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VCE English/ESL and Literature Text
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	Novels
	Author: Anderson, Jessica Title: Tirra Lirra by the River Media: 5cass (there is no CD edition) Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $64.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Beverley Dunn Rating:
	Author: Austen, Jane Title: Emma Media: 12CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $89.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Prunella Scales Rating: The first of our two top choices
	Author: Austen, Jane Title: Emma Media: 13CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $139.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Juliet Stevenson Rating: The second of our three top choices
	Author: Austen, Jane Title: Emma Media: 12CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.99 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Jenny Agutter Rating: The third of our three top choices
	Author: Barker, Pat Title: Regeneration Media: 8CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $169.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Peter Firth Order time: 12 weeks Rating: A clear and powerfully moving narration
	Author: Brontë, Anne (Bronte) Title: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Media: 14CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $199.00 (or mp3-CD edition $99.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson, Nadia May Rating:
	Author: Brontë, Anne Title: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Media: 14CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $187.50 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Jenny Agutter, Alex Jennings Order time: 12 weeks Rating: Our top choice
	Author: Brooks, Geraldine Title: Year of Wonders Media: 9CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $199.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Josephine Bailey Rating:
	Author: Brooks, Geraldine Title: Year of Wonders Media: 6CD Edition length: abridged Price: $22.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stina Nielsen Rating:
	Author: Buck, Pearl S. Title: The Good Earth Media: 9CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 (or mp3-CD edition $69.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Anthony Heald Rating:
	Author: Day, Gregory Title: The Patron Saint Of Eels Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $79.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Paul English Rating:
	Author: Dickens, Charles Title: Hard Times Media: 9CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Martin Jarvis Rating: Our first choice
	Author: Dickens, Charles Title: Hard Times Media: 9CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $69.95 (or mp3-CD edition $69.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson Rating:
	Author: Dickens, Charles Title: Bleak House Media: 28CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $245.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Sean Barrett, Teresa Gallagher Rating: Our first choice
	Author: Dickens, Charles Title: Bleak House Media: 27CD. This version is also available as 3mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $89.95 (or mp3-CD edition $119.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Robert Whitfield Rating:
	Author: Eliot, George Title: Silas Marner Media: 6CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Andrew Sachs Rating: Our first choice
	Author: Eliot, George Title: Silas Marner Media: 6CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 (or mp3-CD edition $69.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by John Peakes Rating:
	Author: Eliot, George Title: Silas Marner Media: 6CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 (or mp3-CD edition $69.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Nadia May Rating:
	Author: Forster, E. M. Title: A Passage To India Media: 9CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $79.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Sam Dastor Rating: A very beautiful reading
	Author: Goldsworthy, Peter Title: Maestro Media: 5CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $89.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Paul English Rating: A very good reading
	Author: Grenville, Kate Title: Secret River, The Media: 9CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $114.95 (or mp3-CD edition $59.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Simon Vance Rating: A very fine reading
	Author: Ham, Rosalie Title: Dressmaker, The Media: 8CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $119.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Jenny Seedsman Rating:
	Author: Hemingway, Ernest Title: Farewell to Arms, A Media: 8CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by John Slattery Rating:
	Author: James, Henry Title: Washington Square Media: 7CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Lloyd James Rating: A good reading
	Author: Johnston, George Title: My Brother Jack Media: 12cass. There is no CD edition. Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $129.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Francis Greenslade Rating:
	Author: Jones, Gail Title: Sixty Lights Media: 8CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $114.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Caroline Lee Rating:
	Author: Leys, Simon Title: Death of Napoleon, The Media: 2cass. (There is no CD edition.) Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $35.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by James Condon Rating:
