Description |
24 sound discs (30 hr., 38 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Playing Time |
303800 |
Series |
Century trilogy ; bk. 1
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Performer |
Read by John Lee. |
Note |
Unabridged. |
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Compact discs. |
Summary |
Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London. |
Subject |
Coal mines and mining -- Wales -- History -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- 1913-1921 -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
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Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
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Twentieth century -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Epic fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Added Author |
Lee, John Rafter. Narrator.
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ISBN |
9780307737380 (library ed.) : $59.95 |
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0307737381 (library ed.) : $59.95 |
Music # |
8415-CD Books on Tape |
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