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Narrado por:
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Jonathan Oliver
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Leo Tolstoy
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Dissolute, disenchanted Dmitri Olénin decides to join the army as a cadet and is despatched to the Caucasus. There, he is transformed by seeing how the indigenous people live in harmony with nature, how their lives have more meaning than those of the superficial social elite in Moscow, and he finds a new sense of self and purpose. But nothing is ever quite that simple.
Love and loyalty are tested to the very limits in this semi-autobiographical novella, which is one of Tolstoy’s best-loved works.
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After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable. For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart, Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live for - and what he has that no one can ever take away.
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Great Successor to All Quiet on the Western Front
- De BARRY en 02-20-19
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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Doctor Zhivago
- De: Boris Pasternak, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator, Richard Pevear - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara.
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Russian Philosophical Feast
- De Syd Young en 02-16-13
De: Boris Pasternak, y otros
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April Morning
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: Jamie Hanes
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper is anxcious to join the excitement and action of the Revolutionary War. On the morning of April 19, 1775, he stands beside his Massachusetts farmer father to face the redcoats marching out of Boston. But suddenly, his father falls on the village green, and Adam’s hands are shaking as he shoots at columns of marching men. With realistic drama and riveting suspense, Howard Fast brings the glory and the agony of the colonial battlefield vividly to life.
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A classic for a reason
- De Richard en 01-05-22
De: Howard Fast
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Les Misérables
- Penguin Classics
- De: Christine Donougher, Victor Hugo, Robert Tombs
- Narrado por: Adeel Akhtar, Natalie Simpson, Adrian Scarborough, y otros
- Duración: 65 h y 41 m
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Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Policeman, Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
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Great Book, Great Translation, 5 Great Narrators
- De Rain Wiegartner en 06-07-20
De: Christine Donougher, y otros
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Drums Along the Mohawk
- De: Walter D. Edmonds
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 21 h y 1 m
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Drums along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds' masterpiece, is not only the best historical novel about upstate New York since James Fenimore Cooper, it was also number one on the bestseller list for two years, only yielding to the epic Gone with the Wind. This is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled and lived and hoped.
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Wonderful
- De Robert en 09-06-15
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Sea of Poppies
- Ibis Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
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At the heart of this vibrant saga is an immense ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its purpose to fight China's vicious 19th-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
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ignorance may be bliss
- De Evelyn M Kloepper en 07-27-09
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- De: Cameron Judd
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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I highly recommend
- De That Man They Call Shad en 05-05-21
De: Cameron Judd
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A Hero of Our Time
- De: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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In A Hero of Our Time, Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer who believes in nothing. With impunity he toys with the love of women and the goodwill of men. He is brave, determined, and willful, but his wasted energy and potential ultimately result in tragedy.
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Genius Presentation of Ywtsaxt fas
- De Brad Isaak en 11-06-16
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The Power and the Glory
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Bernard Mayes
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to stamp out the evils of the church through violence, the last Roman Catholic priest is on the lam, hunted by a police lieutenant. Despite his own sense of worthlessness—he is a heavy drinker and has fathered an illegitimate child—he is determined to continue to function as a priest until captured.
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Lousy recording quality of bad narration
- De Vincent en 10-08-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Mark of the Beast
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 33 m
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When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man.
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Must listen again
- De uffdasuzanne en 10-06-17
De: Rudyard Kipling
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kristen Underwood
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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Claude Wheeler resembles the youngest son of an American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.
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Cather's writing is impeccable
- De Kelly en 12-20-19
De: Willa Cather
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Cossacks
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-28-19
A delightful and short read from a master.
This story would make a great introduction for anyone interested in Tolstoy but who does not want to jump into Tolstoy's longer works. I enjoyed the story quite a bit. But, the historical information regarding life in the Caucaus mountains is worth the price of admission all by itself.
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- Jason
- 07-08-24
fantastic story, nearly ruined by bad translation
what did I like &/or dislike?
I love the prose of Tolstoy, who truly brings an epic essence to this that's purely his. I read Peter Constantine's translation while listening & hearing Uncle called Daddy over & over again nearly ruined it! Still, a great early piece by one of the world's greatest writers of all time.
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- Tad Davis
- 03-10-13
A surprisingly quiet story
This was more like Chekhov than anything else I've read by Tolstoy. "The Cossacks" is long on atmosphere and character, very short on plot. Dmitri Olenin forsakes Moscow society to help fight the Chechens(!) at the foot of the Caucasus mountains. The Russians and Cossacks are on one side of the Terek River, the Chechens on the other. There are skirmishes, an occasional hunting expedition (for game and humans), and one brief and violent shootout near the end. Olenin falls in love, is rejected, gains some insight, and leaves.
It's definitely not War and Peace in miniature.
But it IS a story of great warmth and beauty, and the characters are finely drawn, with Tolstoy's apparently effortless ability to penetrate their souls with a few deft phrases. Some of the descriptions of nature are breathtaking.
(Wikipedia says Tolstoy reworked the novel drastically after re-reading "The Iliad." If so, it could only have been to make something as unlike "The Iliad" as possible.)
I found Jonathan Oliver a bit strident for my taste. He's great with the dialogue: each character is clearly differentiated and the emotional tone is just right; but the narrative passages, whether public or private, tend to be voiced in the same declamatory style. (Better declamatory and audible than whispered and hard to hear, I guess; but there must be a happy medium somewhere.)
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- Erika Kibitskaya
- 06-07-19
Beautiful story, interesting narration.
The only thing that really bothered me about this particular Audiobook is the accents of the Cossacks which were Irish. Now I know anyone would know those weren't there real accents but I felt like I was listening to a James Joyce novel instead Leo Tolstoy. I guess an Irish accent represents the "lower class" in Russian life.
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