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The Kalevala
- Written by: Elias Lönnrot, Keith Bosley - translator
- Narrated by: Keith Bosley
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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The Kalevala provides a compelling insight into the myths and folklore of Finland. Compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century, this impressive volume follows a tradition of oral storytelling that goes back some 2000 years, and it is often compared to such epic poems as Homer's Odyssey. However, The Kalevala has little in common with the culture of its Nordic neighbors: It is primarily poetic, it is mythical rather than historic, and its heroes solve their problems with magic more often than violence.
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The Kalevala
- Narrated by: Keith Bosley
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 05-02-13
- Language: English
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The Great Poets: W. B. Yeats
- Written by: W. B. Yeats
- Narrated by: Jim Norton, Denys Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan,
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets, represented by collections of their most popular poems in one program. W. B. Yeats was one of the most beloved poets of the 20th century. He left a large legacy of outstanding poems, and the finest are collected here: "Down by the Salley Gardens," "The Lake Isle of Inisfree," "The Secret Rose," and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven". They are read by a strong cast, led by Olivier award-winner Jim Norton.
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The Great Poets: W. B. Yeats
- Narrated by: Jim Norton, Denys Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan, Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release Date: 07-01-08
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Evil
- Written by: Charles Baudelaire, James N. McGowan - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Sensual, macabre, joyous and liberating, The Flowers of Evil, or Les Fleurs du Mal, is a beautifully debauched reflection on dreams, sin, life, and death. With subjects ranging from travel to drugs, sex to faith, sleep to contemplation, Baudelaire finds new beauty in the most sinister and corrupt of situations. His morbid and nightmarish Romanticism was completely unique: cynical and bleak, but also inspiring. The book was highly controversial upon its release and Napoleon III’s government prosecuted Baudelaire for "an insult to public decency".
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The Flowers of Evil
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 18-04-18
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
- Written by: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin's cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way.
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A Hero of Our Time
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 26-09-17
- Language: English
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Spiritual Verses
- Written by: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Rumi's Spiritual Verses is the greatest mystical poem in Islamic culture - and of all time. Rumi examines our human separation from reality, love, and truth. He shows how love - neither erotic nor sentimental but divine, by which the universe is held together - enlightens ignorance and dissolves suffering. The first book of the Masnavi is the key to the whole work: It takes off from simple, amusing tales into realms unimaginable, but wholly familiar to the human heart.
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Spiritual Verses
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 31-12-06
- Language: English
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The Great Poets: William Wordsworth
- Written by: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton, Oliver Ford Davies
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleridge, was published in 1798, and shortly afterwards he settled in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. Inspired in his early manhood by the French Revolution, he grew disillusioned with revolutionary politics and in later life became decidedly conservative. He left a vast body of work, ranging from delicately simple lyrics to deeply meditative odes.
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The Great Poets: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Jasper Britton, Oliver Ford Davies
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-11
- Language: English
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The Fugitive
- Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 6
- Written by: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. Marcel's obsessive feelings of possession for Albertine have forced her to flee. It comes as a terrible shock and is followed by further destabilizing news about other friends.
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The Fugitive
- Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 6
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Series: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 6
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-12
- Language: English
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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe
- Written by: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale, John Chancer, William Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved, chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death", and "The Fall of the House of Usher". This release also features additional poetry by Poe and a new biography especially written for Naxos AudioBooks by Roy McMillan.
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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale, John Chancer, William Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 28-09-11
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means?
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Crime and Punishment
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
- Written by: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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The Poetic Edda is the most important collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, covering the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, The Doom of the Gods.
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The Poetic Edda
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 08-01-22
- Language: English
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Wives and Daughters
- Written by: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 27 hrs and 32 mins
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When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous. This would be more than enough to deal with, but the new wife is the deeply snobbish (and darkly secretive) Hyacinth. Thwarted love, scheming ambition and small-town gossip underlie the warmth, irony and brilliant social observation which link the relationships and the inevitable conflicts as profound change comes to rural England.
