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VCE English/ESL and Literature Text
We have listed only UNABRIDGED versions where possible
 Novels
Tirra Lirra by the RiverAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
EmmaAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
EmmaAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
EmmaAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
RegenerationAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Tenant of Wildfell HallAuthor: 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: StarStarStarhalfstarnostar
Tenant of Wildfell HallAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Year of WondersAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Year of WondersAuthor: Brooks, Geraldine
Title: Year of Wonders
Media: 6CD
Edition length: abridged
Price: $22.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Stina Nielsen
Rating: StarStarStarStarnostar
The Good EarthAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Patron Saint of EelsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
Hard TimesAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Hard TimesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Bleak HouseAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Bleak HouseAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Silas MarnerAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Silas MarnerAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Silas MarnerAuthor: 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: StarStarStarNostarNostar
A Passage to IndiaAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
MaestroAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
The Secret RiverAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
The DressmakerAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
A Farewell to ArmsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
Washington SquareAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarNostar
My Brother JackAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
Sixty LightsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Death of NapoleonAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Life of PiAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
The Rose NotesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
Enduring LoveAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
AtonementAuthor: McEwan, Ian
Title: Atonement
Media: 12CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $79.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Jill Tanner
Rating: StarStarStarStarHalfstar
1984Author: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
FrankensteinAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
FrankensteinAuthor: Shelley, Mary
Title: Frankenstein
Media: 7CD
Edition length: UA (unabridged, word-for-word)
Price: $69.95
Narrator/Performer(s): narrated by Tom Casaletto
Rating: StarStarStarStarNostar
FrankensteinAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
Ethan fromeAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarHalfstar
Ethan fromeAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Slaughterhouse FiveAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
 Short Stories
Moral DisorderAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
In the RavineAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Eleven StoriesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnotar
Great Classic Love StoriesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Interpreter of MaladiesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarNostar
Island: The Collected StoriesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Classic Women's Short StoriesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Bliss and other storiesAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
After the QuakeAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Essential PoeAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Fall of the House of UsherAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
The Dupin mysteriesAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Tales of TerrorAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarNostar
Chilling Ghost StoriesAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
 Plays
The Three SistersAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
Bogart CollectionAuthor: 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
Hedda GablerAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Hedda GablerAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
The CrucibleAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
The Crucible and Death Of A SalesmanAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
Hotel SorrentoAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
On the WaterfrontAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
HamletAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
HamletAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
HamletAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
Much Ado About NothingAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Much Ado About NothingAuthor: 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: StarStarStarHalftarnostar
Richard IIIAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
Richard IIIAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarHalfstar
Three Greek TragediesAuthor: 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 StarStarStarhalfstarnostar
(The play in the original Greek with English subtitles is available on DVD.
CloudstreetAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
A Streetcar named DesireAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
The Importance of Being EarnestAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarStar
The Importance of Being EarnestAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
The Importance of Being EarnestAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
 Other literature
A Moveable FeastAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
Running in the FamilyAuthor: 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 StarStarStarhalfstarnostar
The Professor and the MadmanAuthor: 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: StarStarStarhalfstarnostar
 Poetry
The Romantic PoetsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarstar
Great Poets: William BlakeAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Blake: Selected PoemsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
Great Poets: Emily DickinsonAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Essential DickinsonAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Fifty Poems of DickinsonAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Classic American PoetryAuthor: 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: StarStarStarstarStar
Robert Frost: Voice of the PoetAuthor: 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: StarStarStarstarnostar
Great Poets: John KeatsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
Keats: Selected PoetryAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
Realms of GoldAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
The Sunday SsesionsAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
Tierra del FuegoAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
BeowulfAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarStar
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The Shark NetAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarnostar
The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-SharifAuthor: 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: StarStarStarStarhalfstar
Into Thin AirAuthor: 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 StarStarStarStarhalfstar

 

 

 

 

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