Cairo Trilogy, The: Episode 2
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Performed By : Full-Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 1 hour
Categories : General
Dramatizations
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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...
"Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz's novels, this is a gripping family saga, with a monstrous father, loving mother and their four children, set in seductive Cairo from 1917 to 1953 against a backdrop of political upheaval." --- The Times
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Dante: Inferno, from The Divine Comedy
Author : Dante
Performed By : Heathcote Williams
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours 10 minutes
Categories : Poetry
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Abandon All Hope You Who Enter Here
(Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate)
Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is lead down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins committed on earth.
The Inferno is the first part of the long journey which continues through redemption to revelation - through Purgatory and Paradise - and, in this translation prepared especially for audiobook, his images are as vivid as when the poem was first written in the early years of the 14th century.
(Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate)
Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is lead down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins committed on earth.
The Inferno is the first part of the long journey which continues through redemption to revelation - through Purgatory and Paradise - and, in this translation prepared especially for audiobook, his images are as vivid as when the poem was first written in the early years of the 14th century.
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