Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries The History of Radio Unabridged 8 CD Audio Book Set Get other Sherlock Holmes AudioBooks click here Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries - Audio Book CD Brand New (8 CDs - 6 Hours): About Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries For the First time in half a century Sherlock Holmes returns to radio in a new series of broadcasts! Here is a collection of newly-conceived tales of the world's First consulting detective as told by his friend and associate Dr. John Watson portrayed by actor Lawrence Albert. Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries is produced under authority of the estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each episode is fully dramatized with a professional cast of actors realistic sound effects and a special suite of music that was commissioned for this radio series. But most importantly the creator of more.....
Othello by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him and tells Roderigo that he (Iago) is simply using Othello for his own advantage. Iago's argument against Cassio is that he is a scholarly tactician and has no real battle experience from which he can draw strategy. By emphasizing this point and his dissatisfaction with serving under Othello Iago convinces Roderigo to wake Brabantio and tell him about his daughter more details.....
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Unabridged read by Cherry Jones Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get Other Childrens Audio Books CD click here Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours At the beginning of this story Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and move to the Indian Territory near Independence Kansas as there were widely circulating stories that the land (technically still under Osage ownership) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently. So Laura along with Pa and Ma and Mary and baby Carrie move to Kansas. Along the way Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty. When the family reac more.....
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Unabridged read by Juliet Mills Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours Orphaned at an early age Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night. This is a story of passionate love travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr. Rochester is only one episode albeit the most important in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance but possesses an indomitable spirit a sharp wit and great courage. She is extra info.....
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Unabridged read by Susan O'Malley Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get Other Kids AudioBooks CD click here Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery - Unabridged - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 Audio CDs 10.5 Hours Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert unmarried middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables a farm in the town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick eager to please and talkative but dissatisfied with her name her pale countenance dotted with freckles and with her long braids of red hair. Although wishing she was named Cordelia she insists that if you are to call her Anne it must be spelt with an 'E' as it is "so much more distinguished." Being a child of imagination however Anne takes much more.....
The Caedmon Collection Dylan Thomas - Audio Book CD Introduced by Billy Collins Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Dylan Thomas - The Caedmon Collection - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 11 CDs 12.5 Hours Beginning in February 1952 Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label started by two 22-year-old women Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen. Little did they know that in addition to capturing a part of history they also launched an industry of spoken-word recording. This collection not only contains the incredible Caedmon recording sessions but also recordings from the BBC CBC and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Highlights include: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Five Poems"; "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" his prose: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Quite Early One Morning and his final work - Under Milk Wood a play. Also included is the famous recording of the first ever full stage performance of 'Under Milk Wood' starring Dylan himself a click here.....
The Odyssey by Homer Read by Sir Ian McKellen Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers The iliad on Audio Book click here The Odyssey by Homer Read by Sir Ian McKellen Unabridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 13 Hours 11 CDs Unabridged When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990 critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now one of the great translators of our time presents us with the Odyssey Homer's best-loved poem recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit and wile the 'man of twists and turns' meets the challenges of gods and monsters only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife's suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold contemporary idiom. This is an Odysse more information.....
The Lord of the Rings BBC Dramatisation - Audio CD This trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects Get Other Middle Earth Audio Books click here The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - BBC - Audio Book CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 13 Hours 12 CDs This trilogy of Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects. It has actors playing the parts of the stories characters - it is not a reading of the book. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths and Sauron The Dark Lord forged the One Ring filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo more information.....
Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Sherry Crowther Unabridged Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 18 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen first published in 1816 about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character Emma Woodhouse is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome clever and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel Austen wrote "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." About the Author Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a British novelist whose realism biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely-read and best-loved writers in British literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fr click here.....
