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ID: 131410

Title: Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Michael Maloney, Sarah Woodward, Warren Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Drama, Shakespeare

Summary:

A Midsummer Night's Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare's plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts - between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation.

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ID: 121193

Title: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: David Timson, Nicolas Soames

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the horror of The Speckled Band or the secret behind the curious legacy for men of red hair? These and other puzzles are solved by this bloodhound of a genius.

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ID: 131408

Title: Sonnets

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'. For centuries these wonderfully-crafted, intense lyrics have stood for something valued about youth, love and the emotional complexities belonging to that time of life. This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.

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ID: 161827

Title: Middle Way

Author: Jinananda

Narrator: Anton Lesser, David Timson, Heathcote Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism, Prayer

Summary:

General interest in Buddhism has never been higher. The story and teachings of a man who lived 2,500 years ago have a special resonance for us today, perhaps because he taught a way of life that was not based on belief in a creator god but rather on personal experience. 'Test my words for yourself,' he said. But what lies behind those distinctive images of the Buddha, seated with unshakeable poise, with eyes half-closed and a slight smile? How did Buddhism develop, from the austere style which governed the life of the yellow-robed monks in ancient India to the more colourful, even magical expression of Tibet? And where does Zen fit in? In The Middle Way, Jinananda, a Western-born Buddhist, divides the subject into The Three Jewels - The Buddha (a life of the historical figure), The Dharma (an account of the fundamental teachings) and The Sangha (the disciples, both lay and monastic throughout the world). With extracts from some of main sutras, Jinananda explains the key concepts that lie behind a system of thought and behaviour which, like the universe itself, is continuously expanding.

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ID: 120827

Title: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Author: Benedict Flynn

Narrator: Nicolas Soames, Sean Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Classics, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

These stories are about how, many years ago, Arthur the once and future King of England, set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it, aided by the brave knights of his Round Table, and the most famous sword in the world, Excalibur; how Merlin the wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments, and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere, his Queen.

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ID: 120826

Title: Adventures of Odysseus

Author: Benedict Flynn

Narrator: Benjamin Soames

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes, left Troy and made his way back to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It was first told by a poet named Homer nearly three thousand years ago and is retold in this new version especially for younger listeners.

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ID: 133386

Title: Wings of the Dove

Author: Henry James

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Milly Theale is a young, beautiful, and fabulously wealthy American. When she arrives in London and meets the equally beautiful, but impoverished Kate Croy, they form an intimate friendship. But nothing is at it seems; materialism, romance, self-delusion, and ultimately fatal illness, insidiously contaminate the glamorous social whirl.

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ID: 133406

Title: History of Classical Music

Author: Richard Fawkes

Narrator: Robert Powell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: History, World

Summary:

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years. From Gregorian chant to Stravinsky and Gorecki, 150 musical excerpts illustrate the narrative.

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ID: 121158

Title: Hard Times

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Anton Lesser

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-97

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

In this, Dickens' most openly political novel, we discover the terrible human consequences of a ruthlessly materialistic philosophy in the lives of Thomas Gradgrind's family, brought up to believe that only 'Facts! Facts! Facts!' have any meaning. Set in Coketown, a typical Lancashire milltown, the novel graphically exposes the truth about Victorian 'progress'.

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ID: 121140

Title: Youth and Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-96

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

In these two magnificent novellas Conrad explores the question of self-discovery through powerful and exciting narratives in Youth, the experienced seaman Marlow tells the story of a young man's coming of age on his first voyage to the East. While in Heart of Darkness he describes with terrifying depth and vividness the slide into corruption of an idealistic trader - Kurtz, who has become the demi-devil of the Inner Station in the Belgian Congo...

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