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    A Tale of Two Cities

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 51 min

    ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens’s only historical novel, sets personal happiness against the terrors of the French Revolution where the search for social justice sacrifices individual rights. Dr Manette has emerged from eighteen years’ unjust imprisonment in the Bastille: by an ironic twist of fate, his daughter Lucie’s marriage draws the family ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Iliad

    Translated by Ian Johnston

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 56 min

    One the earliest and greatest epic poems of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word. While the heroes fight before the walls of Troy the gods have also drawn up battle lines, and it is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Popular Poetry, Popular Verse Volume I

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 38 min

    With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking vision of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson, Kipling, G.K. Chesterton and Edward Lear. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    From Shakespeare with love

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Stella Gonet, Bertie Carvel, Gunnar Cauthery, Alex Jennings, Jonathan Keeble, Roy McMillanTom Mison, Maxine Peake, Anne-Marie Piazza, Hugh Ross, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Trevor White ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 15 min

    Shakespeare’s Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago, by Mr Thomas Thorpe. Naxos AudioBooks marks the occasion with a selection of 80 of the finest, read by leading actors. The selection includes famous ones such as ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ as well as lesser well-known sonnets though of equally fine stature. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hamlet

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Peter Yapp, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Richard Pearce, Paul Panting ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Odyssey

    Translated by Ian Johnston

    by Homer, Anton Lesser ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 46 min

    The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to the love of Calypso on her all-too-comfortable isle. When he arrives in Ithaca, he has to contend with a group of suitors who have been pressing his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Odyssey

    Translated by Ian Johnston

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 36 min

    The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, ten-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to the love of Calypso on her all-too-comfortable isle. When he arrives in Ithaca, he has to contend with a group of suitors who have been pressing his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Canterbury Tales

    The Prologue  The Knight’s Tale  The Miller’s Tale  The Pardoner’s Tale  The Merchant’s Tale  The Franklin’s Tale

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Narrated by Philip Madoc, Edward de Souza, Anthony Donovan, Clive Merrison, Clive Swift, Anton Lesser ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 21 min

    Chaucer’s greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of The Knight’s Tale to the joyous bawdy of the Miller’s; all are told with a freshness and vigour in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Poetry Please

    by Various Poets ...
    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Anton Lesser ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 10 min

    BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Pickwick Papers

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 46 min

    The Pickwick Papers was Dickens’s first novel, completed in 1837. From the start he established his eye for vivid characters with the lovable London character of Sam Weller, the boistrous Mr Pickwick, and the rest of the colour crew. The adventures, including the cricket match in Dingley Dell, and the grim description of Fleet Prison, set the pattern for the most remarkable series of stories that ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    A Sentimental Journey

    by Laurence Sterne ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne’s lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he visits. Narrated by the (apparently) innocent Parson Yorick, who appeared in Sterne’s other masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, it is full of anecdote and incident ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBooks

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    Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Six Full-Cast Dramatisations including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and more

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethes ...
    Narrated by Simon Callow, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, Ronald Pickup, Frances Jeater, Joel MacCormack, Anton Lesser, David Suchet, Eileen Aitkin, Gabriel Woolf, Melvyn Bragg, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 5 min

    A collection of seminal dramatised pieces by the great German polymathJohann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.We open ... Read more

    $21.99 USD