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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―rendering the ancient poem in contemporary language that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now 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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The bright eyed goddess of translation does it again.
- By Hugh Brennan on 21-11-23
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The Iliad
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald
- Series: Audible Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1, Iliad & Odyssey, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
- By: Allie Esiri
- Narrated by: Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Russell Beale, Damian Lynch, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. These poems are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating and empowering!
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
- By mr eric hughes on 02-02-18
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
- Narrated by: Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Russell Beale, Damian Lynch, Peter Forbes, Allie Esiri
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-12-17
- Language: English
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Great Love Poems
- By: William Blake, Robert Burns, Edward Lear
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Maxine Peake, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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An anthology of over 60 classic love poems, read by some of our finest actors. Love has always been the supreme inspiration for poets, whether romantic or platonic, reciprocated or unrequited. This collection contains a range of the very best love poems, including Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving" - as well as several sonnets from the master himself, William Shakespeare.
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Delightful
- By Mrs. Jasmine Simeone on 23-07-23
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Great Love Poems
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter, Bill Paterson, Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones, Bill Wallis
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-04-12
- Language: English
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Great Nature Poems
- By: Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Gerald Manley Hopkins
- Narrated by: Anthony Howell, Claire Rushbrook, David Schofield, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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An anthology of over 40 classic nature poems, read by some of our finest actors. The majesty of nature has always inspired poets, and this collection contains a selection of the very best verses praising the natural world.
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find your poem
- By Anne on 10-01-23
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Great Nature Poems
- Narrated by: Anthony Howell, Claire Rushbrook, David Schofield, Michael Maloney
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-04-12
- Language: English
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All She Ever Wanted
- By: Lynn Austin
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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A three-time Christy Award winner, Lynn Austin crafts rousing tales of hope and redemption. All She Ever Wanted stars Kathleen Seymour, a woman who seems to have it all, though she hides a dark family secret. To her horror, everything comes crashing down when she loses her job and her daughter is caught shoplifting. Desperate to regain control over her life, Kathleen returns to her estranged family to mend her severely broken relationships before it is too late.
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All She Ever Wanted
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-04-09
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.
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An awe-inspiring book read flawlessly by SV
- By Robin on 15-03-15
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Paradise Lost
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 21-10-09
- Language: English
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The Hidden Flame
- Acts of Faith
- By: T. Davis Bunn, Janette Oke
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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Three-time Christy Award winner Davis Bunn collaborates with the beloved Janette Oke to evoke the spirit of the original followers of the Way. In a first century Jerusalem seething with turmoil, religious and political leaders eye the burgeoning Christian community with suspicion. While a Hebrew merchant and a Roman soldier vie for the hand of a lovely follower of Christ, she finds her heart drawn to another whose tireless care and unflinching faith shine daily.
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Another compelling story
- By A. Beer on 04-06-24
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The Hidden Flame
- Acts of Faith
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-04-10
- Language: English
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Slug
- And Other Things I've Been Told to Hate
- By: Hollie McNish
- Narrated by: Hollie McNish, Gemma Cairney
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and present, through Hollie's driving, funny, hopeful poetry and prose. Slug is about the human condition: of birth and death and how we manage the possibilities in between.
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Hollie Reads This So Perfectly, It's Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 11-04-22
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Slug
- And Other Things I've Been Told to Hate
- Narrated by: Hollie McNish, Gemma Cairney
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: English
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
- The Argonautica
- By: Apollonius of Rhodes, R. C. Seaton - translator, Nicolas Soames - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles. The finest classic account comes from Apollonius of Rhodes, the Greek poet of the 3rd century BCE and librarian at Alexandria. Though less well-known than Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and much shorter, it is an epic poem which is both exciting and moving, with remarkably vivid portraits of the main characters, Jason and Medea.
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
- The Argonautica
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-06-17
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
- The Inferno, The Purgatorio, & The Paradiso
- By: Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. One of the greatest works in literature, Dantes story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice.
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great story
- By Amazon Customer on 07-12-23
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The Divine Comedy
- The Inferno, The Purgatorio, & The Paradiso
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-05-09
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
- By: Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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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. It consists of 100 cantos, and (after an introductory canto) they are divided into three sections. Each section is 33 cantos in length, and they describe how Dante and a guide travel through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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Dull!
