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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
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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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Legendary
- By Vloren on 06-05-2024
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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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Epic
- By Anonymous User on 22-05-2023
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The Satyricon
- By: Petronius
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Libidinous, licentious, salacious and very, very funny, The Satyricon is one of the most remarkable documents from Ancient Rome....
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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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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Worth listening to
- By Simon on 02-05-2019
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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
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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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Great story, excruciating performance.
- By Anonymous User on 26-08-2021
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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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
- By Duncan Macfarlane on 25-06-2022
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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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Legendary
- By Vloren on 06-05-2024
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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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Epic
- By Anonymous User on 22-05-2023
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The Satyricon
- By: Petronius
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Libidinous, licentious, salacious and very, very funny, The Satyricon is one of the most remarkable documents from Ancient Rome....
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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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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Worth listening to
- By Simon on 02-05-2019
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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
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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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Great story, excruciating performance.
- By Anonymous User on 26-08-2021
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- By: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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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
- By Duncan Macfarlane on 25-06-2022
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The Poetic Edda
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods....
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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
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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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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
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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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Better than expected
- By Brydie Robinson on 07-02-2023
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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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Epic
- By Jamin on 21-04-2021
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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
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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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IGNITED MY JOY OF POETRY - THANK YOU JOHN LITHGOW!!!!
- By Jennifer Collins on 02-11-2023
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The Georgics
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Virgil's Georgics ranks as one of the most precious pastoral poems ever written, and it has served as a model for its type ever since....
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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
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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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I probably should have paid for this
- By Katherine Cooper on 22-08-2023
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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
- By: C. J. Dennis
- Narrated by: Denis Daly, Sarah Bacaller
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a classic Australian work of poetry composed by renowned poet, C.J. Dennis (1876-1938). This verse-novel chronicles Bill's coming-of-age through romance, love, and fatherhood....
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The Mahabharata
- By: John D. Smith - translator
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Sagar Arya
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
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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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10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature
- The Odyssey, the Works and Days, Theogony, the Complete Poems of Sappho, Medea, Antigone, Oresteia, the Odes of Anacreon
- By: Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Kelli Winkler, Mark Bowen
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
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The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey...
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The Knight's Tale
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury....
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Penguin Classics
- By: Bernard O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Composed during the 14th century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter....
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Beowulf
- By: Michael Alexander, Anonymous
- Narrated by: Royce Pierreson, Roy McMillan - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope....
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
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The Iliad and The Odyssey are epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, of which the written versions are dated to the 8th century BCE. Chronicling events in the Greek Bronze Age, this magnificent pair of poems forms the cornerstone of Western literature....
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Inferno
- The Divine Comedy, Book 1
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Joe Carlson
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever heard the sounds of Hell? Felt the darkness and the ice? Tasted the burnt air on your tongue? Dante’s Inferno will give you a flavor of the wretchedness of sin that you will never forget.
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The Lay of the Nibelungs
- By: Alice Horton - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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One of the finest German medieval epic poems, The Lay of the Nibelungs is perhaps best known now as one of the principal sources for Wagner’s four-part music drama The Ring of the Nibelung....
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The Odes of Horace
- By: Horace
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Along with Virgil, Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) was the greatest poet produced by Rome....
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The Prophet
- With Color Illustrations by Khalil Gibran
- By: Khalil Gibran
- Narrated by: Jason Rosette
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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One of the beloved classics of popular spirituality, Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet is a groundbreaking non-denominational collection of spiritual poetic aphorisms and essays known and loved throughout the world since its publication in 1923....
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Leaves of Grass
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful"....
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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The secret of their identities has fueled debate for hundreds of years: Who are the nameless nobleman and the dark-haired mistress?....
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The Aeneid
- Revised and Expanded Edition
- By: Vergil
- Narrated by: Susanna Braund
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes....
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Beowulf
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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The oldest long poem in Old English, written about AD 1,000, Beowulf tells the story of a great warrior of southern Scandinavia, in both youth and maturity....
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The Argonautica
- Jason and the Golden Fleece
- By: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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The Argonautica, also known as Jason and the Golden Fleece or Jason and the Argonauts, is the only surviving epic poem from Hellenistic Greece. Virgil and other later poets were greatly influenced by it....
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and others
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature....