Bestsellers
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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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Great Work of Scholarship Accessible to All
- By KY-Barbara on 10-05-23
By: Homer, and others
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Troy
- The Greek Myths Reimagined
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....
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Thank the gods
- By Stefan Filipovits on 06-22-21
By: Stephen Fry
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The Inferno
- By: Dante, Robert Hollander - translator, Jean Hollander - translator
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers and listeners for 700 years and has entered the human imagination....
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Into Hell
- By Adam on 10-25-19
By: Dante, and others
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War....
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Abridged
- By Amazon Customer on 10-15-18
By: Homer, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A Painless Crash Course in the Great Western Poets
- By Brazilgirl on 10-27-14
By: John Lithgow
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Solid, read with gusto
- By Tad Davis on 11-15-20
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, 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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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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Great Work of Scholarship Accessible to All
- By KY-Barbara on 10-05-23
By: Homer, and others
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Troy
- The Greek Myths Reimagined
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....
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Thank the gods
- By Stefan Filipovits on 06-22-21
By: Stephen Fry
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The Inferno
- By: Dante, Robert Hollander - translator, Jean Hollander - translator
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers and listeners for 700 years and has entered the human imagination....
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Into Hell
- By Adam on 10-25-19
By: Dante, and others
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War....
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Abridged
- By Amazon Customer on 10-15-18
By: Homer, and others
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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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A Painless Crash Course in the Great Western Poets
- By Brazilgirl on 10-27-14
By: John Lithgow
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Solid, read with gusto
- By Tad Davis on 11-15-20
By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Very jarring voices
- By Harry Ballan on 03-12-24
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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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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Worth the price, worth the time
- By Sam on 12-31-04
By: Homer
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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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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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Poetic translation of an epic story
- By K on 07-12-15
By: Gerald J. Davis
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A revelation
- By Michael Cain on 05-24-20
By: Ovid, and others
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Transcendentalism
- Walden, Self-Reliance, Leaves of Grass, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking and Nature: Exemplary Collection of Essays and Poems
- By: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and others
- Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato
- Length: 21 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Transcendentalism embodies the concept that people have a deeper and more profound understanding of the world around them than simply by what they can glimpse with their senses....
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The power of the mind
- By Rachel A. on 10-20-22
By: Henry David Thoreau, and others
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The Iliad & the Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Iliad. Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and...
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narrator lacks intrigue
- By Amazon Customer on 10-04-19
By: Homer
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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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Subtle voice changes help with understanding
- By Danielle Alysse on 02-07-21
By: John Milton, and others
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La Divina Comedia
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Artur Mas
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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AMA Audiolibros presenta la Narración del Audiolibro en Español (acento Castellano) de "La Divina Comedia" de Dante Alighieri en la voz de...
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Libro difícil. Solo para iniciados o muy curiosos.
- By Juan Cano-Arribi Company on 12-23-20
By: Dante Alighieri
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Metamorphoses
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: Barry Kraft
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation....
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Plagued by flaw in audio-book format
- By Amazon Customer on 10-14-08
By: Ovid
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The Knight's Tale
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Great recording
- By Kotzer on 06-25-19
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
- The Argonautica
- By: Apollonius of Rhodes, R. C. Seaton - translator, Nicolas Soames - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles....
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Varied but unemotional
- By Tad Davis on 04-25-19
By: Apollonius of Rhodes, and others
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The Odyssey (Dramatized)
- By: Homer, Simon Armitage - dramatisation
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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In a 20-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets, and ghosts....
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Excellent, but not an exam reference!
- By Joel D Offenberg on 12-27-09
By: Homer, and others
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Rumi's Little Book of Life
- The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
- By: Rumi, Maryam Mafi - translator, Azima Melita Kolin - translator
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere who want a guidebook for their inner journey....
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Such eloquence and beauty I have no words. My soul is filled with unspeakable love and joy. My heart is full
- By amby on 12-11-22
By: Rumi, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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No Homer, translation a bit archaic
- By Jacob Quinn on 05-19-18
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La Divina Comedia [The Divine Comedy]
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Carlos Celestre
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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En este poema alegórico Dante Alighieri muestra un proceso de perfección para alcanzar la felicidad humana y divina. La obra consta de tres partes: Infierno, Purgatorio y Paraíso....
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incompleto
- By Cliente de Kindle on 05-02-18
By: Dante Alighieri
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Beowulf
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Beowulf lives again!
- By Andrew on 02-13-12
By: Anonymous
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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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Confusing arrangement ruins it
- By R.B. on 03-26-21
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The Iliad
- The Story of Achilles
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story....
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A good translation and narrator.