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Wives and Daughters
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 27 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 17-11-10
- Language: English
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The Duke's Children
- Written by: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
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Bereft of his beloved wife, Glencora, and his role as prime minister, Plantagenet Palliser enters the realm of family politics as he struggles to guide and connect with his three wayward children. Lord Silverbridge, the Duke's first born and natural inheritor, expelled from Oxford, a gambler at the racetrack and an elected Conservative, further troubles his father when he becomes engaged to Isabel Boncassen. Lady Mary, his daughter, falls in love with a penniless young gentleman named Frank Tregear, while his second son, Gerald, displays similar behavior to his brother.
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The Duke's Children
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Series: The Pallisers, Book 6
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 10-08-19
- Language: English
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The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and Other Stories
- Written by: Nikolai Leskov
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Praised by Chekhov as his favorite writer, Nikolai Leskov occupies a unique place in Russian literature. His original stories often seem like folk-tales, their larger-than-life characters including soldiers, Tsars, priests and gypsies. Leskov's storytelling, simple in its style, combines a deep religious spirit with comic absurdity. The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Leskov's best-known work, is a realist account of a young woman who escapes from her loveless marriage through adultery, leading to violence and murder
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The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 14-02-23
- Language: English
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A Tale of One January
- Written by: Albert Maltz
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march after enduring the horrors of imprisonment at Auschwitz. Despite their individual backgrounds and nationalities, they form their own family caught between the euphoria of freedom and the terror of their circumstances. This is a tale of exploding joy within a hothouse of fear, of human beings erupting into life after breaking free of death’s embrace–an unusual and moving tale that cements Albert Maltz’s reputation as a compassionate observer of character and one of the finest storytellers of his generation.
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A Tale of One January
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 21-12-23
- Language: English
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'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece'
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: David Burke, Eve Best, Clare Corbett,
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love - but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman tale of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequencies. These poems give prominent parts to the two heroines, and Clare Corbett and Eve Best shine.
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'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece'
- Narrated by: David Burke, Eve Best, Clare Corbett, Benjamin Soames, Oliver Le Sueuer
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 10-08-11
- Language: English
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The Fable of the Bees
- Written by: Bernard Mandeville
- Narrated by: David Timson, Stephanie Racine, Will Kirk,
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
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The Fable of the Bees—a satirical poem, prose discussion, three essays and six dialogues completed in 1729—exposes human vices but defends them as a necessity within a wealthy society. Mandeville’s bees thrive until they start living by honesty and virtue… then they are impoverished. Mandeville did not play by the rules: he satirized the sins of society but also ridiculed the widespread hypocrisy of deploring these sins whilst reaping their benefits. He and his work were attacked for the rest of the century.
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The Fable of the Bees
- Narrated by: David Timson, Stephanie Racine, Will Kirk, Justin Avoth
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 01-07-24
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Antony Sher
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: Should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket.
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The Merchant of Venice
- Narrated by: Antony Sher
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 30-10-08
- Language: English
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Othello (Dramatized)
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ewan McGregor, Kelly Reilly
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Shakespeare's Othello is one of his finest and most famous tragedies. This highly acclaimed performance, which ran between November 2007 and February 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Moor Othello, Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago, and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Desdemona. This recording features music written specifically for the stage production which enjoyed huge success - each performance was a sell-out.
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Othello (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ewan McGregor, Kelly Reilly
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 13-11-09
- Language: English
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dramatized)
- Written by: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, Sarah Woodward
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text and starring Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, and Sarah Woodward.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Warren Mitchell, Michael Maloney, Sarah Woodward
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
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Time Regained
- Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 7
- Written by: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
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Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus. Later, at a reception given by the Prince de Guermates, his meditations on the passage of time lead to his determination to embark on his life's work at last.
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Time Regained
- Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 7
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Series: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 7
- Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 17-11-12
- Language: English
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