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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... |
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
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... |
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... |
