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Title: The Essential Dylan Thomas

Author: Dylan Thomas

Narrator: Dylan Thomas, Richard Bebb, Jason Hughes, Richard Burton

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-05

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This varied, well-chosen selection brings onto one audiobook the best of Dylan Thomas. Here is the legendary recording of "Under Milk Wood", with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators; but here also are two radio productions he wrote before that great classic, and though interesting in their own right, they show how "Under Milk Wood" grew gradually in his imagination.

This collection includes "Under Milk Wood", "Return Journey to Swansea", and "And death shall ahve no dominion" and other poems. It also includes "Memories of Christmas", "The Peaches", "The Outing", "The Followers", "Do not go gentle into that good night", and other poems.

Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories and here is a representative selection.

Critic Reviews:

2005 Audie Award Nominee, Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium

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Title: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Author: Robert Tressell

Narrator: Tony Robinson

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-05

Publisher: CSA Word

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Tressell's novel is about survival on the underside of the Edwardian Twilight, about exploitative employment when the only safety nets are charity, workhouse, and grave. Following the fortunes of a group of painters and decorators and their families, and the attempts to rouse their political will by the Socialist visionary Frank Owen, the audiobook is both a highly entertaining story and a passionate appeal for a fairer way of life. It asks questions that are still being asked today: why do yourwages bear no relation to the value of your work? Why do fat cats get richer when you don't? Tressell's answers are "The Great Money Trick" and the "philanthropy" of an unenlightened workforce, who give away their rights and aspirations to a decent life so freely.

Intellectually enlightening, deeply moving, and gloriously funny (complete with exploding clergyman), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book that changes lives.

Critic Reviews:

"A brilliant and very funny book." (The Spectator)

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Title: A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Ian Richardson

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-05

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr. Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

(P)2003 Penguin Books Ltd

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Title: The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Author: William Butler Yeats

Narrator: Stephanie Beacham, Gabriel Byrne, Minnie Driver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Butler Yeats's early poetry is suffused with the radiant lyricism of Irish folklore and myth; the yearning romance and distinctly Irish voice of these first works of the Nobel laureate have inspired scores of poets. This splendid selection offers a distinctive sampling of the Yeatsian voice.

Among the many famed works included are "The Stolen Child","The Everlasting Voices", "Reconciliation", and "The Song of the Wandering Aengus". Each of these poems is filled with the sparkling magic and mysticism Yeats absorbed as a boy in Ireland. This sweetness is juxtaposed against an anguished realism grounded in the master poet's nationalist and political sympathies.

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Title: The Pickwick Papers, Volume 1

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-99

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 154 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Meet Mr. Samuel Pickwick, luminous presence, general chairman and member of the Pickwick Club, an organization devoted to meeting good friends, sharing good stories and spreading good cheer. Join Mr. Pickwick and his friends Mr. Snodgrass, Mr. Jingle and all the rest in Part One of their adventures, which include: the first day's journey, an old-fashioned card party, the action of Bardell against Pickwick, and Christmas.

Editorial Reviews:

The Pickwick Papers, Volume 1 is Charles Dickens' first novel, written under the pseudonym of "Boz". These related serial adventures center on Samuel Pickwick's and his friends' travels through the English countryside. Audio performer Patrick Tull shows genuine enthusiasm for the tales. His talent particularly shines when he creates characters' voices, each of which brims with a unique accent, pace, and pitch. From spinster aunts and wily servants, to innkeepers, actors, and widowed landladies, Tull breathes life into them all.

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Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much

Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Narrator: B. J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-14

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Horne Fisher is extremely well connected. The plans of prime ministers, foreign ambassadors, and chancellors are matters of table conversation - usually because these people are dining with him. And when a man so well connected is also a brilliant detective, all sinister motives and plots systematically unfold.

Whether it is a case of police corruption, or a war with Sweden, Horne Fisher can always solve it. But Horne Fisher is also a philosopher, and not a policeman, and the murderer is seldom punished. G. K. Chesterton, author of the Father Brown stories, here introduces another detective outside the realm of conventional law enforcement.

The Man Who Knew Too Much contains eight stories full of mystery and adventure, with a fair share of food for thought.

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Title: The Four Feathers

Author: A. E. W. Mason

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 182 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives. Having proven his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée.

This suspenseful tale movingly depicts a distinctive code of honor that was deeply valued and strongly promoted by the British during the height of their imperial power.

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Title: Wuthering Heights (Dramatized)

Author: Emily Brontë, Janet Chiesa (adaption)

Narrator: Audioscape Players

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-14

Publisher: AudioscapeProductions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Heathcliff is a strange dark-skinned boy whom Cathy's father brings back to Wuthering Heights from a trip to Liverpool. He is adopted into the Earnshaw family. Cathy and Heathcliff develop an inseparable - even an ideal companionship. She admires his self-sufficiency and endurance; but her brother, Hindley, victimises him. When she marries Edgar Linton, the sophisticated and worldly young landowner of Thrushcross Grange, Cathy acknowledges her error in her heart.

An audio-dramatization with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by Audioscape Players.

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Title: Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Nicky Whichelow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-15

Publisher: Take 2 Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness tells a story based on Conrad's own experiences in the Congo Free State during the 1890s. Set in Africa, the main character, Marlow, is asked to find and bring back the ivory trader, Mr. Kurtz. However, the deeper Marlow travels, the more ominous and depressing his surroundings become.

Marlow finds a dying and traumatized Mr. Kurtz who is surrounded by his ivory and despair. Although he has dominated the Congo natives, Mr. Kurtz is far from the prestigious and heroic man that Marlow had thought he would meet. His corruption and mistreatment of those around him become evident the more Marlow uncovers about Mr. Kurtz's life deep in the heart of Africa.

The story focuses on the effects of unrestrained power and uncontrolled greed as the cause for evil and corruption. Although not an easy task, Marlow is able to take Mr. Kurtz back onto his boat and attempts to take him out of Africa. However, Mr. Kurtz does not make the journey back, and the book holds true to its title through the end. As an outright attack on imperialism, this story is filled with adventure, morally ambiguous situations, and detailed descriptions of Marlow's adventure.

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Title: King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In 1885, while accompanying his brother on a journey to London, Rider Haggard mentioned that he had just finished reading Robert Louis Stevenson's recently published Treasure Island. Haggard boasted that he could write something far better, and his brother dared him to try. What resulted was King Solomons Mines, one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.

Middle-aged big game hunter Allan Quartermain accompanies Sir Henry Curtis on an expedition in search of Curtis estranged younger brother George, who had headed north in search of treasure two years before and was never seen again. Curtis believes his brother was following an ancient map that he hoped would lead him to Solomons Mines, part of the lost riches of the biblical King Solomon. Offered half of the treasure should he successfully lead Sir Henry to the mines, Quartermain agrees to go with a promise of securing financial security for his son.

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