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Sisi
- Empress on Her Own: A Novel
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sweeping historical novel that tells the dramatic story of Sisi, the empress of Austria-Hungary who fought for her family, her people, and her empire in a changing world
“Irresistible—completely impossible to put down . . . Allison Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning book.”—Michelle Moran, bestselling author of Rebel Queen
Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz not only with imperial waltzes and champagne but with temptations, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi finds solace at her estate outside Budapest, where she rides her beloved horses and enjoys visits from a man with whom she’s unwittingly become enamored. But tragic news brings the empressout of her fragile seclusion, forcing her to return to her capital and a world of gossip, envy, and sorrow where a dangerous fate lurks in the shadows.
Through love affairs and loss, dedication and defiance, Sisi struggles against conflicting desires: to keep her family together, or to flee amid the collapse of her suffocating marriage and the gathering tumult of the First World War. In an age of crumbling monarchies, the empress fights to assert her right to the throne beside her husband, to win the love of her people and the world, and to save an empire. But in the end, can she save herself?
Featuring larger-than-life historic figures such as Bavaria’s “Mad King Ludwig” and the tragic Crown Prince Rudolf, and set against many of Europe’s grandest sites—from Germany’s storied Neuschwanstein Castle to England’s lush shires—Sisi brings to life an extraordinary woman and the romantic, volatile era over which she presided.
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“[Allison] Pataki successfully juggles numerous political and personal plot lines while maintaining her focus on a fascinating central character. Extensive notes reveal the author’s attention to detail and explain where the novel diverges from the historical record. . . . Readers of Pataki’s first book will want to know the rest of Sisi’s story, but this novel stands on its own for historical fiction fans.”—Library Journal
“Sisi is a deeply moving book about a complex character.”—BookPage
“A satisfying saga of the late Habsburg period.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Where the Light Falls
- A Novel of the French Revolution
- De: Allison Pataki, Owen Pataki
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with the spirit of revolution. The citizens of France are enlivened by the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The monarchy of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has been dismantled - with the help of the guillotine - and a new nation is rising in its place. Jean-Luc, an idealistic young lawyer, moves his wife, Marie, and their infant son from their comfortable life in Marseille to Paris in the hopes of joining the cause.
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- De missgrundy en 01-19-18
De: Allison Pataki, y otros
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama.
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Another fabulous book by Alison Pataki
- De Marcie A. Thoma en 05-03-24
De: Allison Pataki
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The Accidental Empress
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Madeleine Maby
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe's most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry.
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- De SK en 03-18-15
De: Allison Pataki
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Beauty in the Broken Places
- De: Allison Pataki, Lee Woodruff, David Levy
- Narrado por: Allison Pataki, Lee Woodruff - foreword, David Levy - epilogue
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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On the flight to their "babymoon" in Hawaii before their first child arrived, Allison Pataki's husband turned to her to ask if his eye looked strange, and then suddenly lost consciousness. After making an emergency landing, they discovered that Dave, a lifelong, healthy athlete and orthopedic surgery resident at Rush Medical School in Chicago, had suffered a rare, and often fatal, stroke. Dave was one of the lucky ones though, and he survived, but the man who woke up from his coma was not the same man Allison had fallen in love with at Yale.
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A Most Remarkable and Inspirational Story
- De Heidi en 06-19-18
De: Allison Pataki, y otros
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The Traitor's Wife
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Madeleine Maby
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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Everyone knows Benedict Arnold - the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British - as history’s most notorious turncoat. Many know Arnold’s co-conspirator, Major John André, who was apprehended with Arnold’s documents in his boots and hanged at the orders of General George Washington. But few know of the integral third character in the plot: A charming young woman who not only contributed to the betrayal but orchestrated it.
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Is this a bad elementary school play?
- De Renee en 01-28-15
De: Allison Pataki
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The Queen's Fortune
- A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone, and it’s fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister, Julie, marries his brother, Joseph, Desiree and Napoleon’s futures become irrevocably linked.
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Fascinating Heroine
- De HistoryNerd en 04-08-21
De: Allison Pataki
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Where the Light Falls
- A Novel of the French Revolution
- De: Allison Pataki, Owen Pataki
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with the spirit of revolution. The citizens of France are enlivened by the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The monarchy of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has been dismantled - with the help of the guillotine - and a new nation is rising in its place. Jean-Luc, an idealistic young lawyer, moves his wife, Marie, and their infant son from their comfortable life in Marseille to Paris in the hopes of joining the cause.