	Author: Martell, Yann Title: Life of Pi Media: 9CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Jeff Woodman Rating:
	Author: Mayes, Andrea Title: The Rose Notes Media: 9CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $124.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Taylor Owynns Rating:
	Author: McEwan, Ian Title: Enduring Love Media: 9CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $144.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by David Threlfall Rating:
	Author: McEwan, Ian Title: Atonement Media: 12CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $79.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Jill Tanner Rating:
	Author: Orwell, George Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four or 1984 Media: 9CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD. See also DVD. Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $69.95 (or mp3-CD edition $69.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Richard Brown Rating: A chilling and clear reading
	Author: Shelley, Mary Title: Frankenstein Media: 7CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Simon Templeman, Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki Rating: A beautifully chilling reading
	Author: Shelley, Mary Title: Frankenstein Media: 7CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $69.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Tom Casaletto Rating:
	Author: Shelley, Mary Title: Frankenstein (includes e-book as pdf) Media: 7CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $79.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Simon Vance Rating: Beautifully read
	Author: Wharton, Edith Title: Ethan Frome Media: 3CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD. Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 (or mp3-CD edition $59.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by C. M. Hébert Rating:
	Author: Wharton, Edith Title: Ethan Frome Media: 4CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD. Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 (or mp3-CD edition $59.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Scott Brick Rating:
	Author: Vonnegut, Kurt Title: Slaughterhouse Five Media: 5CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Ethan Hawke Rating:
	Short Stories
	Author: Atwood, Margaret Title: Moral Disorder and other stories Media: 6CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $99.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Susan Denaker Rating:
	Author: Chekhov, Anton Title: In the Ravine and other short stories Includes: In the Ravine; Oh! The Public; The Chorus Girl; The Trousseau; A Story Without A Title; Children; Misery; Fat and Thin; The Beggar; Hush!; The Orator; An Actor's End Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Kenneth Branagh Rating: Superbly read
	Author: Chekhov, Anton Title: Eleven Stories Includes: The black monk; The kiss; A misfortune; An artist's story; Not wanted; Expensive lessons; The head of the family; Mire; Anyuta; The helpmate; The trousseau Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $89.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Ralph Cosham Rating:
	Author: Chekhov, Anton; de Maupassant, Guy; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Melville, Herman; Cather, Willa; Joyce, James Title: Great Classic Love Stories Includes: Anton Chekhov: The Lady with the Dog | Guy de Maupassant: Claire de lune | and others Media: 5CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Peter Marinker, Cameron Stewart, and others Rating:
	Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa Title: Interpreter of Maladies Includes the stories: Interpreter of Maladies; A Temporary Matter; When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine; A Real Durwan; Sexy; Mrs Sen's; This Blessed House; The Treatment of Bibi Haldar; The Third and Final Continent Media: 6CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Matilda Novak Rating:
	Author: MacLeod, Alistair Title: The Collected Stories Includes: 11 stories Media: 11CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $259.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by John Lee Rating:
	Author: Mansfield, Katherine; Chopin, Kate; Woolf, Virginia Title: Classic Women's Short Stories Includes the stories: Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party; Daughters of the Late Colonel; Kate Chopin: Lilacs; Ma'ame Pelagie; Virginia Woolf: A Mark on the Wall Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, Teresa Gallagher Rating:
	Author: Mansfield, Katherine Title: Bliss and other stories Includes the stories: Bliss; Mr Reginald Peacock's Day; Pictures; The Little Governess; Feuille D'Album; A Dill Pickle Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Juliet Stevenson Rating:
	Author: Murakami, Haruki Title: After the Quake Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $45.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Rupert Degas Rating:
	Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Title: Essential Poe, The Includes the following VCE stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Masque of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Premature Burial; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. Also includes The Raven. Media: 6CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $69.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by William Roberts, Kerry Shale Rating: Beautifully narrated
	Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Title: Fall of the House of Usher, The; The Pit And The Pendulum; and other tales of mystery and imagination Includes the following VCE stories: The Fall of the House of Usher; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Premature Burial; The Cask of Amontillado. Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $45.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by William Roberts Rating: Beautifully narrated
	Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Title: Dupin Stories, The Includes the following VCE stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter. Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $45.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Kerry Shale Rating: Wonderfully read
	Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Title: Tales Of Terror Includes the following VCE stories: The Fall of the House of Usher; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Cask of Amontillado; The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Media: 5CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $99.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Bruce Blau, David Thorn Rating: Good readings
	Author: Poe, Edgar Allan; Bierce, Ambrose; James, M. R.; Dickens, Charles; Wilde, Oscar Title: Chilling Ghost Stories Includes the following VCE stories: Poe: Berenice. Also includes Poe: The Raven; Wilde: The Birthday of the Infanta; Bierce: A Tough Tussle; Dickens: The Signalman; M. R. James: Rats Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Anthony Donovan Rating: Haunting narrations
	Plays
	Author: Chekhov, Anton Title: The Three Sisters Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Canadian Broadcasting Company Rating: Nicely nuanced complete performance
	Author: Curtiz, Michael (dir.) Title: The Humphrey Bogart Collection Includes the radio plays: Casablanca; The African Queen; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Maltese Falcon Media: 4cass Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $129.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Humphrey Bogart, cast
	Author: Ibsen, Henrik Title: Hedda Gabler Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Michael Maloney, Juliet Stevenson, Philip Voss, Emma Fielding & cast Rating: Very highly recommended performance
	Author: Ibsen, Henrik Title: Hedda Gabler Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Donna Goodhand & cast Rating: Nicely nuanced complete performance
	Author: Miller, Arthur Title: The Crucible Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Richard Dreyfuss, Stacy Keach & cast Rating: Very strong complete performance
	Author: Miller, Arthur Title: The Arthur Miller Collection: contains The Crucible; Death of a Salesman Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by L. J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, Dustin Hoffman, Alexandra Stoddart & cast Rating: An excellent complete performance
	Author: Rayson, Hannie Title: Hotel Sorrento Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Deidre Rubenstein, Stig Wemyss, Stephanie Daniel, Peter Hosking, Stanley McGeagh & cast Rating:
	Author: Schulberg, Budd Title: On the Waterfront Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Bruce Davison, Jeffrey Donovan, Hector Elizondo, Rebecca Pidgeon & cast Rating: A gripping complete performance
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Hamlet Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $45.95 Narrator/Performer(s): Performed by Anton Lesser, Emma Fielding, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Paul Panting, Richard Pearce, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, and Peter Yapp Rating: Outstanding modern performance - one of our top two choices
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Hamlet Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): Performed by John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruikshank & cast (Naxos - the classic 1948 recording) Rating: The second of our top two choices - Gielgud's best performance of the role
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Hamlet Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): Performed by Simon Russell Beale, Bob Peck, Imogen Stubbs, Jane Lapotaire & cast Rating: Highly recommended performance
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Much Ado About Nothing Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Saskia Reeves, Samuel West, Paul Jesson, Jason O'Mara, Abigail Docherty, Bryan Pringle & cast Rating: Superb performance
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Much Ado About Nothing Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Rex Harrison & cast Rating:
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Richard III Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Kenneth Branagh, Geraldine McEwan, Nicolas Farrell, Stella Gonet, Michael Maloney & cast Rating: Our first choice
	Author: Shakespeare, William Title: Richard III Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by David Troughton, Saskia Wickham, Margaret Robertson, Philip Voss & cast Rating: An extremely good second choice
	Author: Sophocles Title: Three Greek Tragedies Includes the plays: Antigone (from The Theban Plays); Medea (by Euripides); Agamemnon (by Aeschylus) Media: 4CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $129.95 Price: Narrated by Flo Gibson Rating: The only audio version of Sophocles' Antigone (The play in the original Greek with English subtitles is available on DVD.
