Archive for the 'Audio Classic Books' Category

Classical Audio Book Review - Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Another BookVoices review for audio books you can listen using your iPod(R) or MP3 player:
An outrageous “voyage extraordinaire” - a world tour taken up on a gentlemen’s club bet! Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 […]

Classical Audio Book Review - The Essential Dylan Thomass (Dylan Thomas)

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Another BookVoices review for audio books you can listen using your iPod(R) or MP3 player:
This combination of new and historical recordings celebrates Dylan Thomas as poet, writer and performer. Here are some of his greatest poems, stories and broadcasts: readings given by Thomas himself in the 1940s and 1950s as well as new recordings by […]

Classical Audio Book Review - Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Another BookVoices review for audio books you can listen using your iPod(R) or MP3 player:
Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of “voyages extraordinaires.” An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg’s announcement to Passepartout that they are to “leave for Dover in ten minutes,” to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the […]

Classical Audio Book Review - The History of English Literature (Perry Keenlyside)

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Another BookVoices review for audio books you can listen using your iPod(R) or MP3 player:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day…
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered…
Far from the madding Crowd’s ignoble Strife…
Emma felt the tears running down her cheeks…
English literature may very well be the greatest body of imaginative […]

Classical Audio Book Review - The Arabian Nights (Richard Burton)

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Another BookVoices review for audio books you can listen using your iPod(R) or MP3 player:
The Arabian Nights certainly inspired the imagination of Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century explorer, linguist and erotologist who brought all his worldly experience and a superbly expressive prose style to bear on the tales of Sindbad the Seaman and Ali […]