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- Duración: 36 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 7,296
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Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage ( The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens' most famous characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A PERFECT narration of an English classic!
- De Wayne en 09-03-17
De: Charles Dickens
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Twelve Years a Slave
- De: Solomon Northup
- Narrado por: Stephen L. Vernon
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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Twelve Years a Slave is an account of actual events that took place in the life of Solomon Northup, during the pre-Civil War era of the 1840s. It follows the trials and tribulations of an educated African American man that was born into freedom and later kidnapped, taken away from his family, and forced into slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a great book!!!
- De Andrew Robbin en 09-07-14
De: Solomon Northup
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A Diary from Dixie
- De: Mary Chesnut
- Narrado por: Mary Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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This is the original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., who was an aide to President Jefferson Davis. It is a fascinating narrative of all the years of the American Civil War. It focuses on the daily lives and hardships of all who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political elite. Mary Chesnut's prose has lost none of its provocative bite through the ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read—unique view of Antebellum, bellum & post bellum Southern life
- De harsh critic en 05-31-18
De: Mary Chesnut
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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Peter Joyce
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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"He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should be made to go as he would have them." Thus Trollope describes his hero Harry Heathcote, a settler and sheep farmer in the untamed bush of Australia in 1871. However, Harry has made enemies. In seeking always to act in the honourable fashion he cannot bend and embrace the weaknesses of others.
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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Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An emotional, paranoid knot of contradictions, the spiteful narrator is also desperate to join a society he loathes, if only to prove his superiority to it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Bryan en 02-19-19
De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, y otros
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Slave Life in Georgia
- A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England
- De: John Brown
- Narrado por: Damian Salandy
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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This account of the life, sufferings, and escape of a fugitive slave was published in London in 1855 by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. It is the autobiography of a simple, sturdy man who spent 30 years as a slave in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slave Life in Georgia
- De Deedra en 03-27-19
De: John Brown
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Agnes Grey
- De: Anne Brontë
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family. Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Kerry en 05-22-10
De: Anne Brontë
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The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier
- De: Joseph Plumb Martin
- Narrado por: Brandon Wright
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Joseph Plumb Martin (1760-1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Martin participated in the Battles of Brooklyn, the White Plains and Monmouth, and the siege of Fort Mifflin, and the Battle of Monmouth. The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier relates the adventures of a young private serving his country under terrible conditions. There are engaging accounts of army life, adventures, dangers, and suffering during the years 1776-1783.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gospel of the Revolution
- De Eric en 07-19-21
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A Story of the Red Cross
- De: Clara Barton
- Narrado por: S. Patricia Bailey
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Clara Barton was one of those diminutive New England women of the 19th century who was determined to make the world a better place. What Susan B. Anthony was to women's suffrage and Harriet Beecher Stowe was to the cause of abolition, Clara Barton was to the humanitarian impulse of the American people to help the unfortunate victims of war and disaster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational
- De Nanooks en 03-18-11
De: Clara Barton
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War and Peace
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Philippe Duquenoy
- Duración: 56 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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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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Agnes Grey
- De: Anne Bronte
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 113
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Written when women---and workers generally---had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-19th-century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Make.it.stop.
- De Wayne en 03-18-22
De: Anne Bronte
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My Lady Ludlow
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Susannah York
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Lady Ludlow's appalling snobbery, prejudice and bred-in-the-bone conviction as to the superiority of the English aristocracy and their feudal way of life are deliciously tested, and found wanting, in this gently radical tale of the collapse of a social system. Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow is a brilliant picture of the shift in power in a rural northern village, from the velvety feudal Ludlows to the glitter of the new money rattling through the system courtesy of the brazen baker from Birmingham.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A treat
- De Tad Davis en 03-04-20
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The Mill on the Floss
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Laura Paton
- Duración: 20 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 314
Maggie Tulliver has two lovers: Philip Wakem, son of her father’s enemy, and Stephen Guest, already promised to her cousin. But the love she wants most in the world is that of her brother Tom. Maggie’s struggle against her passionate and sensual nature leads her to a deeper understanding and to eventual tragedy
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great compassion
- De nina lalumia en 12-26-16
De: George Eliot
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Clotel
- Or, The President's Daughter
- De: William Wells Brown
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
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- Grace Davidson
- 11-02-22
Dame Seacole
This historical anthology is a masterpiece. I loved all of it.
As a Jamaican, I would like to say “Thank you” to the author, to the reader, and to all the people who worked hard to restore her dignity.
I would also like to thank Amazon for printing a copy of “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands” in South Carolina for me, as a copy was not available when I placed my initial order in 2018.
I am proud of every human being who voted for her in 2012. Thanks you all for keeping her memory alive and her integrity intact.
This woman was ahead of her time. I often wonder what would have become of her had she been given an opportunity?
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