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Redesigning the World
- William Morris, the 1880s and the Arts and Crafts
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Socialist, philosopher, and poet William Morris (1834 - 1896) was at the center of the design renaissance of the 1880s, not only because of his celebrated hostility to aspects of machine culture, but because of his success as a designer and businessman whose work had enormous influence on the next generation of artists, craftsmen, and designers.
"A very readable and enjoyable book. It is not so much a biography of William Morris as a consideration of him as a political and esthetic phenomenon and as the founder of a number of organizations - the Century Guild, the Arts Workers Guild, and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Dr. Stansky examines them with a learning that is never pedantic, frequently humorous and always intelligent." (The New York Times book review)
Peter Stansky is professor of history at Stanford University and the author of numerous works on British history.
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- kelly dance
- 02-21-23
Great performance and story
I found the narrator’s voice to be moving and true to the text. I would recommend this audio book to anyone wanting to learn more about the arts and crafts movement.
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- B. Mann
- 10-03-22
Worst performance I've encountered.
Firstly, please don't make phony accents when quoting people. Not sure where these different British dialects come from, but it seems the narrator just makes it up. There is even a "gay" accent near the end. Bone crunching.
On top of that, the reader has a cadence that is incomprehensible. Sometimes I think it is being read by a really bad computer app or something.
You should get your money back when something is this bad.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Lucky
- 04-09-21
The narrator
I really, really tried, but the reader ruined this book for me. Each and every quote is a new obnoxious accent. Why?
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- "jenngonnelly"
- 12-30-20
Good Information, Distracting Performance
I could not finish this one. I was most interested in learning more about William Morris. But found that I struggled to get thru those 2 chapters. I was distracted by the performance and found that the actor's incessant need to create accents when reading historical quotes completely off-putting. This is a reference book, not a novel. Acting out and putting on accents you think to belong to actual people living in the 19th century is inappropriate .
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- Joseph Azize
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Fine Story, but Self-Conscious Reading
The text is good, there are some weak spots (esp. about the Morris wallpaper) but what made it hard to listen to was the reading. When he does German authors, in translation, mind you, he puts on a Monty Python type German voice. When he does English voices, he sounds prissy, supercilious, and affected. Simpler would have been better.
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Black girls and women disappear every day, but not without a trace. Join actress and activist Erika Alexander in a neo-noir, true crime drama as she searches for Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old Black woman from Spartanburg, SC who went missing in 2004. Her case became a rallying cry for other missing Black women in America and led to a growing demand to expose a system that ignores missing girls and women of color.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Cynical conflation of two tragedies
- By Buretto on 03-26-22
By: Erika Alexander, and others
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,564
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,468
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,389
When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role on Broadway in 2007.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult story, but worth it
- By Maya on 08-07-20
By: Joan Didion
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Evil Has a Name
- The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
- By: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20,893
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,784
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18,687
For his victims, for their families and for the investigators tasked with finding him, the senselessness and brutality of the Golden State Killer's acts were matched only by the powerlessness they felt at failing to uncover his identity. Then, on April 24, 2018, authorities arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo at his home in Citrus Heights, Calif., based on DNA evidence linked to the crimes. Amazingly, it seemed, evil finally had a name. Please note: This work contains descriptions of violent crime and sexual assault and may not be suitable for all listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much respect for the Victims and the Families
- By Amazon Customer on 11-16-18
By: Paul Holes, and others
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,283
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,956
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,958
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived - three Spaniards and an African slave.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A worthwhile listen
- By Blake on 07-10-13
By: Andres Resendez
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- By: Carl Jung
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,033
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,750
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,733
In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dr. Jung's Life Would Make A Good Movie
- By M. Clarke on 05-17-16
By: Carl Jung
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Chase Darkness with Me
- How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
- By: Billy Jensen, Karen Kilgariff - foreword
- Narrated by: Karen Kilgariff, Billy Jensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,420
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,270
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,219
In Chase Darkness with Me, you’ll ride shotgun as journalist Billy Jensen identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You’ll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle’s pursuit of the Golden State Killer which is chronicled in I’ll Be Gone In The Dark which Billy helped finish after Michelle’s passing, and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown 4 family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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COULD NOT STOP
- By KK on 04-14-19
By: Billy Jensen, and others