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- De missgrundy en 01-19-18
De: Allison Pataki, y otros
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama.
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Another fabulous book by Alison Pataki
- De Marcie A. Thoma en 05-03-24
De: Allison Pataki
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The Empress
- A Novel
- De: Gigi Griffis
- Narrado por: Ellie Rose Boswell, Dominic Burgess
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth “Sisi” of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother’s advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject herself to such a dutiful existence. Sisi knows there is more to life than luncheons and corsets—if only someone would let her experience it all firsthand.
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Just half of the story
- De rhon en 07-11-24
De: Gigi Griffis
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: always think for yourself, never take success for granted, and work hard—even when deemed American royalty, even while covered in imperial diamonds.
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That's 10 hours of my life I'll never get back
- De Andrea L. Helms en 03-30-22
De: Allison Pataki
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Empress
- The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
- De: Ruby Lal
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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In 1611, 34-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the 20th and favorite wife of Emperor Jahangir, who ruled the vast Mughal Empire. Nur's confident assertion of talent and power is revelatory; it far exceeded the authority of her female contemporaries in Renaissance Europe, including Elizabeth I. Here, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.
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A Fascinating Life
- De Katie en 09-14-18
De: Ruby Lal
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An Intimate Portrait of Empress Sisi of Austria
- De: Count Corti
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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Empress Elisabeth of Austria (known by all as “Sisi”), was considered to be the most beautiful woman of her time. Looks she had in abundance and they gained her the heart of an Emperor before her sixteenth birthday. Emperor Franz Josef was tall and handsome, and for him it was love at first sight. She loved him as well and said yes. Now young, newly-wed, and an Empress, the world was at her feet. All the people truly wanted was simply to gaze upon her. How could this ever go wrong …? But it did … horribly wrong. Sisi was a woman out of her time and place. She wanted the one thing ...
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intimate history
- De ebeth en 06-13-24
De: Count Corti
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El destino de una reina
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Adriana Galindo
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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Francia, 1794. La Revolución ha dejado estragos por todo el país y la vida de Désirée Clary, hija de un rico comerciante marsellés, ha dado un giro: el mundo que conoció y amó se ha ido. Sin embargo, un encuentro fortuito con el ambicioso y carismático Napoleón Bonaparte cambiará de nuevo su destino. Cuando su hermana Julia contrae matrimonio con el hermano de Napoleón, las vidas de Désirée y el joven militar se entrelazan irrevocablemente.
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La investigación buena
- De MONICA en 01-02-23
De: Allison Pataki
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What Angels Fear
- Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 1
- De: C. S. Harris
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man - Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.
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An Addictive Series
- De Bibliophile1963 en 10-17-16
De: C. S. Harris
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Daughter of the Dragon
- Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
- De: Yunte Huang
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lam
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy.
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Interesting listen!
- De Loralei en 08-02-24
De: Yunte Huang
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The Captured
- A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
- De: Scott Zesch
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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On New Year's Day in 1870, 10-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comanches, he thrived in the rough nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years living in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled upon his great-great-great-uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch traveled across the West.
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A taste of real life on the prairies of the west.
- De Philell72 en 10-04-12
De: Scott Zesch
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The Vatican Princess
- A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
- De: C. W. Gortner
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized 15th-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope, was at the center of the dynasty's ambitions. Slandered as a heartless seductress who lured men to their doom, was she in fact the villainess of legend, or was she trapped in a familial web, forced to choose between loyalty and survival?
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Compelling story
- De Picky purchaser en 05-11-16
De: C. W. Gortner
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Sissi
- La verdadera historia de Elisabeth, emperatriz de Austria y reina de Hungría
- De: Ana Polo Alonso
- Narrado por: Aida Baida Gil
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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Cuando Elisabeth de Wittelsbach, princesa de Baviera, la mítica Sissi, nació el 24 de diciembre de 1837, una serie de malos augurios anunciaron lo que más tarde se confirmaría: que aquella chiquilla tendría un futuro privilegiado pero repleto de tragedias. La suya sería una vida tan dramática como malentendida, sepultada entre fábulas y mentiras, a la que un anarquista daría fin en uno de los asesinatos más famosos de la historia. Sissi se convirtió con el tiempo en un icono, pero su verdadera personalidad no siempre se ha contado bien.
