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Gunnar Cauthery
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Alison Pettitt
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David Rintoul
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Peter Abelard
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Heloise
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise is one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history. Written in the 12th century, the letters document the love affair between Peter Abelard, a revolutionary philosopher and biblical scholar, and his beautiful and precocious student, Heloise. Eviscerated by his religious opponents and castrated by Heloise’s family, Abelard is haunted by ill fortune, and the star-crossed lovers are forced into separate lives, as monk and nun respectively, with letters being their only form of communication. What unfolds is tragic and heartbreaking, but also fascinating. The letters gave rise to compelling philosophical, theological, and sociological discussions, and they provide a window into the medieval mind as the everyday lives of the two lovers are laid bare through their passionate discourse.
Translation by William Levitan.
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A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbor’s daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Tom’s sexual misadventures around the countryside get him banished, he sets out to make his fortune and find his true identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well read, many accents, older recording
- De Elizabeth en 12-16-10
De: Henry Fielding
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Vicar of Wakefield
- De: Oliver Goldsmith
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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The simple village vicar, Mr. Primrose, is living with his wife and six children in complete tranquility until unexpected calamities force them to weather one hilarious adventure after another. Goldsmith plays out this classic comedy of manners with a light, ironic touch that is irresistibly charming.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Snidely Whiplash Ravishes Hapless Maidens
- De Joseph R en 12-26-09
De: Oliver Goldsmith
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The Monk
- De: Matthew Lewis
- Narrado por: Nigel Carrington
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads the monk Ambrosio, into temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. Written when Matthew Lewis was only 19, The Monk was criticised when first published in 1796 for its lewdness and impiety, but this criticism only added to its popularity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Overwritten, Oddly Compelling Gothic Father
- De Jefferson en 01-01-17
De: Matthew Lewis
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The Confessions
- De: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 30 h
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Dr. Johnson may have been correct in saying that “Rousseau was a very bad man,” but none can argue that his ideas are among the most influential in all of world history. It was Rousseau, the father of the romantic movement, who was responsible for introducing at least two modern day thoughts that pervade academia. The Confessions is Rousseau’s landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary in its ordinariness...
- De Varni-Maree en 08-28-12
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Dangerous Liaisons
- De: Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos
- Narrado por: Gabriel Woolf
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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The story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, uncaring of those who face social ruin or whose hearts are broken. It depicts a decadent and corrupt aristocracy exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Regime. The relevance of this grew due to the ensuing the French Revolution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story.
- De Steve Inman en 11-10-09
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
- De: Samuel Johnson
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life". By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they come to understand the nature of happiness and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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1759 classic
- De Kindle Customer en 01-29-23
De: Samuel Johnson
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The Monk
- De: Matthew Lewis
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton, Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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Father Ambrosio, the most pious and venerated monk in all of Madrid, is held as a paragon of virtue. But after 30 years of study and prayer, evil thoughts begin to permeate his mind. As two plots cleverly converge, torture, murder, incest, rape, poison, and magic prevail, sustained by an elegance in the writing of the 19-year-old Matthew Lewis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the Platonic Form of the Gothic novel!.org
- De Mao Dom en 11-15-18
De: Matthew Lewis
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The Pilgrim's Progress (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: John Bunyan
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Plagued by spiritual anguish, devout everyman Christian fears his fate in the sinful City of Destruction. He’s told that only by embarking for the Celestial City can he achieve personal salvation. After his wife and children refuse to join him, he sets forth alone into the unknown. Mocked for his faith, tempted at every turn, and heartened by fellow pilgrims, Christian’s winding journey toward grace unfolds. But as he reaches Mount Zion, his family chooses to follow the same treacherous path, hoping to join Christian in the shining light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best version I have heard
- De Julie Rae Loving en 11-09-19
De: John Bunyan
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Oroonoko
- De: Aphra Behn
- Narrado por: Clare Wille
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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A vivid love story and adventure tale, Oroonoko is a heroic slave narrative about a royal prince and his fight for freedom. The eponymous hero, Oroonoko, deemed royalty in one world and slave in another, is torn from his noble status and betrayed into slavery in Surinam, where he is reduced to chains, fetters, and shackles. But his high spirit and admirable character will not be suppressed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Narration, Story Less So
- De Carsley en 07-14-18
De: Aphra Behn
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Don Quixote
- De: Tobias Smollett - translator, Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 36 h y 42 m
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Don Quixote, the world's first novel and by far the best-known book in Spanish literature, was originally intended by Cervantes as a satire on traditional popular ballads, yet he also parodied the romances of chivalry. By happy coincidence he produced one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time and, in Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, two of the greatest characters in fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MUST READ CLASSIC
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Tobias Smollett - translator, y otros
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The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
- De: Xenophon, Edward Bysshe - translator
- Narrado por: Nicholas Tecosky
