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Title: Cyrano De Bergerac

Author: Edmond Rostand

Narrator: Scott Diskin

Format: Abridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-08

Publisher: Listener's Digest Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

With a heart as big as his nose, the poet-swordsman lends his words and wit to the handsome but tongue-tied Christian to win the hand of the fair Roxane. Spurned by love due to his enlarged nose, Cyrano transfers his love and poetic words for Roxane to Christian in order for him to win her love.

©2007 Listener's Digest Inc; (P)2007 Listener's Digest Inc

Members Reviews:

Comedy or Drama or Romance...

Edmond Rostand's enduring tale of "Cyrano de Bergerac" gets the graphic novel treatment in this Classics Illustrated edition, adapted by Peter David and Kyle Baker. Fanciful artwork and some well-chosen explanatory notes make this a great introduction to a great story, equal parts comedy, romance, and drama.

The French soldier Cyrano de Bergerac is renounced for his wit, writing skills, bravery with a sword, and his panache. He is also cursed with the largest nose ever to darken a human face, and with an unrequited love for his beautiful cousin Roxanne. Roxanne is in love with the handsome, brave but rather dull Baron Christian de Neuvil, and will beg Cyrano to watch over him. Encouraged by Cyrano, Christian will take up the wooing of Roxanne, in which cause Cyrano will play many roles. He will also watch over Christian in the face of many threats, even death...

This Classics Illustrated edition includes the essentials of a long and moving story, including doing justice to several comedic moments and to the famous dual wooing scene. Kyle Baker's almost whimsical art crucially captures the changing emotions of the characters. "Cyrano de Bergerac" is very highly recommended as an entertaining graphic novel treatment of a great story.

Useful for having alongside edition if learning French/English with this text...

Useful. Just got a house in Bergerac & have to learn French & should know this story (as this play helped to make the town famous!). This edition is useful while going through the French edition/dialogue, as it has a good selection of words & fantastic to see how to say something in English various ways in French & have the play dialogue translated with various selections of nuance which is clearly shown with the Thesaurus entries...will make going through the rather odd play a lot more of a practical exercise... and more memorable (I type hopefully).

The original, unbeatable text

Of course you will need to read French but if you master the language you should definitely give it a shot.

This is my favorite play ever; one of my top ten books and the only play in there.

Forget the movies (except maybe the French one with Depardieu), and no it does not end very well, but Edmond Rostand takes you for a ride through love and war and wit and charm and fun and, yes, cooking, all in some of the most brilliant yet funny example of mastery of the alexandrine.

I laugh out to tears each time I read it.

Great Free E-Book

Everyone has read this book in school, whether by choice or force, so I am not going to get into what the book is about on here. The translation to the Kindle format is pretty darn good. I can't really find anything not to like about a FREE classic that I remember having to buy when I was in school. Thanks Amazon for making the classics available to everyone for free.

Note: Minus 1 star because I think that the story is good, but not great.

Romantic, Dashing, Hilarious!

This is one of my favorite plays.

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Title: The Prince

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrator: Walter Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-08

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Machiavelli cut his political teeth during the Renaissance, a time of intense hatred between Italian city states. Machiavelli was a man of action, a devout patriot. He wrote The Prince to describe how a leader could unite Italy and put a stop to the senseless conflict. This edition includes an addenda and Machiavelli's biography of Castruccio Castracani: his archetypal prince.

© and (P)1987 Jimcin Recordings

Members Reviews:

Horrible audiobook

It sounds like a robot speaking the entire time. It's very difficult to focus on the story. Don't waste your time or money buying the audiobook!

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Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Emmuska Orczy

Narrator: Walter Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-08

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A blood-red flower is his calling card, daring rescues are his mission. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a daring English aristocrat who rescues French nobles from death at the hands of Madame Guillotine, patron saint of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. This popular romantic adventure is filled with skin-of-the-teeth escapes and spine-tingling intrigue. It is presented here in unabridged form so you won't miss a moment of swashbuckling suspense.

©1905 G. P. Putnam; (P)1983 Jimcin Recordings

Editorial Reviews:

Walter Zimmerman gives an outstanding performance of the classic novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. He enunciates each word with care, which lends his narration an air of refinement. The setting of the story is the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror. By day, protagonist Sir Percy Blakeney is a playboy English aristocrat. But by night, he dons a disguise, and then rescues members of the French nobility from death by guillotine. His death-defying missions are sure to enthrall listeners hungry for adventure.

