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The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 9626347643
Category: Classics, Poetry, Drama
Keywords: biography, poetry, Life, Works, William, Butler, Yeats
Author: Compiled by John Kavanagh
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Length: 2 hours and 36 min.

Description
William Butler Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the 20th century. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree, " "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, " "Down by the Salley Gardens, " "The Secret Rose": these are just a few of the poems that made William Butler Yeats an international figure. Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook, which presents the most important poems in the context of his life and ambitions. His poetic urgency was fuelled by an active and varied life, as he gained his inspiration from the men and women he knew, classical sources, and contemporary politics.

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Charles de Gaulle: A Biography
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 078611245X
Category: History, Political
Keywords: politician, epoch, biography, France, Charles, Gaulle, Biography
Author: Don Cook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Length: 22 hours 45 min.

Description
Don Cook is the first American to write a major biography of Charles de Gaulle from an American perspective. Rich with new anecdotal material, it offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe's most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman. Arrogant, haughty, single-minded in war, politics, and his personal life, Charles de Gaulle ranks in many ways as the most powerful personality of an epoch blessed - or cursed - with powerful men. Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, Kennedy, and Khrushchev all locked horns with de Gaulle, and all eventually bowed to his wishes. This exciting biography takes full measure of the man and his times, when great soldiers and statesmen fought center stage and the fate of the world hung in the balance.

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St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 1400151112
Category: Bios, Memoirs, Religious Figures, Religion, Spirituality, Christianity
Keywords: Irish, priest, Christianity, biography, Patrick, Ireland, Biography
Author: Philip Freeman
Publisher: Tantor Media
Length: 6 hours and 22 min.

Description
Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their super-natural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinatin…


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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
ISBN: 0671776290
Category: Arts, Entertainment, Celebrity Bios, Bios, Memoirs, Celebrities, Sports, Football, General
Keywords: football, Green Bay Packers, biography, Vince Lombardi, When, Pride, Still, Mattered, Life, Vince, Lombardi
Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Length: 6 hours

Description
When Pride Still Mattered is the quintessential story of the American family: how Vince Lombardi, the son of an immigrant Italian butcher, rose to the top, and how his character and will to prevail transformed him, his wife, his children, his playe…


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The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
Category: Arts, Entertainment, Bios, Memoirs, History
Keywords: Ireland, Irish, memoir, biography, autobiography, Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Bob Dylan, Maya Angelou, Pete Seeger, Mountain, Women, Memoirs, Troubadour
Author: Liam Clancy
Publisher: Random House Audio
Length: 6 hours and 16 min.

Description
Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela's Ashes and Are You Somebody?, Liam Clancy relates his life's story in a raucously funny and star-studded account of moving from provincial Ireland to the bars and clubs of New…


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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
ISBN: 0743564510
Category: Fiction, Historical
Keywords: recluse, biography, past, orphan, storytelling, Thirteenth, Tale, Novel
Author: Diane Setterfield
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Length: 7 hours and 9 min.

Description
All children mythologize their birth... So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's beloved collection of stories, long famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale. The enigmatic Winter has always kept her violent and tragic…

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Churchill
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 0786122439
Category: History, Military, Political, World
Keywords: Winston Churchill, England, WWII, biography, Churchill
Author: Roy Jenkins
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Length: 37 hours and 31 min.

Description
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this…



 

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