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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...
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It doesn’t tell you what any of the poems are.
- By Edwin Hasler on 02-04-24
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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Ilíada [The Iliad]
- Ilíada y Odisea 1
- By: Homero, Fernando Gutiérrez - translator
- Narrated by: Pedro Casablanc, Elsa Veiga
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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La Ilíada es el poema más antiguo de la literatura occidental y está considerada como una de las grandes obras de nuestra tradición. Esta epopeya griega, que, como la Odisea, ha sido atribuida a Homero, es un canto al glorioso y trágico desenlace de la guerra de Troya. En la Antigüedad se consideraba que este poema se basaba en la historia real y que los personajes que aparecían en él eran un modelo de comportamiento y heroísmo.
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Ilíada [The Iliad]
- Ilíada y Odisea 1
- Narrated by: Pedro Casablanc, Elsa Veiga
- Series: Ilíada & Odisea [Iliad & Odyssey], Book 2
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: Spanish
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The Seagull
- By: Anton Chekhov, Christopher Hampton - translator
- Narrated by: Calista Flockhart, T. R. Knight, Stephen Collins, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is considered one of his most haunting and atmospheric character studies. A would-be playwright is at war with his egoistic mother while the town has become intoxicated by a sensational author. And as the alluring newcomer steals away Kosta’s only love, their new romance could have devastating consequences.
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I thought it to be a little disappointing
- By Roy Harding young and hansom on 14-09-25
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The Seagull
- Narrated by: Calista Flockhart, T. R. Knight, Stephen Collins, Gordon Clapp, Logan Fahey, Dakin Matthews, Bess Rous
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-02-14
- Language: English
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La Divina Commedia
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Se è vero, come dice Borges, che la Divina Commedia è il dono più grande che la letteratura possa offrire a ciascun lettore, è altrettanto vero che l'ascolto di una interpretazione ad alta voce di questo capolavoro può trasformarsi in una esperienza unica, un'occasione preziosa per scoprire emozioni e sentimenti racchiusi in un capolavoro che è ormai al di fuori di qualsiasi epoca.
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La Divina Commedia
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-09-19
- Language: Italian
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Plato's Apology
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the most powerful and important people in the Greek world. The reason is that rich and famous politicians, priests, poets, and a host of others pretend to know what is good, true, holy, and beautiful, but when Socrates questions them, they are shown to be foolish rather than wise.
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Love it. What translation are you using?
- By Benjamin Milton on 20-02-23
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Plato's Apology
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 01-04-16
- Language: English
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- By: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." --...
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the the pilgrim Dante’s travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or cantiche, is one example of the number three as a theme throughout the work. Each book consists of 33 cantos, which—added to an introductory canto—totals 100. Each cantica follows a pattern of nine phases plus one for a total of ten: nine circles of hell plus Lucifer, nine rings of Mount Purgatory plus the garden of Eden, nine celestial bodies of Paradise followed by the Empyrean essence of God.
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Abysmal
- By Reviewer on 05-03-26
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The Divine Comedy
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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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. It is a masterpiece whose story was well known to the audiences of the time. Virgil and other later poets were greatly influenced by it. Its author, Apollonius, was a well-known third century BC scholar living in Alexandria during the great age of Ptolomaic scholarship, and his bold attempt at writing a Homeric epic about Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece faced a daunting audience of knowledgeable contemporaries.
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The Argonautica
- Jason and the Golden Fleece
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-03-18
- Language: English
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Vis and Ramin
- By: Fakhraddin Gorgani, Dick Davis - translator
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah Agliotta, Dick Davis (introduction)
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Vis and Ramin is one of the world's great love stories. It was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets. This remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis. Vis and Ramin had immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also the source for the tale of Tristan and Isolde, which first appeared in Europe about a century later.
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Vis and Ramin
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah Agliotta, Dick Davis (introduction)
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-09-13
- Language: English
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The Oresteia (Unabridged)
- By: Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky - adaptation from translation, Ian Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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In The Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War, only to be treacherously slain by his own wife. It ends with the trial of their son, Orestes, who slew his mother to avenge her treachery - a trial with the goddess Athena as judge, the god Apollo as defense attorney, and, as prosecutors, relentless avenging demons called The Furies.
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Paves the way to the text
- By Amin Amouhadi on 23-12-12
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The Oresteia (Unabridged)
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-04-07
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
- New Verse Translation
- By: Naxos AudioBooks, Benedict Flynn - translator
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers the knight - but at what cost? This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original's extraordinary alliteration. One of the greatest stories of English literature from any period, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a magical, medieval combination of the epic and the uncanny.
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Magnificent!
- By Enobarbus on 27-02-20
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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
- New Verse Translation
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 29-01-08
- Language: English
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The Art of Love
- By: Ovid, Rolfe Humphries - translator
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique.
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Good translation weird voice
- By Rebekah on 26-07-20
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The Art of Love
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-11-13
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald."
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Leaves of Grass
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-07-10
- Language: English
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William Blake
- Selected Poems
- By: William Blake
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance38
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At the end of his life, William Blake (1757-1827) gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought to his work a new and intense interest and acclaim.
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a shame
- By Mr. Rupert A. Oldham on 28-03-22
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William Blake
- Selected Poems
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 21-03-06
- Language: English
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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, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Wonderful
- By Amazon Customer on 08-01-17
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Metamorphoses
- Narrated by: Barry Kraft
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-11-08
- Language: English
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- By: Dick Davis, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and others
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable...
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A must for anyone with an interest in Persian culture
- By Harriet on 17-01-23
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Faces of Love
- Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Tala Ashe, Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Pure Water
- Poetry of Rumi
- By: Coleman Barks
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks, Eugene Friesen (cello)
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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A 2009 Nautilus Gold Award Winner, Pure Water is Coleman Barks’ inspired live performance of the poetry of Jellaludin Rumi (1207-1273) - with Sufi stories and jokes, accompanied with music by Bach, O’Carolan, Friesen and others. The performance captured in this recording recalls the essence of the communal celebrations of poetry, stories, jokes, prayer, and music in which Rumi’s work was first uttered, but presents it in a distinctive contemporary setting. Coleman’s words combine with the cello of Grammy Award-winner Eugene Friesen.
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Pure Water
- Poetry of Rumi
- Narrated by: Coleman Barks, Eugene Friesen (cello)
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-06-13
- Language: English
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A Thing of Beauty
- By: Peter Fiennes
- Narrated by: Peter Fiennes
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what's to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled?
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very desciptive
- By sally moult on 16-09-24
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A Thing of Beauty
- Narrated by: Peter Fiennes
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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Henry IV (Part One)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Harry Andrews, not specified
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597 PERFORMED BY HARRY ANDREWS AND CAST Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's...
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Henry IV part 1 AND PART 2 !!!!!
- By FRANCIS on 17-08-11
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Henry IV (Part One)
- Narrated by: Harry Andrews, not specified
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-02-11
- Language: English
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-10-99
- Language: English
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