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The Plays of Sophocles
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Sophocles was born at Colonus, near Athens in about 496 BC and is considered to be one of the premier playwrights of Greek tragedy. His stories may have been filled with strife, but Sophocles himself was prosperous and came from a good family. It is said that he was handsome, wealthy, and a highly respected citizen of Athens. During his life, he wrote over 120 plays and was instrumental in how plays would eventually be performed, including the addition of stage props.
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The Plays of Sophocles
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- Language: English
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Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
- Theatre Classics
- By: Henrik Ibsen, Stephen Mulrine
- Narrated by: Caroline John, Trevor Cooper, Frank Jarvis, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Controversy and hidden pasts are suddenly and painfully exposed as wealthy widow Mrs Alving prepares to open a new orphanage in memory of her husband. Her treasured son Oswald’s return from Paris and her relationship with old friend Pastor Manders are no longer the source of joy they once were, as secrets are turned into a frightening and desperate reality.
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Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
- Theatre Classics
- Narrated by: Caroline John, Trevor Cooper, Frank Jarvis, Helen Oakleigh, Grant Gillespe
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Release date: 22-04-10
- Language: English
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Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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The Odyssey is an epic poem, written by the ancient Greek philosopher Homer, and considered to be the second oldest piece of western literature still in existence. Scholars believe it was written at the end of the eighth century BC. Still heavily used in schools because of its unique literary makeup and historical value, the poems follow Greek hero Odysseus, as he journeys home after the 10-year long Trojan War. His journey home takes another 10 years, and Odysseus encounters many obstacles.
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Generally well read, but some disappointment.
- By Amazon Customer on 14-07-17
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Odyssey
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-08-16
- Language: English
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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering, Volume 2 of 3
- A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem
- By: Rebecca K. Reynolds
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Edmund Spenser’s 1590s epic poem, The Faerie Queene. This text-faithful, line-by-line prose rendering transports modern listeners into a vast narrative tapestry. Knights traverse diverse fantastical landscapes including the shadowy depths of an enchanted forest, a treacherous underwater lair, a mysterious subterranean kingdom, and the deadly Bower of Bliss.
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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering, Volume 2 of 3
- A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: A Prose Rendering, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-12-25
- Language: English
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Coriolanus
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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A classic performance of one of the Bard's classics. Raised to the heights of power in recognition of his bravery against the Volscian army, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, finds himself betrayed by Brutus and Sicinius. Exiled from Rome and seeking vengeance, Coriolanus allies himself with the...
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Coriolanus
- Narrated by: Richard Burton, Jessica Tandy
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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Amore e psiche
- By: Lucio Apuleio
- Narrated by: Ruggero Andreozzi, Federica Tabori
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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L'audiolibro Amore e Psiche è la più nota delle favole contenute in "Le metamorfosi" di Apuleio. Narra delle difficili e dolorose vicende di Psiche...
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Amore e psiche
- Narrated by: Ruggero Andreozzi, Federica Tabori
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-06-12
- Language: Italian
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Héroszok 1
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Péter Scherer
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Stephen Fry a görög mitológia kezdeteit elbeszélő "Mítosz" című könyve után a Héroszok történeteivel folytatja a mesélést. Az isteni származású hősök csodálatos kalandjai és halhatatlan hőstettei Fry könnyed, egyúttal lebilincselő stílusában hol humoros gellert kapnak, hol romantikusan szomorúak. Meghallgathatjuk Héraklész, Medusza és Orpheusz történetét is.
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Élvezetes előadás
- By Anonymous on 04-01-24
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Héroszok 1
- Narrated by: Péter Scherer
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 22-06-23
- Language: Hungarian
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The Poetry of Mirabai
- By: Mirabai
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf, Libby Brunton
- Length: 58 mins
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Mirabai was a Rajput princess born to the Rathore clan in 1498 in Kudaki, Rajasthan, in northern India. Despite being one of the most significant saints in the Bhakti tradition and an immensely popular Hindu mystic and religious poet, very few facts are actually known about her life including her date of birth. It is clear that her mother died when she was very young and she was greatly influenced by her father, also a worshipper of Krishna. From a young age, Mirabai’s devotion to Krishna was absolute surrender and complete devotion.
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The Poetry of Mirabai
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf, Libby Brunton
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 13-06-21
- Language: English
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The Theatrical Event: Dynamics of Performance and Perception
- By: Willmar Sauter
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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The Theatrical Event discusses the objectives of theater studies by focusing on the communicative encounter between performer and spectator - the theatrical event. A theatrical event includes the presentation of a performance and the attention of an audience; in this sense, every performance - on stage or in the street, historical or contemporary - that is watched by an audience is a theatrical event. The concept underlines the "eventness" of all encounters between performers and spectators.
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The Theatrical Event: Dynamics of Performance and Perception
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-06-12
- Language: English
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Heartbreak House
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 31-10-08
- Language: English
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Essays Book 9: Of Tranquillity of Mind
- By: Seneca
- Narrated by: Robin Homer
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The work opens with Serenus asking Seneca for counsel, and this request for help takes the form of a medical consultation. Serenus explains that he feels agitated and in a state of unstable immobility, "As if I were on a boat that doesn't move forward and is tossed about." Seneca uses the dialogue to address an issue that cropped up many times in his life: the desire for a life of contemplation and the need for active political engagement. Seneca argues that the goal of a tranquil mind can be achieved by being flexible and seeking a middle way between the two extremes.
