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Samson Agonistes
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: David de Keyser, Philip Madoc, Matthew Morgan, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 51 m
- Grabación Original
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Samson Agonistes, the 'dramatic poem' by John Milton, was published in 1671, three years before the poet's death. Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the Chorus commenting on the action, it follows the biblical story of the blind Samson as he wreaks his revenge on the Philistines who have imprisoned him. A powerful subject, with a personal resonance for the blind Milton, it is a perfect work for the medium of audiobook where poetry and drama can be balanced equally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- De Anonymous User en 11-06-20
De: John Milton
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Medea
- De: Euripides
- Narrado por: Jonathan Waters
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narrator makes this story work
- De cosmitron en 08-02-18
De: Euripides
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The Plays of Sophocles
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Sophocles was born at Colonus, near Athens in about 496 BC and is considered to be one of the premier playwrights of Greek tragedy. His stories may have been filled with strife, but Sophocles himself was prosperous and came from a good family. It is said that he was handsome, wealthy, and a highly respected citizen of Athens. During his life, he wrote over 120 plays and was instrumental in how plays would eventually be performed, including the addition of stage props.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad Dialogue
- De Zoe Olvera en 08-12-18
De: Sophocles
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Faust
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a poem, translated by Bayard Taylor, which tells the beautiful and emotional story of a man who has seen and done it all. However, despite all of his learning and education, his life still feels empty and unaccomplished. He believes wholeheartedly that there is something else out there. Faust, having exhausted all other fields of study, turns to magic for fulfillment. He summons the devil and makes a pact - that if the devil can show him something rewarding and fulfilling, he will give the devil his soul.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading
- De Grant Pajak en 03-29-17
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Oedipus the King
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 46 m
- Grabación Original
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In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny, unknowingly murdering his father and marrying his mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- De Mark en 11-24-09
De: Sophocles
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
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Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Mitchell Drimmer en 02-25-15
De: Peter Ackroyd
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Tales from Shakespeare
- De: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb is a retelling of 20 of Shakespeare’s most beloved stories. Within the pages of this book, the 19th-century authors bring to life the Shakespearean plots and characters of another age in an easy-to-understand prose of a newer generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic
- De Jacque Eddy en 10-07-19
De: Charles Lamb, y otros
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 866
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Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language. Remarkably enough, they were written near the end of John Milton's amazing life, a bold testimonial to his mental powers in old age. And, since he had gone completely blind in 1652, 15 years prior to Paradise Lost, he dictated it and all his other works to his daughter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SELL YOUR SHIRT FOR THIS AUDIO BOOK!
- De thomas en 04-23-11
De: John Milton
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The Scarlet Plague [Classic Tales Edition]
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague. In this post-apocalyptic novella, a ragged and tattered old man tells his progeny of what life was like before The Scarlet Plague appeared - and wiped out civilization as they knew it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful listen very relevant today!
- De Johnny en 12-02-17
De: Jack London
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- De: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrado por: Terry Jones
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
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A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute delight!
- De Shannon Slee en 07-15-18
De: J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Talisman
- De: Sir Walter Scott
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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The Talisman revolves around the Third Crusader's camp in the Holy Land whereby there exists a truce between the Christians and the Muslims. The camp, which is led by King Richard I of England (the Lion-heart) who is grievously ill, is being torn apart by tensions between rival leaders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a simple story but a joy to listen to
- De Adele Lemmon en 08-23-19
De: Sir Walter Scott
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The Talisman
- De: Sir Walter Scott
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land, and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including, besides Coeur de Lion himself, Philip of France, the duke of Austria, the Marquis of Montferrat, and the Grand Master of the Templars. The army's impotence is accentuated by the illness of Richard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly enjoyable adventure!
- De GoryDetails en 10-19-05
De: Sir Walter Scott
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Idylls of the King
- De: Alfred Tennyson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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The Arthurian legend of Camelot has been told many times, but never better than by Alfred Tennyson. Employing some of the most stirring and beautiful blank verse ever written, Tennyson crafted his version of the Knights of the Round Table over the course of nearly fifty years, completing it in 1885. Despite the length of time, Tennyson managed to maintain a high level of style and continuity throughout.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful poetry
- De Roger en 01-15-08
De: Alfred Tennyson
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Don Quixote (Adapted for Modern Listeners)
- De: Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Quixotic is a word that the dictionary defines as "extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary...." and that is a fitting definition, indeed, for this charming retelling of Don Quixote, the 17t- century Spanish classic by Miguel de Cervantes, now updated for the modern listener. The gallant and fragile Quixote will touch listeners, as will his faithful squire Sancho Panza and the tragically beautiful heroine of the gentle Don’s chivalries, the fair Dulcinea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great way in
- De pxriver en 07-12-18
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character. The book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrative choices at odds with text
- De Bill Bleuel en 04-23-24
De: Harold Bloom
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Falstaff brooks no rebuttal.