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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Xenophon was a Greek who admired and studied with Socrates. He marched with the Spartans and later was exiled from Athens. He wrote about the history of his times, the sayings of Socrates and about life in Greece. Edward Bysshe translated Xenophone's work in 1702. This translation has continued to have an excellent reputation. In this work Xenophon discusses the views of life taught by Socrates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Philosopher, Soldier, Historian and Mercenary
- De Darwin8u en 12-04-12
De: Xenophon, y otros
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Fear and Trembling
- De: Søren Kierkegaard
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
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From the perspective of an unbeliever, Fear and Trembling explores the paradox of faith, the nature of Christianity, and the complexity of human emotion. Kierkegaard examines the biblical story of Abraham, who was instructed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and forces us to consider Abraham's state of mind. What drove Abraham, and what made him carry out such an absurd and extreme request from God? Kierkegaard argues that Abraham's agreement to sacrifice Isaac, and his suspension of reason, elevated him to the highest level of faith.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and Formidable Narration
- De MFC en 03-06-20
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Interior Castle
- De: Teresa of Avila
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle is one of the most celebrated books ever written by a mystic on abiding in union with Christ. Writing in obedience to the requests of two of her superiors, the humble 16th century Spanish sister protests "...for the love of God, let me get on with my spinning and go to choir...like the other sisters...I am not meant for writing; I have neither the health nor the wits for it."
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4 out of 5 stars
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falling in love with the Divine
- De David S. en 04-10-12
De: Teresa of Avila
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Frankenstein
- De: Mary Shelley
- Narrado por: Dan Stevens
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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3 out of 5 stars
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ARE WE ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-28-16
De: Mary Shelley
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Love Letters of Great Men
- De: John C. Kirkland
- Narrado por: Chris Patton
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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When words of love do not come to you on their own, then listen to these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats, and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoléon, who wrote to his beloved Joséphine, "I awake consumed with thoughts of you...." Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved...."
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4 out of 5 stars
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For all us hopeless romantics!
- De Stitch en 04-12-13
De: John C. Kirkland
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The Consolation of Philosophy
- De: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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Charged with treason under Theodoric the Great in sixth-century Rome, Boethius served one year's imprisonment, awaiting trial and eventual execution. During this time, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, which would go on to be one of the most popular philosophical works of all time, contributing much to medieval thought and influencing the likes of Dante and Chaucer, as well as Renaissance writers, such as Milton and Shakespeare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The answer I was looking for
- De J Guo en 06-11-23
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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The Letters of Heloise & Abelard
- De: Peter Abelard, Heloise
- Narrado por: Claire Bloom
- Duración: 30 m
- Versión completa
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The deepest currents of passion seldom break the surface of literature. Romantic classics abound; but however skilled a writer may be in verbalising an emotional experience, he cannot publicly evoke the heat of blood, the yearning of soul, bared in perfect intimacy between two beings. But letters can do this, and songs never meant to be sung by any but the lover, or the beloved.
De: Peter Abelard, y otros
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The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily
- De: Laura Creedle
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, she's intrigued - he seems 30 seconds behind while she feels 30 seconds ahead. It doesn't hurt that he's brilliant and beautiful. When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual affinity for ancient love letters connects them. The two fall for each other. Hard. But is it enough to bridge their differences in person?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing disability rep
- De angelo rodriguez en 09-15-21
De: Laura Creedle
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- De: Christine de Pizan
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Shocked and distressed by a male writer's vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter misogynist cliches and serve to instill self-worth in its female listeners of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The audio really illuminated the ideas for me
- De JoAnn en 03-09-22
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Fairy Tales
- De: George MacDonald
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton, David Timson
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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George MacDonald, described by W.H. Auden as "one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century", was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing, it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination, and this collection includes all 11 stories. The fairy tales feature the stock characters of traditional tales—fairies both good and bad, and children undertaking precarious journeys. Often adopting paradox and nonsense as Lewis Carroll did, the stories invite adults to deploy the same open-mindedness as children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The greatest author OAT
- De M. Mules en 12-21-23
De: George MacDonald
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The Mabinogion
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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Compiled in Middle Welsh during the 12th and 13th centuries, The Mabinogion is a mesmerizing panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humor. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one I found
- De lucindy h. en 03-20-21
De: Anonymous
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt, y otros
- Duración: 28 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Up to the Usual Naxos Standard
- De John en 11-15-17
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The Letters of Heloise & Abelard
- De: Peter Abelard, Heloise
- Narrado por: Claire Bloom
- Duración: 30 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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The deepest currents of passion seldom break the surface of literature. Romantic classics abound; but however skilled a writer may be in verbalising an emotional experience, he cannot publicly evoke the heat of blood, the yearning of soul, bared in perfect intimacy between two beings. But letters can do this, and songs never meant to be sung by any but the lover, or the beloved.
