The White Blackbird
A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
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"A striking portrait of a woman artist's struggle for life." (Arthur Miller)
Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.
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- The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
- De: Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- Narrado por: Sophie Ward
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. She met John Everett Millais, Ruskin's protege, and fell passionately in love with him. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's previously unseen letters and diaries to tell the complete story of this scandalous love triangle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Story--Victoriana
- De Cariola en 06-29-12
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- De: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers - editor
- Narrado por: Tim Bentinck, Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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The highly acclaimed unexpurgated notes taken by James Pope-Hennessy for his official biography of Queen Mary, the present Queen's grandmother. Published in full for the first time and edited by much-admired royal biographer Hugo Vickers. When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the door to meetings with royalty, court members and retainers around Europe. The series of candid observations, secrets and indiscretions contained in his notes were to be kept private for 50 years....
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5 out of 5 stars
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obscure but poor gold
- De Dr. A. en 11-20-18
De: James Pope-Hennessy, y otros
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House of Trelawney
- De: Hannah Rothschild
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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The seat of the Trelawney family for over 700 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets, and follies. But as the centuries passed the Earls of Trelawney, their ambition dulled by generations of pampered living, failed to develop other skills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really fun read
- De Ruthi en 04-12-20
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America's Queen
- The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- De: Sarah Bradford
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Using remarkable new sources, Sarah Bradford has written a timely celebration of a life that was more private than commonly supposed. Revealing new testimony from many of the couple's friends shows the complexities of this apparently very public relationship and of her controversial marriage to Aristotle Onassis. Here is the private Jackie - neglected wife, vigilant mother, and working widow - whose contradictory and fascinating nature is illuminated by all that Bradford has discovered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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American Royalty
- De Kindle Customer en 06-10-16
De: Sarah Bradford
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Lady in Waiting
- My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
- De: Anne Glenconner
- Narrado por: Anne Glenconner
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,028
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,749
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Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the fifth Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Reading
- De Teddy hall en 03-27-20
De: Anne Glenconner
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Daughter of Fortune
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An adventure to the California Gold Fields of 1849
- De Jean en 07-20-20
De: Isabel Allende
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The Silk Weaver's Wife
- De: Debbie Rix
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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A heart-wrenching and unforgettable story of two women - centuries apart - linked by the hidden secrets of a beautiful woman in a Venetian painting. Venice 1704: Anastasia is desperate to escape her controlling father and plans to marry her childhood sweetheart. But instead of the life she has always dreamed of, she finds herself trapped in Venice, the unwilling wife of a silk weaver. Anastasia seeks comfort in painting and draws strength from her talents. Despite her circumstances, two women reach out to her and give Anastasia a reason to hope....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little off from my usual but..
- De Reviewer and Listener 💗💗💗💗💗💗🧛❤️🩸💯❤️ en 04-11-20
De: Debbie Rix
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Save Me the Waltz
- De: Zelda Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 69
Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessions of a famous, slightly doomed glamour girl of the affluent 1920s, which captures the spirit of an era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audio is a great platform for Zelda's writing--
- De Renee LaBonte-Jones en 10-30-16
De: Zelda Fitzgerald
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Bunny Mellon
- The Life of an American Style Legend
- De: Meryl Gordon
- Narrado por: Vanessa Cortland
- Duración: 17 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art, and fashion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written bio.
- De Minda Leah Kahn en 09-01-18
De: Meryl Gordon
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Queen Mary
- The Official Biography
- De: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 92
When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her - unusual for a queen consort. Queen Mary's life, contrary to popular belief, was essentially dramatic, and she played a far more important and influential role in the affairs of the British monarchy than her public image might have otherwise suggested. Using material from the Royal Archives, private papers, and Queen Mary's personal diaries and letters, Pope-Hennessy's biography was a remarkable portrait of a remarkable woman and received rave reviews across the press.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! UPDATED review after 2nd listen.
- De Geri A en 07-31-21
De: James Pope-Hennessy, y otros
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Labyrinths
- Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
- De: Catrine Clay
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the 20th century dictated that a woman of Emma's stature - one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland - travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father's wealthy business colleagues, Emma's conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Carl plays center stage
- De Sparrowhawk en 12-23-16
De: Catrine Clay
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Wait for Me!
- Memoirs
- De: Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last of the Mitford Sisters
- De Irene en 01-11-11
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Pnin
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why not leave their private sorrows to people?
- De Darwin8u en 01-13-20
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,071
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Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Subtle yet grand
- De jb en 10-12-15