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Eric Walrond was a singular voice of the Harlem Renaissance, and Tropic Death is his most famous work - a collection that highlights his particular strength as a writer of short fiction. Over the course of these ten stories, Walrond vividly details the punishing realities of life and labor across the Caribbean, and yet the overall effect is far from grim. These are unsentimental yet startlingly beautiful portraits of the migrant experience, full of distinctive voices striving for an audience in a seemingly implacable world. Although Walrond’s writings were unaccountably neglected in recent decades, Tropic Death’s re-emergence as a classic of modern literature has brought an important author back into the light.
Revised edition: Previously published as Tropic Death, this edition of Tropic Death (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 93
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best narrator I've ever heard!
- By Ty on 12-12-16
By: Mo Yan, and others
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Andersonville
- By: MacKinlay Kantor
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 37 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 529
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 461
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Story4 out of 5 stars 460
Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly 25 years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's best-selling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy of the Pulitzer
- By Gillian on 03-22-15
By: MacKinlay Kantor
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The Mosquito Coast
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Story4 out of 5 stars 267
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful in every sense of the word.
- By Joan on 07-12-15
By: Paul Theroux
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Midnight Robber
- By: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 498
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 452
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 452
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Through the Dimensions, Girls Are Not Safe
- By mary on 12-11-12
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 459
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Story4 out of 5 stars 409
Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disjointed account of an extraordinary life
- By David on 05-01-15
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- By: Eudora Welty
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, and others
- Length: 32 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4 out of 5 stars 180
This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Good For Audio
- By Yennta on 06-18-12
By: Eudora Welty
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Finnegans Wake
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Barry McGovern, Marcella Riordan
- Length: 29 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4 out of 5 stars 79
Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. Who is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? And what did he get up to in Phoenix Park? And what did Anna Livia Plurabelle have to say about it? In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor, colored by a clear sense of humanity. In this exceptional reading by the Irish actor Barry McGovern, with Marcella Riordan, the world of the Wake is more accessible than ever before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The keys to. Given!
- By hyand on 06-16-21
By: James Joyce
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My Family and Other Animals
- By: Gerald Durrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Davenport
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,934
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,629
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,626
This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family - as well as puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoroughly delightful book!
- By T.K. on 06-21-08
By: Gerald Durrell
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,081
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 768
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 764
Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An African Childhood of Harrowing Proportions
- By Sara on 10-12-15
By: Alexandra Fuller
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
- By: Brian Jacques
- Narrated by: Brian Jacques, Full Cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Author of the beloved Redwall series, Brian Jacques is one of the most popular fantasy authors in the world, with over 40 million books in print. This New York Times best seller will impress listeners with its original twist on the legend of the ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, bad production value.
- By W. on 03-22-21
By: Brian Jacques
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Look Homeward, Angel
- By: Thomas Wolfe
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 26 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 513
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Story4 out of 5 stars 415
The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Of The Gret Novels Of The 20th Century
- By Eric on 02-22-09
By: Thomas Wolfe
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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
- By: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt - translator
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 24 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4 out of 5 stars 92
Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating narrative. The hero—or antihero—of Mo Yan’s new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals the author’s love of a homeland beset by ills inevitable, political, and traditional.
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4 out of 5 stars
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REINCARNATION
- By chetyarbrough.blog on 06-24-14
By: Mo Yan, and others
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National Velvet
- By: Enid Bagnold
- Narrated by: Annette Chown
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
National Velvet is a classic tale of dreams, ambition and one girl's belief in a horse. Velvet is mad about horses. When she wins a piebald horse in a raffle, she knows he's something special. His heart is as big as the five-foot fences he jumps, and he'll do anything for Velvet. Soon she and her friend, Mi, have their sights set on the biggest race in England. But can a girl win the Grand National?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just wonderful
- By Shiloah Baker on 11-18-16
By: Enid Bagnold
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American Tall Tales
- By: Mary Pope Osborne
- Narrated by: Scott Snively
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
This superb collection of larger-than-life folk heroes aptly represents America’s robust early days, perfectly capturing the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness. Author Mary Pope Osborne supplies a fascinating introduction to each tale and then gives her own original twist to the telling of it. Scott Snivley takes the listener on a wild ride from sea to shining sea in this classic collection, which includes Davy Crocket, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Johnny Appleseed, Stormalong, Mose, Febold Feboldson, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Author and Narrator
- By Joseph kubes on 01-27-23
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Brighty of the Grand Canyon
- By: Marguerite Henry
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 144
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Story5 out of 5 stars 145
Brighty, a shaggy young burro, lives wild and free in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. He roams the steep cliffs with the squirrels and rabbits. But his favorite friend is Old Timer, the prospector who shares hot biscuits and calls him Bright Angel. One day Old Timer doesn't answer Brighty's loud "Eeeee-aw!" Instead, the friendly animal encounters a ruthless claim jumper. Will Brighty be able to bring the killer to justice and make the wilderness safe again?
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Boys Loved It!
- By troubleT on 03-19-17
By: Marguerite Henry
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