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ID: 121132

Title: Riddle of the Sands

Author: Erskine Childers

Narrator: Andrew Lyle, Dermot Kerrigan

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Carruthers is rescued from a hot summer at a deserted Foreign Office in London, by an out-of-the-blue invitation to join an acquaintance, Davis, on his yacht in the Baltic. He arrives to find not only that he comprises the whole crew, but also that Davies needs his help in a spying mission with enormous stakes. The Riddle of the Sands, with its early warnings of the dangers of a German invasion by sea, created a sensation when it appeared in 1990. It is the forerunner of the spy novels of John Le Carré and Graham Greene, and its detail and dry humour have made it a classic for sailors as well as for thriller addicts.

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ID: 133377

Title: House of the Seven Gables

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: Peter Marinker

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune.' These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme of The House of the Seven Gables - that of a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds. The sins of the Pyncheon father are visited upon his children over a period of several generations, until such time as one of his descendants unites with a member of the family he has wronged. Love conquers hate, and new blood washes away the original crime. This intriguing and insightful novel truly deserves its significant place in the canon of American literature.

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ID: 131281

Title: Hunchback of Notre Dame

Author: Victor Hugo

Narrator: Bill Homewood

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmerelda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective. The characters come to life: the poet Gringoire, the tormented priest Claude Frollo, the upright, fun-loving captain Phoebus and above all Quasimodo and Esmerelda themselves. It is a tale peppered with humour but fuelled by the anguish which unfolds beneath the bells of the great cathedral of Paris.

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ID: 121089

Title: Emma

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:39:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is 'handsome, clever and rich' and has 'a disposition to think too well of herself'. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no-one emerges unchanged. Juliet Stevenson, an incomparable reader, is for many the voice of Jane Austen.

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ID: 121106

Title: Northanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Captivated and disconcerted by what she finds, and introduced to the joys of 'Gothic novels' by her new friend, Isabella, Catherine longs for mystery and romance. When she is invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family at Northanger Abbey, she expects mystery and intrigue at every turn. However, the truth turns out to be even stranger than fiction…

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ID: 131278

Title: Castle of Otranto

Author: Horace Walpole

Narrator: Neville Jason

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet. The event leads to a fast-paced story of jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in an atmosphere of thunderclaps, moonlight, and dark castle walls - mirroring the inner turmoils of the characters themselves. Horace Walpole's tale, an immediate success when it first appeared in 1764, is a classic of its genre.

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ID: 133375

Title: Faerie Queene

Author: Edmund Spenser

Narrator: John Moffatt

Format: Abridged

Length: 04:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time, Spenser is expounding a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error...

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ID: 131275

Title: Brief Lives

Author: John Aubrey

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes - three of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. They, and many others, are here remembered by another great Englishman, John Aubrey, whose Brief Lives are some of the wittiest and most moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey - a scholar, antiquarian and close observer of both the foibles and the courage of his contemporaries - lived through the upheavals of the English Civil War in the seventeenth century. His little biographies are amusing, ribald, moving; a testament to the brevity of human existence and one of the most precious relics of a distant age.

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ID: 131274

Title: Ben Hur

Author: Lew Wallace

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Ben Hur could be said to be the first blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two million copies and was translated into numerous languages. It combines all the best elements of popular classic, epic and action story against a background of authoritative historical detail. The pace and immediacy of Ben Hur was the basis of its appeal to film-makers - Charlton Heston's portrayal of the title role is one of the classics of the cinema. Wallace's original novel has been largely forgotten now, but as this vivid reading shows, the story - together with the sweeping rhythm of the writer's prose - make it ideally suited to the audiobook.

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ID: 134892

Title: Portrait of a Lady

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Elizabeth McGovern

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:12:44

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-06

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

The Portrait of a Lady tells the compelling and ultimately tragic tale of a beautiful young American woman's encounter with European sophistication. Set principally in England and Italy, we follow Isabel Archer's fortunes as a variety of admirers vie for her hand. Her choice will be crucial, and she is not wanting for advice, whether from the generous-spirited Ralph Touchett or the charming but rootless Madame Merle...

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