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Title: The Letters of Heloise & Abelard

Author: Peter Abelard, Heloise

Narrator: Claire Bloom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-08

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard perpetuate perfectly the bitterness of love thwarted and betrayed. How these letters were preserved no one quite knows. But they are as authentic as the two people from whose tormented lives they were wrung.

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Titre: Lettres Persanes

Auteur: Charles Montesquieu

Narrateur: Jacques Perrin

Format: Abridged

Durée: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 04-15-08

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Publiées sans nom d'auteur en 1721, les Lettres persanes rencontrèrent aussitôt un considérable succès. L'ouvrage se donne comme un recueil de près de deux cents lettres : celles d'Usbek et Rica, deux "Persans" voyageant vers l'Europe et s'arrêtant à Paris. En restituant, pour le plaisir de l'écoute, la pluralité des voix, nous voudrions inviter à découvrir (ou redécouvrir) un texte qui sait aussi se faire roman. Montesquieu, observateur des mœurs et des institutions, s'efforce de les comparer suivant les variations de lieu et de temps.

La liberté de ton permise par la situation décalée des principaux protagonistes, si elle divertit souvent, fait aussi réfléchir - discrètement et sans emphase. De la philosophie rendue accessible par la littérature qui, par le jeu des lettres, offre l'opportunité du théâtre sonore. Incarné par Jacques Perrin et Aurélien Recoing, entourés de 7 comédiens, le texte de Montesquieu trouve sa légitimité d'œuvre sonore.

Patrick Frémeaux & Claude Colombini

(p) et © 2006 - Frémeaux et Associés / Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle

"Publiées anonymement en 1721, les Lettres persanes se présentent comme un recueil de 200 lettres échangées entre Rica et Usbek, deux Persans voyageant vers l'Europe. Aussitôt, l'ouvrage rencontre un considérable succès. Aujourd'hui redécouvrir, dans la pluralité des voix, ces textes qui rendent compte des moeurs et des institutions permet d'installer une réflexion efficace sur les fondations de notre vieille Europe. Et les Lettres tirent vers la sociologie et la philosophie. Un joli voyage."

Lucas Falchero, Revue des médiathèques et des collections musicales

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Title: Araby

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Jim Killavey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-08

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Araby" is one of the stories from Joyce's masterpiece, The Dubliners. As is the case with all the stories in the book, it culminates in an "epiphany".

© and (P)1990 Jimcin Recordings

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Title: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Oliver Ford Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-08

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 71 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The subject of this well-known Tolstoy novella is a high court judge in St. Petersburg who lives a carefree life. One day, without warning, he is beset by pains and soon has to come to terms with the fact that he is going to die. The judge has to learn to face death without fear and yet feel compassion for the family he is leaving behind.

Editorial Reviews:

Tolstoy's novella offers a penetrating examination of the Christian faith and the nature of life and death. Listeners will also be sure to delight in Tolstoy's sharp and sometimes satirical eye for the very modern-sounding details of the life of a nineteenth-century Russian bureaucrat. With masterful ease, a warm tone, and conversational pacing, British actor Oliver Davies captures Ivan Ilyich's preoccupation with interior decorating and debt and his avoidance of family weddings and home remedies. Then the shadow of death wipes away all trivialities and pretense. This work's prose and performance are so vivid, so human, and so listenable that there's no doubt why Tolstoy stands as one of the giants of world literature.

Critic Reviews:

"Davies' skill with inflection, even within words, heightens the social satire of the early section and shifts with Ilyich's slide into ever increasing pain and irritability." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Cyrano de Bergerac

Author: Edmond Rostand

Narrator: Flo Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-08

Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 54 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The story of Cyrano, his famous nose, and his undying love for the beautiful Roxanne evokes the spirit and panache of 17th century France.

©1984 Audio Book Contractors, Inc.; (P)2007 Audio Book Contractors, Inc.

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Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Author: Victor Hugo

Narrator: Jim Killavey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-08

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris) is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. It tells the story of a poor Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo), one of the most colorful characters in literature, who falls in love with her. They are both victimized by a corrupt priest (Claude Frollo) and begin an adventure filled with great peril and great heroism. The book was enormously popular in France and became so in translations in other countries. It's popularity has continued to this day.

©1831 Gosselin Co.; (P)1994 Jimcin Recordings

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Title: Le Pere Goriot

Author: Honore de Balzac

Narrator: Paul Hecht

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-07

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 126 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was, at first, afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household. Some think he lost in the markets, others see him as a lecherous patron of prostitutes, but one thing is clear: his selfless, complete devotion to his two daughters.

As the tragedy of old Goriot is revealed, the shallow values of society come into scrutiny.

Critic Reviews:

"Le Père Goriot holds so much, and in proportion to what it holds is...so simple and compact, that it easily ranks among the few greatest novels we possess." (Henry James)

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Title: The Gin Palace

Author: Emile Zola

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Gin Palace is the 7th novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, about two branches of a French family traced through several generations. Introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in 19th-century literature, it is also the work that made his reputation.

Critic Reviews:

"A born writer, marvelously gifted." (Guy de Maupassant)

"The Gin Palace delighted me...full of color, movement, and life." (Anatole France)

"Unsurpassable...heroically big...the intensity of her creator's vision...of the dense sordid life...is one of the great things the modern novel has been able to do." (Henry James)

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Title: The Song of Roland

Author: Unknown

Narrator: A Full Cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

One of the great medieval "songs of great deeds", this is a composite of several hero legends interlaced with Christian moral sentiments. A remarkable panorama of medieval life and thought, The Song of Roland truly reflects the spirit of its time. (Translation by D. D. R. Owen.)

Critic Reviews:

"No member of this cast is a household name, but all of them demonstrate high-quality dramatic skills in the presentation of the 12th-century epic French poem considered by many to be the first great piece of French literature." (AudioFile)

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Title: Cousin Bette

Author: Honore de Balzac

Narrator: Johanna Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 139 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Balzac described Cousin Bette as one of his "scenes of Parisian life", and it is certainly that. It offers us a hypnotic vision of that infinitely varied city during the bright, vital, scandalous, and sexually untrammeled era of King Louis-Philippe. The courtesans, swindlers, bankers, artists, murderers, detectives, and saints populating this world pass before us invested with a verve and vividness unsurpassed in the history of the novel.

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