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Ruth Wilson
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Madeline Miller
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An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in audio for the first time
**Performed by Ruth Wilson and featuring an afterword by Madeline Miller**
In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece—the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen—the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence.
In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost . . . With a spellbinding performance by Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials, The Affair), step back into Madeline Miller's mythic world.
©2022 Madeline Miller (P)2023 HarperCollins PublishersLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- De Michael - Audible Editor en 04-11-18
De: Madeline Miller
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- De: Madeline Miller
- Narrado por: Frazer Douglas
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- De susan en 06-11-14
De: Madeline Miller
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Daughters of Olympus
- A Novel
- De: Hannah Lynn
- Narrado por: Zura Johnson
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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Demeter: a goddess of life, living half of one. Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the humans who inhabited it. After an act of devastating violence, though, she hides herself away among the grasses and wildflowers. Her only solace is her daughter . . . Before she was Persephone, she was Core. Core is as bright as summer and devoted to her mother, even during their millennia in exile from Olympus. But she craves freedom. Naïve and determined, she secretly builds a life of her own—and as she does so, she catches the eye of a powerful god . .
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very cliche
- De Jennifer Rasigade en 07-11-24
De: Hannah Lynn
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A Thousand Ships
- A Novel
- De: Natalie Haynes
- Narrado por: Natalie Haynes
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A new Golden Age
- De Stefan Filipovits en 01-26-21
De: Natalie Haynes
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The Furies
- A Novel
- De: Natalie Haynes
- Narrado por: Zara Ramm
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Formerly an actress, Alex accepts a job teaching drama therapy at a school commonly referred to as "The Unit," a last-chance learning community for teens expelled from other schools in the city. Her students have troubled pasts and difficult personalities, and Alex is an inexperienced teacher, terrified of what she's taken on and drowning in grief. Her most challenging class is an intimidating group of teenagers who have been given up on by everyone before her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen!
- De Dee en 08-19-21
De: Natalie Haynes
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Clytemnestra
- De: Costanza Casati
- Narrado por: Olivia Vinall
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. You play the part, fooling enemies who deny you justice. And slowly, you plot. But when your husband returns in triumph, what then? Acceptance or vengeance—death follows both. So you bide your time and force the gods' hands in a wretched game of vengeance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A killer story for the killer Queen
- De Stefan Filipovits en 05-02-23
De: Costanza Casati
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Elektra
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Saint
- Narrado por: Beth Eyre, Jane Collingwood, Julie Teal
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: No one will ever believe what she sees. When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Fall Of The House Of Atreus
- De Stefan Filipovits en 05-04-22
De: Jennifer Saint
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Divine Might
- Goddesses in Greek Myth
- De: Natalie Haynes
- Narrado por: Natalie Haynes
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.
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Natalie Haynes makes me feel cool about being a Greek mythology nerd.
- De Anna E Campbell en 02-15-24
De: Natalie Haynes
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Psyche and Eros
- A Novel
- De: Luna McNamara
- Narrado por: Rachel Petladwala, Joshua Riley
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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Psyche, princess of Mycenae, was born with a prophecy that she will one day conquer a great monster. Rejecting her royal duties, Psyche spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing for her destiny. Tales of her beauty and rebellious nature reach even the goddess Aphrodite, who decides to teach Psyche a lesson. Aphrodite commands Eros, the god of desire, to deliver a cruel love curse. After eons watching humanity misuse his gifts, the last thing Eros wants is to become involved in the chaos of the mortal world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A lot of inaccuracies and whiny voices
- De Anonymous User en 09-13-23
De: Luna McNamara
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Ariadne
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Saint
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur.
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3 out of 5 stars
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We've been spoiled for choice
- De Stefan Filipovits en 05-04-21
De: Jennifer Saint
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Medea
- A Novel
- De: Eilish Quin
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, Medea has carved out a singularly infamous niche in our histories.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Christine en 08-06-24
De: Eilish Quin
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The Silence of the Girls
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman - Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles' concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Narrator Is A Spoken Word Goddess.
