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Gilgamesh
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- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's summary
In the ancient city of Uruk, the tyrannical King Gilgamesh tramples citizens "like a wild bull". The gods send an untamed man named Enkidu to control the ruthless king, but after fighting, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become great friends and embark on a series of adventures. They kill fearsome creatures before Enkidu succumbs to disease, leaving Gilgamesh despondent and alone. Eventually, Gilgamesh moves forward, and his quest becomes a soul-searching journey of self-discovery.
Mitchell's treatment of this extraordinary work is the finest yet, surpassing previous versions in its preservation of the wisdom and beauty of the original.
Critic reviews
"Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version....This is certainly the best that I have seen in English." (Harold Bloom)
"Here is a flowing, unbroken version that reads as effortlessly as a novel....Vibrant, earnest, unfussibly accesible....The muscular eloquence and rousing simplicity of Mitchell's four-beat line effectively unleashes the grand vehemence of the epic's battle scenes." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Mitchell seeks language that is as swift and strong as the story itself. He conveys the evenhanded generosity of the original poet....This wonderful new version of the story of Gilgamesh shows how the story came to achieve literary immortality: not because it is a rare ancient artifact, but because reading it can make people in the here and now feel more completely alive." (Publishers Weekly)
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A new version of The Epic of Gilgamesh by Sebastian Lockwood. This is the story of Gilgamesh, King of Kings, who brought back knowledge from before the flood - who loved and lost his companion Enkidu and had to find out why we die. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets over 4,000 years ago, in what is today Baghdad Iraq - the Biblical Garden of Eden between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Lockwood gives a passionate reading from a text that faithfully follows the original.
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Captain Kirk reads Gilgamesh?
- By TAGSfan on 10-07-13
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: Stephen Langdon
- Narrated by: Victor Craig
- Length: 23 mins
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetry describes the ancient King Gilgamesh and his journey to discover the secret to eternal life.
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Not even if it's free
- By kyle whitt on 02-24-23
By: Stephen Langdon
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Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: anonymous, Valentin Rey - translator
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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Dive into the epic adventure of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," a journey through time that takes you back to the origins of literature with one of the oldest stories ever told.
By: anonymous, and others
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Beowulf
- By: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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New York Times best seller and Whitebread Book of the Year, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
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Why, oh, why is it abridged?
- By Tad Davis on 09-25-08
By: Seamus Heaney
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Beowulf
- By: Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation - spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry - makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.
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Great translation, weak reading
- By Tad Davis on 10-24-17
By: Stephen Mitchell
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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 Epic of Gilgamesh relates 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. Gilgamesh was first inscribed in cuneiform writing on clay tablets by an unknown author during the Sumerian era and has been described as one of the greatest works of literature in the recounting of mankind's unending quest for immortality.
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Poetic translation of an epic story
- By K on 07-12-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: Sebastian Lockwood - adaptation
- Narrated by: Sebastian Lockwood
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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A new version of The Epic of Gilgamesh by Sebastian Lockwood. This is the story of Gilgamesh, King of Kings, who brought back knowledge from before the flood - who loved and lost his companion Enkidu and had to find out why we die. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets over 4,000 years ago, in what is today Baghdad Iraq - the Biblical Garden of Eden between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Lockwood gives a passionate reading from a text that faithfully follows the original.
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Captain Kirk reads Gilgamesh?
- By TAGSfan on 10-07-13
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: Stephen Langdon
- Narrated by: Victor Craig
- Length: 23 mins
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetry describes the ancient King Gilgamesh and his journey to discover the secret to eternal life.
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Not even if it's free
- By kyle whitt on 02-24-23
By: Stephen Langdon
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Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: anonymous, Valentin Rey - translator
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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Dive into the epic adventure of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," a journey through time that takes you back to the origins of literature with one of the oldest stories ever told.
By: anonymous, and others
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Beowulf
- By: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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New York Times best seller and Whitebread Book of the Year, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
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Why, oh, why is it abridged?
