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ID: 320527

Title: Jojo the Melon Donkey

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Cassandra Harwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Jo-Jo sells melons in Venice. One dark night he has to save the city from the sea

Jo-Jo sells melons in Venice. One dark night he has to save the city from the sea. With the help and a little encouragement from the Doges daughter, Jo-Jo realises that anything is possible and he can do more than simply selling melons.

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ID: 320541

Title: Sonnets

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Sir John Gielgud

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:50:14

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

154 poems performed by by the wonderful Sir John Gielgud in this Shakepseare collection of Sonnets.

Shakespeare's sonnets are 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. All but two of the poems were first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. Sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim. The quarto ends with 'A Lover's Complaint', a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.

The first 17 sonnets, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are ostensibly written to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalise his beauty by passing it to the next generation.[1] Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the 'little Love-god' Cupid.

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ID: 320531

Title: Love Poems of John Donne

Author: John Donne

Narrator: Richard Burton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:36:59

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Read by Richard Burton in a manner that truly does justice to the virtuosity to the love poems of Englands most outstanding Metaphysical poet, bending both meaning and sound to the service of the Metaphysical conceit.

Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy, poems about true love, Neoplatonic lyrics on the mystical union of lovers' souls and bodies and brilliant satires and hymns depicting his own spiritual struggles.

Whatever the subject, Donne's poems reveal the same characteristics that typified the work of the metaphysical poets: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; paradox; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, and mathematics.

Expertly recited by Richard Burton, John Donnes love poetry stands alone as one of Englands greatest ever love poets.

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ID: 320544

Title: Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Sir John Gielgud

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:34:47

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

A wonderful classic recording of some of the greatest actors performing Shakespeare for the first time release on digital download.

Richard II is the main character of the play. The first Act begins with King Richard sitting majestically on his throne in full state. We learn that Henry Bolingbroke, Richard's cousin, is having a dispute with Thomas Mowbray, and they both want the king to act as judge. The subject of the quarrel is Bolingbroke's accusation that Mowbray had squandered monies given to him by Richard for the King's soldiers. Bolingbroke also accuses Mowbray of the recent murder of Duke of Gloucester, although John of GauntGloucester's brother and Bolingbroke's fatherbelieves that Richard himself was responsible for the murder. After several attempts to calm both men, Richard acquiesces and Bolingbroke and Mowbray challenge each other to a duel, over the objections of both Richard and Gaunt

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ID: 320537

Title: She Stoops to Conquer

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrator: Claire Bloom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:55:39

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

Summary:

Charming satire of the sentimental comedies of the day has entertained audiences since 1773. A young lady poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Many delightful deceits, hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the play concludes happily.

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ID: 320521

Title: Cool as a Cucumber

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Cassandra Harwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

A wonderful story written by the master storyteller Michael Morpurgo. Read by Cassandra Harwood.

Cool as a Cucumber is a delightful story about a boy called Peter, who at first seems a little reluctant to help dig up a garden patch for his school project to celebrate the Queens Jubilee. He then starts to dig up some interesting things a huge worm, a big beetle, bits of china, an old coin and what looks like a giant cucumber, but turns out to be something a lot more exciting!

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ID: 320534

Title: Poetry of Coleridge

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrator: Sir Ralph Richardson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:16:42

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

The poetic output of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was modest and fragmentary, but included some of the greatest poems of the Romantic period.

Read by Sir Ralph Richardson, this collection contains five of Coleridges finest works, ranging in style from the haunting narrative of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to the dark and mysterious Kubla Khan and the quietly reflective Frost At Midnight

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ID: 320529

Title: Miss Wirtles Revenge

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Cassandra Harwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

A fun, clever poem about Melinda and her frightening, malevolent school mistress Miss Wirtle.

Miss Wirtle saves the day as one of her pupils dares to race all the boys in Devon.

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ID: 320535

Title: Poetry of Wordsworth

Author: William Wordsworth

Narrator: Cedric Hardwicke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:39:23

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets and this wonderful recording is now available for the first time as a digital download.

William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets. Included here are selections that put into perspective his great talent. The works are brought beautifully to life by Sir Cedric Hardwicke

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ID: 320551

Title: Put on by Cunning

Author: Ruth Rendell

Narrator: George Baker

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:36:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

The great flautists death seemed to Chief Inspector Wexford an open-and-shut case of misadventure, but with the return of his daughter after an absence of 19 years come a couple of niggling doubts Read by ITVs Inspector Wexford, George Baker.

Sir Manuel Camargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead.

Misadventure. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point to where he lay, one of its fingers rising up out of the drifts.

Theres nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case. Theyre so restful. And yet there are one or two niggling doubts and the disturbing return of Camargues daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years.

Is Wexford going to listen to that naggin inner voice of his? and if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?

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