The Essential Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Poetry and Recordings Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Essential Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New : 4 CDs 4.8 hours This varied well-chosen selection brings onto one CD set the best of Dylan Thomas: the legendary recording of 'Under Milk Wood ' with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators plus also two radio productions he wrote before that great classic which while interesting in themselves show how 'Under Milk Wood' grew gradually in his imagination. Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories and this set provides a representative selection. But performances of Dylan Thomas have moved on and the greatness of the writer as a poet and storyteller are perhaps best heard in new recordings by actors of our own time. Here Bebb Madoc and Hughes share some of Thomas finest most challenging and endearing works. CDs 1 2: Historical Recordings 'Under Milk Wood' - the legendary historic performance with Richard Burton and cast 'Quite Early One Morning ' 'Return Journey to Swansea ' and other poems and stories read by Dylan Thomas. CDs 3 4: New Recordings Read by Philip Mado more details.....

Othello by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him and tells Roderigo that he (Iago) is simply using Othello for his own advantage. Iago's argument against Cassio is that he is a scholarly tactician and has no real battle experience more information.....

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Unabridged read by Jay O. Sanders Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours During the second half of World War II a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his friends endure a nightmarish absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence: they are inhuman resources in the eyes of their blindly ambitious superior officers. The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat situations and bombing runs in which it is more important for the squadron members to capture good aerial photographs of explosions than to destroy their targets. Their colonels continually raise the number of missions that they are required to fly before being sent home so that no one is ever sent home. Still no one but Yossarian seems to realize that there is a war going on; everyone thinks he is crazy when he insists that millions of people are trying to kill him. Yossarian's story forms the core more.....

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens translated by Robert Whitfield Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 25 Audio CDs 31.5 Hours The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’s novels Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens’s pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles’s extraordinary acting troupe Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination bursting with color humor more details.....

50 Prosperity Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Attract It Create it Manage it Share it - wisdom from the most valuable books on wealth creation and abudance. 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Prosperity Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the prosperity literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. # Includes 'quick tour of the literature' 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles. Read Tom Butler-Bowdon's summary of characteristics of successful people 50 Prosperity Classics Introduction 1. James Allen The Path to Prosperity (1905) 2. Robert G Allen Multiple Streams of Income (2000) 3. David Bach The Automatic Millionaire (2003) 4. PT Barnum The Art of Money Getting extra info.....

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen read by Julie Christie Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811 it was the first of Austen's novels to be published under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister Margaret and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home a cottage on a distant relative's property where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually find out more.....

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Wuthering Heights - by Emily Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs - 14.25 hours Somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance — played out amid the lonely English moors — recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Poignant and compelling. In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others even in the next generation. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story and a study guide. About the Author Emily Bronte Emily Brontë was born in Thornton near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824 the family moved to Haworth where Emily's father was perpetual curate and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. In childhood after the death more.....

The Voice of the Poet by T.S. Eliot - read by the Author Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Voice of the Poet - T.S. Eliot - Audio CD and Book Brand New : 1Audio CD and Book of the Poems Featuring rare archival recordings of the featured poet reading his own work! Each program in Random House Audio Voices' exclusive THE VOICE OF THE POET series is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. About the Author T.S. Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land The Hollow Men Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; extra info.....

Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech Unabridged read by Scott Wolf Get Other Childrens Audio Books CD click here Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 1 Audio CDs 1 Hours Hate That Cat continues the story of Jack from Love That Dog. It is a new school year and Jack learns that his previous year's teacher Miss Stretchberry has also moved up a grade along with him. "You understand my brain " he says. Once again Miss Stretchberry introduces Jack and his classmates to poems that intrigue and entice Jack allowing him to talk about things that are on his mind: mean cats sound silence worry and joy. You don't really think Miss Stretchberry is going to let Jack hate a cat do you? Hmm. About the Author Sharon Creech Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction. Her novel Walk Two Moons received in 1995 Newbery Medal; The Wanderer was a 2001 Newbery Honor book and Ruby Holler received the 2002 Carnegie Medal. In 2007 Heartbeat was a finalist in the Junior Division (4th to 6th grades) of the Young Reader's Choice Awards sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association.Creech was born July 29 1945 in South Euclid Ohio. find out more.....