	Author: Winton, Tim Title: Cloudstreet. This is the original story by Tim Winton, not the screenplay. Media: 11CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): Narrated by Peter Hosking Rating:
	Author: Williams, Tennessee Title: A Streetcar Named Desire Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Rosemary Harris, James Farentino & cast Rating:
	Author: Wilde, Oscar Title: The Importance Of Being Earnest Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $54.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by Miriam Margolyes, Judy Dench, Michael Hordern & cast Rating: Our top choice
	Author: Wilde, Oscar Title: The Importance Of Being Earnest Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): performed by John Gielgud, Edith Evans & cast Rating:
	Author: Wilde, Oscar Title: The Importance Of Being Earnest Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Miriam Margolyes, Greg Wise & cast Rating:
	Other literature
	Author: Hemingway, Ernest Title: Moveable Feast, A Media: 5CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by James Naughton Rating:
	Author: Ondaatje, Michael Title: Running In The Family Media: 2CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: abridged Price: $59.95 (or mp3-CD edition $49.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Author Rating: A very personal reading
	Author: Winchester, Simon Title: Surgeon Of Crowthorne, The - published as an audiobook with the US title The Professor and the Madman Media: 6CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Author Rating:
	Poetry
	Author: Blake, William; Byron, Lord George Gordon; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Keats, John; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Wordsworth, William Title: Romantic Poets, The Includes: Blake: Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; Poetical Sketches; The Rosetti Manuscript (sel.), etc. Byron: Highlights from Don Juan; The Giaour; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; So we'll go no more a roving; Fare thee well; etc. Coleridge: Kubla Khan; Frost at Midnight; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; etc. Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode to a Nightingale; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; The Eve of St. Agnes; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; Endymion (sel.); etc. Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (excerpts); Queen Ma; Epipsychidion; Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark;etc. Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (sel.); I wandered lonely as a cloud; Composed upon Westminster Bridge; To a Sky-Lark; etc. Media: 10CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stella Gonet, Haydn Gwynne, Douglas Hodge, David Horovitch, Derek Jacobi, Alex Jennings, Jeremy Northam, Nathaniel Parker, Diana Quick, Prunella Scales, Sian Thomas, & Nicol Williamson Rating:
	Author: Blake, William Title: The Great Poets: William Blake Includes: Auguries of Innocence; Introduction to Songs of Innocence; Songs of Innocence: Cradle Song; Introduction to Songs of Experience; Songs of Innocence: A Dream; Songs of Innocence: The Chimney Sweeper; Songs of Experience: The Chimney Sweeper; Songs of Innocence: The Divine Image; Songs of Experience: A Divine Image; The Gates of Paradise; Songs of Innocence: Infant Joy; Gnomic Verses; Songs of Experience: The Fly; Poetical Sketches: Song; Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday; Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday; Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song; Songs of Experience: The Garden of Love; An Island in the Moon; Songs of Innocence: A Little Boy Found; Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost; Songs of Innocence: The Little Girl Found; Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost; I Heard an Angel; Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract; Songs of Innocence: Night; Jerusalem; Songs of Experience: London; The Land of Dreams; Songs of Innocence: Nurse's Song; Love's Secret; Songs of Experience: A Poison Tree; Preface to Milton; Songs of Experience: The Little Vagabond; Marginalia and Miscellaneous Verses: On Art and Artists; Songs of Experience: The Sick Rose; Songs of Experience: Ah, Sunflower; Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard; Poetical Sketches: To The Muses; Songs of Innocence: The Lamb; Songs of Experience: The Tyger; Songs of Innocence: On Another's Sorrow Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $26.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Robert Glenister, Michael Maloney, Stephen Critchlow Rating:
	Author: Blake, William Title: Selected Poems Includes: Mary; America, A Prophecy; Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience; A Divine Image; Never Seek to Tell Thy Love; I Saw a Chapel All of Gold; I Asked a Thief to Steal Me a Peach; I Heard an Angel Singing; A Cradle Song; I Fear'd the Fury of My Wind; Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames; Infant Sorrow; In and Mirtle Shade; To Nobodaddy; An Old Maid Early - E'er I Knew; O Why Was I Born with a Different Face?; Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau; The Mental Traveller; The Crystal Cabinet; The Grey Monk; Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell; William Bond; The Vision of Christ That Thou Dost See; To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World; Why Was Cupid a Boy; And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time; Auguries of Innocence; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; A Song of Liberty; A Blake Miscellany Media: 2cass Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $42.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson Rating:
