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CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expectations (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 15 CD Box Set - released 30/Jul/2007 ] Narrated in the first person, Great Expectations tells the story of Philip Pirrip (known as Pip) from his disadvantaged start as an orphan in the Kent marshes to the improvement in his position following an anonymous allowance. Pip moves to London... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Little Dorrit (Abridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] In Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens created one of his most penetrating satires on the weaknesses of government in the Victorian era. He chose Marshalsea debtors' prison as the setting, where his own father had been imprisoned. The story revolves... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby (Abridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2005 ] One of Dickens's earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Oliver Twist (Unabridged) Jonathan Keeble (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD Box Set - released 27/Feb/2012 ] Oliver Twist is a poor orphan in a cruel society. Maltreated from birth, he escapes only to become an accidental member of a gang of pickpockets and robbers. Briefly rescued, he is then kidnapped as part of a plot to defraud him of his inheritance,... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Our Mutual Friend (Unabridged) David Timson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 28 CD - released 30/Apr/2007 ] A mysterious boatman on the Thames, a drowned heir, a dustman and his wife, and a host of other Dickens characters populate this novel of relationships between the classes, money, greed and love. The 48 characters are presented with remarkable... |
CHARLES DICKENS
A Tale Of Two Cities (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 12 CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] 'It was the best of times and the worst of times.' In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope and self-sacrifice... |
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
The Eagle of the Ninth (Abridged) Charles Simpson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] Roman Britain: Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young centurion is forced into retirement after a wound in his first major engagement against a rebel British tribe. It allows him the freedom to embark upon a dangerous mission to find out what happened to... |
CONOR MCPHERSON
Port Authority (Unabridged) Stephen Brennan [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] Conor McPherson is one of the leading figures in Irish contemporary drama. His look at life in a village pub, The Weir, was premièred in Dublin and then ran for over a year in the West End and Broadway. Port Authority was his next play... |
DAVID ANGUS
Moses and other stories from the Old Testament (Unabridged) Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] Here are the main stories from The Old Testament: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Moses, The Ten Commandments, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lion's Den and more. In these days where religion... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Dickens: Selections from Sketches by Boz (Abridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 30/Apr/2012 ] Dickens's renowned skill for keen social observation and, more specifically, his incredibly detailed knowledge of London and its theatres, prisons and inns, is perfectly realised in Sketches by Boz. Many of the themes he goes on to explore in his... |
DAVID TIMSON
The History Of Theatre Derek Jacobi [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] This bold undertaking covers Western theatre from ancient Greece to the present day. It traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Molière and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the... |
ROBERT TRESSELL
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Unabridged) David Timson [ Naxos Audiobooks / 18 CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is the classic working-class novel. It was written in 1906 by an impoverished house painter, Robert Tressell, and within its framework contains a manifesto for socialism. It tells of the appalling working... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Christmas Stories (Unabridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 11 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2016 ] Charles Dickens was a major contributor to the Victorian romantic revival of Christmas traditions. With their heart, humour and good morals, Dickens's Christmas stories have made the author's name synonymous with the season. |
EDWARD GIBBON
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 (Abridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2014 ] The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has always maintained its initial appeal to both the general public and scholars alike. Its sheer scale is daunting, encompassing over a millennium of history, covering not merely the Western Empire from the... |
CHARLES DICKENS
Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (abridged) David Timson (narrator) [ Naxos AudioBooks / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2008 ] A mysterious boatman on the Thames, a drowned heir, a dustman and his wife, and a host of other Dickens characters populate this novel of relationships between the classes, money, greed and love. |
HARUKI MURAKAMI
A Wild Sheep Chase (Unabridged) Rupert Degas (Narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD - released 3/Jul/2006 ] A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses the most perfect ears (an erotic charge for him) uses a picture of a sheep with a star on its back. This catapults him... |
ERSKINE CHILDERS
Riddle Of The Sands (Abridged) Dermot Kerrigan (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] Carruthers is rescued from a hot summer at a deserted Foreign Office in London, by an out-of-the-blue invitation to join an acquaintance, Davis, on his yacht in the Baltic. He arrives to find not only that he comprises the whole crew, but also that... |
EDGAR ALLAN POE / RUDYARD KIPLING / MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES
Great Ghost Stories (Unabridged) Dermot Kerrigan [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories, perfect for those winter nights! This set contains The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, Sredni Vashtar by Saki, The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling... |
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote (Abridged) Edward De Souza [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 30/May/2005 ] The first European novel, and one of the greatest, is a marvellously comic study of delusion and its consequences: Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha, takes to the road in search of adventure and remains undaunted in the face of repeated... |
Edward De Souza / Paul Jesson / Simon Harris / Karen Archer / Laura Paton
Classical Love Poetry [ NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS / 2 CD ] An Anthology of Greek and Latin Amorous Verse. |