- By Tad Davis on 09-25-08
By: Seamus Heaney
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Beowulf
- By: Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation - spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry - makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.
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Great translation, weak reading
- By Tad Davis on 10-24-17
By: Stephen Mitchell
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Enuma Elish
- By: L.W. King
- Narrated by: Teagan McKenzie
- Length: 36 mins
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Enuma Elish is the Mesopotamian epic of creation, translated by Leonard William King. The Enuma Elish is the earliest written creation myth, in which the god Marduk battles the goddess of chaos and her evil minions.
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This was AWFUL!
- By D. Beliveau on 04-30-19
By: L.W. King
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Beowulf
- By: Seamus Heaney - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.
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Almost perfect
- By Tad Davis on 01-28-13
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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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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WOW
- By Mitchell Drimmer on 02-25-15
By: Peter Ackroyd
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The Buried Book
- The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
- By: David Damrosch
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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One day in 1872, self-taught Assyriologist George Smith was sifting through a pile of clay tablets when he realized he was reading about "a flood, storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land". This is the riveting story of the discovery of the world's first literary epic, the "Epic of Gilgamesh".
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interesting- but not for everyone
- By J Michael on 07-16-08
By: David Damrosch
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Inanna
- Sumerians Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Emily H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness. But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she soon realizes she has been placed in terrible danger.
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Great retelling of the myth, bad narrator
- By Ayombe on 06-03-24
By: Emily H. Wilson
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Gilgamesh: The Mesopotamian Hero of an Epic Poem Written in Akkadian
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 37 mins
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Perhaps you have heard about Gilgamesh, or perhaps you know what he was but would like to know more about him. Gilgamesh was an age-old Mesopotamian hero and the lead character of the Impressive of Gilgamesh, a legendary poem written in Akkadian throughout the late 2nd millennium BC. He could have been a posthumously deified historic emperor of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk. Gilgamesh's famous deeds are stated in five Sumerian poems that have endured.
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Noah Primeval
- Chronicles of the Nephilim (Volume 1)
- By: Brian Godawa
- Narrated by: Brian Godawa
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Noah Primeval is a speculative retelling of the beloved story of Noah for a new generation. In an ancient world submerged in darkness, fallen angels rule as gods, and breed giants and monsters. Mankind is enslaved to evil. Noah, a tribal leader, has been prophesied to bring an end to the rule of these "gods" and save humanity from coming destruction. But Noah's wife and son are captives of these dark forces.
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Does Noah really get on the ark?
- By BDubs on 01-13-18
By: Brian Godawa
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Bhagavad Gita
- A New Translation
- By: Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Stephen Mitchell brings to life his acclaimed translation of these most famous and revered Hindu scriptures - the timeless story of the paths of knowledge, devotion, action, and meditation.
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I am Review, shatterer of words
- By Darwin8u on 05-04-19
By: Stephen Mitchell
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Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time
- By: Krishna Dharma
- Narrated by: Sarvabhavana Das
- Length: 45 hrs and 35 mins
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Said to be the world's longest poem, Mahabharata was originally composed in 100,000 Sanskrit verses by the ancient Indian sage Vyasa. Revered as a sacred text within Hinduism, it contains the great spiritual teaching Bhagavad-gita. Krishna Dharma has condensed the epic into a fast paced novel that fully retains the majestic mood of the original. A powerful and moving tale, it recounts the history of the five heroic Pandava brothers, sons of the Emperor Pandu.
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Narrator's constant mispronunciations ruined it...
- By GrayDharma on 11-23-15
By: Krishna Dharma
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The Book of Job
- By: Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Perhaps no other Biblical tale penetrates so deeply into the everyday travails of the common person as The Book of Job. It tells the story of a righteous man beset by torment and misfortune through no fault of his own. This parable of bad things happening to a good person addresses the eternal question of why we are here, and why we suffer. This translation is by Stephen Mitchell.
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Phenominal !!!
