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Theodore Dreiser
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The Financier of 1912 is the first volume of Theodore Dreiser’s novel Trilogy of Desire which also consists of "The Titan" (1914) and "The Stoic" (1947). The protagonist, Frank Algernon Cowperwood, is based on the real-life millionaire Charles Tyson Yerkes.
In The Financier, Dreiser describes the early life of Cowperhood in Philadelphia, beginning with his first transaction in an auction at the age of 17. This is followed by his rapid rise with jobs at Henry Waterman & Company, and Tighe & Company, forming his own business and trading on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
After the rise comes a fall, as the narrative chronicles his bankruptcy, prison sentence and the restoration of his fortune, also covering his divorce and remarriage. The Financier is an early example of a realistic novel where the chief protagonist is neither hero nor villain, and with detailed portrayals of the characters, settings and activities.
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Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- De Lynda en 07-13-22
De: Upton Sinclair
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Felix Holt, The Radical
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Relinquishing thoughts of a materially rewarding life, the respectably educated Felix Holt returns to his native village in North Loamshire and becomes an artisan. He is a forceful young man of honor, integrity, and idealism, burning to participate in political life so that he may improve the lot of his fellow artisans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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four and a half stars
- De connie en 01-02-08
De: George Eliot
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A Man of Honor
- The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
- De: Joseph Bonanno
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Joseph Bonanno found his future amid the whiskey-running, riotous streets of Prohibition America in 1924, when he illegally entered the United States to pursue his dreams. By the age of only 26, Bonanno became a don. He eventually took over the New York underworld, igniting the "Castellammarese War", one of the bloodiest Family battles ever to hit New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- De E. Orlando en 05-03-17
De: Joseph Bonanno
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The Quality of Mercy
- A Novel
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great follow up to Sacred Hunger
- De Angela en 04-29-12
De: Barry Unsworth
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Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House
- Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- De: Elizabeth Keckley
- Narrado por: Bobbie Frohman
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 108
A former slave who became a successful dressmaker with her own business, became the dresser, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during Abraham Lincoln's presidential adminstration. Behind the Scenes tells the story of the rise of Elizabeth Keckley from abused slave to independent business woman to friend of the First Lady of the land during the Civil War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No Southern Accent
- De GMR en 08-13-14
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The Warden
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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A kindly warden is accused of misusing church funds. This amusing book examines the making and breaking of reputations.
De: Anthony Trollope
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Through Five Administrations
- Inside the White House with Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield
- De: William H. Crook
- Narrado por: Brian V. Hunt
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 30
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Fifty years of service at the White House in various capacities, including bodyguard to Abraham Lincoln, William H. Crook's memoir brings an astonishing array of personal details of life in the executive mansion. His sensitive observations of Lincoln are especially moving.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration
- De Kathy en 06-05-17
De: William H. Crook
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Orley Farm
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 25 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Lady Mason's trial for forgery and perjury shocks the neighborhood. A cast of unforgettable characters views her with disdain, compassion, and disbelief. And then there are the love stories....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dreary effort
- De Sharon en 08-03-13
De: Anthony Trollope
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The Gilded Age
- De: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War. This period is often referred to as the “Gilded Age” because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the time is exemplified through two fictional narratives: one, of the Hawkins, a poor family from Tennessee that tries to persuade the government to purchase their seventy-five thousand acres of unimproved land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An American classic, beautifully narrated
- De TX lilbit en 03-31-12
De: Mark Twain, y otros
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More Die of Heartbreak
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Kenneth Trachtenberg, an eccentric and witty native of Paris, travels to the Midwest to spend time with his famous American uncle, a world-renowned botanist and self-described "plant visionary". After numerous affairs and failed relationships, the restless Uncle Benn seeks a settled existence in the form of marriage - but tying the knot again opens the door to a host of new torments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
- De John A. en 03-16-22
De: Saul Bellow
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Fifth Business
- The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Robertson Davies
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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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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A Place of Greater Safety
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disaster
- De Frank Dudley Berry Jr. en 08-01-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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Middlemarch
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 35 h y 38 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,700
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Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audible book ever
- De Molly-o en 12-25-11
De: George Eliot
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The Whiskey Rebels
- De: David Liss
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
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At his most desperate moment, Ethan Saunders is recruited to find his ex-fiancée's missing husband. Meanwhile, Joan Maycott and her Revolutionary War veteran husband distill whiskey on the western Pennsylvania frontier. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders - both patriots in their own way - find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will forever change their lives and their new country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In My Top 10 - Maybe Top 5 At Audible
- De Lulu en 10-31-12
De: David Liss
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The Immigrants
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters. And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters, since it is the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration style kills the story.
- De Glynis en 11-27-14
De: Howard Fast