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Jim Tully
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From the opening conversation on a railroad trestle, Beggars of Life rattles along like the Fast Flyer Virginia that Tully boards midway through the story. This is the book that defined Tully’s hard-boiled style and set the pattern for the 12 books that followed over the next two decades. Startling in its originality and intensity, Beggars of Life is a breakneck journey made while clinging to the lowest rungs of the social ladder.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deserves attention
- De Kate en 05-27-12
De: William Faulkner
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Denaker, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 214
This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds listeners of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this audiobook are such classics as "A Bear Hunt", "A Rose for Emily", "Two Soldiers", and "The Brooch".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Table of Contents (by Chapter)
- De John McKinney en 09-27-20
De: William Faulkner
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The October Country
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 338
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: "The Small Assassin": a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true - or her nightmare.... "The Emissary": the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside - and beyond.... "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone": a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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The October Country
- De steven richard pohl en 09-17-19
De: Ray Bradbury
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The Wettest County in the World, or Lawless
- A Novel Based on a True Story
- De: Matt Bondurant
- Narrado por: Erik Steele
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 533
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 461
The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just outstanding!
- De Rich en 08-18-12
De: Matt Bondurant
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The Lost Country
- De: William Gay
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the navy and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D. L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the finest novels I have read!
- De Donald B. Eager en 09-06-21
De: William Gay
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Wise Blood
- De: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,189
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,187
Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of 20th-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a 22-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a “blind” street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel founds The Church of God Without Christ but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grotesque Southern Gothic Masterpiece
- De Darwin8u en 10-18-12
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The 42nd Parallel
- De: John Dos Passos
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 248
This first entry in John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy paints a grand picture of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful document of an all-too-familiar past
- De Ryan en 06-01-13
De: John Dos Passos
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Provinces of Night
- De: William Gay
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after 20 years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can posion a man's soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story and Narration a perfect match
- De 99hedys en 10-03-15
De: William Gay
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Great American Stories
- De: Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce
- Narrado por: Patrick Fraley, Patrick Hagan
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Here are 10 unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Classic Stories
- De kutzkai en 03-13-21
De: Mark Twain, y otros
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 18 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 185
This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Good For Audio
- De Yennta en 06-18-12
De: Eudora Welty
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Mr. Shivers
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Robert Jackson Bennett makes a stunning debut with this deliciously dark tale sure to hold readers in its menacing thrall. The grinding poverty brought on by the Great Depression is nowhere more apparent than in the untold thousands looking for work along America’s railroad system. But one man haunting the rail camps has been moved by an entirely different brand of desperation: revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From the Cormac McCarthy Playbook
- De J. Cons en 08-09-10
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The Long Valley
- De: John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman - introduction
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 200
A Penguin Classic. First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: The tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Generally Good Stories, Some are Great
- De Michael en 06-18-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Miss Lonelyhearts
- De: Nathanael West
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser, Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
Miss Lonelyhearts is an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column, which is viewed by the newspaper as a joke. As "Miss Lonelyhearts" reads letters from desperate New Yorkers, he feels terribly burdened and falls into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional barfights. The novel is essentially a black comedy and is characterized by an extremely dark but clever sense of humor and irony.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Charged with Meaning, and Far Leftist Leaning
- De W Perry Hall en 01-27-16
De: Nathanael West
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Chasing the North Star
- De: Robert Morgan
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Best-selling novelist and historian Robert Morgan returns with a stunning new work of historical fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what we thought
- De bds en 05-07-19
De: Robert Morgan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Beggars of Life
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 01-14-25
Hobos and trains from beginning to end
Have you ever sat and talked with an old timer at a bus stop or train station or a street corner? This book is like one long conversation in that flavor. Entertaining and interesting and informative.
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