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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- By Daniel on 09-03-04
By: Edward P. Jones
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Family
- A Novel
- By: J. California Cooper
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story5 out of 5 stars 125
Family is a stunning, often painfully graphic re-creation of the realities of slavery: black women raped by white masters; black children sold to sustain failing plantations - or to satisfy the whims of a petulant mistress; strong men humiliated, whipped, and beaten because of the color of their skin. But it is also the triumphant story of a mother whose loving spirit transcends the barriers of death and time, allowing her to watch over her children and her children’s children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book
- By legacy329 on 04-30-21
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Trials of the Earth
- The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
- By: Mary Mann Hamilton
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 703
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 618
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 616
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South - surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers; and running a logging camp in Mississippi that blazed a trail for development in the Mississippi Delta.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Long and slow.
- By Ren on 10-31-17
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- By: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 474
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 398
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- By Susan on 11-11-08
By: Ernest J. Gaines
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The Mansion
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin, Flem. "For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics." This volume includes a new introduction to the trilogy by acclaimed novelist George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox and The Succession.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mink Cometh
- By daniel fam on 11-01-12
By: William Faulkner
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Cold Sassy Tree
- By: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,193
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,891
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,886
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Feel-Good Story
- By Chrissie on 07-13-13
By: Olive Ann Burns
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The Land
- By: Mildred D. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 537
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 442
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Story5 out of 5 stars 444
Ever since running away at the age of fourteen, Paul-Edward, the son of a white landowner and a black slave, has had one dream: to own land every bit as good as his daddy's. While growing up, Paul-Edward loved, and feared, his father, but he loved the land unconditionally. Then, after a rash act of youthful rebellion, he leaves his family behind and vows to succeed on his own. However, for anyone black coming of age in 1880's Mississippi, this is no simple goal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Totally Awsome Story!
- By DECLO 68 on 06-19-04
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Tobacco Road
- By: Erskine Caldwell
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4 out of 5 stars 91
Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester’s struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By KEE on 11-28-11
By: Erskine Caldwell
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13,483
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,912
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11,854
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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Ava's Man
- By: Rick Bragg
- Narrated by: Rick Bragg
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 442
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Story5 out of 5 stars 439
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- By Kate on 08-12-03
By: Rick Bragg
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Leaving Cheyenne
- By: Larry McMurtry
- Narrated by: John Randolph Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 543
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 435
As the world enters a new century, three teenagers forge a future for themselves on the wild Texas grasslands: Gideon Fry, torn between going his way and following his father's footsteps; Johnny McCloud, whose restless spirit finds its solace traversing an open range; and Molly Taylor, the woman they both love. Rugged, bold and volatile, the three of them come of age in this tender and intimate novel of the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and sincere novel
- By Paul on 05-22-09
By: Larry McMurtry
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- By: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrated by: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,253
Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” in the 1960’s by hopping a train. Untrusting, uneducated, and violent, he spends 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth. Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high-priced deals—an international arts dealer who moves between upscale New York galleries and celebrities. It seems unlikely that these two men would meet under normal circumstances, but when Deborah Hall, Ron's wife, meets Denver, she sees him through God's eyes of compassion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stays with me...
- By Rebekah Sue Carolla on 09-23-18
By: Ron Hall, and others
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The Reivers
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 233
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4 out of 5 stars 177
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque story that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucas Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 days in the life of an eleven year old
- By ruth a anderson on 11-17-09
By: William Faulkner
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Bound for Glory
- The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer
- By: Woody Guthrie
- Narrated by: Arlo Guthrie
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Legendary folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie left us with this funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, rounding an America going rotten from the top downwards. During the journey of discovery that was his life, Guthrie composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs are merely part of his legacy. Woody Guthrie left us this remarkable autobiography.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shame on Audible
- By Fig Newt on 01-03-22
By: Woody Guthrie
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That Old Ace in the Hole
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as a novel
- By Sarah C on 05-30-12
By: Annie Proulx
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- Bryan Baker
- 01-29-15
hearing a voice from a 100 years ago
First hand account of living in the south in the at the start of the 1900s.
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- 40 yr trucker
- 04-04-18
As good as a book can be!
Second time I’ve listen to this book. The first time was 25 years ago. Still one of my favorite listens! I was truly said to come to the end of this book .
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- Pdman
- 05-11-15
Very educational and enjoyable.
It took a little while to get used to the deep southern accent used in the narration but the book was well worth the effort.
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- Shelton Moomaw
- 02-19-23
A Extensive History From a Simple Sharecrooper
The stories are wonderful in understanding what it was truly lie between blacks and whites during the first half of the 20th century. While the audiobook narrator reads the book with an authentic accent can make it hard to listen too. However, give the book time and it honestly makes the book way more enjoyable. An excellent read!
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- BruceDC
- 09-09-19
Incomprehensible narration
The narration is done in character with a thick, incomprehensible accent and affect. I would prefer that narrator let the words speak for themselves and save the acting for another venue. In the book, the author notes: "I have not reproduced a southern or black dialect because I did not hear it. I did hear the English language as I know it, spoken with regional inflection and grammar." Unlike this narration, the book is wonderfully comprehensible.
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- A. Harwin
- 07-14-19
Maybe a translated version could be offered.
The decision to offer a version of spoken authenticity rather than comprehensibility has frustrated this listener. I am grateful that audible tried but I give up....will enjoy the print version.
I am defeated.
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- Isaac
- 07-14-19
Awful narration
This narration is not listenable. I am looking forward to reading the book. The author took plains to state in his introduction that he did not write the story in dialect because his subject spoke standard American English. Why oh why would the narrator choose a voice that was exaggerated to the point of caricature. How is anyone supposed to listen to that voice for 22 hours. I am sorry to have to return this book. I look forward to reading the authors words as written.
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