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Spoilt by a poorly edited, inadequate narration
- De Lesley en 04-01-17
De: Anne Somerset
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Victoria
- A Life
- De: A. N. Wilson
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 21 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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The longest reigning British monarch and female sovereign in history, Queen Victoria was a figure of profound paradox who has mystified historians for over a century. Now in this magisterial biography, A.N. Wilson rebukes the conventional wisdom about her life - that she was merely a "funny little woman in a bonnet" who did next to nothing - to show she was in fact intensely involved in state affairs despite a public façade of inaction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book has old and new info
- De Dr. A. en 10-29-14
De: A. N. Wilson
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions?
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5 out of 5 stars
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JOHNATHAN SWIFT AND POWER OF THE PEN
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 09-30-14
De: Leo Damrosch
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- De: Antonia Fraser
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the object of debate, speculation, and the fascination so often accorded illustrious figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially lighthearted child was thrust onto the royal stage and commanded by circumstance to play a significant role in European history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying Narration
- De LaFemmeRouge en 10-28-06
De: Antonia Fraser
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
- De: Thomas Fleming
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming offers a compelling, intimate look at the founders—George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison—and the women who played essential roles in their lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but unbalanced, angle
- De Devon en 07-03-14
De: Thomas Fleming
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 24 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,587
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,553
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, not crazy about the narrator
- De Cathi en 07-20-13
De: Walter Isaacson
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Louisa
- The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
- De: Louisa Thomas
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age. And yet John Quincy fell in love with her almost despite himself. Their often tempestuous but deeply close marriage lasted half a century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De Jean en 05-18-16
De: Louisa Thomas
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How to Ruin a Queen
- Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair
- De: Jonathan Beckman
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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In 1785, a sensational trial began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. A leading Catholic cardinal and scion of one of the most distinguished families in France stood accused of forging the queen's signature to obtain the most expensive piece of jewelry in Europe: a 2,800-carat diamond necklace. Where were the diamonds? Was the cardinal innocent? Was, for that matter, the queen?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A History Buff's Guilty Pleasure
- De Kathy en 12-31-14
De: Jonathan Beckman
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The Mistresses of Cliveden
- Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
- De: Natalie Livingstone
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Overlooking the Thames, the Cliveden mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. Throughout its storied history, Cliveden has been a setting for misbehavior, intrigue, and passion - from its salacious, deadly beginnings in the 17th century to the 1960s Profumo affair, the sex scandal that toppled the British government. Now, in this immersive chronicle, the manor's current mistress, Natalie Livingstone, opens the doors to this prominent house and lets the walls do the talking.
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2 out of 5 stars
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disappointed
- De Galina M. en 11-14-16
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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn, and upon his arrest, was accused of trying to usurp the King himself. But here Tracy Borman reveals a different side of one of the most notorious figures in history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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narration is very well done & book is quite good
- De horoscopy en 02-18-15
De: Tracy Borman
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Peter the Great
- His Life and World
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 43 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,000
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This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable curiosity, everywhere looking, asking, tinkering, and learning, fired by Western ideas.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrater ruins everything
- De BrendaLouQuilts en 12-30-11
De: Robert K. Massie
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Love and Louis XIV
- The Women in the Life of the Sun King
- De: Antonia Fraser
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 318
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The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV, ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in 17th-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis' accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Louise en 04-27-08
De: Antonia Fraser
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
- Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
- De: Miranda Carter
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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interesting and entertaining work of history
- De D. Littman en 01-16-11
De: Miranda Carter
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The Modern Scholar
- The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
- De: Professor H.W. Brands
- Narrado por: H.W. Brands
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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This course examines the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. He remains the model of the American thinker - a man who was interested in nearly everything, and who pursued those interests with an admirable and contagious passion. To study Franklin's life is to learn not only the history of a single man, but to understand some of the most monumental changes in all of human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it
- De Holly en 02-20-16
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We Two
- Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
- De: Gillian Gill
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 18 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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It was the most influential marriage of the 19th Century - and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen, and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I found it extremely moving.
- De Cheryl en 08-07-09
De: Gillian Gill
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The Club
- Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually, the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club". In this captivating audiobook, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful survey
- De Tad Davis en 05-10-19
De: Leo Damrosch
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Favourite
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- Kelsey A
- 02-14-19
Bursting with Detail
While I personal had some audio issues with the recording (skipped sentences, weird echo), the story itself and very entertaining and well researched. I definitely enjoyed Fields’ writing style!
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- yoanna
- 01-19-19
Bored to death
I recently watched the award-winning movie “the favorite” & decided to learn more about the real story behind the movie...my mistake...this book is just SO unbelievably boring that it can cure any insomnia instantly
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-16-22
4th book in 60 yrs I've been Unable to finish
I stopped the audible, thought mybe I just wasn't in the right mood. Tried again. Couldn't do it. Thought to myself that maybe it was the narrator so checked it, sat down to read it and decided it wasn't JUST the narrator-
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