	Author: Dickinson, Emily Title: The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson Includes: A drop fell on the apple tree; A narrow Fellow in the Grass; A poor torn heart, a tattered heart; A something in a summer's day; A still - Volcano - Life -; A toad can die of light!; A wounded deer leaps highest; After great pain, a formal feeling comes -; All the letters I can write; Ample make this bed; As imperceptibly as Grief; Because I could not stop for Death; Come slowly, Eden!; Dear March, come in!; Death is a dialogue between; Drowning is not so pitiful; Eden is that old fashioned House; Fame is a fickle food; Forbidden fruit a flavor has; Glee! The great storm is over -; He ate and drank the precious words; He touched me, so I live to know; Heart not so heavy as mine; Heart! We will forget him!; Her final summer was it; Hope is the thing with feathers; How the old Mountains drip with Sunset; I asked no other thing; I can wade grief; I cannot live with you; I died for beauty, but was scarce; I dreaded that first Robin, so; I dwell in Possibility -; I envy seas whereon he rides; I felt a Funeral, in my Brain; I gave myself to him; I had no cause to be awake; I had no time to hate, because; I have no life but this; I hide myself within my flower; I know some lonely houses off the road; I many times thought peace had come; I meant to have but modest needs; I never saw a moor; I should not dare to leave my friend; I stepped from plank to plank; I taste a liquor never brewed; I think the hemlock likes to stand; I took my power in my hand; If I can stop one heart from breaking; If recollecting were forgetting; I'll tell you how the Sun rose; I'm Nobody! Who are you?; It might be easier; It tossed and tossed; It was not Death, for I stood up; It's such a little thing to weep; Love is anterior to life; Mine by the right of the white election!; Much madness is divinest sense; My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun; Nature rarer uses yellow; Not with a Club, the Heart is broken; On this wondrous sea; One blessing had I, than the rest; One need not be a chamber - to be Haunted; Pain has an element of blank;; Safe in their Alabaster Chambers; Some keep the Sabbath going to church; Surgeons must be very careful; That after Horror - that 'twas us -; That I did always love; The brain within its groove; The Dying need but little, Dear; The grass so little has to do, The grave my little cottage is; The leaves, like women, interchange; The one that could repeat the summer day; The rat is the concisest tenant.; The Soul has Bandaged moments; The soul should always stand ajar,; The waters chased him as he fled; The way I read a letter's this:; The wind begun to rock the grass; There came a Wind like a Bugle -; There's a certain slant of light,; There's been a death in the opposite house; They might not need me - yet they might -; This is my letter to the world,; This World is not Conclusion.; 'Tis little I could care for pearls; 'Tis not that Dying hurts us so -; 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,; Unable are the Loved to die; We never know we go, - when we are going; What inn is this; While I was fearing it, it came,; Will there really be a morning?; You left me, sweet, two legacies, - Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $26.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Teresa Gallagher Rating:
	Author: Dickinson, Emily Title: Essential Dickinson Includes: This is my letter to the world; The soul selects her own society; Pain has an element of blank; Hope is the thing with feathers; I'm nobody! Who are you?; Letter to T.W. Higginson, 15 April 1862; I'll tell you how the sun rose; I cautious scanned my little life; If you were coming in the fall; My river runs to thee; Letter to T.W. Higginson, 25 April 1862; I reason, earth is short; I never lost as much but twice; Letter to John L. Graves, late April 1856; I died for beauty, but was scarce; There came a wind like a bugle; Safe in their alabaster chambers; I years had been from home; Love is anterior to life; Letter to Otis P. Lord, 3 December 1882; I cannot live with you; My life closed twice before its close; I never saw a moor; Letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.H. Holland, 1862; To fight aloud is very brave; Because I could not stop for Death; A toad can die of light; Letter to Maria Whitney, summer 1883; I heard a fly buzz when I died; I like to see it lap the miles; Letter to L. and F. Norcross, July 1879; Before I got my eye put out; To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee; A narrow fellow in grass; Letter to Sally Jenkins, late December 1880; A bird came down the walk; What soft, cherubic creatures; I taste a liquor never brewed; Besides the autumn poets sing; The heart asks pleasure first; The sky is low, the clouds are mean; There's a certain slant of light; Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, October 1883; I felt a funeral in my brain; Letter to Mrs. J.G. Holland, June 1884; After great pain a formal feeling comes; I dwell in possibility Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $29.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Julie Harris Rating:
	Author: Dickinson, Emily Title: Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson Includes: The sea; Afraid?; A bird came down the walk; A syllable; As children bid; The bustle in a house; Memorials; The goal; Summer shower; Drowning; "Faith" is a fine invention; A portrait; Except to heaven; Few get enough; The great storm is over; Have you got a brook?; Heart not so heavy as mine; Forbidden fruit; Hope is the thing with feathers; I asked no other thing; In vain; In shadow; I died for beauty; Longing; I found the phrase to every thought; I felt a funeral in my brain; I had a guinea golden; I had not time to hate; With a flower; I heard a fly buzz when I died; Hunger; I never saw a Moor; The lonely house; I many times thought peace had come; I stepped from plank to plank; I reason; Too much; Love's baptism; If I should die; I've got an arrow here; The snow; The bee; The moon; Much madness is divinest sense; The first lesson; Going; Our share of night to bear; The mystery of pain; Remembrance has a rear and front; Presentiment Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stephanie Beacham, Glenda Jackson, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep Rating:
	Author: Dickinson, Emily; Frost, Robert; et al Title: Classic American Poetry Includes the poems: Anne Bradstreet: The Author to her Book; Edward Taylor: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly; Anonymous: Navajo Mountain Song; Philip Freneau: The Indian Student; The Wild Honeysuckle; Francis Scott Key: The Star Spangled Banner; William Cullen Bryant: The Prairies; Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Snow-Storm John Greenleaf Whittier: Telling the Bees; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha from the Wooing - At the doorway of his wigwam; My Lost Youth; Edgar Allan Poe: A Dream within a Dream; Annabel Lee; To Helen; The Raven; Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides; Jones Very: The Indian's Retort; Henry David Thoreau: Sic Vita; Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong; Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Herman Melville: The Martyr; Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; James Russell Lowell: Science and Poetry; Anonymous: Frankie and Johnny; Frederick Goddard Tuckerman: An upper chamber in a darkened house; Emily Dickinson: A narrow fellow in the grass; My life closed twice before its close; I taste a liquor never brewed; Because I could not stop for death; I like to see it lap the miles; The wind begun to rock the grass; Frances E W Harper: Bury Me in a Free Land; Sydney Lanier: The Stirrup-Cup; Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus; Anonymous: I sometimes think I'd rather crow; Stephen Crane: A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices; Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind; Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Sympathy; Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: A Lesson in a Picture; Edward Arlington Robinson: Miniver Cheevy; Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; The Death of the Hired Man; Amy Lowell: Meeting-House Hill; Carl Sandburg: Chicago; They all Want to Play Hamlet; Vachel Lindsay: The Flower-fed Buffaloes; Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Ice-Cream; Peter Quince at the Clavier; Elinor Wylie: Wild Peaches; Pretty Words; Robinson Jeffers: Hurt Hawks; Alan Seeger: Rendezvous; Edna St Vincent Millay: What my lips have kissed, and where, and why; Dorothy Parker: De Profundis; Resumee; General Review of the Sex Situation; E E Cummings: anyone lived in a pretty how town; somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond; Stephen Vincent Benet: American Names; Langston Hughes: Theme for English B; Trumpet Player - 52nd Street; Ogden Nash: You Bet Travel is Broadening; Howard Nemerov: September, the First Day of School; Alice Walker: How Poems Are Made/A Discredited View Media: 2CD Edition length: unabridged Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross, William Hootkins, Alibe Parsons, James Goode, Kate Harper Rating:
	Author: Frost, Robert Title: The Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost Includes: Mending Wall; After Apple Picking; Reluctance; Mowing; The Tuft of Flowers; The Death of the Hired Man; The Road Not Taken; Birches; The Oven Bird; Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening; Spring Pools; The Need of Being Versed in Country Things; The Witch of Coös; Dust of Snow; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Fire and Ice; The Onset; Aqcuainted With The Night; Design; Desert Places; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep; Two Tramps in Mud Time; Provide, Provide; Departmental; The Gift Outright; The Secret Sits; The Most of It; Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same; The Silken Tent; Directive; One Step Backward Taken; The Objection to Being Stepped On; Forgive, O Lord; Questioning Faces; In Winter In The Woods Alone; Away! Media: 1CD UA + pb Price: $39.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Author Rating:
