Search Results: naxos audiobooks
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Norton/Riordan
Joyce: Ulysses [ Naxos Audiobooks / 22 CD - released 5/Jan/2004 ] |
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Paton
A Lover's Gift From Her To Him [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 30/Oct/2006 ] |
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Paul Slack
Lawrence: Sons And Lovers [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 2/Jun/2008 ] |
D.H. LAWRENCE
Sons and Lovers (Unabridged) Paul Slack (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers. The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a... |
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Pearson Phillips
Life And Times Of Elizabeth Ii [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] |
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Black Tulip (Unabridged) Read by Peter Joyce [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] When tulip-grower Cornelius van Baerle is framed for treason and sentenced to death, he is powerless against the brutal factional politics that put him in prison. But Rosa, the jailer's daughter, is beautiful and strong-willed, and when they fall in... |
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Peter Marinker
Hawthorne: House Of Seven Gabl [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The Great Poets: Oliver Wendell Holmes Peter Marinker (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] The American poet, doctor, teacher, hymn writer, lecturer and novelist Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the illustrious East Coast Brahmins - the Fireside Poets who included Longfellow, Whittier and Bryant. He was immensely popular in his own time,... |
SIR THOMAS MALORY
The Death of Arthur (Abridged) Philip Madoc (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "..Philip Madoc plays up both in his exciting narration. Revealing his Shakespearean training, his commanding performance is even more effective with the addition of Gregorian chants and medieval carols at the most dramatic moments." --Audiofilemagazine |
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein (Unabridged) Read by Daniel Philpott, Roger May & Jonathan Oliver [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Mary Shelley's poignant exploration of the true depths of human ambition has had a profound effect on readers since its conception in 1816. When scientist Victor Frankenstein forms a creature from the body parts of corpses, thus shattering the... |
ANNE BRONTE
Bronte: Agnes Grey (Unabridged) Read by Rachel Bavidge [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2009 ] From its opening sentences Agnes Grey introduces a heroine who is honest, perceptive and charming. Unfortunately, the Bloomfields, who engage her as a governess, are rather less appealing, and the incarnation of the suppressed cruelties and... |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1 (Modern English Verse Translation) (Read by Anthony Donovan, with Anton Lesser, Philip Madoc, Clive Merrison, and others) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2009 ] "..all six readers are sensitive to the rhythm and rhyme of the translation, and the interludes of medieval music also add a splash of flavor." --Audiofilemagazine |
HOMER
The Odyssey (abridged and translated by William Cowper) (Read by Anton Lesser) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2007 ] The Odyssey is one of the two great epics of ancient Greece, the other being, of course, The Iliad. Of their author, Homer, we know almost nothing: he probably lived in the 8th century BC and it is almost certain that he composed his verse orally,... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost (Read by Anton Lesser) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2009 ] 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... |
JULES VERNE
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Read by Bill Homewood [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 31/Mar/2017 ] The story begins in Hamburg, 1863. The brilliant Professor Liedenbrock, inspired by an ancient, encoded manuscript, impetuously decides to take his reluctant nephew Axel on a seemingly insane mission: to travel down volcanic tunnels to the very... |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar Of Wakefield (Abridged) Read by Christopher Robbie [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 23/Jan/1996 ] |
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The Possessed Read by Constantine Gregory [ Naxos Audiobooks / 23 CD - released 30/Jan/2018 ] Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovitch Verhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of Nihilists on a demonic... |
MIGUEL CERVANTES
Don Quixote (Read by Edward de Souza) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2009 ] 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... |
MARK TWAIN
Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (abridged) Read by Garrick Hagon [ Naxos Audio Books / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2017 ] Floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and... |
BARBARA EUPHAN TODD
Worzel Gummidge (Unabridged) Read by Jessica Martin [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 10/Aug/2017 ] Regarded as one of the most popular children's novels, Barbara Euphan Todd's Worzel Gummidge follows an animated scarecrow who causes chaos and mayhem wherever he goes. The series is perhaps best known through its 1980s television adaptation, and is... |