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Harold Bloom
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Moor's Not Nice Guy - friend
- De Darwin8u en 02-13-20
De: Harold Bloom
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How To Read and Why
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. From a lifetime of writing and teaching about literature, this great scholar exhorts readers to consider the pleasures and benefits of reading well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like a review of my graduate English degree
- De Barbara en 10-01-12
De: Harold Bloom
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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
- De: Professor Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Professor Harold Bloom
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lowest WPM Ever
- De Ronald en 11-16-11
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character. The book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrative choices at odds with text
- De Bill Bleuel en 04-23-24
De: Harold Bloom
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Falstaff brooks no rebuttal.
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Harold Bloom
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Moor's Not Nice Guy - friend
- De Darwin8u en 02-13-20
De: Harold Bloom
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How To Read and Why
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. From a lifetime of writing and teaching about literature, this great scholar exhorts readers to consider the pleasures and benefits of reading well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like a review of my graduate English degree
- De Barbara en 10-01-12
De: Harold Bloom
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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
- De: Professor Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Professor Harold Bloom
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lowest WPM Ever
- De Ronald en 11-16-11
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
- The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 20 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Culmination of Bloom’s Wisdom
- De Jesse en 12-24-20
De: Harold Bloom
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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies
- De: Prof. Raphael Shargel
- Narrado por: Prof. Raphael Shargel
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Professor Raphael Shargel channels his passion for teaching and expertise as a Shakespearean scholar into this illuminative study of the Immortal Bard's 10 great comedies. Shakespeare's genius is as readily apparent in these comedies as in his timeless tragedies. Often marked by internal and external conflicts, young lovers struggling for union, mistaken identities, and intertwining plots, Shakespeare's comedies to this day reveal the master's unparalleled insight into the human condition.
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The Bright Book of Life
- Novels to Read and Reread
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 22 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom — who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic — gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on 48 essential works spanning the Western canon.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic Bloom, but a curious reading of him
- De J. J. Kuzma en 09-10-21
De: Harold Bloom
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: James Armstrong
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A personal and opinionated book on the Canon
- De Steffen en 07-23-12
De: Harold Bloom
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Tyrant
- Shakespeare on Politics
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Close for Comfort
- De C. Gross en 05-10-18
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The Modern Scholar: Rediscovering Shakespeare - The Tragedies
- De: Professor Matthew Wagner
- Narrado por: Professor Matthew Wagner
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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A greater emphasis on situations than characters (this numbs the audience's connection to the characters, so that when characters experience misfortune, the audience still finds it laughable) A struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty, often presented by elders Separation and re-unification Deception among characters (especially mistaken identity) A clever servant Disputes between characters, often within a family Multiple, intertwining plots. Use of all styles of comedy (slapstick, puns, dry humour, earthy humour, witty banter, practical jokes) Pastoral element (courtly people living an idealized, rural life), originally an element of Pastoral Romance, exploited by Shakespeare for his comic plots and often parodied therein for humorous effects Happy Ending.
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Possessed by Memory
- The Inward Light of Criticism
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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In arguably his most personal and lasting work, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than 80 texts by canonical authors - texts he has had by heart since childhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an endowment!
- De Norman en 04-03-21
De: Harold Bloom
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Will in the World
- How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 550
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Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world. An acclaimed interpreter of Shakespeare's works, his ideas have changed the way countless people approach the classics. Now Greenblatt's uniquely brilliant voice delivers a magnificent biography of the Bard himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Politically Motivated
- De Donald en 09-29-04
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Macbeth
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: James Marsters, Joanne Whalley, Josh Cooke, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 454
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Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way – including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and paranoia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Might want to Read Along
- De Syd Young en 02-03-14
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Moby-Dick
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 21 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 6,336
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,435
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Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Had No Idea Melville Was So Funny
- De Dave en 05-09-12
De: Herman Melville
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- De: Stacy Schiff
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,595
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Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Approach this book with caution
- De GolfZilla en 12-02-10
De: Stacy Schiff
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Deputy Mayor Putin
- De: Maeve McQuillan
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw, Gwilym Lee
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 210
How did a once faceless bureaucrat, a man whose own wife said he was born under the sign of the vampire, become the idealized face of Russian manhood and its authoritarian leader? Deputy Mayor Putin examines the man behind the myth. We will explore how Putin’s formative years shaped and drove him and how the supporting cast of characters he gathered along the way helped him get to the Kremlin’s inner sanctum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De T J en 03-02-24
De: Maeve McQuillan
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