	Author: Keats, John Title: The Great Poets: John Keats Includes: Great Spirits now on Earth are sojourning; Much have I travelled in the realms of gold; On the sea; Wherein lies happiness?; On Sitting Down to read King Lear once Again; Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou; Old Meg she was a Gipsy; Deep in the shady sadness of a vale; A casement high and triple-arched there was; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on Melancholy; Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode on a Grecian Urn; To Sleep; Ode to Psyche; A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone; To Autumn; This living hand, now warm and capable; When I have fears that I may cease to be; From Endymion; Fancy; There was a naughty boy; The Eve of St Agnes Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $26.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Samuel West and Michael Sheen Rating:
	Author: Keats, John Title: John Keats: Selected Poems Includes: Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate; O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell; To one who has been long in city pent; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; To My Brothers; Great Spirits now on earth are sojourning; On the Grasshopper and Cricket; After dark vapours have oppressed our plains; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles; On the Sea; from "Endymion; To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat; On Sitting Down to Read 'King Lear' Once Again; When I have fears that I may cease to be; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind; For there's Bishop's Teign; On Visiting the Tomb of Burns; Old Meg she was a gipsey; This mortal body of a thousand days; There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain; The Eve of St. Mark; Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art; Hyperion: A Fragment" (Book I, II, and III); La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad; Sonnet to Sleep; Ode to Psyche; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Melancholy; Ode on Indolence; Lamia; To Autumn; The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream; This living hand, now warm and capable Media: 3CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $59.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Frederick Davidson Rating:
	Author: Keats, John Title: Realms Of Gold: Letters And Poems Includes: Much Have I Travell'd In The Realms Of Gold; Great Spirits Now On Earth Are Sojourning; On The Sea; Wherin Lies Happiness?; On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again; Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art; Old Meg She Was A Gipsy; Deep In The Shady Sadness Of A Vale; A Casement High And Triple-Arched There Was; Ode To A Nightingale; Ode On Melancholy; Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Ode On A Grecian Urn; To Sleep; Ode To Psyche; A Haunting Music, Sole Perhaps And Lone; To Autumn; This Living Hand, Now Warm And Capable; When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be, and various letters Media: 2CD Edition length: abridged Price: $31.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Samuel West and Matthew Marsh Rating:
	Author: Larkin, Philip Title: The Sunday Sessions Includes: twenty-six poems, the contents of two tapes that contain work from the author's first major collection, “The North Ship”, as well as poems from his best-known collections, “The Whitsun Weddings” and “High Windows” recorded by the author in Hull in February 1980. Mr Bleaney; An Arundel Tomb; Home is so Sad; The Old Fools; The Whitsun Weddings ; Church Going; Toads; Vers De Société; MCMXIV; For Sidney Bechet; Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album; At Grass; Toads Revisited; The Building; Absences; and more Media: 1CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $24.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by author Rating:
	Author: Strauss, Jennifer Title: Tierra del fuego Media: 3cass Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $56.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by author Rating:
	Author: Anonymous Translator: Heaney, Seamus Title: Beowulf Media: 2CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $49.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Seamus Heaney Rating:
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	Author: Drewe, Robert Title: The Shark Net Media: 7CD. This version is also available as 1mp3-CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $44.95 (or mp3-CD edition $29.95) Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Michael Carman Rating:
	Author: Mazari, Najaf; Hillman, Robert Title: The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif Media: 7CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $109.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Humphrey Bower Rating:
	Author: Krakauer, Jon Title: Into Thin Air Media: 7CD Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word) Price: $69.95 Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Author Rating: Gripping and personal reading