De: Peter Abelard, y otros
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The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily
- De: Laura Creedle
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, she's intrigued - he seems 30 seconds behind while she feels 30 seconds ahead. It doesn't hurt that he's brilliant and beautiful. When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual affinity for ancient love letters connects them. The two fall for each other. Hard. But is it enough to bridge their differences in person?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing disability rep
- De angelo rodriguez en 09-15-21
De: Laura Creedle
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- De: Christine de Pizan
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Shocked and distressed by a male writer's vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter misogynist cliches and serve to instill self-worth in its female listeners of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The audio really illuminated the ideas for me
- De JoAnn en 03-09-22
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Fairy Tales
- De: George MacDonald
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton, David Timson
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
George MacDonald, described by W.H. Auden as "one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century", was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing, it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination, and this collection includes all 11 stories. The fairy tales feature the stock characters of traditional tales—fairies both good and bad, and children undertaking precarious journeys. Often adopting paradox and nonsense as Lewis Carroll did, the stories invite adults to deploy the same open-mindedness as children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The greatest author OAT
- De M. Mules en 12-21-23
De: George MacDonald
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The Mabinogion
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Compiled in Middle Welsh during the 12th and 13th centuries, The Mabinogion is a mesmerizing panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humor. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one I found
- De lucindy h. en 03-20-21
De: Anonymous
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt, y otros
- Duración: 28 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 234
The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Up to the Usual Naxos Standard
- De John en 11-15-17
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The Poetic Edda
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods.
De: Anonymous
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Piers Plowman
- De: William Langland
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Piers Plowman, William Langland's visionary medieval work about one man's quest for the true Christian life, is an allegorical journey through dream visions and visions within dreams. During the course of his journey, the narrator (William Langland) meets Piers Plowman, who gradually reveals himself to be the son of God. Through Piers, William learns of the virtues in poverty, the temptations of wealth, and of the perfect society that is to come under the rule of Piers Plowman.
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Soul Awakening
- De Justin Poirier en 05-23-24
De: William Langland
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Moralia Volume 1
- 26 Ethical Essays
- De: Plutarch
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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It is plutarch, it is ukemi ...
- De Mohad Cheridi en 07-31-19
De: Plutarch
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
- De: Robert Burton
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 56 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. The Anatomy of Melancholy, presented here with all the original quotations in English, is, at last, available on audiobook in its entirety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nam Et Doctis Hisce Erroribus Versatus Sum
- De Darwin8u en 05-26-20
De: Robert Burton
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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The Lays of Marie de France
- De: Marie de France
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton, David Rintoul
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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The 12 Lays of Marie de France offer one of the most striking collections of short narrative poems of the 12th century - two centuries before Chaucer. Written in Anglo-French, they contain beguiling and entertaining stories of love and romance, of chivalry and adventure with sometimes even a magical twist. They are especially unique in early literature by being ascribed to a female poet, Marie de France: in the very first Lay - 'Guigemar' - is the introductory line: ‘Hear my Lords, what Marie says, who does not wish to be forgotten in her time.’
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amazing Translation!
- De Stephen Daedelus en 12-29-20
De: Marie de France
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- Aristobulus
- 12-31-19
A classic about two vibrant souls and minds
A classic for all time, beautifully performed, about two vibrant souls and minds. Well worth the listening.
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- Marlene Woods
- 05-21-23
Lovely
The unity of love and divinity, in letters, was a wonderful lesson of human achievement.
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- ER
- 11-03-21
just could not get into it
I just could not get into this story. At no point was I captivated or entertained by the story or the narrator. It actually was a book to fall asleep to
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