Annabel Lee, A Dream Within a Dream, Lenore, The Tell-Tale Heart, and many more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Would recommend to anyone!!!
- De Gail Blackwell en 03-14-18
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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Werther, a sensitive young artist, finds himself in Wahlheim, a quiet, attractive village in Germany where he seeks solace from the turmoils of love. It is a young spring, and he hopes that arcadian solitude will prove a genial balm to his mind. But his romantic tendency rules otherwise, and he falls in love with Charlotte - Lotte - even though he knows she is affianced to another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance for a classical story.
- De Brandon Shaw en 09-15-17
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Love Letters of Great Men
- De: John C. Kirkland
- Narrado por: Chris Patton
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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When words of love do not come to you on their own, then listen to these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats, and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoléon, who wrote to his beloved Joséphine, "I awake consumed with thoughts of you...." Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved...."
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4 out of 5 stars
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For all us hopeless romantics!
- De Stitch en 04-12-13
De: John C. Kirkland
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
- De: Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Anna Deavere Smith
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in the 1850s is the only known novel by a female African American slave, and quite possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere. A work recently uncovered by renowned scholar and professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is a stirring tale of "passing" and the adventures of a young slave as she makes her way to freedom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor reading of an important book
- De Hilary en 11-15-04
De: Hannah Crafts, y otros
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and thought provoking.
- De Holly Stockley en 04-24-19
De: Anthony Esolen
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De Profundis
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 1 h y 41 m
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At its heart, De Profundis is a love letter and is better known as the De Profundis papers. Written in 1897, while Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol, De Profundis would become one of his best-known works. The papers include Wilde's account of living a lavish lifestyle and his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, both of which he credited for his eventual downfall and imprisonment. The second half of the papers is Wilde's account of prison life and his spiritual awakening.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Work Really Is Wilde Going Off...
- De James E. Lytle en 05-16-21
De: Oscar Wilde
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Measure for Measure
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Royal Shakespeare Company
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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A performance of the tragi-comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo, is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelo's first act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman who has gotten his betrothed, Juliet, with child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended
- De Todd en 10-16-08
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of seagoing epics now celebrates an American classic.Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject matter create an aura of difficulty that too often keeps readers at bay. Fortunately, one unabashed fan wants passionately to give Melville's masterpiece the broad contemporary audience it deserves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful love letter to an amazing novel
- De Darwin8u en 10-20-12
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Divine Magnet
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-17-17
Melville At His Best
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Personal and extremely well-narrated. This book is magical and really well done. Great production and narrator.
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- russ
- 10-19-17
Divinely beautiful
Such an amazing piece of history. I was always a Moby Dick fan, but this makes me obsessed with Melville in general. Great!
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- Listener
- 09-07-17
Hooray! Love Melville!
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So good. Must have for any Melville fan. Narration is amazing. It's like he's talking to you. 5 stars.
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- Brent
- 09-21-17
Really Special
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I'm a big fan of Melville and this just completes me somehow. Totally nerded out with this. Thanks, Talking Book!
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- Gordy
- 07-27-17
A must for any Melville fan
Where does The Divine Magnet rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Jim Meskimen does an incredible job capturing the spirit of the period.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Melville himself
What does Jim Meskimen bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
This is a one of a kind performance.
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- Debra Hartrum
- 01-22-18
Incredible Correspondence captured!
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This literally seems like it was recorded at the time. Love the attention to detail and the period dialect. Well done to the narrator. Loved it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-16-17
Must have for any Melville Fan
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I don't generally listen to books like this but what the hell! It was great. Transported back through time.
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- Tal
- 10-05-17
Must Read Melville
Intimate letters between Melville and Hawthorne. I'm a big fan of both so it's is a big deal. If you like literary history, period pieces or just damn fine writing go and get this book.
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- Adam
- 08-10-17
Melville Fans!
If you love Melville, Historical letters or even just have a Moby Dick curiosity, this is a insanely fascinating book of Melville's letters to Hawthorne. Meskimen is one of my favorite narrators.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-30-17
Magical Narration
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A must have for any Melville fan. Amazing narration from the reader. really felt sucked into the time.
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