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Una historia muy detallada
- De Esta padre para la doto pero no para que anden con el, es como un cilindro y se les sale en 03-13-24
De: Ana Polo Alonso
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Diva
- A Novel
- De: Daisy Goodwin
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. But her fame was hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her golden voice, she learned early in life to protect herself from those who would use her for their own ends.
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Excellent review of a remarkable woman
- De Webby405 en 08-11-24
De: Daisy Goodwin
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An American Beauty
- De: Shana Abe
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to Arabella from their first meeting. Collis is married and 30 years her senior, yet they are well-matched in temperament, and flirtation rapidly escalates into an affair.
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Loved everything about it
- De Leigh H. en 07-10-23
De: Shana Abe
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sisi
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- Mary Smiroldo
- 04-08-22
High Hopes
I really did have high hopes for Sisi by Allison Pataki. I enjoyed the story for the most part. I was hoping for more actual history of the the Habsburg Empire, and less romance novel. At times, it read like a cheap, drugstore Harlequin. Making those times even worse was Elizabeth Knowelden’s narration. There were moments throughout the reading that I felt like a third grader being read to by my teacher. At other times, I was being sung to, while still at other times, I felt like I was in Drama 101. If you are at all interested in listening to this novel, I strongly suggest you listen to the sample provided by Audible. Even after doing so myself, I was highly disappointed in the narrator.
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- Holly Dee
- 01-15-19
Beautiful!
A fascinating story about Empress Sisi's last decades. We're traveling to Austria this year, and this was an excellent and entertaining way to learn about one of Austria's notable people. The narration was also lovely. Highly recommend.v
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- Kirsten Bristol
- 09-17-18
wonderful
beautifully written beautifully read very good book highly recommend love the ending and how it gives additional historical information about the characters within the book
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- Tina
- 03-20-24
This book is much more than the love story of an empress.
I was impressed by the author’s research and attention to detail, the connections of the past to our present day, how royal families drove so much of history and how at this time we continue be affected by them.
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- Kristin Z
- 06-26-16
Loved this!!
Not only is the author amazing, but the narrator as well! Had me all caught up in the emotion and made me feel like I Was actually there!
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- Svetlana LeedsÂ
- 03-29-16
Interesting historical perspective
This was historically a good book but the story line is missing a punch line and is a bit dry at times.
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- KATHY OLSEN
- 07-12-17
loved this book
I really enjoyed the history but mostly the story told from Sisi's perspective. I also read The Fortune Hunter and I liked how the two books intersected
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- Lucy lu
- 03-11-21
DEEPLY MOVING AND ENLIGHTENING
So much to say about this most memorable historical novel on so many different levels!!!
So beyond a real and lifelong love story ..... So applicable to our most current version of the Megan and Prince Harry controversy, being conceived and written long before the Megzit furore, but perhaps they should have read it in the beginning for a better understanding of the future of such an alliance!!!
Personally, I have been delving into many historical novels, particularly European and English where I have been spending over 30 years before returning to live in the US. I am finding so many parallels in history (which I never found interesting at school) to current problems and situations in life today which we seem to think are all new to us! History is always repeating itself!!! We are not the first to encounter very similar situations, but never seem to learn from looking back!! The 1st World War , and it's inception was known to me, but the 2 volumes of the lives of the real people who were instrumental in that history, truly make lifelike and fascinating reading/listening !!!
I always appreciate the author ending with the confession of what was documented and what was personally imagined ...
Finally, the description of the passing of the Empress Elizabeth was so beautiful and descriptive of the tone of death I will hope to imagine for myself and my loved ones!!!!
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- Gina Kemp
- 02-29-24
Austrian empress
Loved the historical fiction! Sisi was a force to be reckoned with!! Strong and independent woman!
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- Robin Johnson
- 08-02-17
Loved it!
First, the narrator, Elizabeth Knowelden is very talented which makes this book much better than the first book. I could listen to her read a phone book her voice is so lovely. And she did a great job of changing voices to suit the character in the book. Second, the book is just as well written as the first and was a joy to learn more about beautiful Sisi. Highly recommend this book. To bad the first one can't be rerecorded using this narrator as it would make all the difference but sadly you'll have to suffer through the first one else you will be confused where this one picks up.
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