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HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
Sacred Elephant (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] Sacred Elephant is a moving portrayal of the world's largest land-living mammal. The poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat and in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hands of man. Evocatively read by... |
LEW WALLCE
Ben Hur Read by Jeff Harding [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] Ben Hur could be said to be the first blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two million copies and was translated into numerous languages. It combines all the best elements of popular classic, epic and action story against a... |
Voices Of Black America
[ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of... |
DARREN HENLEY
Famous Composers Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Aled Jones combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and... |
THOMAS HARDY
Winter Words Bruce Alexander & Janet Maw [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2001 ] |
VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Girls Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5-10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to... |
Choderlos de Laclos
Dangerous Liaisons Michael Sheen (Reader), Sarah Woodward (Reader), Polly Hayes (Reader) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD ] |
HERBERT ERNEST BATES
Bates: A Little What You Fancy (unabridged) Philip Franks (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2016 ] In the third sequel to The Darling Buds of May, Charley and Mariette decide to get baby Blenheim christened, leading to a wholesale christening of all seven of the Larkin children. Chaos abounds as the vicar Mr Candy is run ragged by the naughty... |
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Great Poets: Matthew Arnold Read by Jonathan Keeble [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze... |
LEWIS CARROLL
Selected Poetry by Lewis Carroll Read by Roger May [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 30/Aug/2016 ] This production shows Lewis Carroll's wild imagination, affinity for satire, and skill as a writer as it explores some of his most famous poems, including "The Hunting of the Snark," and "Jabberwocky," as well as less-known works like "My Fairy," and... |
RICHARD FAWKES
Fawkes: The History Of Classical Music (Unabridged) Read by Robert Powell [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 28/Jun/2004 ] From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music. |
RICHARD FAWKES
Fawkes: The History Of Opera (Unabridged) Read by Robert Powell [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2005 ] Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from Monteverdi to Wagner. .. |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth (Unabridged) Stephen Dillane/ David Timson / Bruce Alexander / Fiona Shaw [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Jun/2005 ] Macbeth, Shakespeare's last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it's first performance in 1606-probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who... |
SHAKESPEARE / KEATS / CLARE / BLAKE / etc
Poetry For The Winter Season James Barraclough, Ron Bloomfield, Christine Dimble, Roger McGough, James Murphy, Hazel Pardon, and others [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] In November 2005, hundreds of people submitted recordings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Roger McGough in an attempt to win a prize - participation in the recording of this new poetry collection by Christina Hardyment, historian and audiobook... |
ANONYMOUS
The Revelation of St John the Divine Read by Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] The theme of Revelation is apocalypse: the end of the world and the coming of Christ in judgement. The date of the composition was probably some time in the nineties AD. One of the most controversal and quoted texts of the New Testament, The... |
Farley Mowat
Never Cry Wolf Read by Adam Sims [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] More than half a century ago, the naturalist Farley Mowat accepted an assignment to investigate why wolves were killing Arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone - studying the wolf population and developing a... |
HENRY JAMES
James: The Europeans (Unabridged) Adam Sims (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2018 ] After the collapse of her marriage to an illustrious German prince, Baroness Eugenia Münster arrives in America with her brother, in search of wealthy New England relatives. The duo have an immediate impact on their American cousins, the Wentworths.... |
WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM
Nightmare Alley (Unabridged) Adam Sims (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Published in 1946, Nightmare Alley is a noir classic-at once a vivid insight into the sub-culture of the carny, and a bleak and gripping fable. |
DARREN HENLEY
The Story Of Classical Music (Unabridged) Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2010 ] The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Story Of Classical Music Marin Alsop (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The Story of Classical Music is the sort of project that hardly ever gets reviewed and at which people are likely to turn up their noses." (Julian Lloyd Webber) |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Sonnets (unabridged) Alex Jennings (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'. For centuries these wonderfully-crafted, intense lyrics have stood for... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (unabridged) Andrew Buchan, Sean Barrett, Andrew Buchan, Pip Carter, etc [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] 'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!' (Act III sc.i) Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and... |
DANIEL DEFOE
Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (Unabridged) Andrew Cullen (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD Box Set - released 30/Nov/2018 ] First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100,000 people, Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague. Through the eyes of H.F. (speculated to be Defoe's... |
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Tales from the Arabian Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and other stories Toby Stephens (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] Toby Stephens takes us back to the world of cunning, adventure, mishap and fun. Sheherezade, night after night, weaves her tales and Aladdin and his Magic Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and other tales come alive. The... |
ANTHONY HOPE
Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda (Unabridged) Read by Andrew Pugsley [ Naxos Audiobooks / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2010 ] Packed with romance and swashbuckling action, the tale is considered by some to be the best adventure story ever written. |
EDITH NESBIT
The Story Of The Amulet (abridged) Anna Bentinck (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] The trilogy of Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet, all involve the same family and their encounters with the magical being The Psammead. The adventures of the five children proved one of the most popular of... |
EDITH NESBIT
The Phoenix And The Carpet (Abridged) Anna Bentinck (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 2/May/2005 ] This sequel to Five Children and It sees the four children finding a carpet-and then being told by a phoenix that it is a magic carpet. It means a series of adventures. Anna Bentinck reads the tale with great charm. With delightful music of the period |
THOMAS HARDY
HARDY: Desperate Remedies (unabridged) Anna Bentinck (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 14 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2018 ] Thomas Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies is a thrilling blend of Gothic mystery and love-triangle romance. After the untimely death of their parents, Cytheria and Owen Graye must go out into the world and fend for themselves.... |
EDGAR ALLAN POE / OSCAR WILDE / AMBROSE BIERCE / CHARLES DICKENS / RHODES MONTAGUE
Chilling Ghost Stories Anthony Donovan (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 27/Oct/2008 ] A chilling collection of ghost stories containing Rats by M.R. James, The Raven and Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe, The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce and The Signalman by Charles Dickens. In Rats, Mr Thompson... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant Of Venice (Unabridged) Anthony Sher [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled... |
HOMER
The Odyssey (unabridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 10 CD Box Set - released 28/May/2007 ] The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost (unabridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 9 CD Box Set - released 31/Oct/2005 ] Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe.' So begins the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Regained (unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve and forced their departure from the Garden of Eden, here he sets out to tempt again-this time Jesus himself as he comes to the end of his forty days in the... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost (abridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/May/2005 ] Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit of the Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe…' Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and... |
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Way Through the Woods, and other favourite poems Anton Lesser, Anne Harvey, Katinka Wolf, narrators [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] There are complete stories here - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Lady of Shalott - and humor aplenty, whether it is the music hall mischief of Dahn the Plughole or the more sinister touches of Binyon's Hunger. |
LAURENCE STERNE
A Sentimental Journey (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne's lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he... |
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2 (Unabridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Jun/2005 ] In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty... |
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Sign Of Four (Unabridged) David Timson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] The Sign of Four is the second story by Conan Doyle about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes. From the moment Mary Morstan tells Holmes about the mysterious disappearance of her father and the yearly gift of a pearl from an unknown benefactor, Holmes... |
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Lost World (Unabridged) Glen McCready [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has ever been there, and his reports are so astonishing that no-one is prepared to believe him; except the extraordinary Professor Challenger... |
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes Vols I-III (Unabridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 10 CD Box Set - released 3/Apr/2006 ] The thirteen stories in this entertaining set, chart the activities of the world's greatest private detective from his sudden re-appearance after his supposed death at the Reichenberg Falls. Faithful Dr Watson recounts 'The Adventure of The Empty... |