Members Reviews:

It's up to the Narrator

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a fantastic book however Walter Zimmerman reads this beautiful book like he's reading the nightly news report... it's so annoying if it weren't on my ipod I'd have thrown it at the wall. I am an avid audiobook listener and I will never buy another book narrated by this person.

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Título: En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido, Pt. 6

Subtitular: Albertine ha Desaparecido (Texto Completo)

Autor: Marcel Proust

Narrador: Santiago Munevar

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 18 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-26-07

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 5 votos

Categorías: Classics, European Literature

Resumen del editor:

This monumental masterpiece by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is an immense portrait of an entire society and is considered as one of the greatest novels in all literature. As its title shows, Proust tried to recover in his work what the past had been, and in doing so, made an incisive analysis of his times, with unforgettable characters - most of them were based on his acquaintances. This work reflects one of the foremost travels through the subconscious ever written.

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Título: En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido, Pt. 7

Subtitular: El Tiempo Recobrado (Texto Completo)

Autor: Marcel Proust

Narrador: Santiago Munevar

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-26-07

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 5 votos

Categorías: Classics, European Literature

Resumen del editor:

This monumental masterpiece by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is an immense portrait of an entire society and is considered as one of the greatest novels in all literature. As its title shows, Proust tried to recover in his work what the past had been, and in doing so, made an incisive analysis of his times, with unforgettable characters - most of them were based on his acquaintances. This work reflects one of the foremost travels through the subconscious ever written.

Opiniones de los miembros:

This one is not unabridged

Any additional comments?

I was hoping to have Proust's seven books unabridged, but they're in fact abridged. Big disappointment. Audible should fix this information.

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Título: En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido, Pt. 3

Subtitular: El Mundo de Guermantes (Texto Completo)

Autor: Marcel Proust

Narrador: Santiago Munevar

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 38 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-26-07

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 7 votos

Categorías: Classics, European Literature

Resumen del editor:

This monumental masterpiece by Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is an immense portrait of an entire society and is considered as one of the greatest novels in all literature. As its title shows, Proust tried to recover in his work what the past had been, and in doing so, made an incisive analysis of his times, with unforgettable characters - most of them were based on his acquaintances. This work reflects one of the foremost travels through the subconscious ever written.

Opiniones de los miembros:

This one is not unabridged

Any additional comments?

I was hoping to have Proust's seven books unabridged, but they're in fact abridged. Big disappointment. Audible should fix this information.

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Title: The Man in the Iron Mask

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: Walter Covell

Format: Abridged

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-07

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This book was originally written as part of a sequel to The Three Musketeers. But in time, it developed a life of its own, and in recent years has always been published as a separate novel that stands on its own merits.

Editorial Reviews:

This final installment in Alexandre Dumas Three Musketeers adventures is based on a true story. In 17th-century France, a man was imprisoned for 34 years, his identity concealed behind a mask.

In Dumas 1850 re-telling of the story, The Man in the Iron Mask, the prisoner is the twin brother of King Louis XIII, who is kept hidden to prevent civil war in the country. The Three Musketeers help the prisoner, Phillipe, escape and kidnap the king through a series of brilliantly conceived schemes, with each adventure leading to the next predicament.

Walter Covell adopts an authoritative but lively tone in his performance of this classic adventure story.

Critic Reviews:

"Dumas's superb narrative power entitles him a place among the foremost story-tellers of the world." (Ajay Kothari, 101 Great Lives)

Members Reviews:

Great!

Wonderful story, very well read.

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Titel: Das Märchen

Autor:: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Erzähler: Hans-Jürgen Schatz

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 36 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-12-07

Herausgeber: HörGut! Verlag

Kategorien: Classics, European Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Mit dieser Episode beginnt die Suche der Irrlichter nach der schönen Prinzessin Lilie. Eine alte Frau und ein Jüngling werden sich ihrer Suche anschließen. Zum weiteren Figurenrepertoire des an Symbolen reichen Märchens gehören eine sprechende Schlange, ein Riese und ein zu Stein erstarrter Mops.

"Das Märchen" ist die letzte Erzählung aus Goethes Novellenzyklus "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" (1795). Sie erschien zuerst in der von Friedrich Schiller herausgegebenen Zeitschrift "Die Horen".

Zu diesem Hörbuch erhalten Sie das CD-Booklet als pdf-Datei, das nach dem Kauf Ihrer Bibliothek hinzugefügt wird.

