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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An epic will always be an epic!
- By JohnS on 2019-06-02
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- Written by: John Milton
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language....
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great narrator
- By Alejandro Gonzalez on 2019-06-22
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The Divine Comedy
- Written by: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator)
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
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....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the Original book !
- By Anonymous User on 2019-04-18
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The Odyssey
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dan Stevens does it again!
- By JeanClaire on 2019-04-08
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reading & Story - good. Recording quality-lacking.
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-28
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An epic will always be an epic!
- By JohnS on 2019-06-02
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- Written by: John Milton
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language....
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Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great narrator
- By Alejandro Gonzalez on 2019-06-22
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The Divine Comedy
- Written by: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator)
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
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....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the Original book !
- By Anonymous User on 2019-04-18
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The Odyssey
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dan Stevens does it again!
- By JeanClaire on 2019-04-08
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reading & Story - good. Recording quality-lacking.
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-28
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The Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
The great legacy of The Iliad is its shattering revelation of what it means to be human in the face of life's uncertainty and fleeting mortality....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Well Done
- By Hmackdad on 2019-01-10
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The Iliad & the Odyssey
- Written by: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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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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Inferno: From The Divine Comedy
- Written by: Dante Alighieri, Benedict Flynn (translator)
- Narrated by: Heathcote Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
"Abandon all hope you who enter here." Dante’s Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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worth the hype
- By hussam on 2018-03-06
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Poetry of Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the Road Not Taken and Many Others
- Written by: Robert Frost
- Narrated by: Carol Mintz
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Enjoy this amazing narration of Robert Frost's poetry, including his most famous poems....
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Beowulf
- Written by: Seamus Heaney (translator)
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Written a thousand years ago, this long poem is the very first surviving piece of English literature....
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- Written by: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....
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Beowulf
- Written by: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf was intended to be heard not read....
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The Aeneid
- Written by: Virgil
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The Aeneid represents one of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of Western Civilization....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Read, Clear translation
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-10-10
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Vis and Ramin
- Written 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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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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....
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The Metamorphoses
- Written by: Ovid
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Tale as Old as Time
- By Melissa on 2019-03-04
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Voices of Poetry - Volume 1
- Written by: J. R. R. Tolkien, e. e. Cummings, Archibald Macleish, and others
- Narrated by: J. R. R. Tolkien, e. e. Cummings, Archibald Macleish, and others
- Length: 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Hear rare recording from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works....
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The Iliad
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fitzgerald - translator
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Since it was first published more than 25 years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- By JeanClaire on 2019-03-27
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The Kalevala
- Written by: Elias Lönnrot, Keith Bosley (translator)
- Narrated by: Keith Bosley
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The Kalevala provides a compelling insight into the myths and folklore of Finland....
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, A. T. Murray - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
The Odyssey is the greatest adventure story ever written, and one of the great epic masterpieces of Western literature....
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Endymion
- Written by: John Keats
- Narrated by: Eva Davis, Mark Crowle-Groves, Peter Tucker, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. It was published in April 1818, and the critical reception was almost universally hostile....
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The Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's abridged!
- By Anonymous User on 2020-02-22
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Paradise Lost
- Written by: John Milton
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 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...
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- Written by: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
- Written by: Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
- Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
You learn how drama makes visible the conflicts and wars of culture in ways other forms cannot manage....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent course
- By JohnS on 2019-11-30
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of...
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The Divine Comedy
- Written by: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The Divine Comedy is Dante's record of his visionary journey through the triple realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise....
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Paradise Lost
- Written by: John Milton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....
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The Iliad of Homer
- Written by: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made the Iliad easy to understand
- By Goodlad on 2019-09-13
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My Life and Love Are One: Quotations From the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother Theo
- Written by: Vincent Van Gogh
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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This insightful look into one of mankind's favorite artists traces the magic and melancholy of Vincent Van Gogh. Out of Vincent's letters to his brother Theo, as collected by Irving Stone, we have selected an exciting and sensitive series of quotations.....
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The Aeneid
- Written by: Virgil
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
With this stunning modern verse translation, Robert Fagles reintroduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation....
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The Aeneid
- Written by: Virgil
- Narrated by: David Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno....
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The Prophet (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Written by: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Before he sets sail, a beloved prophet is asked by his followers to impart his truth. In these twenty-eight poetic essays, he offers profound inspiration on such matters of love and friendship, freedom and self-knowledge, joy and sorrow....
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Idylls of the King
- Written by: Alfred Tennyson
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
The Arthurian legend of Camelot has been told many times, but never better than by Alfred Tennyson. It employs some of the most stirring and beautiful blank verse ever written....
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The Odyssey of Homer
- Written by: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
These lectures are an invaluable resource and a helpful introduction to the grandest adventure story in Western literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accessible
- By Kindle Customer on 2019-01-14
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The Inferno of Dante: Translated by Robert Pinsky
- Written by: Dante Aligheri, Robert Pinsky (translator)
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Dramatic, intense, and gripping, The Inferno of Dante is an astonishing masterpiece that no listener can afford to miss....