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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....
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1 out of 5 stars
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many many pages missing in audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-2018
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow
- By Anonymous User on 31-01-2019
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- By: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic
- By Corey on 30-08-2018
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A classic but trying
- By Ryan Morrow on 04-04-2018
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....
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1 out of 5 stars
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many many pages missing in audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-2018
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow
- By Anonymous User on 31-01-2019
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- By: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic
- By Corey on 30-08-2018
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A classic but trying
- By Ryan Morrow on 04-04-2018
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La Divina Commedia (New edit)
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Ivano Marescotti
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori: Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda e la sua...
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator)
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written....
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Inferno: From The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Benedict Flynn (translator)
- Narrated by: Heathcote Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
"Abandon all hope you who enter here." Dante’s Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sorry reviewers I just put my review in Purgatory
- By Jan on 17-06-2017
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The Glugs of Gosh
- By: C. J. Dennis
- Narrated by: John Derum
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Glugs of Gosh is a satirical gallop through the world of the inhabitants of Gosh, a world very similar to Australian life in 1917, when it was written....
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The Canterbury Tales [Audio Connoisseur]
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Neville Coghill (translator)
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 23 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
If you want to understand the Late Middle Ages, Neville Coghill's famous translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so.....
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The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven Edition: Volume 5 - Poetry and Drama
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Bob Gonzalez, Cate Barratt, Jennifer Fournier, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Raven Edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) presents his complete literary output in five volumes. In addition to 11 prose pieces, volume five contains all of Poe’s verse and also his only play, the unfinished drama, "Politian"....
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The Invitation
- By: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Narrated by: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Visionary author Oriah Mountain Dreamer brings to life the wisdom of her beloved The Invitation, the prose poem which has touched hearts everywhere...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected Gem
- By Tanya on 23-09-2015
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exclusive, inspirational, iconic philosophical and poetic work by the great master Kahlil Gibran, actor Geoffrey Giuliano brings to the surface the shimmering spiritual wisdom inherent in this beautifully crafted story of life's journey....
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Beowulf
- A New Translation
- By: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
One of the great classics of English literature, it tells the story of a hero who wins glory and learns wisdom and is then called upon to face a final test against the monstrous....
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold
- Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist
- By: William Shakespeare, James Anthony, Stephen Fry - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold by William Shakespeare and James Anthony, with a foreword by Stephen Fry. Read by Stephen Fry and Paapa Essiedu....
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The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
- By: Compiled by John Kavanagh
- Narrated by: Jim Norton, Denys Hawthorne, Nicholas Boulton, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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William Butler Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the 20th century....
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The Essential Dylan Thomas
- By: Dylan Thomas
- Narrated by: Dylan Thomas, Richard Bebb, Jason Hughes, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
This varied, well-chosen selection brings onto one audiobook the best of Dylan Thomas....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audio problem - file drops out after Under Milkwood
- By Meaghan Vosz on 20-10-2018
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The Great Poets
- John Keats
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Michael Sheen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Although John Keats had a short life, he produced a series of outstanding poems....
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From Shakespeare - With Love (The Best of Sonnets)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Abridged
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Shakespeare's Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago by Mr Thomas Thorpe....
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Alexander Pope - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War....
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Purgatory: From The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Heathcote Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin and made worthy to ascend to Heaven’ Purgatory is the second part of Dante’s The Divine Comedy....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic for a reason
- By Jan on 17-06-2017
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Mednyy vsadnik i drugiye proizvedeniya
- "Teatr u mikrofona"
- By: A. S. Pushkin
- Narrated by: Vsevolod Aksonov, Vasiliy Kachalov, Ruben Simonov, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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"Teatr u mikrofona"Pushkin A. S. "Mednyy vsadnik" i drugiye proizvedeniya v ispolnenii masterov khudozhestvennogo slova.Izvestnyye aktery....
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding!
- By Robyn on 22-02-2019
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The Aeneid
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: David Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enormously good.
- By Christopher Rowe-Spencer on 15-06-2018
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From Plato to Post-modernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author
- By: Louis Markos, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Louis Markos
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Throughout these lectures, you'll meet the poet in many guises; the divine, the alchemical, the common, the playful and the prisoner....
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it!
- By Anonymous User on 05-07-2018
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The Iliad of Homer
- By: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 21-05-2015
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The Iliad
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- By: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
Since it was first published more than 25 years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right....
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's an epic for a reason
- By Anonymous User on 03-11-2018
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Classic Love Poems
- By: William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
With 13 poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more, Classic Love Poems is a listening treat for Valentine's Day - or any day....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relaxing Romance
- By Kate on 17-05-2015
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The Metamorphoses
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration of a large and complex work
- By Amazon Customer on 19-10-2016
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
The great legacy of The Iliad is itsshattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Where’s the Trojan horse?
- By Jan on 04-11-2018
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Poems of William Blake
- By: William Blake
- Narrated by: Sam Stinson
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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"Poems of William Blake" includes: "Songs of Innocence", "Songs of Experience" and "The Book of Thel". All three are volumes of poetry by the...
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Great Poets of the Romantic Age
- By: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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With a dynamic spirit, these great English poets made a conscious return to nostalgia and spiritual depth....
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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The Odyssey
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- By: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great tale well told.
