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The Divine Comedy: Inferno
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal... Read more
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The Satires
By: Lord Byron
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In this, the fourth volume of this series, we hear the poetry in which Byron began to make his mark on the world. Though his major breakthrough with Childe Harold is yet to come, his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was a definite hit in its time, establishing Byron as a known poet and ensuring that his reputation as a literary bad-boy was off... Read more
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Divina Commedia,La
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
Length: 20 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Le tre cantiche inì un unico audiolibro, precedute da riassunti e seguiti da note storiche esplicative del testo. Read more
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Odissea
By: Omero
Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
La traduzione di Ettore Romagnoli rende il testo molto più comprensibile delle altre versioni. Completano i 24 canti anche un lungo comento del traduttore. Read more
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POEMAS ENCONTRASTE - Abridged
By: Leonor de Aquitania, José Fernando Dicenta, Efr...
Narrated by: Jesús Isarrarás Gutiérrez & Jaime Hernández
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jesús Isarraras es uno de los mejores declamadores de México. A través de sus Poemas en Contraste nos acerca con alta sensibilidad a poetas que igual nos mueven al amor, a la denuncia social, a la pasión, a la ternura y también, por supuesto, a la risa. Ahí está Borges, Cardenal, Efraín Huerta, haciendo el contraste con Chava Flores y Luis M.... Read more
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Eneide
By: Virgilio
Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
L’Eneide non è un semplice poema epico ma il quadro di un passaggio fra il vecchio mondo pagano e il nuovo mondo cristiano (nondimentichiamoci infatti che Virgilio è stato la guida di Dante nella Commedia). Solo un poeta dalla ricca vita interiore come Virgilio, e dal potere evocativo dei suoi versi poteva farsi l’interprete di questo... Read more
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Like This
By: Coleman Barks & Jalaluddin Rumi
Narrated by: Coleman Barks
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Through rendering of Rumi’s poems and stories, Coleman Barks has established himself as perhaps the leading voice for Rumi’s work. His warm and sensitive reading combines with the world-renowned musicianship of Hamza El Din and Steve Coughlin to create an enthralling listening experience.A Better Listen audio production. Read more
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Beowulf
By: Anonymous
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking...
Thus begins the battle between good and evil, for lying in wait and anxious to challenge the ogre Grendel is a young man, strong-willed and fire-hearted. This man is Beowulf, whose heroic dragon-slaying deeds were sung in the courts of... Read more
Early Poems
By: Lord Byron
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
As in the first two volumes of this series, our interest in these poems is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. In these poems, mostly written in the years just before Byron left England to tour in Europe, it is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic... Read more
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Alcyone: dodici liriche scelte
By: Gabriele D’Annunzio
Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Dodici liriche scelte da "Alcyone": Lungo L'Affrico, La sera fiesolana, Beatitudine, La pioggia nel pineto, I tributarii, Meriggio, L'onda, Le ore marine, I pastori, Il novilunio, Il commiato. Musica di Chopin. Read more
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The Song of Roland
By: unknown
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic epic revolves around the battle between the Franks and the Moors in 778.Though he has grown up in poverty in a cave in Italy, Roland is in fact descended from great heroes of old. Since his youth, his mother has taught him that someday he will be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of his uncle,... Read more
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Hours of Idleness
By: Lord Byron
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
For those who love Byron’s poetry, the value of this work is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. It is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic heart and soul goes about fashioning itself.Though a young man, he often writes as if he were old, musing on... Read more
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Fugitive Pieces
By: Lord Byron
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
George Gordon, later Lord Byron, published Fugitive Pieces in 1806 when he was only 18 years old. It was printed, but Byron's friends - particularly Reverend Thomas Beecher - advised him that it contained poems that were scandalously amorous, particularly the poem To Mary. Byron suppressed it by having all the copies destroyed - or so he... Read more
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
By: Omar Khayyam & Edward FitzGerald
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald is one of our best-loved books of poetry - and for good reason. Cynical, self-deprecating, witty, mystical, in love with wine and beauty while aware of life and death, Omar's poems put many thoughts we have all had into words we can all enjoy.
Fitzgerald first published... Read more
Sonnets from the Portuguese
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrated by: Emma Topping
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly accaimed collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. Read by Emma Topping and Katharine Cornell Read more
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Famous Poetry Stories in Tang and Song Dynasty (Ci Poetry of The Song Dynasty Part)
By: Gang Sun
Narrated by: Gang Sun
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Teenagers often struggle to understand the poetic style and creative motives of poets, making it difficult for them to grasp the allusions and artistic conception in poetry, which in turn diminishes their interest in classical poetry. The "Stories of Poems by Famous Tang and Song Dynasty Poets" series, specifically the "Tang Poetry" section,... Read more
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The Poetry of Emily Brontë
By: Emily Brontë
Narrated by: Emma Topping
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Whilst best remembered as the author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë was also a celebrated poet. Here, Emma Topping reads her finest poetry. Read more
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Les contemplations
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Denis Podalydes & Michael Lonsdale
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Les Contemplations de Victor Hugo est un recueil de poésies écrites entre 1834 et 1855. Regroupés en deux tomes, ces poèmes se divisent entre Autrefois et Aujourd'hui, une période heureuse où l'auteur contemplait la richesse de l'amour et de la nature, et des jours plus sombres frappés par le deuil de sa fille Léopoldine. Michaêl Lonsdale et... Read more
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Here In Harlem
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Muhammad Cunningham, Michael Early, Arthur Fren...
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Fifty-four poems, all in different voices, written by one outstanding author. Residents of a fictional Harlem community, from motorman to teacher, from party girl to live-in maid, to jazz artist, a deacon, students, veterans and more- all embodied by thirteen remarkable narrators. Original musical recordings from the likes of Duke Ellington,... Read more
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Martín Fierro - Abridged
By: Jose Hernandez
Narrated by: Angel Calderon
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Martín Fierro es un poema épico line 2316 por el escritor argentino José Hernández. El poema fue publicado originalmente en dos partes: El Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) y La Vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879). El poema suministrado un vínculo histórico con la contribución de los gauchos para el desarrollo nacional de la Argentina, por el gaucho había... Read more
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Paradise Lost, with eBook
By: John Milton
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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. The struggle rages across three... Read more
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The Frogs and Toads All Sang
By: Arnold Lobel
Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes a brand-new collection of rhyming stories about frogs and toads. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, The Frogs and Toads All Sang has the same warmth, compassion, and humor that is found in his best-loved work. Brimming with sweet silliness, this new book reminds us why Arnold... Read more
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Odd Owls & Stout Pigs
By: Arnold Lobel
Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes another brand-new collection of rhyming stories—this time featuring a unique assortment of owls and pigs. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, Odd Owls & Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense is full of the same humor and wit that is found in Lobel's beloved Frog and Toad stories. This... Read more
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The Rape of Lucrece
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Gerard Logan
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the... Read more
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