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The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy
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"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."—Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs
"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today."—Montreal Star
"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life."—Commonweal
"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."—New York Herald Tribune
"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be."—Ruth Suckow in the Des Moines Register
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The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods.
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Quo Vadis
- De: Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 24 h y 44 m
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Quo Vadis, best known for its star-studded 1951 film version, was first published in 1896 and contributed to the author’s Nobel Prize for Literature of 1905. Set in the latter years of the reign of Roman Emperor Nero, the plot concerns the love between a young Christian woman, Lygia, and a Roman patrician, Marcus Vinicius.
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if you don't get this...then your missing out.
- De Virginia en 05-01-22
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Strumpet City
- De: James Plunkett
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Centering on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a city of stark contrasts, with an urban working class mired in vicious poverty. To hear the book is to immerse yourself in social and historical writing akin to Chekhov and Tolstoy.
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Fantastic audiobook!
- De Eric Heath en 08-22-24
De: James Plunkett
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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Extraordinary
- De Vieux Carré Blonde en 12-12-12
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Brothers Karamazov
- Penguin Classics
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff - translator
- Narrado por: Luke Thompson
- Duración: 43 h y 6 m
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The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.
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Fix an error near the end of chapter 7.
- De Ragena Mae Brown en 10-17-21
De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, y otros
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The Great Heresies
- De: Hilaire Belloc
- Narrado por: RJ Bayley
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements to have affected Christian civilization: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam), Albigensianism (Cathar), the Reformation (Protestant), and the modern phase. Belloc describes how these movements began, how they spread, and how they continued to influence the world up until the time of his writing (1936).
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Great
- De Ricardo Aaron Karstensen en 02-12-19
De: Hilaire Belloc
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The Mill on the Floss
- De: George Eliot
- Narrado por: Eileen Atkins
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, is considered one of George Eliot's most autobiographical works. Having formed a complex bond with her own family, George Eliot, now known to the public as Mary Ann Evans, depicts the loving yet volatile relationship between the Tulliver siblings and their doting father. Spanning over a period of 10 years, The Mill on the Floss follows the coming of age of the beautiful and idealistic Maggie.
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Magnificent reading
- De In DC en 02-15-10
De: George Eliot
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Brideshead Revisited: Booktrack Edition
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece - an audiobook that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities.
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Annoying music damages a great novel
- De Toro200 en 10-08-21
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Waverley
- De: Sir Walter Scott
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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Waverley by Sir Walter Scott is an enthralling tale of love, war and divided loyalties. Taking place during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the novel tells the story of proud English officer Edward Waverley. After being posted to Dundee, Edward eventually befriends chieftain of the Highland Clan Mac-Ivor and falls in love with his beautiful sister Flora. He then renounces his former loyalties in order actively to support Scotland in open rebellion against the Union with England. The book depicts stunning, romantic panoramas of the Highlands.
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Loved it
- De Tad Davis en 04-12-18
De: Sir Walter Scott
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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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The Lord
- De: Romano Guardini
- Narrado por: Gordon Greenhill
- Duración: 26 h y 7 m
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The only true and unedited telling of the life of Christ - his life and times,in historical context, but not lacking the psychology behind his physical being and spirit. Unlike other books seeking to strip Jesus' story to reveal only the human being, Romano Guardini's The Lord gives the complete story of Jesus Christ - as man, Holy Ghost, and Creator. Pope Benedict XVI lauds Guardini's work as providing a full understanding of the Son of God away from the prejudice that rationality engenders.
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A masterpiece
- De Michael Gemborys en 01-06-17
De: Romano Guardini
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The Physician
- The Cole Trilogy (Gordon) 1
- De: Noah Gordon
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
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An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.
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Zero Historical Authenticity
- De Shana Kay McCoy en 02-15-25
De: Noah Gordon
Good religious periodic story.
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Like a drink of freshwater
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A Beloved Classic Reread
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A Long and Winding Road of Meaning
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Wonderful!
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Heartbreak and struggle.
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Lengthy historic depiction
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Heart wrenching, brilliant and profound, it leaves an impression on your heart.
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Beware of the Introduction skip over it
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