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The Prince is one of the most influential and controversial works in political philosophy. Written in 1513 while Machiavelli was in exile from Florence, this short treatise offers advice to rulers on how to gain and maintain political power. At its core, The Prince argues that successful political leaders must be willing to act immorally at times for the greater good of the state.
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Before we whipped out our old high school syllabi and dug deep into our libraries to start selecting contenders for this list, we first had to answer the question, "How do we define a classic?" The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might guess, though there’s a lot to be said for the old adage, "You know it when you see it" (or, in this case, hear it). Of course, most critically, each of our picks had to be fabulous in audio. So dust off your aspirational listening list—we have some amazing additions you don’t want to miss.
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The Prince
- By: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,253
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From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici....
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You have to know what you get with The Prince
- By Cody Brown on 02-10-15
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-24-13
- Language: English
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The Prince
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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The Prince is a timeless political treatise that explores how power is gained, maintained, and lost. Written in the early 16th century, Machiavelli offers sharp, practical guidance for rulers navigating unstable political landscapes.
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-24-26
- Language: English
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The Complete Strategy Collection
- The Art of War, The Prince, The Book of Five Rings, On War and Arthashastra
- By: Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, Miyamoto Musashi, and others
- Narrated by: Michael Bower, Tom Chandler
- Length: 52 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance66
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The Complete Strategy Collection, a compilation of ancient and historical philosophies, will increase your knowledge of strategy, conflict, and adversity throughout the ages, giving you valuable insight into the past while opening a window to the future....
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A nice surprise!
- By Sandy Cathcart on 04-09-24
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The Complete Strategy Collection
- The Art of War, The Prince, The Book of Five Rings, On War and Arthashastra
- Narrated by: Michael Bower, Tom Chandler
- Length: 52 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-19-22
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Famous for his political treatise The Prince, which advises would-be kings on the best strategies for governing, Machiavelli turns his attention to the inner workings of a successful republic and the people necessary to maintain it in his Discourses on Livy.
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Discourses on Livy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-31-25
- Language: English
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El principe [The Prince]
- By: Nicolas Maquiavelo
- Narrated by: Joaquin Rodrigo Madrigal
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall45
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Performance35
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Story34
"El príncipe" habla de las monarquías hereditarias y especialmentede las monarquías formadas a partir de "principados nuevos"....
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Hate the background music,
- By Amazon Customer on 06-24-22
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El principe [The Prince]
- Narrated by: Joaquin Rodrigo Madrigal
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: Spanish
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
- By: Nicolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance5
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The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the "effectual" truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal....
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A solid performance on a classic
- By Kristjan Larson on 01-17-22
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-01-21
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
- Oxford World's Classics
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella - translator, Julia Conaway Bondanella - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.
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Discourses on Livy
- Oxford World's Classics
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-20-26
- Language: English
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The Complete Strategy Collection
- The Art of War Sun Tzu, the Prince Machiavelli and the Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- By: Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, Miyamoto Musashi, and others
- Narrated by: Adam Nelson
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance31
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Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, martial artist, student, or simply seeking practical wisdom, this Complete Strategy Collection delivers powerful insights into leadership, competition, and self-mastery—timeless tools for victory in any field.
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Good books, practical recommendations
- By Vignesh Krishnan on 02-23-26
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The Complete Strategy Collection
- The Art of War Sun Tzu, the Prince Machiavelli and the Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrated by: Adam Nelson
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-14-25
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Three: 10 Novels and Stories from Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Homer, Machiavelli, & More
- Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Prince, Walden, & More
- By: Brothers Grimm, Henry David Thoreau, Niccolo Machiavelli, and others
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Rachel Atkins, Ben Allen, and others
- Length: 104 hrs and 31 mins
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The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Three is the third instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Three features 10 essential works that reach further back into early Greek and Italian stories from Dante, Machiavelli, and Homer...
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Three: 10 Novels and Stories from Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Homer, Machiavelli, & More
- Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Prince, Walden, & More
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman, Rachel Atkins, Ben Allen, Jonathan Keeble, David Rintoul, Robert G. Slade, Mark Elstob
- Series: The Ultimate Classics Collection (SNR Audio)
- Length: 104 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-11-25
- Language: English
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The Prince
- By: Nicolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Ian Richardson
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall411
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Performance241
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Story238
How remarkable that an Italian living in the 15th and 16th centuries should lend his name to a word still in common usage in the English language today....
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The perfect narrator
- By Adam on 11-29-05
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Ian Richardson
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-13-05
- Language: English
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The Prince
- Fingerprint Classics
- Narrated by: Luke Erlenbusch
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-15-25
- Language: English
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Art of War
- By: Christopher Lynch - translator, Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall156
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Performance113
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Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory....
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Interesting Piece
- By Kees on 05-14-11
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Art of War
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-30-10
- Language: English
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El príncipe
- Narrated by: José Carlos Domínguez
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-22-20
- Language: Spanish
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El Príncipe [The Prince]
- By: Nicolás Maquiavelo
- Narrated by: Geraldo Medina
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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La importancia del poder no radica en la forma en que se llegue a obtenerlo, sino en cómo mantenerlo.
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Completamente diferente, a lo esperado, pero fenomenal
- By Rafael Urq on 11-15-25
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El Príncipe [The Prince]
- Narrated by: Geraldo Medina
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-21-24
- Language: Spanish
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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
- By: Niccolo Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Monroe Clark McBride
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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The Discourses on Livy, published posthumously in 1531, is a work of political history and philosophy composed in the early 16th century by the famed Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) and is widely considered one of his masterpieces....
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- By Michael on 01-20-26
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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
- Narrated by: Monroe Clark McBride
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 12-03-22
- Language: English
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The Prince (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli, William Kenaz Marriott - translator
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance36
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Direct and coldly pragmatic, Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince is the preeminent guide to winning and maintaining power at the highest levels....
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Critics literally never even read or listened to this work.
- By Plains on 06-11-22
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The Prince (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-22-17
- Language: English
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The Prince
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Daniel Pagone
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Delve into the timeless wisdom and political acumen of Niccolò Machiavelli’s "The Prince," masterfully narrated by Daniel Pagone.
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The reader's complete inability to pronounce words and names correctly.
- By Jeff H on 11-27-24
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Daniel Pagone
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Douglass Scott
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-24-20
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Personal Power Classics Library
- A Collection of the Greatest Non-Fiction Literary Works in Personal Development
- By: Neville Goddard, George S. Clason, Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Dan Strutzel
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nightingale-Conant Corporation is proud to present The Ultimate Personal Power Classics Library—a collection of 4 of the greatest non-fiction literary works in the field of personal development....
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The Ultimate Personal Power Classics Library
- A Collection of the Greatest Non-Fiction Literary Works in Personal Development
- Narrated by: Dan Strutzel
- Series: Nightingale-Conant: Personal Development
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-19-22
- Language: English
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Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.
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Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-28-24
- Language: English
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A Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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