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The Modern Scholar
- Classical Mythology: The Romans
- By: Professor Peter Meineck
- Narrated by: Professor Peter Meineck
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE. By the middle of the second century CE, Rome had a population of 1.5 million; Alexandria, in Egypt, 500,000; and Londinium, in Briton, 30,000.
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The Modern Scholar
- Classical Mythology: The Romans
- Narrated by: Professor Peter Meineck
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2009
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet (Dramatised)
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Albert Finney, Claire Bloom, Edith Evans, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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The Montagues and the Capulets, two families of Verona, have been feuding for generations. Young Romeo Montague intends to cause trouble at a Capulet gathering, but while there he sees the Capulet's daughter, Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love. Albert Finney, Claire Bloom, Edith Evans, and Hilton Edwards perform an unabridged version of Shakespeare's tragedy about the two young lovers, whose deaths unite their warring families.
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Romeo and Juliet (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Albert Finney, Claire Bloom, Edith Evans, Hilton Edwards
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2011
- Language: English
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Great Expectations (Dramatised)
- By: Jonathan Lomas, Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, Andy Greenhalgh, Coralyn Sheldon
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. Dickens' tale of Pip, a young man "removed from his present sphere of life" and cast into a Victorian nightmare, is a powerful audio drama to be enjoyed and appreciated as an important piece of social criticism.
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Great Expectations (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, Andy Greenhalgh, Coralyn Sheldon
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2006
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Length: 45 mins
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A collection of the finest work of one of America's best-loved poets. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. Critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. Read by Julie Harris.
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Series: Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 28-12-2010
- Language: English
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
- By: Saint Augustine
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences, and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2010
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Selected Poems
- By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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This collection contains poems Elizabeth Browning wrote in her early days as well as the last poems she wrote before her death at 55: ballads, religious, social-reforming, and political verse. Included are: "The Dream," "The Image of God," and "The Tempest."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Selected Poems
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-12-1999
- Language: English
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Henry V (Unabridged, Dramatised)
- By: William Shakespeare, Mike Reeves
- Narrated by: Full Cast featuring Joan Walker, Peter Lindford, Terrence Hardiman
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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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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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Henry V (Unabridged, Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Full Cast featuring Joan Walker, Peter Lindford, Terrence Hardiman
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2006
- Language: English
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to the Works of Shakespeare (Dramatised)
- By: Simon Potter, Mary Potter
- Narrated by: Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, John Albasiny, Katerina Jugati
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Discover the genius of William Shakespeare in this entertaining and educational full-cast drama, designed to whet the appetite and introduce you to the man, the life, the legacy. Includes key scenes from the major plays.
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to the Works of Shakespeare (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, John Albasiny, Katerina Jugati
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2006
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman: A Selection, Volume 1
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Ed Begley
- Length: 43 mins
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Walt Whitman’s work influenced many later poetic voices, and no work more so than this epic American poem, 'Leaves of Grass', which he spent his entire life writing and constantly revising until his death. The work heralded a new dynamic relationship in poetry, with its candid and sensual interpretation of his observations and thoughts on the human spirit and all aspects of existence at a time when poetic tradition employed symbolism or allegory.
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Walt Whitman: A Selection, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Ed Begley
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2010
- 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
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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: 11-09-2019
- Language: English
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrated by: David Pierce
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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The Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, which records his private notes to himself and his ideas on Stoic philosophy. A major theme of Meditations is the importance of analyzing one's judgment of self and others, and the development of a cosmic perspective.
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Meditations
- Narrated by: David Pierce
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2019
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over his fate, leaving the Ithacans to believe that he has died. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
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The Odyssey
- Narrated by: Charles Purkey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2019
- Language: English
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特洛伊战争 - 特洛伊戰爭 [The Trojan War]
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: 王勇 - 王勇 - Wang Yong, 小艾 - 小艾 - Xiaoai
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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古希腊神话记载的特洛伊战争,历时10年,生灵涂炭。这场残酷的特洛伊战争,究竟有着怎样的来龙去脉呢?本有声书通过生动的语言呈现了这次军事远征的奇特故事。…… 古希臘神話記載的特洛伊戰爭,歷時10年,生靈塗炭。這場殘酷的特洛伊戰爭,究竟有著怎樣的來龍去脈呢?本有聲書通過生動的語言呈現了這次軍事遠征的奇特故事。
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特洛伊战争 - 特洛伊戰爭 [The Trojan War]
- Narrated by: 王勇 - 王勇 - Wang Yong, 小艾 - 小艾 - Xiaoai
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2017
- Language: Mandarin Chinese
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William Shakespeare - Sonnets
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 21 mins
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Presenting a selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare. There are 24 in number in this first selection. They are, in order: 18, 33, 11, 3, 5, 6, 29, 10, 22, 2, 4, 7, 1, 9, 27, 8, 30, 116, 34, 54, 12, 66, 77, 60.
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William Shakespeare - Sonnets
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2017
- Language: English
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Awake and Sing!
- By: Clifford Odets
- Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Kind, and Ben Gazzara, brings to life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country’s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.
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Awake and Sing!
- Narrated by: Emily Bergl, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Kind, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2011
- Language: English
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Selections from The Faerie Queene
- By: Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: John Moffatt
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English. The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time, Spenser is expounding a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error.
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Selections from The Faerie Queene
- Narrated by: John Moffatt
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2000
- Language: English
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Comedy of Errors
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Alec McCowen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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The Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special place in literary history. Yet, despite the author's lack of maturity, the play is unmistakably the work of a burgeoning master. A farce of a type that was wildly popular in Shakespeare's day, The Comedy of Errors transcends its genre, and is as accessible and as entertaining as any of the Bard's later comedies.
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Comedy of Errors
- Narrated by: Alec McCowen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2004
- Language: English
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A Shropshire Lad
- By: A. E. Housman
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Published at the author’s own expense in 1896, after rejection from publishers, this collection contains a cycle of 63 poems. Despite exploring themes of lost love, obsession, pessimism, and death, the poems touched English readers and the book became a best seller during the Second Boer War and World War I. The collection, set in a half-imagined pastoral Shropshire, includes the well-known poems "When I Was One-and-Twenty", "To an Athlete Dying Young", and "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now".
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Perfection
- By Louise on 16-10-2021
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A Shropshire Lad
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2011
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Goddess Ishtar
- By: Morris Jastrow - introduction
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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The story of the adventures of the mythical hero Gilgamesh is the most considerable literary production that has come down to us from ancient Babylonia. Unfortunately, it was not preserved in complete form. This recording is of the fullest translation which had yet been issued in English when it was first published in 1917.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Goddess Ishtar
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2018
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita (Dramatized)
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: David Catlin, Thomas Cox, Lawrence DiStasi, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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A full-cast dramatization of the classic Russian novel. Satan and his retinue, including a seven foot tall skinny fellow with a pince-nez , an obnoxious cigar smoking black cat and a beautiful naked vampire visit Moscow in the 1920s, taking with them chaos and insanity where ever they go.
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The Master and Margarita (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: David Catlin, Thomas Cox, Lawrence DiStasi, Christine Dunford, Laura Eason, Joy Gregory, Doug Hara
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2010
- Language: English
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