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Title: The Master and Margarita

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Format: Abridged

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 72 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan, and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new translation in an imaginative reading by the charismatic Julian Rhind-Tutt. With War and Peace and Crime and Punishment among the Naxos AudioBooks best-sellers, this too promises to be a front title.

Critic Reviews:

"Bulgakovs satire of the greed and corruption of Soviet authorities illustrates the redemptive nature of art and faith, and Julian Rhind-Tutts superb interpretation does the classic full justice. With a dramatic flair and a deep, multilayered voice, he pulls off a host of fantastical characters including Professor Woland (Satan) and several of his associates, Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ, witches and madmen and a variety of early 20th-century Moscow literary and theater types." (

Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Subtitle: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

Author: Richard F. Burton

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-11

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of "The Thousand and One Nights" are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This modern edition, culled from the first three volumes of Richard F. Burton's famous ten-volume translation, restores the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic. Intricate and imaginative, these stories continue to captivate audiences as they have for centuries.

The following stories can be found in this audiobook: "Tale of the Bull and the Ass", "Tale of the Trader and the Jinni", "The First Shaykh's Story", "The Second Shaykh's Story", "The Third Shaykh's Story", "The Fisherman and the Jinni", "The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban", "King Sindibad and his Falcon", "The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot", "The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress", "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince", "The Tale of the Three Apples", "The Hunchback's Tale", "The Nazarene Broker's Story", "The Reeve's Tale", "The Tale of the Jewish Doctor", "The Tale of the Tailor", "The Barber's Tale of Himself", "The Barber's Tale of His First Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Second Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Third Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Fourth Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Fifth Brother", "The Barber's Tale of His Sixth Brother", "The End of the Tailor's Tale", "Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis", "The Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter", "The Hermits", and "Tale of the Water Fowl and the Tortoise".

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Titolo: Cuore di tenebra [Heart of Darkness]

Autore: Joseph Conrad

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 01-31-11

Editore: Collina d'oro

Valutazioni: 2.5 su 5 su 2 voti

Categoria: Classics, World Literature

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Questo romanzo breve, pubblicato nel 1902, è il romanzo più famoso di Joseph Conrad, ed è considerato un classico della letteratura inglese. Lo stile narrativo, a tratti impressionistico, ha ispirato molti scrittori moderni. Il racconto è ambientato nellAfrica nera, e esprime una critica al colonialismo basato su scopi commerciali; su un piano più profondo tocca il tema della lotta intima del conflitto con la propria parte ombra.A questo lungo racconto si sono ispirati vari film, fra cui Apocalypse Now. Musica di Kevin Mac Leod.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

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Title: Invitation to a Beheading

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 98 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills his executioners out of existence. They disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.

Critic Reviews:

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." (John Updike)

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Title: Candide (AudioGO Edition)

Author: Voltaire

Narrator: Jack Davenport

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 918 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Candide, published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant best seller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Voltaires preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of human folly and intolerance found a perfect vehicle in the philosophical tale. A master storyteller, he combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and oriental tales with which his public was more familiar to create a witty allegory of a young man whose optimism gives way to disillusionment after a series of terrible misfortunes.

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Title: Candide (Gildan Media Edition)

Author: Voltaire

Narrator: Don Hagen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-10

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 227 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Candide is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. One of the finest satires ever written, this lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide witnesses calamity upon calamity, he becomes disillusioned and discovers that all is not always for the best.

Candide is characterized by its sarcastic tone, dark humor, and erratic, fantastical, fast-moving plot. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies and philosophers, and romance.

Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. It was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition, and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. Voltaire never admitted to having written the highly controversial Candide; instead, the work was signed Mister Doctor Ralph.

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Title: Collected Fictions

Author: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (translator)

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-10

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 259 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. A selection of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered in this audiobook, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. These enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.

Selections include: "Borges and I", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Man on Pink Corner", "The Library of Babel", "Death and the Compass", "The Lottery in Babylon", "The Maker", "The Zahir", "The Encounter", "The Circular Ruins", "Shakespeare's Memory", "August 25, 1983", "The Immortal", "Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote", "The Story from Rosendo Juarez", "The Aleph", and "Dreamtigers".

Please note: This audio edition includes selections from the paperback edition. The stories included are unabridged.

Critic Reviews:

"A Borges invention can start anywhere, hint at unlikely sources, and proceed by pseudo-banal routes to unprecedented goals; it always takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride into some previously unsuspected dimension. This collection of the great magician's work is a new translation and includes one piece never before put into English." (The Atlantic Monthly)

"This...collection of the complete imaginings of the Argentine writer...is an event, and cause for celebration." (The New York Times)

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Title: Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 114 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joyces experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homers Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day.

As his characters stroll, eat, ruminate, and argue through the streets of Dublin, Joyces stream-of-consciousness narrative artfully weaves events, emotions, and memories in a free flow of imagery and associations.

Full of literary references, parody, and uncensored vulgarity, Ulysses has been considered controversial and challenging, but always brilliant and rewarding.

Critic Reviews:

Comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence." (

New York Times)

"To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time." (Gilbert Seldes,

The Nation)

Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction." (Edmund Wilson,

The New Republic)

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Title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Author: Henry Fielding

Narrator: Kenneth Danzinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 166 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy as his own son. Tom falls in love with the beautiful and unattainable Sophia Western, a neighbors daughter, whose marriage has already been arranged. When Toms sexual misadventures around the countryside get him banished, he sets out to make his fortune and find his true identity.

Against the vivid background of 18th-century London, Tom encounters passion, corruption, danger, and intrigue before finally claiming his fortune, legitimacy, and true love. Fieldings bawdy, colorful, high-spirited novel paints human vices and virtues with unprecedented honesty and good humor, making Tom Jones as fresh and entertaining today as it was 200 years ago.

Critic Reviews:

Tom Joneshas been admired by many readers as the most meticulously crafted book of its type. With neoclassic objectivity, humor, and fine psychological delicacy, Fielding dissects the motives of his characters to reveal universal truths about human nature. (

Masterpieces of World Literature)

Two hundred years have not dimmed Fieldings realism. His humor is closer to our own than that of any writer before the present century." (Kingsley Amis)

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Title: The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature

Subtitle: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus

Author: Katherine Elkins

Narrator: Katherine Elkins

Format: Original Recording

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Camus' The Stranger. Literary immortals all, these four French authors produced works that reflected their times and exerted a continuing and lasting influence on all the generations that followed.

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