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Bestsellers
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
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From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
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A Metaxas Hat Trick
- By Tommy on 11-04-17
By: Eric Metaxas
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
- Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history....
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The Narration Is Awful
- By Appollo 500 on 10-27-18
By: Tracy Borman
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- By: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....
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Solid Medieval Work
- By Amazon Customer on 07-20-23
By: William Urban
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Recounting Henry VIII's life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy....
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Exceptional.
- By bigdjunta on 08-02-19
By: Tracy Borman
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- By: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....
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A fresh mature perspective on the Spanish conquest
- By Chencheno111 on 03-19-22
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- By: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Excellent
- By James on 03-30-18
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
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A Metaxas Hat Trick
- By Tommy on 11-04-17
By: Eric Metaxas
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
- Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history....
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The Narration Is Awful
- By Appollo 500 on 10-27-18
By: Tracy Borman
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- By: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....
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Solid Medieval Work
- By Amazon Customer on 07-20-23
By: William Urban
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Recounting Henry VIII's life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy....
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Exceptional.
- By bigdjunta on 08-02-19
By: Tracy Borman
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- By: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....
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A fresh mature perspective on the Spanish conquest
- By Chencheno111 on 03-19-22
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- By: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Excellent
- By James on 03-30-18
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New World, Inc.
- By: John Butman, Simon Targett
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Three generations of English merchant adventurers - not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed - were the earliest founders of America. Profit - not piety - was their primary motive....
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Commerce as Key in Early American History
- By Michael Shally-Jensen on 04-06-20
By: John Butman, and others
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Unbelievers
- An Emotional History of Doubt
- By: Alec Ryrie
- Narrated by: Andy Creswell
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Why have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the answer, but in this lively and startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through their hearts more than their minds....
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important and neglected insight of atheism
- By John Glemby on 10-01-21
By: Alec Ryrie
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Francis I
- The Maker of Modern France
- By: Leonie Frieda
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, a diplomat par excellence....
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Rekindling salamandrine fires...
- By Adeliese Baumann on 09-29-18
By: Leonie Frieda
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- By: Robert Goodwin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
By: Robert Goodwin
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Defenders of the Faith
- Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
- By: James Reston Jr.
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A best-selling historian recounts 16 years that shook the world - the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna....
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Good account of interesting period of history
- By ItalCali on 03-11-22
By: James Reston Jr.
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- By: Brad S. Gregory
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther....
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Something to think about
- By Like Loehe on 09-19-17
By: Brad S. Gregory
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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western imagination for centuries....
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narration is very well done & book is quite good
- By horoscopy on 02-18-15
By: Tracy Borman
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All Things Made New
- The Reformation and Its Legacy
- By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrated by: Neil Scott-Barbour
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome....
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did not like at all
- By AW on 03-07-22
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- By: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography....
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The problem is with Cellini himself.
- By Leslie Ross on 06-07-10
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- By: Michael Massing
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
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This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - and their heated rivalry....
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Excellent work - up until the discussion of America
- By Michele Esposito on 08-24-19
By: Michael Massing
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Popes and Feminists
- How the Reformation Frees Women from Feminism
- By: Elise Crapuchettes
- Narrated by: Elise Crapuchettes
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Before the Reformation, in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, being a wife or mother was not a holy vocation. The only “spiritual” calling for women was to be found in a convent. The Reformers confronted the bad theology which led to this....
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EXCELLENT BOOK.
- By Diana Jenkins on 01-09-21
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The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII
- By: Jillianne Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook combines Jillianne Hamilton's sassy, fun, and snarky storytelling with one of history's most alluring eras. Focusing on the lives of the wives, this audiobook gives the six unfortunate queens the biography for which they almost certainly wouldn't have asked....
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Great introduction to the Tudors
- By Diana NK on 07-11-18
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Vagabond Princess
- The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
- By: Ruby Lal
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived.
By: Ruby Lal
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
- By: Susan Doran
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life....
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Very detailed and enjoyable
- By Sean on 09-12-15
By: Susan Doran
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Margaret Beaufort
- Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
- By: Elizabeth Norton
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time....
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Awful Recording
- By Beck110118 on 09-10-17
By: Elizabeth Norton
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- By: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
- Narrated by: Frasier Mackenzie
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Cabeza de Vaca was part of a 1527 Spanish expedition to explore the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His group lost contact with their ships, and traveled on foot across Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico for the next eight years....
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Mary Boleyn
- The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
- By: Josephine Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Boleyn, ‘the infamous other Boleyn girl’, began her court career as the mistress of the king of France....
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Clean biography of Mary Boleyn
- By Mary Elizabeth Reynolds on 04-07-14
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
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During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....
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The Prequel to ‘Orientalism’
- By Amazon Customer on 01-13-19
By: Jürgen Osterhammel, and others
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Liza Picard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....
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Hard to Follow Along
- By Makayla Mason on 08-27-18
By: Liza Picard
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In Bed with the Tudors
- From Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
- By: Amy Licence
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders....
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DECENT HISTORICAL ACCOUNT - AWFUL NARRATOR !
- By The Louligan on 03-25-14
By: Amy Licence
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Spanish Empire
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which “the sun never sets.” It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate....
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Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 2
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. In this revealing new account, John Guy explores how Henry himself understood the world and his place in it....
By: John Guy
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God's Traitors
- Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
- By: Jessie Childs
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Tracing the family's path from staunch loyalty to the Crown, to passive resistance and on to increasing activism, Childs illustrates the pressures and painful choices that confronted....
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Well-researched, well-written
- By Charles on 03-23-15
By: Jessie Childs
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England in the Age of Shakespeare
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era....
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A Great Book to Listen to
- By Jerry G on 03-02-21
By: Jeremy Black