The Essential Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Poetry and Recordings Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Essential Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New : 4 CDs 4.8 hours This varied well-chosen selection brings onto one CD set the best of Dylan Thomas: the legendary recording of 'Under Milk Wood ' with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators plus also two radio productions he wrote before that great classic which while interesting in themselves show how 'Under Milk Wood' grew gradually in his imagination. Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories and this set provides a representative selection. But performances of Dylan Thomas have moved on and the greatness of the writer as a poet an more information.....
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 149 minutes Vincentio the Duke of Vienna makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a strict judge Angelo. Under the Duke's government the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced but Angelo who later reveals himself as a hypocrite is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality. Claudio a young nobleman is betrothed to Juliet; having put off their wedding he makes her pregnant before wedlock. For this act of fornication he is punished by Angelo. Although he is willing to marry her he is sentenced to death. Claudio's friend Lucio visits Claudio's sister Isabella a postulant nun and asks her to intercede with Angelo on Claudio's behalf. Isabella obtains an audience with Angelo and pleads to him for mercy. Over the course of two scenes between Angelo an more.....
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells is an early science fiction novel describing an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using Tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry. It is considered one of the most important foundation works of Science Fiction and the seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. The novel is narrated by an anonymous journalist living in the area where the invaders first land. Throughout the narrative he struggles to reunite with his wife and brother while witnessing the Martians spreading destruction across the Southern English counties and London itself destroying all human resistance. Finding L find out more.....
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Benedict Flynn Unabridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Children's AudioBooks click here King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5 Hours): About King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table These stories are about how many years ago Arthur the once and future King of England set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it aided by the brave knights of the Round Table and the most famous sword in the world Excalibur. How Merlin the Wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere his Queen. About Benedict Flynn Benedict Flynn's imaginative retellings of classic stories have reintroduced characters s more.....
50 Psychology Classics - by Tom Butler-Bowden A thinking persons guide to Popular Psychology 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Psychology Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden -Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 10 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) If you have always been fascinated by the human mind and what makes people behave the way they do this audio-book is for you. In a journey that spans 50 books hundreds of ideas and over a century in time 50 Psychology Classics looks at some of the most intriguing questions relating to what motivates us what makes us feel and act in certain ways how our brains work and how we create a sense of self. 50 Psychology Classics explores writings from some iconic figures such as Freud Adler Jung skinner James Piaget and Pavolv but also highlights the work of contemporary thinkers such as Gardner Gilbert Goleman and Seligman. We all need a personal theory of what makes peo more here.....
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Unabridged - Read by Gary Sinise Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression – George Milton an intelligent and cynical man; and Lennie Small an ironically named man of large stature and immense strength but limited mental abilities – come to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas California to "work up a stake". They hope to one day attain their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream which he never tires of hearing George describe is merely to tend to (and touch) soft rabbits on the farm. George protects Lennie at the beginning by telling him that if Lennie gets into trouble George won't let him "tend them rabbits"; they are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed where they were run out of town after Lennie's love of stroking soft things resulted in an accusation of attempted rape when he touched find out more.....
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Wuthering Heights - by Emily Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs - 14.25 hours Somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance — played out amid the lonely English moors — recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Poignant and compelling. In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others even in the next generation. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story and a study guide. About the Author Emily Bronte Emily Brontë was born in Thornton near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824 the family moved to Haworth where Emily's father was perpetual curate and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities click here.....
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 5 Hours Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian speculative fiction novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character Guy Montag is employed as a "fireman" (which in this future means "book burner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which the books burn when the "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly dysfunctional American society. The concept began with Bradbury's short story "Bright Ph more.....
Lord of the Flies by William Golding Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Lord of the Flies by William Golding - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 6.9 Hours Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. The key idea that William Golding focuses on in The Lord of the Flies is when removed from civilised society people will devolve and return back to being primitive creatures. Golding portrays this idea throughout the whole book by using different characters. The book is about a group of boys who are stranded on a tropical island without any adults. At first they seem very excited about the situation and votes for one of the boys Ralph as a leader. Another one of the boys Jack leaves the group to form his own tribe who become more and more violent and obsessed with hunting pigs and the so-called beast that they believe lives on the island. At the end of the book they try to kill more here.....
Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 147 minutes Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend and a Roman praetor (Minister). Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Gaius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his own rule. Traditional readings of the play maintain that Cassius and the other conspirators are motivated largely by envy and ambition whereas Brutus is motiv more information.....
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Unabridged read by Tom Parker Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 Audio CDs 10 Hours One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written in 1959 by Kesey although it wasn't published until 1962. The novel was such a success that it was later adapted into a 1975 film which won five Academy Awards. Although the novel was controversial when it was released due to the fact that it contained much sexual content it later became known as a classic American novel. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 more information.....
The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 38 Plays fully dramatised recording on Audio CD Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare - William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 98 Audio CDs 101 hours 47 minutes The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare 38 Fully-Dramatized Unabridged Plays on CD Full Cast Production featuring nearly 400 actors almost all past or present members of the Royal Shakespeare Company including Eileen Atkins Joseph Fiennes Sir John Gielgud Ciaran Hinds Alan Howard Jane Lapotaire Amanda Root David Tennant Sophie Thompson Samuel West and Timothy West. Shakespeare for the 21st century. For the first time all of Shakespeare's plays are available on CD in a complete set produced by a single creative team with state-of-the-art technology and an extraordinary cast. Original music and subtle sound effects heighten the drama. Spanning the arc of human experience from broad comedy to heartfelt tragedy The Bard' click here.....
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Unabridged 24 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Moby-Dick - Herman Melvilles - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 19 Audio CDs 24 Hours Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. In Moby-Dick Melville employs stylized language symbolism and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Thro extra info.....
The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi The Epic Story of Troy Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers Oddessy on Audio Book click here The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi abridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 9 Hours 8 CDs abridged This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles Helen Hector and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. About Homer Tradition holds that Homer was blind and various Ionian cities claim to be his birthplace but otherwise little is known about his life more.....
The Voice of the Poet by T.S. Eliot - read by the Author Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Voice of the Poet - T.S. Eliot - Audio CD and Book Brand New : 1Audio CD and Book of the Poems Featuring rare archival recordings of the featured poet reading his own work! Each program in Random House Audio Voices' exclusive THE VOICE OF THE POET series is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. About the Author T.S. Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land The Hollow Men Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Eliot was born in the United States moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. extra info.....
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from an uncommon perspective using time travel as a plot device. The bombing of Dresden in World War II the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed is the starting point. Slaughterhouse-Five spans the life of a man who has "come unstuck in time." It is the story of Billy Pilgrim experiencing different time periods of his life most notably his experience in Worl more details.....
Paradise Lost by John Milton Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Paradise Lost by John Milton - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 9 Hours - read by Ralph Cosham Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674 redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose stated in Book I is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict more information.....
Aesop's Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD Aesops Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD 284 Fables on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s (more information on MP3-CD click here) Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC) a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables usually involving anthropomorphic animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived) The Tortoise and the Hare The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf are well-known throughout the world. Apollonius of Tyana the 1st century AD philosopher is recorded as having said about Aesop: ...like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents extra info.....
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Audio Book MP3 Read by Kristin Luoma Unabridged Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Audio Book MP3-CD Unabridged 4.2 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s (more information on MP3-CD click here) Heart of Darkness is a novella by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Charles Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow an Englishman took a foreign assignment a more details.....
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Unabridged read by J Charles Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 13 Audio CDs 15 Hours Marko Ramius a Lithuanian who has risen to high levels of trust in the Soviet Navy intends to defect to the United States with his officers and the experimental nuclear submarine Red October a Typhoon-class submarine equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system. The propulsion system is described as a pumpjet or magnetohydrodynamic system nicknamed "Caterpillar Drive" making sonar detection extremely difficult. The result as is immediately apparent to Jack Ryan and the admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a strategic weapon platform that is capable of sneaking its way into American home waters and launching nucle extra info.....
