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The Odyssey is the original hero’s journey, an epic voyage into the unknown, and has inspired other creative work for millennia. With its consummately modern hero, full of guile and wit, always prepared to reinvent himself in order to realize his heart’s desire—to return to his home and family after ten years of war—the Odyssey now speaks to us again across 2,600 years.

Nearly three thousand years after they were composed, The Iliad and The Odyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author. He was certainly an accomplished Greek bard, and he probably lived in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BCE Authorship is traditionally ascribed to a blind poet named Homer, and it is under this name that the works are still published.

Mixing the colorful letters of Franz Liszt with some of his most ecstatic piano music, Odyssey of Love depicts his tempestuous relations with two fascinating women.

When this groundbreaking serialized dramatization premiered on 320 U.S. radio stations, critics were unanimous in their praise. It won numerous honors including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Pulitzer Prize for broadcasting. Never before or since has such an ambitious undertaking been attempted in public radio, and it was accomplished, not by a major network, but by a small nonprofit independent producer in Chicago. That was in 1981. It has been sitting on the shelf ever since.

What Shines with the Dawn is the first book of The Odysseys of Alaythia series. Book One follows the epic adventure of Virginia Singerman. After the murder of her parents, Virginia moves to East Tennessee to live under the custody of her distant uncle in his palatial estate.​ One day, while exploring her new quarters, she finds a diary in an old room that had been locked off for over 100 years. Ignoring the warning that came with the book, she flips through its pages, reading about a teenage girl from the 1800’s named Rose Cohen, who lived in the same ...

Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from... or running towards. Hearthbound is a 10-episode folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way?

#SciFi #SpaceOpera 🚀 #FreeAudiobooksOnYouTube #OrionsOdysseyseries #audiobook🎧 📖 Episode 1, Book 5 of the action and adventure series 📚 Orion's Odyssey 🚀🪐In a galaxy marred by shadows, Captain Jaxon Orion faces a new menace. Echoes, a powerful drug, has lured entire worlds into its grip, promising both power and ruin.On the opulent world of Microxus, beneath its glittering facade, lies a web of interstellar crime. Jaxon and his dedicated crew are drawn into a conspiracy that spans the Milky Way and the Triangulum Galaxy, where deceit and danger are ever-present.As they delve ...

This is a re-write of Jon Roberts Galaxy's Embrace Haremlit series. Join Captain Orion on an interstellar adventure, where alien civilisations reign, magic is real, and gorgeous women are drawn to you like moths to light. 🚀✨Content Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences, 18+, and features scintillating encounters between male and female characters, as well as female-female, male-female-female+ and female-male-female interactions, all set against the backdrop of an epic interstellar journey, not to mention the allure of black holes.

The year is 1983. The threat of war simmers between the Soviet Union and the US. The moon watches the Earth like a slowly blinking eye, and within the black depths of the cosmos... something watches the moon. Cosmonaut Ilia Zakharov (award-winner PETER WICKS) sits in a dark room in the USSR; a broken man with the soul of a poet. He controls a lunar rover called FANTOM IX (ALLISON COSSITT), the newest model in a series of machines designed to explore the surface of the moon. Together they uncover secrets that could determine the fate of all life on Earth and form a bond that transcends space ...

Kit and the Mystical Forest (spoken as Kit and the Mystic Forest) is a fairytale adventure series telling the story of a young girl named Kit Woods whose mother suddenly and inexplicably becomes gravely ill with a strange affliction that hardens her skin, changing her into an inert, inhuman husk. Her father, who finds the illness familiar, rushes off to a mysterious Forest to obtain the cure; however, after a long, long, very long time, only his horse returns home. It is now up to Kit to save her mother and find her lost father.We call it A Micraural Odyssey, a made-up phrase that means small(...

What do witches, ogres and shape-shifters have in common with dive bars, fashion shows and neighbourhood parks? They are all on The Other Path! Classic folk tales meet modern life in this fantasy audio drama series filled with magic, mystery, and danger created by Odyssey Theatre. Follow people so desperate to fulfill their dreams, they choose a path that leads them to wrangle with magical forces and creatures straight out of folklore. They lure you with promises of good fortune, but be warned, they’ll lead you into danger. Whatever fate has in store, the other path reveals the unexpected. ...