Dune - Frank Herbert Unabridged AudioBook Read by Scott Brick Orlagh Cassidy Euan Morton Simon Vance and Cast New Release 2007 Get Other Sci-Fi Audio Books click here Dune by Frank Herbert - Audio Book Brand New (still shrink wrapped): On CD - Unabridged -27 hours on18 CDs First published in 1965 Frank Herbert’s Dune has since become a Science Fiction phenomenon. After more than forty years fans are still captivated by Herbert’s interstellar saga of war politics and heroes. Dune won the very first Nebula Award and shared the Hugo Award. It was also the very first bestselling science fiction novel in hardcover. After his death in 1986 using Frank Herbert’s notes on the series his son Brian Herbert teamed up with writer Kevin J. Anderson to write two prequel trilogies and t click here.....

Hamlet by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 3.4 Hours The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark son of the recently deceased King Hamlet. After the death of King Hamlet the King's brother Claudius hastily marries King Hamlet's widow (and Prince Hamlet's mother) Gertrude. In the background is Denmark's long-standing feud with neighbouring Norway and an invasion led by the Norwegian prince Fortinbras is expected. The play opens on a cold night at Elsinore the Danish royal castle. Francisco a sentinel is relieved of his watch by Bernardo another sentinel and exits while Bernardo remains. A third sentinel Marcellus enters with Horatio the best friend of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. The sentinels try to persuade Horatio th more.....

The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection Performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Here 20 of Poe's most chilling stories and poems are performed by two of his most brilliant interpreters: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Included are The Tell-Tale Heart The Pit and the Pendulum The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher Bells The Gold Bug The Raven Annabel Lee The Black Cat Berenice The Imp of the Perverse The Masque of the Red Death and many more! Basil Rathbone reads: To- Alone The City By The Sea The Fall Of The House Of Usher The Haunted Palce The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Raven The Facts of the Case of M.Valdemar The Cask of Amontillado The Bells Annabel Lee Eldorado And Vincent Price reads: Ligeia The Imp of the Perverse Morella Berenice The Gold Bug About the Author Edga more.....

The Complete Star Wars Trilogy The Original Radio Dramas - Audio CDs Get Other Star Wars Audio Books click here The Complete Star Wars Trilogy - The original radio drama audio CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 15 CD 29 episodes. An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981 1983 and 1996. The first two radio series based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio as part of NPR Playhouse. A dramatization of Return of the Jedi was produced by most of the same team and also broadcast on NPR. The radio serials were made with the full co-operation of George Lucas who for one dollar each sold the rights to KUSC-FM the public radio affiliate at his alma mater the University of Southern California. Lucas also allowed the use of original sound effects and music from the films. The more information.....

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Unabridged 20.5 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 20.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbrok click here.....

A Room with a View E.M Forster Unabridged Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here A Room with a View - E. M. Forster - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs The first part of the novel is set in Florence Italy and describes a young Englishwoman's confusion over her feelings for an Englishman staying at the same hotel. Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett and the novel opens with their complaints about the hotel 'The Pension Bertolini'. Their primary concern is that although a "room with a view" has been promised to each of them their rooms instead look over a courtyard. A Mr Emerson interrupts their "peevish wrangling" offering to swap rooms as he and his son George Emerson look over the Arno. This causes Miss Bartlett some consternation this behaviour being seen as impolite. Without letting Lucy speak Miss Bartlett refuses the offer looking down on the Emersons because of their unconventional behaviour and think more details.....

World without End by Ken Follett Unabridged AudioBook 36 CDs Get Other Classic Audio Books click here Get Other Ken Follett AudioBooks click here World Without End - Ken Follett - Audio Book Unabridged CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 45.5 hours 36 CDs The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge England in the year 1327. Four children — Caris Gwenda Merthin and Ralph — go into the woods on All Hallows Day. Gwenda brings her three-legged dog Hop whom Ralph shoots with Merthin's home-made bow foreshadowing Ralph's later cruel behaviour. The children witness two men killed in the forest by Sir Thomas Langley aided by Ralph. The children then flee with the exception of Merthin. Sir Thomas asks him to help bury a letter and then flees to Kingsbridge and seeks refuge in the monastery where he joins the Order of Saint Benedict more details.....

