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The Owl and the Nightingale
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- Narrado por: Simon Armitage
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Simon Armitage narrates a complete verse translation of this spirited and humorous medieval English poem
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Honesty is the best policy. Beware a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Look before you leap. A bird in the hand. These and countless other everyday expressions originated centuries ago with Aesop, the slave and storyteller of ancient Greece. With humor, irony, and commonsense philosophy, Aesop’s Fables illuminates the follies, frailties, and resilience of humankind to this day.
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Dirt cheap and worth every penny
- De Hannes Vogel en 06-17-21
De: Aesop
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Macbeth
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Stephen Dillane, Fiona Shaw, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.
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Fire burn and cauldron bubble - an excellent stew
- De Marius en 04-06-04
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Lear
- The Great Image of Authority
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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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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Bloom being Bloom
- De C. Yuen en 10-05-23
De: Harold Bloom
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
- De: Emily Dickinson
- Narrado por: Marianne Fraulo
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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Poems by Emily Dickinson is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time, and Eternity.
The notoriously reclusive New England poet broke all the rules of Victorian-era poetry to create a new, uniquely American style. Despite the fact that the majority of the poems recited here were never published in her lifetime, Dickinson remains one of the most influential voices in American literature.
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Good reading of a gifted poet
- De portlyfox en 09-03-12
De: Emily Dickinson
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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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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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Bad Dialogue
- De Zoe Olvera en 08-12-18
De: Sophocles
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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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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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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
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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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wonderful listen very relevant today!
- De Johnny en 12-02-17
De: Jack London
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The Complete Collection of Emily Dickinson's Poems
- De: Emily Dickinson
- Narrado por: Elaine Sepani
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a reclusive poet whose only friendships were carried out in correspondence. Despite writing almost 1800 poems in her life, very few were published until after her death. Here, the poems are presented in chronological order in their original form, unaltered by editorial revision, in one volume. It offers a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the clunky rhyme schemes of her youth, through valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings of her last years.
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It’s not Emily Dickinson’s Fault
- De Mary Beth Hammond en 04-04-21
De: Emily Dickinson
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Medea
- De: Euripides
- Narrado por: Jonathan Waters
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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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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Great Narrator makes this story work
- De cosmitron en 08-02-18
De: Euripides
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Falstaff
- Give Me Life
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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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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Falstaff brooks no rebuttal.
- De Darwin8u en 02-06-20
De: Harold Bloom
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- 04-07-23
Well Done
Sir Gawain & the Green knight and The death of Arthur were great too. Love armitages' work.
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