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A widely acclaimed biography from the bestselling author of The Romanovs: "One of the great love stories of history” (The Economist) between Catherine the Great and the wildly flamboyant and talented Prince Potemkin. • "Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures—and of the age as well." —The Wall Street Journal
Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving each of them free to take younger lovers. But these “twin souls” never stopped loving each other.
Drawing on the pair’s intimate letters and on vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.
"Biography in the grand tradition...Riveting...The author [is] a gifted storyteller." —The Washington Post
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"One of the great love stories of history...Excellent with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair." —The Economist
"Montefiore conveys [Russian] history with vivid detail and narrative momentum...Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures—and of the age as well." —The Wall Street Journal
"Biography in the grand tradition...Riveting...The author [is] a gifted storyteller." —The Washington Post
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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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The Nature of Life and Death
- Every Body Leaves a Trace
- De: Patricia Wiltshire
- Narrado por: Patricia Wiltshire
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused. Along the way, she introduces us to the unseen world all around us and underneath our feet: plants, animals, pollen, spores, fungi, and microbes that we move through every day. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and reveals how our relationship with the vast natural world reaches far deeper than we might think.
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Fascinating Welsh granny
- De Kirby C. en 01-16-20
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- De: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a best seller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts", anyone?).
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words from MY mouth...
- De Amazon Customer en 08-02-19
De: Dorian Lynskey
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In Pharaoh's Army
- Memories of the Lost War
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor, and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
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Boring Waste of Time
- De Ethan en 08-21-22
De: Tobias Wolff
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Assignment Russia
- Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
- De: Marvin Kalb
- Narrado por: Marvin Kalb
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes listeners back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news.
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What a voice!
- De Listens-a-lot en 03-02-22
De: Marvin Kalb
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Written in History
- Letters That Changed the World
- De: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Tuppence Middleton, Rupert Penry-Jones, y otros
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Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world history, and cultural and personal life. Bestselling, prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects letters that have changed the course of global events or touched a timeless emotion—whether passion, rage, humor—from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling, some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse, and frankly outrageous, many are erotic, others heartbreaking.
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A great collection.
- De brian en 06-11-20
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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The Nature of Life and Death
- Every Body Leaves a Trace
- De: Patricia Wiltshire
- Narrado por: Patricia Wiltshire
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused. Along the way, she introduces us to the unseen world all around us and underneath our feet: plants, animals, pollen, spores, fungi, and microbes that we move through every day. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and reveals how our relationship with the vast natural world reaches far deeper than we might think.
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Fascinating Welsh granny
- De Kirby C. en 01-16-20
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Meditations with Cows
- What I've Learned from Daisy, the Dairy Cow Who Changed My Life
- De: Shreve Stockton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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An intimate memoir on the work and wonder of ranch life, critiquing the inhumane and environmentally destructive factory farm system and offering sustainable alternatives for ethical omnivores.
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Not what what expected or as good as her Coyote bk
- De K. C. H en 08-02-23
De: Shreve Stockton
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Test Gods
- Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
- De: Nicholas Schmidle
- Narrado por: Nicholas Schmidle
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Working from exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic’s campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters - Mark Stucky, Virgin’s lead test pilot; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot killed in a fatal crash; and others - in pursuit of their collective goal: to make space tourism a reality.
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accurate acount
- De Tikicarver en 06-19-21
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C.S. Lewis
- A Biography of Friendship
- De: Colin Duriez
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis' said he found his new tutor interesting and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, "Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him." You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, popularizer of faith - and creator of Narnia. He lost his mother early in life and became estranged from his father, much to his regret.
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It's a Great Concept
- De James en 08-13-20
De: Colin Duriez
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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The Hospital
- Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
- De: Brian Alexander
- Narrado por: Nick Landrum
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By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes listeners into the world of the American medical industry in a way no audiobook has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America’s health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed.
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This book says it all about what is wrong with healthcare
- De 042850 en 03-11-21
De: Brian Alexander
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The Last Ocean
- A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
- De: Nicci Gerrard
- Narrado por: Nicci Gerrard
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The Last Ocean is Gerrard’s investigation into what dementia does to both the person who lives with the condition and to their caregivers. Dementia is now one of the leading causes of death in the West, and this necessary book will offer both comfort and a map to those walking through it. While she begins with her father’s long slip into forgetting, Gerrard expands to examine dementia writ large. Gerrard gives raw but literary shape both to the unimaginable loss of one’s own faculties, as well as to the pain of their loved ones.
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Thank You, Is All That I Can Say...
- De Aishwaryame en 10-18-19
De: Nicci Gerrard
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And in the End
- The Last Days of the Beatles
- De: Ken McNab
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
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Ken McNab's in-depth look at the Beatles' acrimonious final year is a detailed account of the breakup featuring the perspectives of all four band members and their roles. A must to add to the collection of Beatles fans, And in the End is full of fascinating information available for the first time. McNab reconstructs for the first time the seismic events of 1969, when the Beatles reached new highs of creativity and new lows of the internal strife that would destroy them.
