Listen to The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum) by Pierre Abélard

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum) Author: Pierre Abélard Narrator: Martin Geeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abelard's abrasively competitive, often arrogant personality emerges at once in the brief Foreword, where he informs his correspondent: "(I)n comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily." (Summary by Martin Geeson)