Ltd Naxos AudioBooks
1) Jacob's room
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English
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"No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room"-The New York Times
"I have seldom read a cleverer book…it is exquisitely written, but the characters do not vitally survive in the mind because the author has been obsessed by details of originality and cleverness."-Arnold Bennett
Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room (1922), is a penetrating look at one man's...
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English
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""Trollope did not write for posterity," observed Henry James. "He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket." Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. "I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial...
3) The leopard
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Language
English
Description
The novel is a chronicle of fifty years of the Risorgimento, the Italian Unification's effect on Sicily, dating from Garibaldi's landing on the island in 1860 to the final decline of a once-opulent Sicilian family. The book represents a variation on the historical novel, in that it permits the present to intrude into the past--the omniscient narrator hints at what will happen after the story is finished. The protagonist is Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince...
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Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
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English
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The great myths of Ancient Greece have inspired mankind for centuries. Each of the heroes has to undergo trials of strength and courage to prove his valour against a host of monsters - the Minotaur, half man, half bull; Hydra, the many-headed serpent; Medusa the Gorgon. Meanwhile, the gods, lead by Zeus the Thunderer from his seat on Mount Olympus, watch, encourage, help - and sometimes hinder. In this new retelling, the tales come alive more vividly...
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Publisher
Naxos Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hrs, 38 min..) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When Captain Hugh Drummond, DSO, MC placed that advertisement, he was looking for adventure. What he finds is an international plot headed by the greatest criminal mastermind in the world. For the sake of the beautiful Phyllis, he faces murderous schemers, acid baths and even wild animals in his attempts to save her father -- and his own life"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2009], p2006
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (2 hr., 36 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Bellerophon and the winged horse Pegasus launch into the blue sky in search of the dreaded three-headed Chimera, but will success go to the hero's head? Orpheus, devastated by the death of his wife, Eurydice, dares the dangers of the kingdom of the dead in an attempt to bring her back to life. Echo loves Narcissus but the only person that he loves is himself: a story that can only end in sadness. These and other colourful legends from ancient Greece...
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English
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After failing to stop the murder of Jack Douglas from happening, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves anxious to solve this mystery. The suspect has seemingly vanished into thin air and the mystery solving duo will stop at nothing to catch this murderer who blatantly killed a man in his own castle.
9) Beowulf
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p2006
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (ca. 2 hr., 24 min., 9 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beowulf first rescues the royal house of Denmark from two marauding monsters, then returns to rule his people for 50 years, ultimately losing his life in a battle to defend the Geats from a dragon's rampage.
10) Emily Dickinson
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Language
English
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An introduction to the writings of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson for young people, featuring over thirty-five poems characteristic of her style, and including illustrations and a biographical profile.
12) Ballet Stories
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Series
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2007], p2001
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 1 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
The stories of the most popular ballets are told in refreshing style against the backdrop of the music written by Delibes, Tchaikovsky and Adam. Naxos AudioBooks draws on its own roots in classical music to present the definitive introduction for children in this sympathetic reading by Jenny Agutter.
Music: 19th century chamber music
13) The nine muses
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (94 min., 97 min.) : DVD video, sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The nine muses: structured as an allegorical fable set between 1949 and 1970, comprising nine overlapping musical chapters that mix archival material with original scenes. Together, they form a stylized, idiosyncratic retelling of the history of mass migration to post-war Britain through the suggestive lens of the Homeric epic.
Seven songs for Malcolm X: Intercutting testimonies and eyewitness accounts with tableaux and dramatic reenactments, the...