- By David on 13-06-14
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The Divine Comedy
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-09-09
- Language: English
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The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Christopher Tolkien
- Length: 56 mins
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The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son was originally published in the 1953 edition of Essays and Studies. In December of that year, J.R.R. Tolkien took possession of a reel-to-reel tape recorder and, some time during the first few months of 1954, decided to record ‘the whole thing on tape’ as a way of ‘testing’ the performative quality of the dramatic dialogue between Tídwald and Torhthelm.
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great but wished it contained all the book
- By Anonymous User on 31-03-23
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The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
- Narrated by: Christopher Tolkien
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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Lunch Poems
- By: Frank O'Hara
- Narrated by: Matthew Weiner
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Frank O'Hara was a pioneering modern American poet and playwright - an art critic, a musician, and a curator at the Museum of Modern Art - who defined New York City in its post-WWII heyday. For many these poems defined the city's midcentury zeitgeist.
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excellent collection. terrible rendition.
- By Frankie on 03-12-21
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Lunch Poems
- Narrated by: Matthew Weiner
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-07-16
- Language: English
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The Centurion’s Wife
- Acts of Faith, Book 1
- By: Janette Oke, Davis Bunn
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Three-time Christy Award winner Davis Bunn collaborates with Janette Oke to evoke the tumult of first-century Judea in the wake of Christ’s crucifixion. Although she prefers service in Pontius Pilate’s palace to a loveless marriage, Leah is betrothed to a Roman centurion. Before he can have Leah, however, he must go on a secret mission. But when a rabbi’s missing body sends Leah and Alban after the same answers, what they discover could change all they hold dear.
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Riveting historical novel
- By A. Beer on 02-06-24
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The Centurion’s Wife
- Acts of Faith, Book 1
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-03-10
- Language: English
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Parzival
- By: Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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The greatest of all the medieval romances about the Holy Grail, Parzival was written in the early 13th century. The narrative describes the quest of the Arthurian knight Parzival for the Holy Grail. His journey is filled with incident, from tournaments and sieges to chivalrous deeds and displays of true love.
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Stamina Pays Off!
- By NICK on 09-11-21
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Parzival
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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The Dalai Lama's Cat + The Dalai Lama's Cat: Guided Meditations
- By: David Michie
- Narrated by: David Michie
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Featuring a delightful cast of characters and timeless Buddhist wisdom, and with His Holiness' compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama's Cat is simply enchanting. Not so much fly-on-the-wall as cat-on-the-sill, this is the warmhearted tale of a small kitten rescued from the slums of New Delhi who finds herself in a beautiful sanctuary with sweeping views of the snowcapped Himalayas.
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Purr joy
- By Edyta on 28-03-17
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The Dalai Lama's Cat + The Dalai Lama's Cat: Guided Meditations
- Narrated by: David Michie
- Series: The Dalai Lama's Cat, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 27-12-15
- Language: English
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The Strength In Our Scars
- By: Bianca Sparacino
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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Through poetry, prose, and the compassionate encouragement you would expect from someone who knows exactly what you're working through, Sparacino is here with the words you need. The Strength in Our Scars tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and ultimately learning to heal. In this book you will find peace, you will find a rock, you will find understanding, and you will find hope.
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Really spoke to me…discover yourself more
- By Anonymous User on 14-06-24
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The Strength In Our Scars
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Vergil
- A Mythological Musical
- By: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrated by: Will Young, Claudia Kariuki, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.
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Absolutely loved this!
- By Steve on 11-06-23
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Vergil
- A Mythological Musical
- Narrated by: Will Young, Claudia Kariuki, Derek Jacobi, Le Gateau Chocolat, Alice Fearn, John Partridge, Divina de Campo
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
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A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan Bate. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is one of Britain's most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and Crow. Event and animal are turned to myth in his work.
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An incredible achieve
- By woodwild on 31-10-15
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Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- By: Robin Kirkpatrick - translator, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. This major translation is published here for the first time in a single volume.
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A classic
- By Cameron ms on 20-02-21
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The Divine Comedy
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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