- By J.C. on 11-03-03
By: Homer
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The Rubaiyat
- By: Omar Khayyam
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 28 mins
- Unabridged
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While there is much debate about Omar Khayyam’s philosophical outlook (is his message Sufi-oriented or existentially hedonistic?), there is no doubting its beauty and its profundity of thought....
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A Masterpiece
- By S. E. Doss on 02-15-23
By: Omar Khayyam
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Poésie classique. Verlaine, Baudelaire, Valéry, Villon, Nerval
- By: Paul Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Charles Baudelaire, and others
- Narrated by: Jean Vilar, Jean Desailly, François Perier, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Gérard Labrunie dit Gérard de Nerval, est né le 22 mai 1808, à Paris. Il décida d'y terminer volontairement ses jours et on le retrouva pendu...
By: Paul Verlaine, and others
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The Iliad
- A New Translation by Caroline Alexander
- By: Homer, Caroline Alexander - translator
- Narrated by: Dominic Keating
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander's new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source....
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Forceful
- By Tad Davis on 04-22-16
By: Homer, and others
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The Lay of the Nibelungs
- By: Alice Horton - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Another Fabulous Grab Bag
- By John on 02-03-20
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Spiritual Verses
- By: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time....
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Not actually unabridged
- By A. Windsor on 09-23-12
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Metamorphoses
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective....
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Wonderful New Translation!
- By JW on 12-06-22
By: Ovid
New releases
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The Popol Vuh
- Seedbank
- By: Michael Bazzett
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity. This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, “the book of the woven mat,” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas.
By: Michael Bazzett
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Paradiso
- Divine Comedy, Book Three
- By: Dante Alighieri, Joe Carlson
- Narrated by: Joe Carlson
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Paradiso gives our imagination a hint of the beauty to come, by uncovering the deepest reality of the life we are living now. God is the same, eternity past to eternity future; He is the same God today. The great crescendo that is His beauty, dance, song, joy, holiness, and glory we hear but dimly, as from a distance land; but it undergirds and gives meaning to everything we know and experience.
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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The Madness of Hercules
- By: Lucius Seneca
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The Madness of Hercules is a tragedy by the Stoic philosopher Seneca. This Latin play has been translated into readable prose for a 21st century audience.
By: Lucius Seneca
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Völsunga Saga
- By: Eiríkr Magnússon
- Narrated by: Corbang
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century poetic rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and the destruction of the Burgundians). It is one of the most famous legendary sagas and an example of a "heroic saga" that deals with Germanic heroic legend. The saga covers topics including the quarrel between Sigi and Skaði, a huge family tree of great kings and powerful conquerors and the quest led by Sigmund and Sinfjǫtli to save princess Signý from the evil king Siggeir.
By: Eiríkr Magnússon
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.
By: John Milton
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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. The images and action that bring you down into the very center of judgment and consequence, into that eternal realm of woe, will stick to the ribcages of your mind, and change the way you see the world, the devil, and your own flesh.
By: Dante Alighieri
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The Popol Vuh
- Seedbank
- By: Michael Bazzett
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity. This is the story of the Mayan Popol Vuh, “the book of the woven mat,” one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas.
By: Michael Bazzett
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Paradiso
- Divine Comedy, Book Three
- By: Dante Alighieri, Joe Carlson
- Narrated by: Joe Carlson
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Paradiso gives our imagination a hint of the beauty to come, by uncovering the deepest reality of the life we are living now. God is the same, eternity past to eternity future; He is the same God today. The great crescendo that is His beauty, dance, song, joy, holiness, and glory we hear but dimly, as from a distance land; but it undergirds and gives meaning to everything we know and experience.
By: Dante Alighieri, and others
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The Madness of Hercules
- By: Lucius Seneca
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The Madness of Hercules is a tragedy by the Stoic philosopher Seneca. This Latin play has been translated into readable prose for a 21st century audience.
By: Lucius Seneca
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Völsunga Saga
- By: Eiríkr Magnússon
- Narrated by: Corbang
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century poetic rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and the destruction of the Burgundians). It is one of the most famous legendary sagas and an example of a "heroic saga" that deals with Germanic heroic legend. The saga covers topics including the quarrel between Sigi and Skaði, a huge family tree of great kings and powerful conquerors and the quest led by Sigmund and Sinfjǫtli to save princess Signý from the evil king Siggeir.
By: Eiríkr Magnússon
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.
By: John Milton
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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. The images and action that bring you down into the very center of judgment and consequence, into that eternal realm of woe, will stick to the ribcages of your mind, and change the way you see the world, the devil, and your own flesh.
By: Dante Alighieri