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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
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The bright eyed goddess of translation does it again.
- By Hugh Brennan on 21-11-23
By: Homer, and others
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....
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Sonorous metal
- By Francis on 06-12-07
By: John Milton
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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as good as it gets
- By Kindle Customer on 25-01-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, and others
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....
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Enjoyable but marred by mistakes in the narration.
- By L. J. W. Cych on 06-06-20
By: Ovid, and others
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....
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Good to have butt ... Hmm!
- By Ricci on 29-08-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
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The bright eyed goddess of translation does it again.
- By Hugh Brennan on 21-11-23
By: Homer, and others
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....
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Sonorous metal
- By Francis on 06-12-07
By: John Milton
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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as good as it gets
- By Kindle Customer on 25-01-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, and others
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....
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Enjoyable but marred by mistakes in the narration.
- By L. J. W. Cych on 06-06-20
By: Ovid, and others
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern-day Iraq), who reigned for 126 years, according to the ancient Sumerian list of kings....
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Good to have butt ... Hmm!
- By Ricci on 29-08-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....
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An Important Job Half Done.
- By Enobarbus on 14-01-20
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
- The Argonautica
- By: Apollonius of Rhodes, R. C. Seaton - translator, Nicolas Soames - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles....
By: Apollonius of Rhodes, and others
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The Aeneid
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history...
By: Virgil
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 28 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey....
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And his armour fell rattling around him...
- By P. Ward on 03-11-11
By: Homer
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The Canterbury Tales III
- Modern English Verse Translation
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Frank Ernest Hill - translator
- Narrated by: Timothy West, Charles Kay, Stephen Tompkinson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of thirty people from all layers of society....
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Just Wonderful
- By Janey May on 24-02-20
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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The Mahabharata
- By: John D. Smith - translator
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Abridged
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The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....
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Paradise Lost
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Milton, John Leonard
- Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....
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Lives up to the hype!
- By KT on 25-07-20
By: John Milton, and others
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Beowulf
- By: Michael Alexander, Anonymous
- Narrated by: Royce Pierreson, Roy McMillan - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope....
By: Michael Alexander, and others
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Dante's Divine Comedy
- A Guide for the Spiritual Journey
- By: Mark Vernon
- Narrated by: Mark Vernon
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. In this narrative retelling and guide, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and change lives....
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Brilliantly illuminating and revealing
- By Stair on 26-09-22
By: Mark Vernon
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Spiritual Verses
- By: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time....
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Abosultely wonderful
- By Tariq on 09-02-09
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Xist Classics
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the people of Uruk.
By: Anonymous
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The Odyssey (Dramatised)
- By: Homer, Simon Armitage - dramatisation
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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In a 20-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets, and ghosts....
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Between 'The Archers' & 'Hitchhiker's Guide...'!
- By Tim on 05-03-11
By: Homer, and others
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The Inferno
- By: Dante, Robert Hollander - translator, Jean Hollander - translator
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers and listeners for 700 years and has entered the human imagination....
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A must read (or listen)
- By Lima Speight on 03-02-20
By: Dante, and others
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Jason and the Argonauts
- By: Apollonios of Rhodes
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Often compared with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts is the only surviving poem from the Hellenistic period and was hugely influential on later literature, especially the Roman poetry of Virgil and Ovid....
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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
- New Verse Translation
- By: Naxos AudioBooks, Benedict Flynn - translator
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge....
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Magnificent!
- By Enobarbus on 27-02-20
By: Naxos AudioBooks, and others
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The Book of Taliesin
- Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
- By: Rowan Williams - translator, Gwyneth Lewis - translator
- Narrated by: Gwyneth Lewis, Rowan Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Taliesin's is one of the most important names in all Welsh literature - and one of its greatest mysteries....
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Performance marred by poor Welsh pronunciation
- By Steph on 21-08-22
By: Rowan Williams - translator, and others
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Rumi's Little Book of Life
- The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
- By: Rumi, Maryam Mafi - translator, Azima Melita Kolin - translator
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere who want a guidebook for their inner journey....
