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password “primaeval”
- De Chas Carner en 05-28-20
De: Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman's Selected Poems
- De: Walt Whitman
- Narrado por: Brian Murray
- Duración: 59 m
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This collection, narrated by distinguished Broadway actor Brian Murray, includes nine poems from Leaves of Grass - among them "I Hear America Singing", "O Captain! My Captain", and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d", plus four other selections.
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Lively Selection
- De Traci en 03-16-17
De: Walt Whitman
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Sappho
- A New Rendering
- De: Sappho, Henry de Vere Stacpoole - translator
- Narrado por: Leanne Yau
- Duración: 39 m
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Sappho was a female poet who was well known in ancient Greece and Rome for her lyrical poetry. She was most famous for her poems involving women who loved women, and it is from her name that sapphic, a term referring to sexual relations between women, originated. This is a compendium of her surviving work, a collection of 54 fragments translated by Henry de Vere Stacpoole.
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This book is essentially all poetry.
- De AudioBookRomance en 08-09-17
De: Sappho, y otros
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The Egyptian
- De: Mika Waltari
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 23 h y 19 m
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The world of ancient Egypt springs magnificently to life in this astonishing historical novel of love, war, political intrigue, and religious revolution. Told from the first-person point of view, it is the story of Sinuhe, physician to the royal court of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his successors in the middle of the tumultuous 14th century B.C. From his exalted position, Sinuhe was able to observe and participate in some of the most intimate and important decisions that affected the powerful Egyptian kingdom of the 18th Dynasty during a very troubled period of its history.
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Really old story told in beautiful way
- De honest critic en 04-30-15
De: Mika Waltari
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The Scarlet Plague [Classic Tales Edition]
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague. In this post-apocalyptic novella, a ragged and tattered old man tells his progeny of what life was like before The Scarlet Plague appeared - and wiped out civilization as they knew it.
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wonderful listen very relevant today!
- De Johnny en 12-02-17
De: Jack London
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at Greco-Roman style epic poetry in the English language. Remarkably enough, they were written near the end of John Milton's amazing life, a bold testimonial to his mental powers in old age. And, since he had gone completely blind in 1652, 15 years prior to Paradise Lost, he dictated it and all his other works to his daughter.
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SELL YOUR SHIRT FOR THIS AUDIO BOOK!
- De thomas en 04-23-11
De: John Milton
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Salomé
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Rosalind Ayres, James Marsters, Andre Sogliuzzo, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
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A dark tale of hubris, lust, and self-destruction… as told by a man who famously fell prey to those same impulses in his own life. Oscar Wilde wrote his original interpretation of the Biblical story of Salomé in French, and the play was so controversial that no theatre in England would produce it for nearly four decades. Includes a conversation with director Michael Hackett and Wilde scholar David Rodes. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production.
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Great performance of a more mature play
- De Calliope en 05-03-16
De: Oscar Wilde
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The Complete Collection of Emily Dickinson's Poems
- De: Emily Dickinson
- Narrado por: Elaine Sepani
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a reclusive poet whose only friendships were carried out in correspondence. Despite writing almost 1800 poems in her life, very few were published until after her death. Here, the poems are presented in chronological order in their original form, unaltered by editorial revision, in one volume. It offers a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the clunky rhyme schemes of her youth, through valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings of her last years.
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It’s not Emily Dickinson’s Fault
- De Mary Beth Hammond en 04-04-21
De: Emily Dickinson
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Medea
- De: Euripides
- Narrado por: Jonathan Waters
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.
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Great Narrator makes this story work
- De cosmitron en 08-02-18
De: Euripides