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His Parables and Poems
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Khalil Gibrán
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Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, one of the best-selling books of all time, which has been translated into more than 100 languages.
The Madman: His Parables and Poems, Gibran's first book published in English, is a collection of approximately 35 inspirational parables and poems on God, animals, human nature, and the meaning of life. These brief but memorable pieces serve as sources of contemplation and include "How I Became a Madman", "The Two Hermits", "The Wise Dog", "The Good God and the Evil God", "Night and the Madman", "When My Sorrow Was Born", and “When My Joy Was Born".
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- De: Ziggy Marley - introduction, Gerald Hausman - editor
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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A sacred text to Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians, The Kebra Nagast tells of the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and their son, Menyelik, who hid the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. This edition of the Ethiopian text is edited by Gerald Hausman, with an introduction by Ziggy Marley.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great
- De Rebecca Oliver en 03-20-21
De: Ziggy Marley - introduction, y otros
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I Know What to Do, So Why Don't I Do It?
- The New Science of Self-Discipline
- De: Nick Hall
- Narrado por: Nick Hall
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,516
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,317
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,304
You might think laziness, lack of willpower, and/or low motivation are to blame for the fact that you aren't achieving your goals. But fascinating research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed another, far more likely possibility. One with the potential to transform your life in a dramatic way.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Big Disappointment!
- De TP en 01-29-15
De: Nick Hall
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Leaves of Grass
- De: Walt Whitman
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece, written in a pure, uninhibited style, combining sensual and mystical sensibilities. Its bold, joyous voice, its expansive optimism, and its transcendental vision made it uniquely American.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No chapters! Can't skip to a particular poem :(
- De April Antoniou en 02-08-13
De: Walt Whitman
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Faust
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is a poem, translated by Bayard Taylor, which tells the beautiful and emotional story of a man who has seen and done it all. However, despite all of his learning and education, his life still feels empty and unaccomplished. He believes wholeheartedly that there is something else out there. Faust, having exhausted all other fields of study, turns to magic for fulfillment. He summons the devil and makes a pact - that if the devil can show him something rewarding and fulfilling, he will give the devil his soul.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading
- De Grant Pajak en 03-29-17
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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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 Gods of Pegana
- De: Lord Dunsany
- Narrado por: Ritchard Milton
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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" The Gods of Pegana" is the first book by Lord Dunsany, published in 1905. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dunsany is great. This reader/performance is...
- De Advocatus Peregrini en 06-23-18
De: Lord Dunsany
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De Profundis
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 1 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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At its heart, De Profundis is a love letter and is better known as the De Profundis papers. Written in 1897, while Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol, De Profundis would become one of his best-known works. The papers include Wilde's account of living a lavish lifestyle and his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, both of which he credited for his eventual downfall and imprisonment. The second half of the papers is Wilde's account of prison life and his spiritual awakening.
De: Oscar Wilde
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Paradise: From The Divine Comedy
- De: Dante Alighieri
- Narrado por: Heathcote Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 66
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Led by his guide, Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of The Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church. The horrors of Inferno and the trials of Purgatory are left far behind. Ultimately, in Paradise, Dante is granted a vision of God’s Heavenly court: the angels, the Blessed Virgin, and God Himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Brad en 09-05-11
De: Dante Alighieri
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Medea
- De: Euripides
- Narrado por: Jonathan Waters
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narrator makes this story work
- De cosmitron en 08-02-18
De: Euripides
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The Egyptian
- De: Mika Waltari
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 23 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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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 Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- De: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the ancient mariner. The result is nothing short of cataclysmic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic well read
- De Gary en 08-08-16
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and thought provoking.
- De Holly Stockley en 04-24-19
De: Anthony Esolen
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Salomé
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Rosalind Ayres, James Marsters, Andre Sogliuzzo, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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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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1 out of 5 stars
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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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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 743
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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5 out of 5 stars
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SELL YOUR SHIRT FOR THIS AUDIO BOOK!
- De thomas en 04-23-11
De: John Milton