By: Rumi, and others
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The Eclogues and Georgics
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Jamie Parker, Paul Panting, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation....
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Great narration and translation
- By Nullus on 25-11-23
By: Virgil
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The Poets' Corner
- The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
- By: John Lithgow
- Narrated by: Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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John Lithgow has compiled an outstanding collection of memorable poems and has gathered his famous friends to read them....
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Perfect poetry collection
- By Anna on 13-12-13
By: John Lithgow
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Classic American Poetry
- By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others
- Narrated by: Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross, William Hootkins, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Walt Whitman said, "...poetry is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest concerns, ambitions and longings," which is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America...
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others
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Poetry of Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the Road Not Taken and Many Others
- By: Robert Frost
- Narrated by: Carol Mintz
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Enjoy this amazing narration of Robert Frost's poetry, including his most famous poems....
By: Robert Frost
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Tartuffe
- By: Molière
- Narrated by: Rosy Varte, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Negroni, and others
- Length: 47 mins
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"Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur" est une comédie de Molière en cinq actes et en vers créée le 5 février 1669 sur la scène du Théâtre du...
By: Molière
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Orchestral Production Edition
- By: Clement Clark Moore
- Narrated by: Mike Read
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Christmas just isn't the same without this poem which is why Monkeynut Audiobooks have brought together the unforgettable voice of Mike Read, the musical genius of film composer Andrew Stamp, and leading audiobook producer Elliott Frisby....
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Perfect for the little ones and adults!
- By carmen on 09-12-23
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The Georgics
- By: Publius Vergilius Maro
- Narrated by: Cecil Day Lewis
- Length: 45 mins
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The Georgics was published in 29 BCE, and is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. Its a fascinating insight into rural life and farming of the time....
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Selected Works of T.S. Eliot
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the Waste Land
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.
By: T. S. Eliot
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Xist Classics
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the people of Uruk. This book also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
By: Anonymous
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The Waste Land
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Eliot's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society.
By: T. S. Eliot
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The New Life
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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La Vita Nuova (pronounced [la ˈviːta ˈnwɔːva]; Italian for The New Life) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.
By: Dante Alighieri
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The Popol Vuh
- Seedbank
- By: Michael Bazzett
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity. This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, “the book of the woven mat,” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas.
By: Michael Bazzett
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Paradiso
- Divine Comedy, Book Three
- By: Dante Alighieri, Joe Carlson
- Narrated by: Joe Carlson
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Paradiso gives our imagination a hint of the beauty to come, by uncovering the deepest reality of the life we are living now. God is the same, eternity past to eternity future; He is the same God today. The great crescendo that is His beauty, dance, song, joy, holiness, and glory we hear but dimly, as from a distance land; but it undergirds and gives meaning to everything we know and experience.
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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Selected Works of T.S. Eliot
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the Waste Land
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.
By: T. S. Eliot
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Xist Classics
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the people of Uruk. This book also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
By: Anonymous
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The Waste Land
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Eliot's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society.
By: T. S. Eliot
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The New Life
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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La Vita Nuova (pronounced [la ˈviːta ˈnwɔːva]; Italian for The New Life) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.
By: Dante Alighieri
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The Popol Vuh
- Seedbank
- By: Michael Bazzett
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity. This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, “the book of the woven mat,” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas.
By: Michael Bazzett
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Paradiso
- Divine Comedy, Book Three
- By: Dante Alighieri, Joe Carlson
- Narrated by: Joe Carlson
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Paradiso gives our imagination a hint of the beauty to come, by uncovering the deepest reality of the life we are living now. God is the same, eternity past to eternity future; He is the same God today. The great crescendo that is His beauty, dance, song, joy, holiness, and glory we hear but dimly, as from a distance land; but it undergirds and gives meaning to everything we know and experience.
By: Dante Alighieri, and others