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The Man in the High Castle
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
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Alternative history
- By Michael G Kurilla on 07-28-15
- The Man in the High Castle
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Worth the read, for sure
Reviewed: 02-02-24
So different from the TV series, yet enough intersections in characters and some events to be distracting at times. But it is a Hugo award winner, so it is worth the read. And the narrator's voices are not the greatest, but they are necessary and good enough for me.
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Tolkien and the Great War
- The Threshold of Middle-earth
- By: John Garth
- Narrated by: John Garth
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Tolkien and the Great War tells for the first time the full story of how he embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe. This biography reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life.
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Excellent Text Frustratingly Recorded
- By Timothy Ortopan on 05-09-18
- Tolkien and the Great War
- The Threshold of Middle-earth
- By: John Garth
- Narrated by: John Garth
Exemplary literary biography
Reviewed: 11-30-23
This is how you do literary biography. Blends historical event, author background, and literary analysis. Writingisao superb.
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The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
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Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a middle period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its own right about the progress of culture and the development of political thought.
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Excellent Intro to An Obscure Period
- By Earth Lover on 07-30-18
- The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Probably the best history I have ever read
Reviewed: 02-06-23
And not just of late antiquity. Never fluff. Ideas and theses were clear. Kept my interest for all 30+ hours.
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
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Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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A Kaleidescopic panorama of an enigmatic culture.
- By Tarquin on 02-13-19
- Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
amazing!
Reviewed: 02-03-22
One of the most amazing works of history that I have ever read! Love that it was based on so many cultural artifacts from Russia
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The Kreutzer Sonata
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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One of the world’s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex - a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.
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Love, Marriage, Family:: Wine, Women, Music
- By Darwin8u on 02-02-19
- The Kreutzer Sonata
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
So disturbing...
Reviewed: 12-09-21
Such a disturbing work. Will change your opinion of Tolstoy forever, especially since he believed some this stuff about sex and marriage.
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Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.
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FYODORange is the New Black
- By Darwin8u on 07-13-15
- Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
A different Dostoevsky
Reviewed: 05-11-21
Dostoevsky presents us with a humane portrait of prison life. These are criminals, some of the worst kind, but they are human and have formed a community of their own.
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- By Cynthia on 11-20-16
- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
Excellent book....
Reviewed: 05-01-21
Full of insights into the white working class, which is often forgotten in policy discussions and driving much of American politics today. Heart-warming, touching, well-written, and well-narrated by J.D. himself. Very disheartening to learn that J.D. turned from a Trump critic to one of Trump's minions even today.
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Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- By: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
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Pushkin and Falen are brilliant, Corkhill not bad
- By Jabba on 05-17-15
- Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- By: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Stupendous poetic achievement!
Reviewed: 02-21-21
This was an amazing both translation of Pushkins great poem and performance of it. I don't know Russian, but I do know the story and Falen's translation seem to really capture the emotions. And his verse was lovely to listen to, as was Corkhill's rendering.
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Soren Kierkegaard: A Selection of Writings from Fear and Trembling, Either Or, and The Present Moment
- By: Søren Kierkegaard
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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This audiobook contains a selection of writings from Fear and Trembling, Either Or, and The Present Moment, written by Soren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard's theological work focuses on Christian ethics, the institution of the Church, the differences between purely objective proofs of Christianity, the infinite qualitative distinction between man and God, and the individual's subjective relationship to the God-Man Jesus the Christ, which came through faith.
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Not a great selection
- By Anonymous User on 02-02-21
Not a great selection
Reviewed: 02-02-21
Not a great selection of Kierkafaard. About an hour of Fear & Trembling , 5 minutes of Either/Or, and hours of Present Moment. I would preferred.more of the former two, less of the latter. A little preface explaining the selection might have been helpful.
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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Less progressive opinion, more on Plato
- By Josiah Brunette on 09-08-21
- Plato in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
an excellent overview of Plato
Reviewed: 01-18-21
this overview is by far the best of the 90-minute trilogy of Aristotle, Socrates, and this work.
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