- By Amazon Customer on 20-09-2018
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The Inferno of Dante
- By: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky (translator)
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Well versed, rapid, and various in style, the Inferno is narrated by Pinsky and three other leading poets: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, and Louise Gluck....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ruined but a few small things
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-2018
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Beowulf
- By: C. W. Kennedy - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Out of the mixture of Latin and Germanic paganism and the Christianity of the Early Middle Ages has sprung one of the world's supremely great pieces of literature....
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Songs of a Sourdough
- By: Robert W. Service
- Narrated by: Jonathan Ostrander
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Songs of a Sourdough is the first published volume of verse from the man who would become "The Bard of the Yukon", Robert W. Service. This volume contains 33 verses exploring characters, landscapes, and life in the early days on Canada's last frontier.
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The Poetry of Flowers
- By: DH Lawrence, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Shyama Perera, Jo Wyatt
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The vast varieties of flowers that exist provide an exceptional burst of vivid and subtle shades of colours, inspiring a smooth transition from petal to paper for so many of our greatest poets including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Burns, Swinburne and Coleridge....
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 3
- By: Alice Meynell, William Makepeace Thackeray, Augusta Davies Webster
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. In this collection Shelley’s words are alive with intent, meaning and emotion. A true poet for all our ages.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 2
- By: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Austin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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The Poetry of Adelaide Anne Proctor
- By: Adelaide Anne Proctor
- Narrated by: Jake Urry, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London. Her literary career began whilst still a teenager. Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round before being later published in book form.
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Songs of a Sourdough
- By: Robert W. Service
- Narrated by: Jonathan Ostrander
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Songs of a Sourdough is the first published volume of verse from the man who would become "The Bard of the Yukon", Robert W. Service. This volume contains 33 verses exploring characters, landscapes, and life in the early days on Canada's last frontier.
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The Poetry of Flowers
- By: DH Lawrence, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Shyama Perera, Jo Wyatt
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The vast varieties of flowers that exist provide an exceptional burst of vivid and subtle shades of colours, inspiring a smooth transition from petal to paper for so many of our greatest poets including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Burns, Swinburne and Coleridge....
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 3
- By: Alice Meynell, William Makepeace Thackeray, Augusta Davies Webster
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. In this collection Shelley’s words are alive with intent, meaning and emotion. A true poet for all our ages.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 2
- By: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Austin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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The Poetry of Adelaide Anne Proctor
- By: Adelaide Anne Proctor
- Narrated by: Jake Urry, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London. Her literary career began whilst still a teenager. Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round before being later published in book form.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 1
- By: Ben Jonson, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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The Poetry of Robert Browning
- By: Robert Browning
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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With classics such as ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ Robert Browning’s status as one of the great Victorian poets will always be secure in popular culture, while for the more literary he is considered a master of dramatic verse and dramatic monologues. It is interesting to note that his career bloomed late. Indeed, it was only after the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1861 and his return to England from their life in Italy that his work came into wider acceptance and critical acclaim.
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The Poetry of Hell
- By: William Blake, John Milton, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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It is often said that two things are unavoidable: death and taxes. Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life, but as to the former it seems that for many people it is merely a hiccup in life’s journey. A journey they wish, if being of good deed and character, to share at the eternity of heaven’s largesse, a reward for faith and the obligations of religion. Of course for those not so fortunate an altogether different experience was prepared for them: hell. Its nightmare visions are so terrifying, conjured up by Dante, Milton, Blake, Baudelaire and many others.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
- By: Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 2 mins
- Unabridged
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"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die". A lament of airman, soldier, sailor, and marine throughout history from Lord Tennyson's 1854 poem based upon a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War.
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The Theogony of Hesiod
- By: Hesiod
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Theogony (composed c. 700 BC) is a poem by Hesiod (8th-7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. A theogony is a part of Greek mythology which attempts to articulate reality as a whole. Hesiod's work is a synthesis of various local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells of their origin and how they established control over the Cosmos.
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 2
- By: Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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Purgatorio
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Dante's Purgatory is the second of the three cantos of the Divine Comedy, and is divided into "Antipurgatorio", "Purgatorio", and "Earthly Paradise". It consists of seven frames, in which the seven deadly sins are expiated: pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, lust. The sinners who complete purgatory move to paradise.
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The Poetry of Charlotte Bronte
- By: Charlotte Bronte
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinick
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire, the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The eldest of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, was born on 21st April 1816. The author of Jane Eyre, Shirley and Vilette, she was also a very talented poet, as witnessed here in this collection.
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 1
- By: Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of their poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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The Poetry of Heaven
- By: Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Burns
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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It is often said that two things are unavoidable: death and taxes.Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life, but as to the former it seems that for many people it is merely a hiccup in life’s eternal journey. A journey they wish, if being of good deed and character, to share at the eternity of heaven’s largesse, a reward for faith and the obligations of religion. Of course for those not so fortunate an altogether different experience was prepared for them: hell.
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The Poetry Of William Wordsworth
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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William Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April, 1770 and is rightly regarded as a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. His words have been proffered by many a tongue around the world. They stir, they inspire they create lyrical pictures and feelings as few others can. Wordsworth's was also Britain's Poet Laureate from his appointment by Queen Victoria in 1843 until his death in on the 23rd of April 1850.
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Paradiso
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Dante's Paradise is the third of the three cantos of the Divine Comedy, after Hell and Purgatory. Hell and purgatory are places on Earth, but paradise is a non-material and ethereal place, divided into nine heavens.