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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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Overall31
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Performance27
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Story27
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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Really thoughtful translation and an interesting window into history
- By Jett Mowle on 03-07-2024
By: Homer, and others
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall153
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Performance141
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Story141
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...
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An Enduring Epic
- By Sweener on 23-01-2023
By: Homer
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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Great story, excruciating performance.
- By Anonymous on 26-08-2021
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran is now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition.
By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, and others
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The Iliad
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, E. V. Rieu - translator, D. C. H. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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Story22
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...
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Brilliant narration
- By Eleanor Lawson on 27-05-2020
By: Homer, and others
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Paradise Lost
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Milton, John Leonard - introduction
- Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the...
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Epic
- By Jamin on 21-04-2021
By: John Milton, and others
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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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Overall31
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Performance27
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Story27
Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....
-
-
Really thoughtful translation and an interesting window into history
- By Jett Mowle on 03-07-2024
By: Homer, and others
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall153
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Performance141
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Story141
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...
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An Enduring Epic
- By Sweener on 23-01-2023
By: Homer
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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Great story, excruciating performance.
- By Anonymous on 26-08-2021
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
- Shahnameh
- By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran is now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition.
By: Abolqasem Ferdowsi, and others
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The Iliad
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, E. V. Rieu - translator, D. C. H. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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Story22
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...
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Brilliant narration
- By Eleanor Lawson on 27-05-2020
By: Homer, and others
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Paradise Lost
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Milton, John Leonard - introduction
- Narrated by: Adrian Schiller
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the...
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Epic
- By Jamin on 21-04-2021
By: John Milton, 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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Overall60
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Performance56
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Story56
Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....
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Worth listening to
- By Simon on 02-05-2019
By: John Milton
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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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Overall41
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Performance35
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Story34
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
- By Duncan Macfarlane on 25-06-2022
By: Gerald J. Davis
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story3
Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of...
By: Homer
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, Peter Jones - introduction, E. V. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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Story16
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after...
By: Homer, and others
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Jay Bernard, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Story15
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael...
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Better than expected
- By Brydie Robinson on 07-02-2023
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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The Sonnets
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"....
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The perfect reading of a perfect read
- By M. R. Kaspar on 22-11-2024