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The Canterbury Tales - Abridged
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrated by: Philip Madoc
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chaucer’s greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of The Knight’s Tale to the joyous bawdy of the Miller’s; all are told with a freshness and vigour in this modern verse translation that make them a... Read more
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Opera Explained – Turandot
By: Thomson Smillie
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Puccini’s swansong has a claim to being the last great popular opera. Its melodies have enchanted audiences since its posthumous premiere in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death. It involves a chilling story of love and cruelty, an intriguing cast of characters against the exotic backdrop of Imperial China, magnificent choruses and ensembles,... Read more
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Tales from The Arabian Nights
By: Andrew Lang
Narrated by: Toby Stephens
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Toby Stephens takes us back to the world of cunning, adventure, mishap and fun. Sheherezade, night after night, weaves her tales and Aladdin and his Magic Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and other tales come alive. The unforgettable music of Rimsky Korsakov sets the scene perfectly. A delightful treat for young listeners. Read more
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Romeo and Juliet
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Michael Sheen
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Romeo and Juliet is the play which, in English literature at least, effectively invented the modern love story. Its charm and its power derive from the romantic setting (Verona, an Italian Renaissance city), the youthful innocence and ardour of the lovers, and (perhaps crucially) the excitement and drama created by the opposition which they have... Read more
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Classic American Poetry
By: Emily Dickinson
Narrated by: Garrick Hagon
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem’ said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory. Read more
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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Abridged
By: Henry Fielding
Narrated by: Maurice West
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The ‘Voice of the Year’ competition introduced and sponsored by Naxos AudioBooks and The Times books pages, edited by Erica Wagner, took place in Spring 2004. Readers without any formal drama training or professional acting experience were invited to send in recordings of a short extract of either Dickens, Austen or from The Wind in the... Read more
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To the Lighthouse - Abridged
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. It tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse, remote, inaccessible, an eternal presence in a changing world. A projected visit to the lighthouse forms the heart of... Read more
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The Treasure Seekers - Abridged
By: Edith Nesbit
Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves. They produce a series of madcap schemes and one after another try them out with varying degrees of success, most resulting in trouble rather than riches. But then one scheme begins to look more promising than the rest… Read more
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The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play. The wronged duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done. With Emilia Fox as Miranda, Scott Handy in the pivotal role of the sprite Ariel... Read more
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Oliver Twist - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Anton Lesser
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The eighth novel in Naxos AudioBooks’ series of the great works of Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist is Dickens’ second novel. Coming shortly after The Pickwick Papers it is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Who will help the... Read more
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Walden - Abridged
By: Henry David Thoreau
Narrated by: William Hope
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the town for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect – while surviving on eight dollars a year. From this experience emerged one of the great classics of American literature, a deeply... Read more
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Opera Explained – Tancredi
By: Thomson Smillie
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Rossini’s comic operas, like The Barber of Seville, are better known than his tragedies though he wrote in fact many more tragedies than comedies. One of them, his last, William Tell, is actually credited with launching the whole age of Grand Opéra. Tancredi is an early work – indeed his first smash hit – and it established his international... Read more
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The Life & Works of W.B. Yeats
By: W.B. Yeats
Narrated by: Jim Norton
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Life of William Butler Yeats is a remarkable one – poet, playwright, essayist, politician, occultist, astrologer, founder of a national theatre, voluminous correspondent, lover, husband and father. It was a life that extended to a packed, sometimes frantic seventy-three years and left us with what many consider to be one of the finest... Read more
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Blithe Spirit
By: Noel Coward
Narrated by: Corin Redgrave
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house in order to learn about the occult for his new book, the last thing he or his second wife dream is that the séance will bring back his first wife, Elvira, who wants Charles all to herself! Things are further complicated by the fact that only Charles can see her, which results in... Read more
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Life & Works – Franz Schubert
By: Jeremy Siepmann
Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle,... Read more
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume V
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr Watson comments ‘The stage lost a fine actor’ when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. two of these stories, The Reigate Squire and The Adventure of Beryl Coronet, Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries. In the first he explains a rural murder while in the second, Holmes’... Read more
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Othello
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Hugh Quarshie
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. Read more
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Abridged
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Bill Homewood
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantès, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Château d’If. His escape and ultimate revenge on those who wronged him makes this one of the most thrilling stories in French literature, as compelling now... Read more
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Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann and his nurse Moll. Other figures weave in and out... Read more
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
No case is too slight for the mental powers of the great detective: in this second selection from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, a young girl is stalked by a solitary cyclist; whilst the ‘dancing men’ hieroglyphics found in Norfolk lead to a sinister connection with America. Holmes enters the murky world of high society blackmail in Charles... Read more
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Opera Explained – Orfeo ed Euridice
By: Thomson Smillie
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the simple yet deeply moving legendary tale of Orpheus, who loses his beloved wife to death but is able to restore her through the power of his music, Orfeo ed Euridiceis among the earliest operas to hold a secure place in the repertory. Gluck lavishes a wealth of beautiful melody on this tale, whose appeal to composers is obvious; yet... Read more
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The Voice of the Buddha
By: Author
Narrated by: Kulananda
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Dhammapada is the single most important extant Buddhist text. It is unquestionably ‘the voice of the Buddha’ where many of his key ideas are presented in a cogent verse form. It opens ’All that we are is the result of what we have thought’ and each of the twenty-six sections is clearly introduced. Also included on this recording are other... Read more
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Opera Explained – Pagliacci
By: Thomson Smillie
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Pagliacci may be the most completely compelling short opera in the repertory and owes much of its impact to a brilliant story based, it is said, on true life and told through the device of a play-within-a-play. The action is set in Calabria in the deep south of Italy where the jealousies and illicit passions of a troupe of strolling actors... Read more
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Dubliners
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Jim Norton
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their... Read more
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