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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
A Study In Scarlet David Timson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 23/May/2005 ] A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and... |
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting For Godot (unabridged) Nigel Anthony, Sean Barrett, David Burke, Zachary Fox [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2006 ] Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated... |
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Kafka On The Shore (Unabridged) Sean Barrett, G. Griffin, Daniel Philpot, etc [ Naxos Audiobooks / 15 CD Box Set - released 29/May/2006 ] Kafka on the Shore is the latest novel by Japan's leading literary novelist, who developed a world-wide cult reputation with Norwegian Wood. In Kafka on the Shore, Murakami continues with his remarkable combination of profound insight into humankind... |
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Pardoner's Tale / The Nun's Priest Tale / Franklin's Tale [Middle English] (Unabridged) Richard Bebb (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] These three tales from The Canterbury Tales are read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer. This was Bebb's last recording-he died shortly after finishing it-but though... |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue / The Physician's Tale (Unabridged) Richard Bebb, Philip Madoc, Michael Maloney (narrators) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2006 ] The Canterbury Tales are widely read and studied. The Middle English in which they were first written differs sufficiently from modern English, in vocabulary and usage, that most of us require a contemporary translation. On this recording, the... |
JEN GREEN
Kings And Queens Of England (Unabridged) Benjamin Soames (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2013 ] Which king liked to bathe while the band played Rule Britannia? Which queen was so fat she needed a hoist to get on the throne? Which prince shut his wife out of Westminster Abbey to prevent her from being crowned? Who was the blood-thirstiest... |
DAVID ANGUS
Great Scientists and their Discoveries (Unabridged) Benjamin Soames [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were they? This companion volume to Inventors and their Inventions introduces the work of ten men to younger readers, and range from the world of Ancient Greece... |
HENRIETTA ELIZABETH MARSHALL
Our Island Story, Vol. 2 (Unabridged) Anna Bentinck & Daniel Philpott [ Naxos Audiobooks / 5 CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (aged six-twelve) which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria. Antonia Fraser and many other current historians declare that it... |
HENRIETTA ELIZABETH MARSHALL
Our Island Story, Vol. 3 (Unabridged) Anna Bentinck & Daniel Philpott [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (aged six-twelve) which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria. Antonia Fraser and many other current historians declare that it... |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Great Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley Bertie Carvel (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet-Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted... |
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 41 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2010 ] On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made Captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the... |
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Man in the Iron Mask Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2000 ] This gripping tale of valour and honour in seventeenth-century France continues the adventures of the proud heroes of The Three Musketeers by the same author. We now know them as venerable leaders; their swashbuckling has become diplomacy-though the... |
HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
Allan Quatermain (Unabridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 10 CD Box Set - released 3/Sep/2012 ] We have met the intrepid hunter-tracker Allan Quatermain before, in H. Rider Haggard's marvellous King Solomon's Mines. This time, grieving from the tragic loss of his son, Quatermain longs to return to his beloved Africa. He sets out in search of a... |
HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
She - A History of Adventure (Abridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Nov/2011 ] Somewhere in Africa, a tiny, primitive tribe, the Amahaggers, live secretly amongst the debris of a lost Egyptian civilization, ruled by the beautiful semi-goddess Ayesha, or She-who-must-be-obeyed. Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge academic, is... |
STENDHAL
The Red and the Black (Unabridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2011 ] Young Julien Sorel, the son of a country timber merchant, carries a portrait of his hero Napoleon Bonaparte and dreams of military glory. A brilliant career in the Church leads him into Parisian high society, where, 'mounted upon the finest horse in... |
EDGAR WALLACE
The Four Just Men (Unabridged) Bill Homewood, narrator [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The mysterious Four Just Men are wealthy Europeans who move easily in high society but, capable of convincing disguise and brilliant acting, are as likely to be found on the street corners of London as at the dinner tables of Paris and Rome. They are... |
BRIAN GLANVILLE
The History of the World Cup - 1930-2002 (Unabridged) Bob Wilson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] This lively history of the world's greatest sporting event outside the Olympics is told by veteran football journalist and historian Brian Glanville, and read by the former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson. There is a full account of each of the... |
HENRY RIDER HAGGARD
She (Unabridged) Bill Homewood (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 11 CD Box Set - released 2/Mar/2011 ] Somewhere in Africa, a tiny, primitive tribe, the Amahaggers, live secretly amongst the debris of a lost Egyptian civilization, ruled by the beautiful semi-goddess Ayesha, or She-who-must-be-obeyed. Ludwig Horace Holly, a Cambridge academic, is... |
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Norwegian Wood John Chancer [ Naxos Audiobooks / 11 CD - released 27/Feb/2006 ] Like Proust's 'petite Madeleine' Toru Watanabe's memories of his student years, the girls, the tensions and the aspirations are jerked back into life by hearing the Beatles song 'Norwegian Wood' in an MOR version in an airplane. His first love.... |
CHARLES DICKENS
A Tale Of Two Cities (Abridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 28/Nov/2005 ] It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens's only historical novel, sets personal happiness against the terrors of the French Revolution where the search for social justice sacrifices individual rights... |
