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Relaxation (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

1 review
Hugh Fraser

HarperCollins UK, 2005

No nonsense, pure relaxation
I'd been looking for a while for a good relaxation CD, but all I seemed to find were discs that competed to see which had the trendiest gimmick; these irritated me and had the opposite effect to that intended. This CD sets out to put you into a state of deep relaxation, and succeeds splendidly. Hugh Fraser's voice is calming in itself, but the progression is perfectly judged to release the ...

The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

1 review
Robert Burns

HarperCollins UK, 1995

The Beloved Scot
The essential book on Scotlands most famous and favouritre son in large and easy to read print.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

291 reviews
Mark Twain

HarperCollins UK, 1994

Yes, it's a classic for a reason.
I somehow tragically managed to make my way to adulthood with never reading anything but the kiddie version of this book. When I found this book for super-cheap in the teachers' lounge book sale and I figured "hey, why not?" And thus I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the sheer Old-South charm that only Twain can deliver. Really, people, it is no wonder that this book is such a ...

Victory (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

27 reviews
Joseph Conrad

HarperCollins UK, 1995

Paradise was lost forever
"Victory" is not so much a conventional novel as a fable, with strong influences of the Bible, Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Shakespeare's "The Tempest". This story is absolutely marginal, that is, it occurs to people who inhabit the margins of the world, the margins of society, and within the margins of a common life. The characters also operate in one or the other of the two extremes of ...

Pearl and Sir Orfeo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

1 review
J.R.R. Tolkien

HarperCollins UK, 1997

Tolkien is The Master Story-Teller....he created the genre
The writings of Professor Tolkien are absolutely Timeless. His books are the gauge by-which all Fantasy books are measured. However, there is much more to Tolkien than many people realize. His translations and teaching positions are not always mentioned, yet they are credentials that make his other works even more astounding! The Hobbit and The Trilogy have been the Inspiration for decades of ...

Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

38 reviews
Joseph Conrad

HarperCollins UK, 1995

Money corrupts once again
An "incorruptible" man (Nostromo) becomes corrupted by the dishonest acquisition of "filthy lucre" (silver ingots) when the lighter (barge) he is operating with the silver on it sinks; he is able to hide the ingots on an island for his later personal gain. His impeccable reputation allows the citizens to believe the silver is actually on the bottom of the sea. Nostromo justifies his actions by ...

The Woodlanders (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

15 reviews
Thomas Hardy

HarperCollins UK, 1996

Disaster at the altar in the church of Hardy.
"It would have made a beautiful story," Thomas Hardy said about this novel, "if I could have carried out my idea of it; but somehow I come so far short of my intention." "I wish you had never thought of educating me," Thomas Hardy's protagonist tells her father at one point in this novel, "because cultivation has only brought me inconveniences and troubles" (pp. 232-33). Hardy (1840-1928) ...

Wuthering Heights (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

499 reviews
Emily Bronte

HarperCollins UK, 1992

very intense
The outdated writing style takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it's good. It's incredible to me how the author, with her unusually limited experience of the outside world, who probably never had a boyfriend or lover in her life and lived a secluded life in a remote part of Yorkshire with her sisters and died a virgin, could have created such an incredibly realistic and well-drawn ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

126 reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

HarperCollins UK, 1992

A Curse on the Aristocracy
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson discuss what can be deduced from a walking stick left behind by a visitor. When the visitor returns he tells of the old legend about the hound of the Baskerville family, and how Sir Charles Baskerville died recently. Dr. James Mortimer found the footprints of a gigantic hound twenty yards from the body! There have been sightings of a huge hound on the moors at ...

Far from the Madding Crowd (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

32 reviews
Thomas Hardy

HarperCollins UK, 1993

Wild and wooly in Wessex
Few literary settings are more distinctive than Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a hilly, chalky, bucolic quilt of pastures and villages occupying the southwest of England, its residents sworn to the immutable cultural traditions of centuries long past. But it is not the goal of "Far from the Madding Crowd" to be merely a sentimental portrait of a region for which Hardy has a great affection, but a ...

