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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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Great Story, but Audio Quality Not Always Good
- De BethGA en 02-27-24
De: Mark Twain
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The Professor's House
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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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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Gently compelling
- De TiffanyD en 08-12-19
De: Willa Cather
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Lighthouse
- De: Eugenia Price
- Narrado por: Tessa Richards
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Raised in post-Revolution Granville, Massachusetts, James Gould could only imagine the beauty and warmth of the lands to the south. It was there that he longed to build bridges and lighthouses from his very own designs and plans. His gripping story unfolds as Gould follows his dream to the raw settlement of Bangor on the Penobscot River, St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, lawless Spanish East Florida, and back - at last and finally - to St. Simons.
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Re: Wonderful Story
- De Cmorgan en 01-27-23
De: Eugenia Price
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Summer
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Juliette Burton
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.
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terrific book, beautifully read.
- De Sasha en 02-07-21
De: Ali Smith
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Sarah Morris Remembers
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Patience Tomlinson
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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With the help of her old diaries, Sarah Morris recounts her life story. The daughter of an English vicar, she begins by telling of her happy childhood with her brothers and sister in their country village. As a teenager, Sarah’s brother brings home a friend - Charles, a charming Austrian to whom she quickly becomes close. Over the years they fall in love, but when war breaks out Charles must return to Austria. While she awaits his return, Sarah quietly continues working hard and caring for her family. But she can’t stop wondering if she will ever see her sweetheart again…
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Lovely story
- De Hearth en 08-08-15
De: D. E. Stevenson
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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An intimate, evocative, often funny, and always vital portrait of India at the peak of the British Raj. Written at the age of 22, they immediately show Kipling's natural and prodigious talent. Timeless, they can be listened to forever.
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Gentle irony
- De Simon Bowler en 01-25-06
De: Rudyard Kipling
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The Sheep Queen
- De: Tom Savage
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Thomas Savage, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee, has long been a critically acclaimed author. The New Yorker calls him "a writer of the first order". This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma’s daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth’s secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.
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Excellent in all respects
- De Marlene J. Gustafson en 05-11-19
De: Tom Savage
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Passenger to Frankfurt
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie.
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Not the usual Agatha Christie
- De Jim & Julie en 12-18-18
De: Agatha Christie
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
- De: William Dean Howells
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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Howells’ best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners. After garnering a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position. The consequences of this endeavor are both humorous and tragic as the greedy Silas brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy.
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Important for the Era
- De Brent en 03-19-23