#TheChosenOne Classics Collection
Epic Journeys, Chivalric Quests, Enchanted Legends, and Cosmic Horrors of the Chosen HeroBy Homer, Virgil, Anonymous, Maurice Hewlett, Thomas Malory, William Morris, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft
Length110h 46m
About this audiobook
#TheChosenOne Classics Collection traces one of literature's most enduring narrative patterns: the figure marked by destiny, prophecy, inheritance, or singular moral burden. Ranging from archaic epic and Roman mythmaking to Arthurian romance, Victorian medievalism, children's fantasy, and twentieth-century sword-and-sorcery and cosmic horror, the volume illuminates how "chosen" status may confer authority, isolate the hero, or expose the fragility of human agency. Heroic quests, enchanted kingdoms, perilous successions, and encounters with the uncanny create a strikingly varied formal and imaginative landscape. Its contributors span foundational classical traditions and later writers who repeatedly refashioned inherited myths for new cultural moments. Homer and Virgil establish epic models of divinely entangled heroism; anonymous and medieval traditions preserve communal ideals of kingship and chivalry; later romantic, fantastical, and weird-fiction voices revise these models through nostalgia, adventure, irony, terror, and popular storytelling. Together, these works map the migration of heroic election across Western literary history, from public duty and imperial destiny to private imagination and existential dread. This collection is recommended for readers of myth, fantasy, epic, and literary history. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles and eras within one volume, while inviting reflection on why cultures repeatedly imagine salvation, danger, and transformation through exceptional individuals. Its internal dialogue makes it both an engaging reading experience and a valuable introduction to the evolving chosen-one tradition.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Fantasy
Length110 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Iliad
26The Aeneid
2BOOK I
27BOOK I (pt. 1)
3BOOK II
28BOOK I (pt. 2)
4BOOK III
29BOOK I (pt. 3)
5BOOK IV
30BOOK I (pt. 4)
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6BOOK V
31BOOK I (pt. 5)
7BOOK VI
32Beowulf
8BOOK VII
33Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
9BOOK VIII
34PREFACE.
10BOOK IX
35LIST OF WORDS AND PHRASES NOT IN GENERAL USE.
11BOOK X
36BEOWULF.
12BOOK XI
37VII.
13BOOK XII
38XIII.
14BOOK XIII
39XIX.
15BOOK XIV
40XXIV.
16BOOK XV
41XXIX.
17BOOK XVI
42XXXIII.
18BOOK XVII
43XXXVIII.
19BOOK XVIII
44XLIII.
20BOOK XIX
45ADDENDA.
21BOOK XX
46The Saga of Volsungs and Niblungs
22BOOK XXI
47Chapter I. Of Sigi, the Son of Odin
23BOOK XXII
48Chapter II. Of the Birth of Volsung, the Son of Rerir, Who Was the Son of Sigi
24BOOK XXIII
49Chapter III. Of the Sword That Sigmund, Volsung’s Son, Drew From the Branstock
25BOOK XXIV
50Chapter IV. How King Siggeir Wedded Signy, and Bade King Volsung and His Son to Gothland
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