Kidnapped (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

86 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

HarperCollins UK, 1994

Kidnapped My Attention!
Oh, what a great book! Robert Louis Stevenson strikes a perfect balance between action and description. As previous reviews have said much about the plot and the worth of reading this wonderful book, I will add just a bit. Buy a copy of this tale for any child aged ten or older, and they'll have a story of adventure to read over and over again as they grow up! I guarantee it will be a work ...

The Poetry of Blake

HarperCollinsAudioBooks, 1989

The disarming freshness and simplicity of the shorter poems of William Blake (1757-1827) lend expression to a highly distinctive imaginative vision. On this recording, Sir Ralph Richardson reads more than 40 of Blake's remarkable poems, including a broad selection from 'Songs of Innocence and Experience", together with other lyrical pieces and "Auguries of Innocence".

The Secret Agent (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

68 reviews
Joseph Conrad

HarperCollins UK, 1996

Suspenseful & ironic: A Conrad classic
Based on a true incident, Conrad tells the story of Verloc, the secret agent provocateur who is given the task of blowing up the Royal Observatory in London as a way of heaping scorn on anarchists in England. He sends his mentally deficient brother-in-law Stevie with the bomb, which blows up before he can reach the observatory. Stevie is annihilated and when Verloc's wife (Winnie) finds out what ...

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

120 reviews
George Eliot

HarperCollins UK, 1996

Return to Raveloe
Silas Marner is a skillfully crafted novel to be enjoyed by readers with varied tastes. It was written by a woman, who found it necessary to use a man's name because of attitudes in England in the nineteenth century. It is built around problems that all of us face in our lives, such as, "How important is money?" As in all great novels, the characters change as the plot develops. SILAS ...

Jeffrey Archer: The Selected Short Stories (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Jeffrey Archer

HarperCollins UK, 1999

Collected together in one volume, this audiobook features some of the best short stories of Britain's bestselling author. Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. His first collection, A Quiver Full of Arrows , was acclaimed by The Times as 'stylish, witty and entertaining." Of his second collection, A Twist in the Tale , the New York Times said: 'Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

189 reviews
Thomas Hardy

HarperCollins UK, 1993

Extraordinary
I had read Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd many many years ago for school and it left me cold. I was young. Hardy was wordy. And flashing swords wielded by a soldier in a scarlet tunic hardly left me breathless as it was supposed to have done when the book was published. So these many years later I decided to give Hardy another chance with Tess and I was not disappointed. Dull and ...

Swann's Way (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

85 reviews
Marcel Proust

HarperCollins UK, 1996

A book about life
Swann's Way is the ax that chops into your frozen sea by plunging and penetrating deep into your soul. Proust's mellifluous prose flows into you and you flow into it and the outcome is a intimate connection with the characters in the book, the narrator, and the author. It is nothing short of a miracle.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

71 reviews
Muriel Spark

HarperCollins UK, 1993

Hippy of the 1930's -- Chapter 3 described it all [76][T]
Imaginatively asking and answering questions to and for her students, protagonist Miss Brodie leads her set of six young women from the ages of 10 to 18 -- a journey that they define to be the "main influence of their school days." Each girl in the set is different. Like the seven dwarfs, you could nickname the six girls: Rose Stanley (Sexy); Monica Douglas (Brainy); Eunice Gardner (Splits); ...

Ivanhoe (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

63 reviews
Sir Walter Scott

HarperCollins UK, 1996

a classic of honor and relationships
Ivanhoe shows up on just about every list of the 100 greatest books ever written. There is good reason for this. It's descriptions of time, place and character are vivid and engrossing. Perhaps most interestingly, the book describes an almost dizzying array of complicated relationships. Strict father to independent son, lover to lover, lover to unrequited lover, father to daughter, conquerers ...

The Poetry of Lord Byron (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Lord George Gordon Byron

HarperCollins UK, 1997

As well as working assiduously on his mythical reputation for extravagant debauchery, Byron was also, by the age of 24, a prolific, fashionable and successful poet. This selection of his poetry features both lyrical and occasional pieces, the Romantic "Childe Harold" and the satirical "Don Juan".