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Death and the Maiden
- By: Ariel Dorfman
- Narrated by: John Kapelos, John Mahoney, Carolyn Seymour, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison, and she subsequently takes him hostage to find out the truth. A stunningly blunt and compelling play, Death and the Maiden explores brilliantly the issues of torture, power, vulnerability, ethics, and trust. An award-winning play by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, forced into exile in 1973.
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Just Acting to little purpose.
- By Palimpsest on 04-02-22
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Death and the Maiden
- Narrated by: John Kapelos, John Mahoney, Carolyn Seymour, Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-09-09
- Language: English
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Allegory of the Cave
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 2: The Annals, Part 2
- By: Cornelius Tacitus
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Annals, Part 2 picks up in the year A.D. 32 with the increasingly menacing and tyrannical behavior of Tiberius. With hundreds murdered or driven to suicide and many more in exile, Tiberius descends steadily into growing lust and debauchery on his private estate on the isle of Capri. Overseas, Rome is victorious in her struggle with Parthia, and as Tiberius is being smothered to death in A.D. 37 by Macro, peace at last comes to the eastern frontier.
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a compelling history of Rome
- By C. D. Hough on 04-05-18
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 2: The Annals, Part 2
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Series: The Complete Works of Tacitus, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-03-06
- Language: English
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Peer Gynt
- By: Henrik Ibsen
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Peer Gynt, the five-act romantic play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Based on a Norwegian folk hero, the title character is a rogue who will be destroyed unless the love of a woman saves him. At a wedding he meets Solveig, who falls in love with him, but Peer ruins the wedding by abducting, then abandoning the bride. Then Peer goes global, misbehaving in a trail of adventures around the world. When he finally returns to Norway, old and embittered, Solveig welcomes him home, and he's redeemed by her love.
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Inappropriate language
- By jeanne dickinson on 24-11-22
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Peer Gynt
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-08-20
- Language: English
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The Complete Stoicism Collection
- Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic, The Enchiridion & Discourses, On the Shortness of Life, and More
- By: Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Seneca, Epictetus .
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 36 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for any listener who is searching for a deceptively simple yet powerful approach to life, this book offers you a source of inner strength and guidance, allowing you to enrich your life and face your challenges with a renewed level of insight.
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The Complete Stoicism Collection
- Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic, The Enchiridion & Discourses, On the Shortness of Life, and More
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 36 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-23
- Language: English
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Pygmalion
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: Grace Garrett, Arielle Lipshaw, Jeff Moon, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the Greek legend, a sculptor, Pygmalion, created a statue of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. Later the goddess Aphrodite responded to his earnest prayers and brought the statue, named Galatea, to life. Shaw's Pygmalion is a fussy unmarried professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, who claims that he could train an uneducated person off the street to speak so that he or she could pass as a member of the aristocracy. His Galatea is Eliza Doolittle, who sells flowers at Covent Garden and whose father is a dissipated but cunning vagrant.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Mrs Gail Grimes on 06-04-24
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Pygmalion
- Narrated by: Grace Garrett, Arielle Lipshaw, Jeff Moon, Denis Daly, Alan Weyman, Sara Morsey, Sarah Mitchell, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-01-19
- Language: English
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Moralia Volume 1
- Volume 1: 26 Ethical Essays
- By: Plutarch
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Though best known now for his collection of lively and vivid Parallel Lives from ancient Greece and Rome, Plutarch (c46 CD-120 CE) was, for centuries, more respected for his Moralia, a remarkable and wide-ranging collection of essays and speeches. No fewer than 78 in total, they range over a broad list of topics in which Plutarch observes, dispenses wisdom, admonishes, entertains and informs: covering social issues and politics, manners and religion - in short, life in general.
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Enlightening
- By Herlon Jacobsen on 17-04-23
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Moralia Volume 1
- Volume 1: 26 Ethical Essays
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-12-18
- Language: English
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Twelfth Night (Unabrdged, Dramatised)
- By: William Shakespeare, Simon Potter
- Narrated by: Full Cast featuring Joan Walker, Andy Greenhalgh, Lucy Robinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The multi-award winning SmartPass full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.
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Smart Pass
- By Hatty on 26-03-11
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Twelfth Night (Unabrdged, Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Full Cast featuring Joan Walker, Andy Greenhalgh, Lucy Robinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 14-06-06
- Language: English
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Three Sisters
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Chekhov’s masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long.
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Passable production
- By woodwild on 30-05-16
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Three Sisters
- Narrated by: Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman, Jon Hamm, Josh Clark, Josh Cooke, Dan Donohue
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-08-11
- Language: English
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From 'Paradise Lost'
- A Dozen Red Roses
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 1 min
- Unabridged
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A short section from Milton's epic poem, expressing how much sweeter the world is when you are with the one you love, read by Jenny Agutter.
