May 21, 2008
- Les Misérables Audio Book
Les Misérables is the classic book written by Victor Hugo. Now as a massive audio book of 58 hours.
"When I was 15, I was completely bowled over by Les Misrables. All my life long I have continually been discovering fresh aspects of Hugo’s genius."
Andr Maurois
Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective [...]
April 30, 2008
- Crime and Punishment — Audio Book
One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is at once an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.
Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral [...]
March 30, 2008
- To Have and Have Not –Hemingway Audio Book
To Have and Have Not is a classic novel about contraband, intrigue and love.
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the [...]
March 5, 2008
- Anthology of Mythology Audio Book
Anthology of Mythology is an 10 hour Paul Sanderson audiobook.
Mythology has provided an intellectual foundation for the modern world, and has provided inspiration for story tellers and scientists alike.
In this 10 hour audiobook, explore the mythology of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Contents in brief:
Mesopotamia
Egypt And Its God Kings
Greek Mythlogy
The Founding of Rome
ContentsIntroduction: The [...]
January 20, 2008
- The Children of Húrin Audio Book
The Children of Húrin is another audiobook written by J. R.R. Tolkien and his son Christopher.
There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once [...]
December 29, 2007
- The Odyssey Audiobook
Homer’s Odyssey is the thrilling and moving tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war. For ten years he experiences storm, shipwreck and seduction as he tries to find a way home to Ithaca, contending with the wrath of Poseidon but protected by Pallas Athena. Meanwhile, his wife [...]
December 6, 2007
- A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599 is an audiobook written and read by James Shapiro.
I have also published a special page about Hamlet audio book titles.
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.
How did Shakespeare go from being [...]
November 30, 2007
- The Great Gatsby — Audio Book
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of The Great Gatsby. Tim Robbins is narrator of this book.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, “a wonder.” It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated [...]
November 10, 2007
- The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers is the classic audio book by Alexandre Dumas.
This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who loyally served the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
When the dashing young D’Artagnon arrives in Paris from Gascony, he becomes embroiled in three duels with [...]
July 1, 2007
- Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace chronicles one of the most turbulent eras in Russian history, encompassing the drama and intensity of life during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
This unique, full-cast dramatisation contains over two hours of specially composed music and captures the full atmosphere of Tolstoy’s masterpiece
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May 24, 2007
- Anna Karenina Audiobook
Anna Karenina is the famous love story by Leo Tolstoy. It’s a comprehensive 35 hours audio book narrated by Nadia May and published by Blackstone Audio Inc.
“One of the greatest love stories in world literature.”Vladimir Nabokov
Considered one of the pinnacles of world literature.Merriam-Websters Encyclopedia of Literature
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina [...]
May 19, 2007
- George Orwell 1984 - Audiobook
1984 by George Orwell is a real classic and this is a new edition and in audiobook format. Simon Prebble is the narrator and the book is published by Blackstone Audio Inc.
“It is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly or loathe tyranny with such fullness.”Mark [...]
April 23, 2007
- Ulysses — Audio Book
Ulysses is the classic book written by James Joyce.
In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day - June 16 1904 -in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing - and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer’s Odyssey, internal thoughts -Joyce’s famous [...]
April 2, 2007
- Hamlet - Audio Book
Hamlet audio book by William Shakespeare is a Full Cast Production.
Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - we [...]
