Bestsellers
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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- Written by: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance201
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Story200
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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Skip the intro, go straight to the book. Come back
- By SlanderousHog on 2019-12-19
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Troy
- The Greek Myths Reimagined
- Written by: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall367
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Performance309
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Story307
In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War. Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story...
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Thank you with all of my heart Stephen!
- By Ogopogo on 2021-11-24
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance61
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Story62
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth...
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What can you say about "The Odyssey"...
- By Troy Dimock on 2018-09-18
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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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Overall197
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Performance174
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Story174
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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I mean... I got through it
- By Andrew Jones on 2020-06-19
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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The Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
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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Lol to the guy who didn't understand that the poem comes after the introduction and wants to hear it as "written"...
- By Dr. Devine on 2023-12-18
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The Odyssey
- Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 2
- Written by: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance201
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Story200
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
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Skip the intro, go straight to the book. Come back
- By SlanderousHog on 2019-12-19
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Troy
- The Greek Myths Reimagined
- Written by: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall367
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Performance309
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Story307
In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War. Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story...
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Thank you with all of my heart Stephen!
- By Ogopogo on 2021-11-24
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance61
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Story62
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth...
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What can you say about "The Odyssey"...
- By Troy Dimock on 2018-09-18
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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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Overall197
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Performance174
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Story174
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....
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I mean... I got through it
- By Andrew Jones on 2020-06-19
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick - translator
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...
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The Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
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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Lol to the guy who didn't understand that the poem comes after the introduction and wants to hear it as "written"...
- By Dr. Devine on 2023-12-18
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Death of a Salesman
- Written by: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Jane Kaczmarek, Steven Culp, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall7
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Performance4
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Story4
Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in this 1949 masterpiece by Arthur Miller, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream....
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A must listen, simply captivating
- By Austin Visser on 2022-11-29
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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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Overall35
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Performance30
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Story30
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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Very Well Done
- By Hmackdad on 2019-01-10
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150 Most Famous Poems
- Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and many more
- Written by: Poetry House
- Narrated by: Samuel Casey
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
"150 Most Famous Poems: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and Many More" is a timeless anthology that brings together some of the most celebrated and influential poems in the English language.
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- Written by: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall136
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Performance118
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Story118
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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Excellent translation.
- By Iain Hutchinson on 2019-02-25
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Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Stanley Lombardo - translator
- Narrated by: Stanley Lombardo, Susan Sarandon - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
The first of Homer's great epic poems, the Iliad portrays the final days of the Trojan war....
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Excellent piece for any kind of journeying
- By James on 2022-09-15
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The Iliad
- A New Translation by Caroline Alexander
- Written by: Homer, Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Dominic Keating
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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Story30
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or...
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beautiful story, beautifully orated
- By Nate on 2020-11-13
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Metamorphoses
- Written by: Ovid
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
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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The Aeneid
- Written by: Virgil, Robert Fagles - translator, Bernard Knox - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance18
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Story17
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him...
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No proper chapters
- By Graham Nickel on 2024-09-16
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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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Overall85
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Performance75
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Story75
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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Made the Iliad easy to understand
- By Goodlad on 2019-09-13
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The Iliad
- Written by: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator, Bernard Knox - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing Notes on the...
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The Aeneid
- Written by: Scott McGill - translator, Susannah Wright - translator, Emily Wilson - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Emily Wilson
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Rome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- Written by: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance8
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Story8
"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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audio difficult to understand clearly
- By Anonymous on 2025-09-10
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The Iliad
- The Fitzgerald Translation
- Written by: Robert Fitzgerald - translator, Homer
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance36
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Story36
Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its...
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Delightful
- By JeanClur on 2019-03-27
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Twelfth Night
- Arkangel Shakespeare
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Niamh Cusack, Jonathan Firth, Amanda Root, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
Shakespeare's most sophisticated comedy is a riotous tale of hopelessly unrequited passions and mistaken identity....
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25+ the Big Book of Ancient Classics
- The Odyssey by Homer, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the Republic by Plato, Poetics by Aristotle and Others
- Written by: Aristotle, Aeschylus, Marcus Aurelius, and others
- Narrated by: Stacey M. Patterson, Peter Coates, Mark Bowen, and others
- Length: 60 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
We live in an era rife with cultural conflict. The 21st century is by no means free of wars, terrorism, riots, famine, nor epidemics. We may attempt to solve...
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Faust: Parts I & II
- Written by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Goethe’s two-part dramatic work, Faust, based on a traditional theme, and finally completed in 1831, is an exploration of that restless intellectual and emotional urge which found its fullest expression in the European Romantic movement....
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Written by: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance64
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Story61
Meditations is former U.S. President Bill Clinton's favorite book. This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 AD, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....
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Get the book with a different narrator
- By Alejandro Gonzalez on 2019-03-04
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Celtic Mythology
- Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes
- Written by: Philip Freeman
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance39
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Story39
In this book, for the first time, Philip Freeman brings together the best stories of Celtic mythology....
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Too many cut Corners
- By Ruadraiodoir on 2023-05-04
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The Odyssey
- Written by: Homer, Daniel Mendelsohn - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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A landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering, Volume 3 of 3
- A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem
- Written by: Rebecca K. Reynolds
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Many have attempted to read Spenser’s original masterpiece only to retreat. Classical educator Rebecca K. Reynolds bridges this gap, crafting a prose adaptation that gradually introduces more of Spenser’s distinctive vocabulary and diction.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Written by: Simon Armitage
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story19
The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition....
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great story
- By A on 2021-10-18
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Oedipus the King
- Written by: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference....
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How to Win an Election
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- Written by: Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines....
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Plato's Apology
- Written by: Plato
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance16
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Story16
Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense....
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knowledge and wisdom.
- By hekmat on 2018-08-08