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Composers' Letters Read by Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza, Anton Lesser, Benjamin Soames & Hugo Godwin [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and many more talk openly about their music,... |
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... |
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost (abridged) Anton Lesser (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/May/2005 ] 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 and... |
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Way Through the Woods, and other favourite poems Anton Lesser, Anne Harvey, Katinka Wolf, narrators [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] There are complete stories here - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Lady of Shalott - and humor aplenty, whether it is the music hall mischief of Dahn the Plughole or the more sinister touches of Binyon's Hunger. |
THE HAPPY PRINCE
The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and other stories Anton Lesser, narrator [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2004 ] These fantasies and true-to-life fables were created by Oscar Wilde for his own sons. Here is the tale of the Prince who is not as happy as he seems, of the Selfish Giant who learns how to love children, and of the Star-Child who suffers bitter... |
LAURENCE STERNE
A Sentimental Journey (Unabridged) Anton Lesser [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne's lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he... |
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... |
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... |