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Familiar ground but a good listen
- De Tad Davis en 08-30-20
De: Ken McNab
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The Nine
- The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
- De: Gwen Strauss
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a 10-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative is a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times.
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Soooo good!
- De anne simpson en 09-28-21
De: Gwen Strauss
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The Failed Promise
- Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- De: Robert S. Levine
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.
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A timely review of the threat to the nation of a President who is unlistening to the “better angels of our nature.”
- De Karl R. Walko en 02-28-24
De: Robert S. Levine
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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
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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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Spare me
- De Dr. Small en 05-04-20
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Love You Hard
- A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
- De: Abby Maslin
- Narrado por: Abby Maslin
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered - and they learned to love again.
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The Maslin Family
- De Zack en 07-15-19
De: Abby Maslin
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- De: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrado por: Simon Beale
- Duración: 28 h y 41 m
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This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence, and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries, and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin.
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Scholarly but gripping
- De William en 06-16-16
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Catherine the Great & Potemkin
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- Felisa Kay
- 06-29-20
good in-depth book
it really does just focus on their love. years only after Catherine is empress basically. I didn't know much about Potemkin, and the author was ODVIOUSLY a fan of him.. and set out to deliver ALL the facts with a zeal to the truth about t this man and women, whos real history have previously been passed down unfairly.
but I wasn't aware of any of the bias and ended up seeing Potemkin was really a great man.
so while I could clearly see the author was sort of defending these figures, overall, instead of being annoyed by what could be seen as 'one sided efforts ' of author; I actually found his information well researched. He had A LOT of info that really supported all the admiration the author has for his books subjects.
it has lots of clear detail, delivered in a pretty easy-to-follow presentation of it. and as I said , I am weary of authors who set out to'defend' a personage I didn't feel this was the case here. as the book went on, I agreed with the author that this mans life deserved a closer look, and the facts he shared made me agree that Potemkin was a great man and history seems to have jaded the truth of him and Catherine. In this book, facts are laid bear with wonderful sources of great ACTUAL archived letters between them and contemporarys.
but it only follows the events important to Catherine and mostly Potemkin. it does not cover anything else happening in that time period unless it involved them.
but it was performed well, and the info was entertaining and inspired. I liked it. Catherine an Potemkins relationship was TRUELY a unique relationship by all means. I found that interesting and appreciated that aspect more seeing it unfold. the people in the story are unique and they don't let you down but surprise you .
I appreciate the work the author did to present this vast and extensive work.
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- wanda
- 05-26-20
Sheds light on subject
I've read books on Catherine the great but never on Potemkin and I'm so glad I got this book because I now have a wider view on this wonderful man.
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- Jose
- 08-30-23
Potemkin- a force of Nature
For a non Russian like me that has read many Russian History books, a great education on Prince Potemkin. A great man that left an incredible contribution to his nation. A builder of such scale, that people had trouble believing their own eyes. A General, Statesman, and a personal Maximalist. Potemkin was basically an overlapping life (birth and death) to George Washington. Readers of GW will be amazed how these guys were similar and so different. They almost personify their national identities. How did Russia get to the Black Sea. What they sacrificed and what they risked to push their frontier to the Danube and into the Caucuses. Russia moving South was like the USA moving West and South.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is excellent as expected. Captures the time of Potemkin and Catherine. The culture, domestic politics, and international politics. The influence of France, Britain, Prussia, Austria, America, and Ottomans on Russia. To spice up the timeline - Potemkin was at his best as the USA won independence, France destroyed itself, Europe was in full "enlightenment", Austria was at limits, and Britain entering its Golden Age. This book is like a prequal to War and Peace. Many of the hero's of 1812 making an appearance in the late 18th century - Bagatrion, Subarov, and Kutuzov. Even the complex Russian love lives. I thought Anna Karenia was an oddity, but not an oddity if Catherine was an influential role model in the culture.
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- David E. Manning
- 06-26-22
Excellent
This is a wonderful book peryou're full book. Wonderfully performed and very informative on a little known period of history particularly to Americans. It is quite informative formative regarding the history of the Southern Empire in Russia which interestingly enough is quite relevant today given the war in the Ukraine.
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- A. Visserman
- 07-30-23
Somewhat disappointing
I expected more about Catherine’s rule and achievements. Instead I got the intimate details of their relationship and their relationships with others ad nauseam. I am still in the dark about how she earned the “Great” sobriquet.
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- Michelle
- 03-09-21
Liked the book, hated the narrator
I found the book to be very interesting and it filled in a lot of details about Catherine and Potemkin. However the narrator is awful. She changes how she pronounces names and cities, has a poor cadence and an uneven inflection, and at times made listening to the book very difficult. Her Russian pronunciations are dreadful and her French isn't great either (yes, I speak both - semi-fluent in French and enough Russian to get by). The poor and inconsistent pronunciations are jarring and at times interrupt the flow. At other times, you have to stop and try to figure out if she is talking about the same place she mentioned 5 minutes earlier.
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