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Chasing the Last Laugh
- Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
- By: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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“There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. “I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it,” she wrote. “I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.”
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The Master Storyteller
- By Jean on 08-16-16
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Chasing the Last Laugh
- Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-19-16
- Language: English
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Savarkar (Part 2) B
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- By: Vikram Sampath
- Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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In this concluding volume of the Savarkar series, exploring a vast range of original archival documents from across India and outside it, in English and several Indian languages, historian Vikram Sampath brings to light the life and works of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.
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One of the greatest and most comprehensive works
- By Virag Masuraha on 12-10-22
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Savarkar (Part 2) B
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-11-22
- Language: English
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Becoming Queen Victoria
- The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
- By: Kate Williams
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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In 1819, a girl was born to the fourth son of King George III. No one could have expected such an unassuming, overprotected girl to be an effective ruler - yet Queen Victoria would become one of the most powerful monarchs in history. Writing with novelistic flair and historical precision, Kate Williams reveals a vibrant woman in the prime of her life, while chronicling the byzantine machinations that continued even after the crown was placed on her head.
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Extremely Well Written and Readable
- By Wren on 04-01-17
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Becoming Queen Victoria
- The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- By: John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War, the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War.
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Confederate Insurrection-Rebellion against Rebels
- By W Perry Hall on 02-02-14
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-23-09
- Language: English
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We Two
- Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
- By: Gillian Gill
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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It was the most influential marriage of the 19th Century - and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen, and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family.
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I found it extremely moving.
- By Cheryl on 08-07-09
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We Two
- Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-19-09
- Language: English
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery.
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Excellent
- By Jean on 12-04-18
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-13-18
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China even as China's imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China's advantage.
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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The Sassoons
- The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
- By: Joseph Sassoon
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives.
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More variety
- By Amazon Customer on 10-23-23
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The Sassoons
- The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-25-22
- Language: English
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A World on Fire
- Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
- By: Amanda Foreman
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 32 hrs and 44 mins
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Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history-making.
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excellent narrative history
- By Daniel on 08-15-11
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A World on Fire
- Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 32 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-28-11
- Language: English
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The Ninth
- Beethoven and the World in 1824
- By: Harvey Sachs
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to squelch populist rumblings in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s wars. Ironically, the premiere of this hymn to universal brotherhood took place in Vienna, the capital of a nation that Metternich was turning into the first modern police state.
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a gem of an audiobook
- By D. Littman on 07-19-10
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The Ninth
- Beethoven and the World in 1824
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-15-10
- Language: English
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Between Man and Beast
- An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World By Storm
- By: Monte Reel
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what he'd experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth. Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time.
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Extraordinary book! Masterpiece.
- By BVerité on 04-23-13
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Between Man and Beast
- An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World By Storm
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-12-13
- Language: English
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The Darkest Jungle
- The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-fated Race to Connect the Seas
- By: Todd Balf
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world's most courageous adventurers in the nineteenth century. With rivals from England and France days behind, the 27-member U.S. expedition landed on the Atlantic shore at Caledonia Bay in eastern Panama to begin their mad dash up the coast-hugging mountains of the Darien wilderness.
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The Darkest Jungle
- By Kimra on 04-24-11
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The Darkest Jungle
- The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-fated Race to Connect the Seas
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-15-04
- Language: English
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The Victorian and the Romantic
- A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
- By: Nell Stevens
- Narrated by: Nell Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their shared experiences of unrequited love - Gaskell for an American critic she met in Rome, Nell for a soulful American screenwriter living in Paris. As Nell's romance founders and her passion for academia fails to materialize, she finds herself wondering if the indomitable Mrs. Gaskell might rescue her pursuit of love, family, and a writing career.
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So promising, but...
- By Anne on 08-19-18
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The Victorian and the Romantic
- A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
- Narrated by: Nell Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-07-18
- Language: English
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- By: Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War: the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War.
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-23-09
- Language: English
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