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classic touch
- By Velveteen on 25-08-25
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From 'Paradise Lost'
- A Dozen Red Roses
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 06-02-07
- Language: English
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The Pardoner's Tale
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Three tales from The Canterbury Tales, read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer.
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PLAY SAMPLE!
- By Mark on 12-10-15
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The Pardoner's Tale
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 31-12-06
- Language: English
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Lady Windermere's Fan
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Roger Rees, Eric Stoltz, Joanna Going, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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A lord, his wife, her admirer and an infamous blackmailer converge in the irreverent satire that launched Wilde's succession of classic social comedies. This delicious comic feast serves up a scandal about good girls, bad husbands and hilarious hypocrisy - utterly contemporary and divinely funny.
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Loved it!
- By Mrs W. on 12-09-23
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Lady Windermere's Fan
- Narrated by: Roger Rees, Eric Stoltz, Joanna Going, Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-06-01
- Language: English
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The Satires
- By: Juvenal
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Listening to The Satires by Juvenal is to come face to face with the corruption, the debauchery, the waste, the sloth, and the mean-spirited greed of ancient Rome...or is it more like modern times? Indeed, these masterpieces of biting social commentary could easily have been written today about any number of metropolitan areas we are all familiar with.
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Superb! A must own for any literate person!
- By Anonymous on 07-02-24
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The Satires
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-12-06
- Language: English
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Measure for Measure
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Renowned Shakespearean actors John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson lead a full-cast performance of this beloved Shakespeare play. Dealing with issues of mercy, justice, and truth, and their relationship to pride and humility, this is Shakespeare at his most complex and rewarding.
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Measure for Measure
- Narrated by: John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 29-03-12
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Talmud
- By: Ben Zion Bokser
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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A boundless source of consolation and intellectual stimulation and one of the central texts of Judaism, the Talmud is not only a great compilation of ancient wisdom concerning law, religion, history, ethics, metaphysics, and folklore; it is also a treasure trove of aphorism, maxims, and witty sayings, including:Adversity is the true school of mind. Avoid anger and thou wilt not sin. Too many captains sink the ship. The noblest of all charities is in enabling the poor to earn a livelihood. Dignity does not consist in a silk dress.
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not as good as the previous
- By ABecia on 21-06-25
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The Wisdom of the Talmud
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-03-25
- Language: English
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Lysistrata
- By: Aristophanes
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, which was originally performed in Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary quest to terminate the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states, by advocating that the women deny all the men of the land any sex. At a meeting, Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their men. She has also persuaded the older women of Athens to seize the Acropolis.
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Don't bother
- By Nelson F. on 21-06-21
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Lysistrata
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Works and Days
- By: Hesiod, Richmond Lattimore - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Among the finest poets of ancient Greece was Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, who lived in the eighth century B.C. It is still a matter of dispute whether Homer or Hesiod was the earlier poet, and sometimes whether they were one and the same person! At any rate, Hesiod's incredible poetry serves as a major source for our understanding of Greek mythology, farming practices, time keeping and astronomy. In and of itself, the "Works and Days" is unparalleled in its richness and beauty, easily rivaling Homer.
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A disjointed experience
- By John Wayne on 01-02-23
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The Works and Days
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-09-07
- Language: English
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Dracula (Dramatized)
- By: Bram Stoker, Charles Morey
- Narrated by: David Selby, John Glover, Simon Templeman, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Before Twilight and True Blood, only one vampire commanded “the children of the night". In this bloodthirsty tale of unholy terror, Count Dracula slips into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil - so he can rest between victims. The city seems helpless against his frightful power, and only one man, Dr. Van Helsing, can stop the carnage. But to do this, he must uncover the vampire’s lair and pierce his heart with a wooden stake.
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Dracula (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: David Selby, John Glover, Simon Templeman, Matthew Wolf, Moira Quirk, Lisa O’hare, Nick Toren
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-10-11
- Language: English
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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal
- On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life
- By: George Tanner
- Narrated by: Isaac Mantelli
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is a collection of Stoic sayings organized to allow daily reference and inspiration. The Stoic advice covered in this volume runs the gambit from personal problems, to interpersonal relationships, to advice on work and productivity, to dealing with the hand of fate.
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serves as a reflection
- By Georgina Preston on 23-07-19
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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal
- On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life
- Narrated by: Isaac Mantelli
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-10-18
- Language: English
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The Oedipus Plays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Sophocles, Francis Storr - translator
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Inspired by the mythic house of Thebes, Sophocles’s defining Greek tragedies follow the fates that befall three doomed generations.
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A true classic, but only an ok performance
- By Anonymous on 03-11-24
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The Oedipus Plays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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