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First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage, Clotel is instead sold to another man and separated from her daughter. After escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returnss to Virginia to reunite with her daughter - now a slave in her father's house.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So Real the Feelings.
- De Anonymous User en 12-26-18
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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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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Can You Forgive Her?
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 27 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Very Victorian
- De David en 09-27-11
De: Anthony Trollope
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The Gilded Age
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naiveté of their own time in a work that endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, but Audio Quality Not Always Good
- De BethGA en 02-27-24
De: Mark Twain
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Le Pere Goriot
- De: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was, at first, afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household.
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5 out of 5 stars
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balzac rocks
- De beatrice en 03-12-10
De: Honoré de Balzac
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Armadale
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton, Rachel Atkins, David Rintoul, y otros
- Duración: 30 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Wilkie Collins' follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of evil, and the dark underbelly of Victorian England. The story concerns two distant cousins, both named Allan Armadale, and the impact of a family tragedy, which makes one of them a target of the murderous Lydia Gwilt, a vicious and malevolent charmer determined to get her hands on the Armadale fortune. Will the real Allan Armadale be revealed, and will he survive the plot against his life?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen again & again to unravel layers of mystery
- De Proud Parents of Furry Kids en 10-28-20
De: Wilkie Collins
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Man and Wife
- De: Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Nicolas Boulton
- Duración: 23 h
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Published 10 years after Collins’s most popular novel The Woman in White, Man and Wife centres on the confused and inequitable marriage laws of 19th-century Britain, reflecting the author’s own antipathy toward the institution. The plot follows the fortunes of a woman who, committed to marriage with one man, comes to believe that she may have inadvertently married his friend, according to the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intricate plot, good dialogue, desperately needed an editor
- De Seth en 07-25-21
De: Wilkie Collins
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- De: Frederick Douglass
- Narrado por: Walter Covell
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. He was called both "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia" and is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- De Mama C en 03-05-11
![El conde de Montecristo [The Count of Monte Cristo] Audiolibro Por Alejandro Dumas arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Lwcuxfb-L._SL320_.jpg)
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El conde de Montecristo [The Count of Monte Cristo]
- De: Alejandro Dumas
- Narrado por: Joan M Martinez
- Duración: 46 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 334
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Ésta es sin duda, la novela de aventuras más famosa de la historia de la literatura. El joven Edmundo Dantés llega al puerto de Marsella, feliz por poder ver a Mercedes, de la que está enamorado. Pero otros pretendientes de Mercedes, van a hacerle la vida imposible, consiguiendo que el mismo día de la boda sea detenido, acusado de traición al rey y enviado directamente a la terrible prisión del castillo de If.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Qué bonita historia y que gran narración.
- De Luis Enrique Cuevas Hernández en 02-14-21
De: Alejandro Dumas
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Felix Holt, The Radical
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Relinquishing thoughts of a materially rewarding life, the respectably educated Felix Holt returns to his native village in North Loamshire and becomes an artisan. He is a forceful young man of honor, integrity, and idealism, burning to participate in political life so that he may improve the lot of his fellow artisans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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four and a half stars
- De connie en 01-02-08
De: George Eliot
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
- One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
- De: Kate Moore
- Narrado por: Kate Moore
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,581
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1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of 21 years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened - by Elizabeth’s intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone should read this!
- De Lana S en 12-22-21
De: Kate Moore
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On the Origin of Species
- De: Charles Darwin
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Perfect Abridgement
- De M en 05-28-09
De: Charles Darwin
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- De: Ilyon Woo
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Necessary story well told!
- De Marc W Rhoades en 01-19-23
De: Ilyon Woo
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Scaramouche
- De: Rafael Sabatini
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 277
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With swordfights and romance, adventure and treachery set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this is the book that made Sabatini famous. Andre-Louis Moreau has good prospects as a young lawyer, but an unfair duel with the ruthlessly cruel Count de La Tour d'Azyr leaves Andre-Louis' best friend dead and Andre-Louis himself a fugitive from the King's justice. While incognito, he becomes both a wildly popular actor and a firebrand of the Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerizing
- De Tariq Anis en 03-21-07
De: Rafael Sabatini
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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- A Novel
- De: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jull Costa Margaret - translator, Robin Patterson - translator
- Narrado por: Ramon De Ocampo
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences. In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brás Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: “I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible story from an incredible author
- De Anonymous User en 01-01-21
De: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, y otros