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George Blagden
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Conn Iggulden
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The latest epic in this best-selling author’s Athenian series of novels takes the listener on a vivid adventure where Themistocles will risk everything - his honor, his friendships, even his life - to protect his country.
The Battle of Salamis: Persian King Xerxes stands over the smoking ruins of Athens, an army of slaves at his back. Come to destroy, once and for all, everything that the city stands for, he stares pitilessly at the hopelessly outnumbered Greeks. Veteran soldier Themistocles cannot push the Persians back by force on land, and so he does so by stealth.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 890
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 887
On a small estate just outside Rome in the first century BC, two boys become blood brothers, little imagining the extraordinary future that lies before them. As friends and rivals, Gaius and Marcus are destined to find lasting fame.
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3 out of 5 stars
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thin characterizations, focus on fights and battle
- De jessica en 09-04-12
De: Conn Iggulden
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The Abbot's Tale
- De: Conn Iggulden
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field - on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome - from exile to exaltation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This One's a Gem
- De Ballika en 08-10-18
De: Conn Iggulden
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Nero
- Nero Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Conn Iggulden
- Narrado por: Lydia Leonard
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
The story begins with a hand curled around another man’s throat. This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a friend he once trusted with the city—then the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as if he never existed. Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is neither balm nor protection. Rather, it is a liability. Blood is easily spilled or poisoned. So swiftly corrupted. As the aging Tiberius becomes blind to the ignoble end awaiting him, Agrippina sees the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, Pre-Nero set up.
- De Chris en 06-05-24
De: Conn Iggulden
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Genghis
- Birth of an Empire
- De: Conn Iggulden
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 670
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 589
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 590
Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Shaped by abandonment and betrayal, Temujin endured, driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon. Through a series of courageous raids, Temujin's legend grew until he was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of 1,000 warhorses, to subject all nations and empires to his will.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Extraordinary
- De TR Jensen en 05-17-22
De: Conn Iggulden
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Wars of the Roses
- Stormbird
- De: Conn Iggulden
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 434
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 434
In 1437, the Lancaster king Henry VI ascends the throne of England after years of semi-peaceful regency. Named "The Lamb," Henry is famed more for his gentle and pious nature than his father's famous battlefield exploits; already, his dependence on his closest men has stirred whispers of weakness at court. A secret truce negotiated with France to trade British territories for a royal bride - Margaret of Anjou - sparks revolts across English territory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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100% Fiction and 0% Real History
- De Mary Elizabeth Reynolds en 04-25-18
De: Conn Iggulden
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 294
In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wasn't sure but won me over
- De John S. en 01-26-24
De: Mary Beard
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- De: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,061
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,765
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,758
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oddball Translation
- De Joel Jenkins en 05-11-17
De: Homer, y otros
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The Brothers Karamazov
- (Bicentennial Edition)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Ben Miles
- Duración: 42 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 147
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Worth Your Time
- De Scole en 12-06-24
De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, y otros
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Gates of Fire
- An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
- De: Steven Pressfield
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6,434
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,725
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5,725
Gates of Fire puts you at the side of valiant Spartan warriors in 480 BC for the bloody, climactic battle at Thermopylae. There, a few hundred of Sparta’s finest sacrificed their lives to hold back the invading Persian millions. The time they bought enabled the Greeks to rally - saving, according to ancient historian Herodotus, “Western democracy and freedom from perishing in the cradle.” How did the Spartans accomplish this superhuman feat? This is what the King of Persia hopes to learn from the sole Spartan survivor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard to read
- De Mike From Mesa en 01-28-13
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Empire of Silence
- Sun Eater, Book 1
- De: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 26 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,977
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,972
The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Slow start at best....then the story tapers off
- De paul nordquist en 08-21-19
Conn always keeps it real.
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Good
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Excellent read
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Great adventure and history!
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Great story. Very well written and narrated.
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As astounding as ever
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Good
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Another Gem
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Exceptionnel
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Historical fiction at it's best
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