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Titel: Die Leiden des jungen Werther

Autor:: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Erzähler: Patrick Imhof

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-11-07

Herausgeber: BUCHFUNK

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Classics, European Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der Text ist ungekürzt und wird von dem Schauspieler Patrick Imhof gelesen.

Im Jahr 1772 wandert der spätere Dichterfürst noch zu Fuß nach Wetzlar, um dort eine Praktikumsstelle anzutreten. Auf einem Ball verliebt er sich in die 19jährige Charlotte Buff. Sie ist jung und schön wie Werthers Lotte und wie Lotte sorgt sie nach dem Tod der Mutter für ihre jüngeren Geschwister. Doch Charlotte ist bereits seit ihrem 15. Lebensjahr dem hannoverschen Gesandschaftssekretär Johann Christian Kestner versprochen. Beiden blieb Goethe jedoch ein Leben lang freundschaftlich verbunden. Diese ist die autobiografische Seite des Romans. Die Dramatik entnahm Goethe einer anderen Geschichte, der des braunschweigischen Gesandtschaftssekretärs Carl Wilhelm Jerusalem, eines Leipziger Studienkollegen: Dieser hatte sich in diesem Jahr 1772 in eine verheiratete Frau verliebt. Hinzu kamen berufliche Probleme, schließlich sah er im Freitod den einzigen Ausweg. Pikant: Die Waffe, mit der er seinem Leben ein Ende setze, gehörte Charlotte Buffs Ehemann.

Also beides - eigene Verliebtheit wie die Nachricht vom Tod des unglücklichen Jerusalem, dienten Goethe als Vorlage für seinen Welterfolg. Der Roman erschien erstmals 1774. Bis heute hält sich die Geschichte, dass das Erscheinen des Romans zu einer wahren Selbstmordwelle geführt habe.

Der Sprecher:

Patrick Imhof, geboren 1971 in Basel. Nach seinem Abitur widmete sich Imhof der Musik und studierte an der Musik-Akademie Basel Kontrabass und Schulmusik. Gleichzeitig Theaterprojekte mit dem Regisseur Stephan Müller in Basel. 1996-2000 Schauspielstudium an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. Ensemblemitglied Schauspiel Leipzig bis 2004. Seit 2004 als freier Schauspieler und Schauspieldozent.

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

An incisive critique of bourgeois vices

In the Enlightenment attempt to justify the institutions of bourgeois liberalism, one of the most glaring failures is the case of punishment. The Enlightenment can prove that a certain kind of peace is possible among those who accept its peculiar form of bourgeois reason. But the cruel treatment of dissenters who are either unable or unwilling to accept this sort of rationalityâfor this the Enlightenment has no justification. In a conversation with his bourgeois rival Albert, Werther brings up this unpaid debt of the Enlightenment. What should we say about a thief who steals to feed his starving children? Who would cast the first stone at him?

A man overcome with passion, says Albert, loses his senses, as if he were drunk or insane. Rational, reasonable bourgeois people like Albert designate the dissenter who refuses to accept their form of rationality as an outsider, who, because of his so-called irrationality is unworthy of sympathy. The cold-blooded cruelty of the bourgeois regime is rationalized by precisely such dehumanization of its victims.

The fundamental principle of the Enlightenment, as Kant would articulate it, is that each individual mind must overcome its self-imposed immaturity and learn to think without guidance from another.

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Titel: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Autor:: Joseph von Eichendorff

Erzähler: Mathias Kahler

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-16-07

Herausgeber: LangenMüller Herbig

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Classics, European Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Müllerssohn streift auf der Wanderschaft umher, verliebt sich in eine Hofdame und erlebt zahlreiche Abenteuer, die ihn bis nach Rom führen. Die Sehnsucht nach seiner Liebe treibt ihn allerdings wieder in die Heimat, wo sich alle Verwirrungen auflösen. Die wundervolle, märchenhafte Novelle, mit den schönsten Gedichten des berühmten Autors angereichert, ist eines der wichtigsten Werke der Spätromantik. Mathias Kahler bringt mit dieser poetisch gelesenen Geschichte das romantische Lebensgefühl jener Zeit dem Hörer nahe.

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Great book.

Great book...but...this is advertised as âEnglish and German editionâ and it is only in German, making it a poor gift for someone who is learning. I will try to return it.

A true classic !

Before Kerouac there was Eichendorff, the first classic on the road romantic story. Always loved it and love reading it again.