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  • Legends of the Fall

  • By: Jim Harrison
  • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,119 ratings)

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Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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Publisher's summary

From one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, Legends of the Fall is Jim Harrison's classic trilogy of epic novellas.

The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels—Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name—confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, adding up to an extraordinary vision of the twentieth-century man.

Set in the Rocky Mountains, Legends of the Fall is the epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration, and danger at the beginning of World War I. In Revenge, love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. And in The Man Who Gave Up His Name, a man named Nordstrom is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing, and food.

©1980 Jim Harrison (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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great book

really enjoyed this book feel as if it ended a little earlier than need. I was really enjoy elongated it.

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So different!

Well, sorry I am a romantic! I loved the movie.
The book was disappointing to me. It was completely different! I almost didn't recognize it.
I also thought this was the most sloppy of the three novellas.

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Wonderful stories

I really enjoyed the authors writing style, and could feel the dull pain in life expressed in the writing. Poetic and at the dame time captivating.

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Not what I expected but still excellent.

I thought this was just going to be the original script that they took the story from to make the movie. The other two stories are awesome as well. Great find.

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Good Narrator for Amazing Work

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Jim Harrison was at the top of his game when he wrote these three novellas. The title story is the most famous, and it is deserving of its fame, but the other two are just as good. They don't get the same attention, probably because they aren't set during WW1 and Prohibition. They are worth hearing.
Mark Bramhall has a very good voice for Harrison's characters. He's appropriately gravelly.

Jim Harrison was one of our finest authors, and I wish more of his older stuff was on audiobooks.

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An important note

This was a great group of stories. If you are looking for the story of the actual movie with Brad, Aidan, and Henry it is at the end. With that mentioned I will say the other stories are really good.

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Listen to the whole thing!

There are 3 novellas, all mentioned in the description, contained in this audiobook. Legends of the fall is the last. To those saying it’s not the book they downloaded, it is.
As for the audiobook itself; the first, “Revenge” is just not very good. Vaguely romantic and fairly predictable even in its conclusion is in spite of itself.
The second, “The man who gave up his name” is the best in tale and telling. A wonderful view into the what ifs and the examination of oneself of a man in his middle age and the changing of his appetites and ideals at this crossroads.
“Legends of the fall “ is a great story but feels as if told at a mile overhead and not just over shoulder.
Well worth your time

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Astonishing...

One of the most beautiful written things I've ever had the pleasure to read/listen too...

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Male adventure

At first I didn't realize there were three stories here. All three have a little bit of a cowboy flavor to them. . . horses, Native Americans, knives, even some guns, but all three stories are interesting in their own right. To some extent, they're all about male angst.

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Wonderful book.

I loved the movie and was excited to learn that it was based on a book. There are three books included with this audiobook. Legends of the Fall is only the last two hours of the book. Didn’t listen to the other two books, but legends was phenomenal.

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