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Essays Book 9: Of Tranquillity of Mind
- Narrated by: Robin Homer
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-09-19
- Language: English
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Oedipus Rex - King of Thebes
- By: Sophocles, Gilbert Murray - translator
- Narrated by: Matt Montanez
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Oedipus Rex is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as Oedipus, King of Thebes). It tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall.
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Oedipus Rex - King of Thebes
- Narrated by: Matt Montanez
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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The Works of Hesiod
- By: Hesiod
- Narrated by: Darren Grimes
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Step into the earliest foundations of Greek myth and moral thought with The Works of Hesiod, presented here in a clear, resonant audiobook narration by Adultbrain. Written in the 8th-7th century BCE, Hesiod’s poems stand beside Homer as cornerstones of Western literature, blending myth, cosmology, ethics, and heroic tradition.
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The Works of Hesiod
- Narrated by: Darren Grimes
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 29-12-25
- Language: English
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Donald Hall
- Prose and Poetry
- By: Donald Hall
- Narrated by: Donald Hall
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from 6 of his works of prose. Bursting with the passion of living, yet reverent of time and place, Hall's evocative style has made him one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, he gives each listener this gift of words - words painstakingly entwined with energy and love.
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A collection of great poems read by the poet.
- By VS Coster on 22-06-23
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Donald Hall
- Prose and Poetry
- Narrated by: Donald Hall
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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The Pit
- By: Alexander Kuprin, Maria K. - translator
- Narrated by: Sky Wildmist
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Alexander Kuprin prefaced his novel The Pit about the lives of early 20th century Russian prostitutes as follows, "I know many people will find this novel amoral and inappropriate, but nevertheless I dedicated it from the bottom of my heart to mothers and young people" Indeed, the novel's publication was followed by an explosion of outrage. The "good" society accused Kuprin of slander and forever exiled him from its sitting rooms, charity auctions, and holiday balls. Progressive intellecutals winced and shuddered, but could not help admitting Kuprin had a point.
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The Pit
- Narrated by: Sky Wildmist
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-02-19
- Language: English
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Homer - The Odyssey
- By: Homer, W.H.D. Rouse
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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After the long hardships of the Trojan War, Odysseus is on his way home. But since the Gods in Olympos are still mad at Odysseus, they put lots of obstacles in his way: The nymph Calypso, Circe, Cyclops, the deadly Scylla and Charybdis - only the ever-cunning Odysseus is able to survive all these deadly traps. Finally, he makes it home, all by himself, at last. However, the story doesn't end there. In his house, there is a host of wooers who want to marry his faithful wife Penelope; they eat all his food, they drink his best wine, and they conspire to kill his son Telemachus.
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Homer - The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-08-25
- Language: English
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Allegory of the Cave
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 52 mins
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is what many believe to be the foundation of Western Philosophy. It addresses what is visible and invisible, seen and observed versus intuited and imagined, and what is public versus private and just versus unjust. It also concerns the meaning and importance of education, the state of the soul, the conflict between truth and beauty, animal urges versus higher aspirations, knowledge versus ignorance, and on and on.
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Not recommended, but very accurate translation.
- By Nicky on 26-12-10
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Allegory of the Cave
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan
- By: Ezra Pound
- Narrated by: David Stifel, David Prickett, Grace Keller Scotch, and others
- Length: 56 mins
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The Noh theatre of Japan was popularized towards the end of the 14th century. It was heavily influenced by Buddhism in philosophy and style, and was made up of dances performed at Shinto shrines to honor spirits and gods and old lyric poetry. Around the same time Shakespeare's Hamlet was being performed in London, Noh was integral to official ceremonies at Kyoto, and young nobles and princes were encouraged to attend and perform. This is a collection of four short plays from the Noh theatres of Japan - Hagoromo, Kumasaka, Kagekiyo, and Nishigiki.
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan
- Narrated by: David Stifel, David Prickett, Grace Keller Scotch, Noel Badrian, Leanne Yau
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov & The Idiot (Dramatized)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Arye Gross, John Kapelos, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Director David Fishelson transforms Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot into spellbinding drama that illuminates both titanic novels. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate brothers spring to life, led by their roué of a father ¿ who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka.
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Its extremely difficult to shorten these plays...
- By m@chaka on 05-11-17
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The Brothers Karamazov & The Idiot (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Arye Gross, John Kapelos, John Rubenstein, Sharon Gless, Harry Hamlin, John de Lancie, Douglas Weston
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-10-06
- Language: English
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Uncle Vanya spends years of drudgery managing his brother-in-law's estate to enable Serebryakov the chance to pursue his career as a great professor. When Serebryakov is proven to be a fraud and wants to sell the estate, Vanya becomes enraged.
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Uncle Vanya
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-03-10
- Language: English
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