Welcome to the World of the Classics
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9789626341483
Copyright date: 1999
Description: NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS presents 30 excerpts from its recordings of key classics, including: • Novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens. James Joyce and many others. • Popular poetry. • Histories and biographies. • Drama: Shakespeare and Wilde. • Junior Classics: Pinocchio and The Happy Prince All recordings are enhanced by classical music, and are available on CD and cassette.
Table of contents: title: 1. Anton Lesser / Introduction to Naxos Audiobooks - [unknown]; Anton Lesser; title: 2. Introduction: Classic Fiction - Jane Austen; Juliet Stevenson; title: 3. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens; Anton Lesser; title: 4. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Michael Sheen; title: 5. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James; Elizabeth McGovern; title: 6. Fanny Hill - John Cleland; Emma Fielding; title: 7. Ulysses - James Joyce; Jim Norton; Marcella Riordan; title: 8. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce; Jim Norton; Marcella Riordan; title: 9. Swann in Love - Marcel Proust; Neville Jason; title: 10. Youth and Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad; Brian Cox; title: 11. The Wagtail and the Baby - Thomas Hardy; Simon Russell Beale; title: 12. Whale Nation - Heathcote Williams; title: 13. Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon; Michael Sheen; title: 14. Ode - Horace; Paul Jesson; title: 15. If - Rudyard Kipling; Michael Caine; title: 16. The History of Classical Music - Richard Fawkes; Robert Powell; title: 17. The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Perry Keenlyside; Nigel Anthony; Paul Rhys; title: 18. Description of a 17th Century Christmas - Thomas Love Peacock; John Moffat; title: 19. Speech Dismissing the Rump Parliament - Oliver Cromwell; Norman Rodway; title: 20. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon; Philip Madoc; title: 21. The New Testament - [unknown]; Hugh Dickinson; title: 22. Kisa Gotami From the Middle Way - Jinananda; David Timson; Anton Lesser; title: 23. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare; Michael Sheen; Kate Beckinsale; title: 24. Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde; Emma Fielding; Michael Sheen; Juliet Stevenson; title: 25. Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi; John Sessions; title: 26. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery; Liza Ross; title: 27. The Adventures of Odysseus - Benedict Flynn; Benjamin Soames; title: 28. The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde; Anton Lesser