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In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history. Now, Johnson turns his impressive intellect and piercing insight to the greatest wits in the history of the Western world.
His is a selective survey across history, and includes a diverse cast of legendary humorists who got a grand kick out of life, including Benjamin Franklin and the Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens and Damon Runyon, W. C. Fields and Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and James Thurber. Including dark humor, broad satire, bawdy wit, biting sarcasm, and more, this entertaining and erudite collection brings to life great minds who reflected on life’s follies, pretensions, and foibles with that greatest of gifts: humor.
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Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, Poor Performance
- De redsrule1 en 03-16-14
De: Joshua Zeitz
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Zelda Fitzgerald
- The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
- De: Sally Cline
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper." Their romance transformed a symbol of glamour and spectacle of the Jazz Age. When Zelda cracked up, not long after the stock market crash of 1929, Scott remained loyal to her through a nightmare of later breakdowns and final madness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Beautiful and the Bungled
- De Silverthorne en 12-08-17
De: Sally Cline
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Fifth Business
- The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Robertson Davies
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 804
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 695
This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Been waiting for this
- De Vinity en 12-10-11
De: Robertson Davies
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Careless People
- Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
- De: Sarah Churchwell
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 128
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books, delighting audiences across the world. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the relation of Fitzgerald's classic to the chaotic world he in which he lived. Fitzgerald set his novel in 1922, and Careless People carefully reconstructs the crucial months during which Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald returned to New York in the autumn of 1922.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating study of the Fitzgeralds and Jazz Age
- De Sand en 06-11-14
De: Sarah Churchwell
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The Curse of Beauty
- The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
- De: James Bone
- Narrado por: Marianne Fraulo
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist's model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, actress, icon - her beauty paved the way for a life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. Her name is Audrey Munson.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Аmazon Customer en 04-06-17
De: James Bone
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The Noise of Time
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Daniel Philpott
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 266
In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Art belongs to everybody and nobody.
- De Darwin8u en 06-13-16
De: Julian Barnes
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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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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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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Colm Toibin
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eminently re-readable
- De Ellen-A en 01-02-19
De: Colm Toibin
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 304
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 302
Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions?
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5 out of 5 stars
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JOHNATHAN SWIFT AND POWER OF THE PEN
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 09-30-14
De: Leo Damrosch
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Mark Twain
- A Life
- De: Ron Powers
- Narrado por: Ron Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Mark Twain founded the American voice. His works are a living national treasury: taught, quoted, and reprinted more than those of any writer except Shakespeare. His awestruck contemporaries saw him as the representative figure of his times, and his influence has deeply flavored the 20th and 21st centuries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Buy the Book
- De W.Denis en 10-22-05
De: Ron Powers
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Reading Like a Writer
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Nanette Savard
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 233
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Practical, literate, generous
- De Gare en 04-13-08
De: Francine Prose
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Uncle Vanya
- De: Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Vlada Chernornirdik
- Narrado por: Josh Radnor, Stacy Keach, Martin Jarvis, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 8 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Adapted by David Mamet from a translation by Vlada Chernornirdik. In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth. But Vanya is enchanted by the professor’s new wife, while Sonya has fallen for the town’s melancholy doctor. Includes a conversation with Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor American soap
- De tyrone en 10-22-17
De: Anton Chekhov, y otros
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Furious Love
- Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
- De: Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance - often called "the marriage of the century" - was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Paul Boehmer needs more practice
- De Brenda Miller en 06-16-10
De: Sam Kashner, y otros
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
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It Ended Badly
- Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 806
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 737
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 734
Spanning eras and cultures from ancient Rome to medieval England to 1950s Hollywood, Jennifer Wright's It Ended Badly guides you through the worst of the worst in historically bad breakups. In the throes of heartbreak, Emperor Nero had just about everyone he ever loved - from his old tutor to most of his friends - put to death. Oscar Wilde's lover, whom he went to jail for, abandoned him when faced with being cut off financially from his wealthy family.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shallow, poorly researched, forced humor
- De S. Yates en 05-11-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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Total3 out of 5 stars
- DRoberts
- 04-06-11
Cautiously recommended
Starting with a chapter about an illustrator, this audiobook is often frustrating but - surprise - the hardback contains no more illustrations than does the recording. Clive Chafer constantly sounds dismissive of all this nonsense, which does not help one digest the sometimes thick material. On the other hand, most of the stories are quite engaging, and the introduction to Nancy Mitford (perhaps the Dorothy Parker of Great Britain) made the book immensely satisfying.
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