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Title: Siddhartha

Author: Hermann Hesse

Narrator: David Cross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-12

Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In Siddhartha, Herman Hesse conveys a very profound message for all those who seek meaning in their lives. Though set in India, the concerns of Siddhartha are universal, expressing Hesse's general interest in the conflict between mind, body, and spirit. It is a story of a Brahmin boy who follows his heart and ventures out into the world to experience life as a pious Brahmin, a Samana, a rich merchant, a lover, and ordinary ferryman to a father - each life bringing a new awakening, bringing him closer to the truth until he is finally one with Buddha.

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Title: The Arabian Nights

Author: Andrew Lang (translator)

Narrator: Suehyla El Attar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 88 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Scheherazade, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Scheherazade always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.

Editorial Reviews:

The Arabian Nights assembles tales from centuries of Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures in an enchanting collection whose varied characters, storylines, and methods of describing them have influenced modern genres as diverse as fantasy, science fiction, and detective fiction. The collection employs the frame tale of a woman staving off her execution by telling stories that leave her husband, the sultan, in such suspense that he continuously postpones the sentence. Suehyla El Attar embodies Scheherazade, performing the collection with a feminine wile, as well as enthusiastically voicing the gruff beasts and powerful heroes like Aladdin, Ali Ba Ba, and Sinbad the Sailor who make this audiobook such an intoxicating stimulant to the imagination.

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Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Author: The Arabian Nights

Narrator: B. J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-12

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 359 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In the mystical land of Arabia, there is secreted a magical door that opens with the command, Open, Sesame! Inside lays the plunder of a century of robbers and mercenaries. When Ali Baba witnesses 40 thieves open this door with the enchanted words, endless possibilities begin to unwind before him.

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Title: Swann's Way

Author: Marcel Proust

Narrator: Neville Jason

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-12

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 327 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jasons widely praised abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark, and now, upon numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours.

Swanns Way is the first of seven volumes and sets the scene with the narrators memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake, the madeleine, accompanied by a cup of lime-flowered tea. It is an unmatched portrait of fin-de-siècle France.

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Titolo: Le avventure di Itamar

Autore: David Grossman

Narratore: Pierfrancesco Favino

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 50 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 01-19-12

Editore: Emons Edizioni

Categoria: Classics, World Literature

Riepilogo Editore:

Tra cappelli magici che trasformano le persone in animali e folletti celesti che lo inseguono di notte, Itamar impara a giocare con le sue paure e a far galoppare limmaginazione. Cosa ci sarà nella pancia della mamma? Un pallone, un bambino di cioccolato o un fratello leone Ad accompagnarlo nelle sue scoperte e invenzioni è il papà che, attraverso il gioco, ascolta i suoi desideri e lo aiuta a capire la realtà che lo circonda.

©1991 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (P)2011 Emons Italia

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Title: The Bhagavad Gita

Subtitle: A Walkthrough for Westerners

Author: Jack Hawley

Narrator: Jack Hawley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-12

Publisher: New World Library

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 171 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. In this audio version of his classic book The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners, Jack Hawley makes its wisdom clear to Western seekers.

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Titolo: Il terribile guerriero [The Terrible Warrior]

Autore: Letizia Piva

Narratore: Letizia Piva, Eleonora Cominato

Formato: Abridged

Durata: 8 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 11-17-11

Editore: Shamba Edizioni

Categoria: Classics, World Literature

Riepilogo Editore:

Può una creaturina come un piccolo bruco sconfiggere elefanti, rinoceronti e leopardi? Davvero incredibile, ma pare proprio di sì! Scopri come succede, ascoltando la favola....

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Title: Jaya

Subtitle: A Retelling of the Mahabharata

Author: Devdutt Pattanaik

Narrator: Devdutt Pattanaik, Dramanon Theater

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-11

Publisher: booksTALK Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 279 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

High above the sky stands Swarga, paradise, abode of the gods. Still above is Vaikuntha, heaven, abode of God.

The doorkeepers of Vaikuntha are the twins, Jaya and Vijaya, both whose names mean "victory". One keeps you in Swarga; the other raises you into Vaikuntha. In Vaikuntha there is bliss forever, in Swarga there is pleasure for only as long as you deserve.

What is the difference between Jaya and Vijaya? Solve this puzzle and you will solve the mystery of the Mahabharata. In this enthralling retelling of Indias greatest epic - the Mahabharata, originally known as Jaya - Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the Sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu, and Yakshagana of Karnataka.

The 108 chapters abound with little-known details, such as the names of the hundred Kauravas; the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu; the stories of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Aravan, and Barbareek; the Mahabharata version of the Shakuntalam and the Ramayana; and the dating of the war based on astronomical data. With clarity and simplicity, the tales in this audiobook reveal the eternal relevance of the Mahabharata, the complex and disturbing meditation on the human condition that has shaped Indian thought for over 3,000 years.

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Title: Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrator: Samuel West, Auriol Smith, Derek Jacobi, Sean Barrett, Stephen Critchlow, Hugh Dickson, Emily Raymond, Gunnar Cauthery, Anne-Marie Piazza, Daniel Mair

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 226 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power. Enjoyment rules, until Fausts emotions are stirred by a meeting with Gretchen, and the tragic outcome brings Part 1 to an end. Part 2, written much later in Goethes life, places his eponymous hero in a variety of unexpected circumstances, causing him to reflect on humanity and its attitudes to life and death.

Critic Reviews:

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award: If its been a while since you tackled Goethe's Faust like, forever dont wait a moment longer. John R. Williams's sparkling English translation is delightful, full of wit and delicious rhymes, and would be reason enough to fling yourself at it, but this full-cast production more than doubles the pleasure. The actors play it as if we were all Faust and hell were going to be a lot worse than other people. The performances are marvelous, and the sound effects clever and often gorgeous (the choir!). After this rendering of 'Walpurgisnacht,' youll never see Halloween the same again. One might call this Harry Potter for grown-ups, except that the good guys well, I wouldnt want to give away the ending. What a great theatrical experience. (AudioFile)

Goethe's Faust has had a huge impact on both musical culture and the Western legacy at large. So it seems fitting that we mention a rather wonderful dramatic enactment of the work on a new Naxos audiobook. It's abridged, which is a fine thing since a full version would last a veritable eternity. In effect Naxos AudioBooks has done for Faust what some of the classic London recordings of the '60s did for opera. It conceives of the soundstage and special potential of the modern recorded medium and how they can heighten appreciation for the work in ways that the stage or the book format cannot. So this production has very well-conceived sound effects, music, voice alteration and excellent dramatic recitation by the actor-reciters. Listen straight through and you get a vivid experience of the Faust drama in ways you would not get in any other form. The English translation is mellifluous and not stilted, and the recitation is terrific. Anyone who has appreciated the various settings of Faust by Gounod, Berlioz, Schumann, etc., will revel in the full drama enacted in the spirit Goethe intended. Of course this is a long work even in its abridged form. The ideal way to experience it first hand is in this audiobook. It makes what could easily be a bit of an ordeal an exciting and sonorously delightful experience, if you are a person of some patience. Highly recommended. (Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review)

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Title: The Swiss Family Robinson

Author: Johann David Wyss

Narrator: James Conlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-11

Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays the right stuff and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys, establish farms and plantations, and finally, have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island.

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