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De: Stuart Kells
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The Lost Gutenberg
- The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
- De: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible - of which there are fewer than 50 in existence - represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spare me
- De Dr. Small en 05-04-20
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- De: Christopher de Hamel
- Narrado por: Christopher de Hamel
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature. The idea for this book, which is entirely new, is to invite the listener into an intimate conversation with a selection of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to let each of those manuscripts illuminate the Middle Ages and sometimes the modern world too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've been waiting a long time for a book like this
- De Robert en 04-15-18
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The Sun and the Moon
- Hoaxers, Showmen, and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th-Century New York
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how a series of articles in the Sun newspaper in 1835 convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. It quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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some very good some very bad
- De peter en 10-30-10
De: Matthew Goodman
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The True History of the Elephant Man
- The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
- De: Michael Howell, Peter Ford
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and un-romanticized facts of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing man!
- De Carolyn en 02-05-15
De: Michael Howell, y otros
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
- How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 270
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Told!
- De JodyB en 12-01-17
De: Les Standiford
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- De: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrado por: J.P. Romney
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- De George M. Liveakos en 03-24-17
De: Rebecca Romney, y otros
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Battle for the Big Top
- P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Millions have sat under the “big top,” watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country’s most beloved pastimes. In Battle for the Big Top, New York Times best-selling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings - James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling - all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- De EinsteinzVice en 09-30-22
De: Les Standiford
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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Rebel Souls
- Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
- De: Justin Martin
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists - regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan - rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand–up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Read with Vibrant Characters
- De A en 11-11-15
De: Justin Martin
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art - The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative yet creative
- De Isabellabasil en 05-27-15
De: Ross King
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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- De: Laura Cumming
- Narrado por: Siobhan Redmond
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 138
When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young - too young to be king - and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to which the work was attributed. Snare had found something incredible - but what? His research brought him to Diego Velázquez, whose long-lost portrait of Prince Charles has eluded art experts for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating study of art history
- De Ron en 07-02-16
De: Laura Cumming
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The Apparitionists
- A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
- De: Peter Manseau
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer", William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation.
De: Peter Manseau
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The Professor and the Madman
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,050
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,065
Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- De Jerry en 07-07-03
De: Simon Winchester
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Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Works Collection
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Philippe Duquenoy
- Duración: 48 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 468
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 383
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific authors of his time, eventually gaining recognition for his tales of horror and his uncanny ability to paint a macabre picture with words. The Complete Works Collection of Edgar Allan Poe contains over 150 stories and poems, separated into individual chapters, including all of Poe's most notorious works such as The Raven, Annabel Lee, A Dream Within a Dream, Lenore, The Tell-Tale Heart, and many more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Would recommend to anyone!!!
- De Gail Blackwell en 03-14-18
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Earl Hammond
- Duración: 1 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 403
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 361
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 362
A collection featuring three classic horror stories, read by actor Earl Hammond: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Black Cat".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narrator Brought The Story To Life
- De M.A. Wilson en 11-09-14
De: Edgar Allan Poe