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The Winter's Tale
William Shakepeare
ISBN: 1932219390 (3CD)
ISBN: 193221979X (2 AC, 2 Hrs 53 Min)
Character: Leontes
King Leontes, seized by terrible jealousy, accuses his wife Hermione of aldutery. Believing the baby girl Hermione gives birth to be his friend Polixenes', Leontes orders her left in the wilds to die. Though the child escapes her fate, Leontes cruelty has terrible consequences. Loss paves the way for reunion, and life and hope are born out of desolation and despair.
With Sinead Cusack as Hermione and Ciarán Hinds as Leontes. Eileen Atikins plays Paulina and Paul Jesson is Polixenes. Time the Chorus is played by Sir John Gielgud. Audio CD.
from Arkangel Shakespeare
Official Arkangel Link
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Barnes & Nobles audiocassette
Barnes & Nobles CDs
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Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakepeare
ISBN: 193221903X (3CD)
ISBN: 1932219439 (2 AC, 3 Hrs 23 Min)
Character: Antony
"Mark Antony, one of the rulers of Rome following the death of Caesar, finds himself in the thrall of Cleopatra, Queen of Eygpt. When affairs of state call him to Rome, he finds her attractions impossible to resist. From one of classical histories great love stories, Shakespeare builds a magnificent tragedy of the clash between love and duty.
Cleopatra is played by Estelle Kohler, Mark Antony by Ciarán Hinds. Ian Hughes is Octavius Caesar and David Burke is Domitus Enobarbus. Audio CD."
From NY Times: "Sometimes, it virtually is. Actor Ciaran Hinds "really went for it," during the taping of "Antony and Cleopatra" with Estelle Kohler, said Brill, the director. "He was so hot to trot that it became embarrassing when they kissed."
from Arkangel Shakespeare
Official Arkangel Link
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
Audiobooks Online
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The Caedmon Short Story Collection
ISBN: 0694524557 (CD)
Format: 6 CDs (Unabridged)
ISBN: 0694523925 (audiocassette)
From SimplyAudiobooks: "Caedmon brings together some of the most unforgettable stories in literature, vividly realized both by the authors themselves and by a cast of superb actors.
These fourteen unforgettable recordings feature Eudora Welty's earthy wit in Why I Live at the PO., Ossie Davis's electrifying incarnation of Langston Hughes's eloquent A Toast to Harlem, and John Updike's delightfully droll reading of his own Persistence of Desire."
James Joyce: A Painful Case Performed by Ciarán Hinds.
SimplyAudiobooks
alibris
HarperCollins
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Dubliners
James Joyce
ISBN: 0060789565 (7 CDs, 8 Hrs)
ISBN: 0694523003 (6 AC, 9 Hrs)
From RBookshop:"The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies. First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorably poignant."
"A Painful Case" read by Ciarán Hinds.
Rbookshop
The Modern Word
Amazon.com CD
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Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
Audio Cassette
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks (2 Dec 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140864393
ISBN-13: 978-0140864397
From Amazon.co.uk: "Based on the 1830 Magnum Opus text of Ivanhoe, this is the first modern edition to make corrections against Scott's working materials and incorporates readings from Scott's manuscript."
Amazon.co.uk
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Christopher Hampton, Pierre C. De Laclos
ISBN: 0553526243 (audiocassette)
From Audiofile: This West End and Broadway hit is based upon a decadent French novel of 1782. Seductions and double crosses abound, which playwright Hampton makes presage the French Revolution. It has been filmed thrice, but not well. Heard here is a BBC production performed with near perfection by a spirited cast directed by Gordon House. The audio is a good deal sexier than the other dramatizations, thanks to the innate suggestiveness of the medium. However, nothing in the script or playing is cheap. On the contrary, its sophistication only emphasizes the tawdriness of the empty, exploitive amusements of the aristocratic generation that would die by the guillotine. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine.
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com (second cover)
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