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First published in The Saturday Evening Post, "The Ransom of Red Chief" is a humorous short story written in 1910 by O. Henry. A pair of con men kidnap and attempt to ransom a prominent Alabama citizen’s son. Immediately they find themselves at the mercy of a particularly spoiled and clever boy who begins driving them mad. The ironic ending remains the story’s most enduring feature.
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De: Owen Wister
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Father and I Were Ranchers
- Little Britches # 1
- De: Ralph Moody
- Narrado por: Cameron Beierle
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,982
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The Moody family moves from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Experience the pleasures and perils of ranching in 20th Century America, through the eyes of a youngster.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very dissappointed , too much cussing.
- De Lovelessnomore en 05-29-15
De: Ralph Moody
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The Town
- A Novel of the Snopes Family
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, this is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Accessible Faulkner
- De Doug en 03-28-11
De: William Faulkner
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Pygmalion
- De: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrado por: Shannon Cochran, Nicholas Pennell, full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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One of Shaw's most enduring works, Pygmalion is an insightful comedy of class relations and perceptions, as played out between a Cockney flower girl and the irascible speech professor who has taken her on as a pet project.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bilious Pidgeon
- De Chris en 05-14-03
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The Mansion
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin, Flem. "For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics." This volume includes a new introduction to the trilogy by acclaimed novelist George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox and The Succession.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mink Cometh
- De daniel fam en 11-01-12
De: William Faulkner
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- De: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Narrado por: Gwen Hughes
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader is a frontier classic by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widowed young mother who accepted an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming. In Stewart's delightful collection of letters, she describes her homesteading experiences to her former employer, Mrs. Coney.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every woman in the US should read this book.
- De Dolly Jane Prenzel en 03-17-15
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The Misadventures of Maude March
- De: Audrey Couloumbis
- Narrado por: Lee Adams
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time, however, the wanted woman isn't a villain out of a dime novel: it's Sallie's very own sister!
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun book to listen to.
- De Jean en 09-04-13
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A Different Drummer
- De: William Melvin Kelley
- Narrado por: Jay Smooth
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state’s entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication in 1962, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful and moving story
- De E. en 10-25-19
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kristen Underwood
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Cather's writing is impeccable
- De Kelly en 12-20-19
De: Willa Cather
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Trials of the Earth
- The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
- De: Mary Mann Hamilton
- Narrado por: Barbara Benjamin Creel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South - surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers; and running a logging camp in Mississippi that blazed a trail for development in the Mississippi Delta.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Long and slow.
- De Ren en 10-31-17
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Big Bend
- A Homesteader's Story
- De: J.O. Langford
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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To the wild and fabulous country where the Rio Grande makes its big bend, J. O. Langford came in 1909 with his wife and daughter in search of health and a home. High on a bluff overlooking the spot where Tornillo Creek pours its waters into the turbulent Rio Grande, the Langfords built their home, a rude structure of adobe blocks in a land reputed to be inhabited only by bandits and rattlesnakes. Big Bend is the story of the Langfords' life in the rugged and spectacularly beautiful country which they came to call their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great historical read!!
- De chaoticangel38 en 06-03-19
De: J.O. Langford
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The Professor's House
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gently compelling
- De TiffanyD en 08-12-19
De: Willa Cather
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The Swamp Robber
- Sugar Creek Gang, Book 1
- De: Paul Hutchens
- Narrado por: Aimee Lilly
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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The Sugar Creek Gang discovers a "disguise" hidden in a old tree. Does it belong to the bank robber hiding in the swamp? A mysterious map hidden near the tree proves to be even more exciting than the disguise. Before the adventure ends, the gang encounters the robber, helps Bill Collins welcome a new baby sister, and saves the victim of a black widow spider bite. Join the gang as they learn the lesson of sowing and reaping.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love47
- De Amazon Customer en 07-18-20
De: Paul Hutchens
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Ransom of Red Chief
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- Teresa Clifford
- 08-05-19
I love this story!
It really shows the differences in children's vocabulary in literature today verses then. Great story! Energetic, funny, and written from the perspective of the criminal.
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