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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
An inspirational story about how individual traits and efforts help one to rise and progress. It is the story that eloquently compares and contrasts between two characters, their attitudes, efforts and consequently their success and failure. The book remains an inspiration for those who are ready to put in efforts and move ahead in life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!!
- De braceanil en 01-24-15
De: Horatio Alger
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- De: George Horace Lorimer
- Narrado por: Alan Taylor
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great but those were the times...
- De Harold en 08-20-18
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The Gilded Age
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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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Black No More
- De: George S. Schuyler
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr. Junius Crookman and his mysterious process, Max and other eager clients develop bleached skin that permits them to enter previously forbidden territory. What they discover in white society, however, gives them second thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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outrageous!
- De Jennifer en 07-31-18
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The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition
- A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
- De: Bob Burg, John David Mann
- Narrado por: Bob Burg, John David Mann
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7,535
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,475
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6,443
The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. Desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nice little opener to Amway scam
- De noah britton en 06-20-20
De: Bob Burg, y otros
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Crewel World
- De: Monica Ferris
- Narrado por: Susan Boyce
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,007
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 909
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 905
When Betsy Devonshire arrived in Excelsior, Minnesota, all she wanted was to visit her sister Margot and get her life in order. She never dreamed her sister would give her a place to stay and a job at her needlecraft shop. In fact, things had never looked so good - until Margot was murdered. In a town this friendly, it's hard to imagine who could have committed such a horrible act, but Betsy has a few ideas. There's an ex-employee who wants to start her own needlework store. And there's the landlord who wanted Margot out. Now Betsy's putting together a list of motives and suspects....
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4 out of 5 stars
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British style mystery set in America
- De Sara en 01-13-14
De: Monica Ferris
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- De: James Weldon Johnson
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the fictional account of "an ex-colored man" - an African-American who could pass for white - as he attempts to choose which side of the line will better suit his life, and his psyche.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New favorite
- De Jess en 03-19-15
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The Loved One
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 3 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday - and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Satire? Or just mean spirited?
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 02-08-23
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Magic Christian
- De: Terry Southern
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 107
Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: Complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to "make it hot for people," Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Easily the my worst audible experience
- De Kindle Customer en 03-11-15
De: Terry Southern
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The Immigrants
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters. And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters, since it is the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration style kills the story.
- De Glynis en 11-27-14
De: Howard Fast
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The Professor's House
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gently compelling
- De TiffanyD en 08-12-19
De: Willa Cather
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The Stars Shine Down
- De: Sidney Sheldon
- Narrado por: Roddy McDowall
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The young, beautiful, and relentless Lara Cameron has amassed international wealth and power, with equal success in affairs of the heart. But an angry ex-lover has vengeance in mind - a motive that could cost Lara the empire she struggled a lifetime to build. Setting the stage in Scotland and Nova Scotia, maestro of mystery Sydney Sheldon lures his readers down a chain of intrigue through Chicago, New York, London, Rome, and Reno.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Redo needed
- De W.Denis en 08-31-09
De: Sidney Sheldon
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The Kill (La Curee)
- De: Émile Zola
- Narrado por: Cate Barratt
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Émile Zola's The Kill is one part of the French author's 20-volume series about the fictitious Rougon-Macquart family during the Second French Empire, and it is rich with symbolism. Paris is awakening to unprecedented expansion, the future intoxicating, and in keeping with its penchant for excess, the aristocracy is caught up in the mad dash to devour as much of it as it can.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Whoever?!
- De Matthew Garcia en 07-07-21
De: Émile Zola