Voskresenie: Moscow Art Theatre Audioplay

The Odyssey

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)
• Narrated By Ian McKellen
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Divine Comedy

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator)
• Narrated By Charlton Griffin
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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. It consists of 100 cantos, and (after an introductory canto) they are divided into three sections. Each section is 33 cantos in length, and they describe how Dante and a guide travel through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

The Crucible (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Arthur Miller
• Narrated By Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley, and others

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In the ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor, The Crucible mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s.

Oedipus the King (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 46 mins)
• By Sophocles
• Narrated By Full Cast

In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny, unknowingly murdering his father and marrying his mother.

A Way with Words IV: Understanding Poetry

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Michael D. C. Drout
• Narrated By Michael Drout

In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future. Addressing such poetic luminaries as Milton,Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, these lectures explain in simple terms what poetry is while following its development through the centuries.