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Welcome to the World of the Classics

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.

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Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English

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Welcome to the World of the Classics
1999, Naxos AudioBooks
Audio CD in English

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Table of Contents

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

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1999

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Audio CD

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37071847M
Internet Archive
cd_welcome-to-the-world-of-the-classics_various-artists-anton-lesser-benedict-flyn
ISBN 10
9626341483
ISBN 13
9789626341483
OCLC/WorldCat
639146421
Goodreads
15622322

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