AuthorAlighieri Dante
NarratorHeathcote Williams
Duration4h 33m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Poetry
PublisherNaxos
VersionUnabridged
'Purgatory' is the second part of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy'. From Hell, the poet, guided by Virgil, struggles up Mount Purgatory to the Garden of Eden, climbing the terraces populated by souls purging themselves of sin.
Author: Fiona Sampson
Author Fiona Sampson
Narrator Fiona Sampson
Duration 1h 9m
Rough Music is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This collection, read here by the author, is full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics...
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Paradise From the Divine Comedy
Author: Alighieri Dante
Author Alighieri Dante
Narrator Heathcote Williams
Duration 4h 26m
'Paradise' is the third and final part of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy'. Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise to be granted a vision of God's Heavenly court - the angels, the Blessed Virgin and God himself.
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Author: By Benedict Flynn Translated
Author By Benedict Flynn Translated
Narrator Crawford Logan
Duration 2h 24m
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 A.D., Beowulf tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorises the Scyldings of Hrothgar's Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As a result he has to face her enraged mother. Beowulf dies after a battle against a fierce...
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Author: Leonard Cohen
Author Leonard Cohen
Narrator Leonard Cohen
Duration 3h 12m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Book of Longing written and read by Leonard Cohen. Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and 2006, when this book was first published. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and dept...
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The Inferno From the Divine Comedy
Author: Alighieri Dante
Author Alighieri Dante
Narrator Heathcote Williams
Duration 3h 58m
The first part of Dante's 'Divine Comedy', an extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos and humour. Inferno is the first part of the long journey which continues through Purgatory and Paradise. In this translation by Benedict Flynn, Dante's images are as vivid as when the poem was first written in the early years of the 14th century...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 2m
A delightful collection from around the British Isles including Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, Leisure by W. H Davis and To Autumn by John Keats. Featuring classic recordings by Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
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Author: George Mpanga
Author George Mpanga
Narrator George Mpanga
Duration 1h 8m
Search Party is a thought-provoking and deeply autobiographical collection. From the overtly political 'Go Home' to the deeply personal 'Full-time'; the narrative poems that offer vivid and unapologetic snapshots of inner-city life, such as 'His Mistakes', 'Believer' and the anthemic 'My City'; to the provocative social commentary in 'Lazy Dog' and...
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Author: Ian Sansom
Author Ian Sansom
Narrator Ian Sansom
Duration 9h 44m
This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This a book about a poet - W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scap...
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Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Series, Book 1
Author: Alighieri Dante
Author Alighieri Dante
Narrator Alex Jennings, Laurie Anderson, Colin Redgrave
SeriesThe Divine Comedy, Book 1
Duration 49m
This original and refreshingly different dramatisation follows Dante, 'lost in a dark wood', who is met by Virgil, who takes him on a tour of the underworld: a place he could end up if he decides to take his own life. Starring Corin Redgrave as Dante, Alex Jennings as Virgil, Laurie Anderson as Beatrice and Arthur Brown as The Gate of Hell and prod...
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Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Author: Christopher Reid
Author Christopher Reid
Narrator Robert Bathurst
Duration 51m
T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dog poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats...
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