- By Kirill on 08-10-04
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Leo Tolstoy is quite simply one of the greatest writers to ever set pen to paper. Immortalized by such epic novels as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's genius was also readily apparent in his short fiction. The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the unremarkable title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous" life, until he is lying on his death bed.
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Some Things are Better on the Page
- By Roy on 04-12-09
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Gilgamesh the King
- By: Robert Silverberg
- Narrated by: William Coon
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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What if we discovered that one of history's greatest heroes had written his life story? That's the premise behind Robert Silverberg's amazing novel Gilgamesh the King. The journey begins when six-year-old Gilgamesh's father dies. As he grows to manhood and eventually ascends to the throne, he faces many challenges along the way: political intrigue, war, the burden of leadership. But none are as difficult as his intense internal struggles against loneliness and his own mortality.
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Mary Renault is better
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-10-11
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- David Wahl
- 06-27-18
Wonderful!
This was the best audio version of Gilgamesh I’ve ever heard. And the Epic of Gilgamesh is ...well..epic!
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- Trinh Nguyen
- 04-29-20
Excellent and mega interesting!
After the whim to look up this great hero, I had come upon this highly rated volume. No regrets at all! The presentation and essay really made the whole thing come together. Although, if a section or additional historical references, the read would've been even better! Overall, the reader was engaging and the overall work is solid! Check it out 😁
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- Dr Purple
- 09-24-17
Wow! Amazingly. Ineffable
Treat yourself. Love love love love love love love the book. Outstanding narration. I would love Mitchell 's Tao Te Ching read by this narrator. Next to Mitchell's Tao books, this is next favorite. Mitchell and his wife have greatly improved my life. Thank you.
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- gimppowell
- 12-23-15
awesome
I read the older version I like this one it's up to date and translated better.
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- Johnsmo
- 03-31-19
Interesting Translation!
Much easier to read and understand than others I've seen. Overall enjoyable. He skips much of the repetition that plagues the original. This makes it so much better for modern readers.
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- Lars1y
- 02-09-11
Quite Good
Quite good just wish that in the commentary at the end that the author would make up his mind to be atheistic, pluralistic, or monotheistic. The story itself is quite fascinating.
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- Nebolsky
- 11-07-18
Actual "Noah" story 1000 yrs older than bible
This is a scholarly exposition of a collection of stories engraved in cuneiform over 3000 years ago around what us today Mosul, beginning with the actual story, translated into English and adapted for rhythm and language. Fascinating for that alone...I found Stephen Mitchell's analysis that followed increased my enjoyment and understanding of the story 100-fold. As I heard the story (with not a THOUGHT as to its source), I was annoyed by the childish motivations and repetition, explicit sexual references, shocked by the literal copying of the Noah story, several analogues to hero friend warrior cycles (Genghis Khan, Alexander, Pharoahs, Trump...). Then after...to find that it pre-dated ALL of those tales by 1000 to 3000 years--!! Mind blown. The stone tablets were found over time, but it took a travelling Victorian scholar to translate the cuneiform and present the information to the "modern" world. The work was verified by multiple scholars and disciplines and cultures over the past century. It is far more than a glimpse into the incredible advancement of humankind (descriptions of the buildings and gardens and markets of 3000 years ago) but also their thinking (oral tradition being scarce) (eg invocation of assistance from God against rulers not treating their people well)
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- Shawn B.
- 04-20-22
Missing parts of the story
For the length of the audiobook I thought it would have a lot more of the episodes. Instead the audiobook told the same story twice and added a view point of the researcher plus added some social views that weren't necessary or added to the story in any way.
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- Sara Hill Lavelle
- 04-03-19
Mind stretching
This retelling is stimulating to the imagination and informative concern get the times of its origination I highly recommend it.
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- Maria C Ehlers
- 06-18-17
Enjoyed the story and the essay
I really enjoyed the essay afterward. It's optional, but like taking a mini college class. I have never heard the Gilgamesh story before.
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