- De Texastential en 12-31-18
De: Pat Barker
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The Shadow of Perseus
- A Novel
- De: Claire Heywood
- Narrado por: Olivia Darnley
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version—his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda—but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Completely new story with only character names
- De Victoria P. en 03-30-24
De: Claire Heywood
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Lilith
- De: Nikki Marmery
- Narrado por: Lara Sawalha
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses—and is banished forever from Paradise. Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah—God's wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven—is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world, and regain her rightful place in Paradise.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gnostic Circe
- De Stefan Filipovits en 01-06-24
De: Nikki Marmery
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Hera
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Saint
- Narrado por: Naomi Frederick
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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When the immortal goddess Hera and her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side. But as they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera begins to see that Zeus is just as ruthless and cruel as the father they betrayed. While Zeus ascends, Hera is relegated to the role of wife and mother, a role she never wanted. She was always born to rule, but must she lose herself in perpetuating this cycle of violence and cruelty? Or can she find a way to forge a better world?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lost potential
- De Faisal Sultan en 08-29-24
De: Jennifer Saint
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Pandora's Jar
- Women in the Greek Myths
- De: Natalie Haynes
- Narrado por: Natalie Haynes
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Golden Age Continues
- De Stefan Filipovits en 03-29-22
De: Natalie Haynes
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The Fates
- De: Rosie Garland
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt, Glen McCready, Rosalind Lailey, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates - three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind for eternity. But immortality is a heavy burden, and Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos are captivated by the gloriously human lives of the mortals below, especially those of the great warrior Atalanta and her ill-fated lover, Meleager. However, being a Goddess of Fate doesn't make you a master of it. Will these three sisters find a way to free the couple, and themselves, from their destinies? Or will they be bound by Fate forever?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Bertie B. en 08-28-24
De: Rosie Garland
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Alcestis
- De: Katharine Beutner
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the underworld in his place. But who was Alcestis before she was married? Other than her love for Admetus, what circumstances led her to make this ultimate sacrifice? And what happened to her in the three days she spent in the underworld?
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2 out of 5 stars
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The intrusion of lesbian sex
- De nkevinsc en 01-03-25
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Galatea
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- Rita
- 11-02-23
YES!!!
I initially wished it was longer, but likely didn’t need any more of the tragic circumstances—but the strength, wracked with such sadness. Powerful! In short—beautifully written and perfectly satisfying.
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- pilar
- 12-18-23
A favorite short story of this year
Madeline Miller is one of my favorite writers. Como siempre, su narración es envolvente y profundamente conectada con las vivencias femeninas. En ella mezcla elementos fantásticos con arquetipos de manera súper inteligente y corona con desenlaces bien armados y que satisfacen la búsqueda de sus personajes. I look forward to reading more from her.
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- catgirl29
- 05-25-24
Beautiful as usual
Madeline Miller’s writing is so beautiful. The words just flow so well and her audiobooks have been narrated by wonderful voices.
The story was interesting and engaging and tragic. It was also entirely too short.
I hope that Ms. Miller is feeling well enough to continue writing and giving us her gorgeous work for a long time into the future.
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- Richard Aungst
- 07-05-24
Good For Her
Short and sweet and badass. A feminist treat. Ruth Wilson narrating was perfect. My heart wishes this was a full book but the fact that it’s short makes sense with the story. I loved every second of it.
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- Bryn Gardener
- 06-16-24
Timeless Tale
The prose is magic and poetic. The story unfolds a timeless tale with a feminist perspective.
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- Barbara F. Hendren
- 04-19-24
Haunting & Excellent!
Loved this short story. The message was very clear. Really enjoy this author and reader.
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- Peter W. Kalnin
- 04-27-24
A Classic Myth Comes to Life
A Classic Myth Comes to Life
A modern day retelling of a classic myth about a statue that comes to life.
Ruth Wilson's narration is excellent.
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- tamarahl
- 11-21-24
Outstanding
Madeline Miller is simply sublime in her writing and the narrator is a perfect fit
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- Lynda Engler
- 04-24-25
Now I remember why I don't read short stories
I love Madeline Miller's work, and will read Circe next, but this one reminds me why I don't read short stories. I needed something to keep me company on a lunchtime walk and didn't want to start anything long, since I'm also reading 3 different books between Kindle and physical. This was less than 45 minutes.
The story was good, and I don't know much about Ancient Greece, but I didn't like the ending (though it made sense).
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- Susan
- 05-26-24
Narrator matched Galatea perfectly
The ending was very satisfying and appropriate. Loved the final image on the bottom of the ocean
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