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Unabridged AudioBook Get other Fiction Classics on AudioBook - click here The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4.5 hours 4 CDs The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10 1925 the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of the First World War American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time Prohibition the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment made millionaires out of bootleggers and encouraged organized crime. Although Fitzgerald like Nick Carraway in his novel idolized the riches and glamour of the age he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and lack of morality that went with it. The Great Gatsby was not popular upon initial printing click here.....

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The BBC dramatisation Get Other Middle Earth Audio Books click here The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - BBC Audio Dramatisation CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 4 hours 5CDs The Hobbit is a novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien in the tradition of the fairy tale. It was first published on September 21 1937. While it also stands in its own right it is often seen as a prelude to Tolkien's monumental fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (published in 1954 and 1955). Bilbo Baggins the hobbit is a peaceful sort who lives in a cozy hole in the Shire a place where adventures are uncommon--and rather unwanted. So when the wizard of Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves he's not entirely thrilled. Encountering ruthless trolls beastly orcs gigantic spiders and hungry wolves Bilbo discovers within himself astonishing strength and courage. And at the ultimate confrontation with th find out more.....

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer translated by Burton Raffel Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 18 Audio CDs 22.3 Hours The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose the rest in verse). The tales some of which are originals and others not are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.[1] The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English. The tales are considered to be his magnum opus influenced by the find out more.....

50 Selp-Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden 50 Inspirational books to transform your life 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Self-Help Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) 50 Self-Help Classics : 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life * An introduction to the self-help phenomenon with list and thematic guide to the best works. * 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. (Note - these are summaries of the 50 Books NOT the whole 50 books) * Includes a further list '50 More Classics' * Named by Shape magazine (US) as one of the 'Ten best self-help guides' along with titles by Stephen Covey Dale Carnegie and Miguel Ruiz. * Winner 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award (US) Finalist 2004 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year (US) 1. James Allen As a Man Thinketh (1904) 2. S Andreas C Faulkner (eds) NLP: click here.....

The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi The Epic Story of Troy Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers Oddessy on Audio Book click here The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi abridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 9 Hours 8 CDs abridged This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles Helen Hector and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. About Homer Tradition holds that Homer was b extra info.....

The Caedmon Collection Dylan Thomas - Audio Book CD Introduced by Billy Collins Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Dylan Thomas - The Caedmon Collection - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 11 CDs 12.5 Hours Beginning in February 1952 Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label started by two 22-year-old women Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen. Little did they know that in addition to capturing a part of history they also launched an industry of spoken-word recording. This collection not only contains the incredible Caedmon recording sessions but also recordings from the BBC CBC and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Highlights include: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Five Poems"; "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" his prose: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Quite Early One Morning and his final work - Under Milk Wood a play. Also included is the famous recording of the first more.....

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky abridged read by Alex Jennings Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Abridged - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time he argues ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being similar to Napoleon believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Dostoevsky conceived t extra info.....

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Abridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Classic AudioBooks click here Around the World in Eighty Days - By Jules Verne - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5Hours): About Around the World in Eighty Days Phileas Fogg is a man of habit a Victorian gentleman who follows the same routine every day--until he accepts a wager that he can circle the globe within eighty days. Thus begins a hair-raising journey in which Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose has a talent for getting into scrapes as the two dash across continents in a suspenseful race against time. The world's greatest works of literature are now avaialble in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth and featuring gilt edges and ribbon mark more information.....

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells is an early science fiction novel describing an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using Tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry. It is considered one of the most important foundation works of Science Fiction and the seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. The novel is narrated by an anonymous journalist living in the area where the invaders first land. Throughout the narrative he struggles to reunite with his wife and brother while witnessing the Martians spreading destruction across the Southern English counties and London itself destroying all human more information.....