VARIOUS WRITERS
1000 Years Of Laughter Carole Boyd, Griff Rhys Jones, Jonathan Keeble, John Moffatt; Cathy Sara; David Timson (readers) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 7/Oct/2002 ] Laughter is unique to man. This delightful anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature. David Timson starts with Anglo-Saxon riddles and continues with medieval memories, Tudor comic turns and Restoration buffoonery. The... |
JULES VERNE
Verne: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Abridged) John Carlisle (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2000 ] The year is 1866. The maritime world is gripped by fear after reported sightings of a huge and terrible sea monster. Monsieur Aronnax, a distinguished Professor of Natural History, pronounces the creature to be a giant narwhal and is invited to join... |
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (unabridged) Read by Jo Wyatt, David Horovitch and full cast [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 29/May/2006 ] Alice's adventures, funny, inventive and disturbing, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication. This is a new unabridged recording using many voices to take the parts of The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts... |
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
Andersens Fairy Tales [Incls 'The Emperor's New Clothes & The Ugly Duckling'] Erica Johns (reader) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2000 ] This charming collection includes such classic favorites as The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, Big Claus and Little Claus and more. |
Various Artists
Austen:jane Austen Collection [ Naxos Audiobooks / 11 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] |
KATE CHOPIN
The Awakening Read by Liza Ross [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 22/Oct/2000 ] This is the moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun, and in so doing challenges the bourgeois assumptions of her day. First... |
ANNA SEWELL
Black Beauty Read by Jonathan Keeble [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 28/Oct/2000 ] Black Beauty, the friendly, patient stallion with a white blaze upon his forehead, is one of the most familiar figures in children's literature. After the first lively carefree years in the fields, Black Beauty learns to accept the saddle and bridle... |
Various Artists
Boccaccio: The Decameron [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/Oct/2000 ] |
Various Artists
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales 1 [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 29/Nov/2004 ] |
Various Artists
Children's Favourites [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] An enchanting collection of favourite songs from the past. Included are I'm A Lonely Little Petunia, Sparky's Music Mix-up, I know an old lady, Popo the Puppet, The Kings's New Clothes, and many more, sung by such unique entertainers as Danny Kaye... |
POE / JAMES / WILDE
Classic Chilling Tales Volume 2 Read by Anthony Donovan [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2000 ] The vengeful dead, premonition, ghosts, pacts with the devil and a strange madness - these |
Various Artists
The Essential John Milton [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] |
Various Artists
A Family Christmas [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] |
THOMAS HARDY
Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (Abridged) Neville Jason (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 12/Aug/2000 ] In a remote corner of early Victorian England, where traditional practices remain untouched by time, Bathsheba Everdene stands out as a beacon of feminine independence and self-reliance. However, when confronted with three suitors, among them the... |
Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker,Norman Rodway, Samuel West (narrators)
Great Speeches In History [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln-here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the... |
RUDYARD KIPLING
The Jungle Books Read by Madhav Sharma [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2000 ] Kipling's tales of Mowgli and his exciting life in the Indian jungle have been loved by children and adults alike ever since their publication in 1895. Mowgli the 'man-cub' must learn to fend for himself against terrible foes like Shere Khan the... |
LYMAN FRANK BAUM
Baum: The Marvelous Land of Oz (Abridged) Liza Ross (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] In this exciting sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the boy Tip and his pal Jack Pumpkinhead are on the run from the old witch Mombi. Fleeing to the Emerald City, they meet up with the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and find themselves battling a... |
HARUKI MURAKAMI
The Elephant Vanishes (Unabridged) John Chancer, Rupert Degas, Tim Flavin, Teresa Gallagher, Mark Heenehan, Walter Lewis, Jeff Peterson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD Box Set - released 29/May/2006 ] A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. Murakami is a cult figure throughout the world with an... |
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
Barrie: Peter Pan (Abridged) Read by Samuel West [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2000 ] 'I'm youth, I'm joy… I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.' The story of the little boy who refused to grow up has captured the imagination of generations of children (and the adults they grew into) since its publication in 1904. Peter... |
CARLO COLLODI
Pinocchio (Abridged) John Sessions (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who comes to life and has the most astonishing adventures. A naughty, mischievous creature, he is full of good intentions but is greedy, and lets nothing stand in his way. His maker, poor Gepetto, loves him like a son,... |