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Author: T H White
Format: MP3 CD
Author T H White
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 9h 41m
This audiobook recreates, against the background of magnificent pageantry and dark magic that was medieval England, the education and training of young King Arthur, who was to become the greatest of Britain's legendary rulers. Growing up in a colourful world peopled by knights in armour and fair damsels, foul monsters and evil witches, young Arthur...
View BookThe Candle In the Wind & the Book of Merlyn
Author: T H White
Format: MP3 CD
Author T H White
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 10h 17m
The concluding books in T.H. White's retelling of the Arthurian legend see the old King facing the final challenge of his reign. Has he the strength to see it off - or will his lifetime's work be destroyed by his own son? Humane and deeply touching, White concludes his story with a passionate call for peace and a tentative suggestion of hope.
View BookThe Witch In the Wood & the Ill-made Knight
Author: T H White
Format: MP3 CD
Author T H White
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 13h 6m
King Arthur is on the throne, and trying to establish the rules of chivalry and noble questing that will come to mark his reign. Meanwhile, in one of the great love stories in English, Lancelot and Guinevere fall for each other at the glorious court of Camelot. But in the north, a family that has been wronged are vowing revenge. And the king is clo...
View BookAuthor: Sholem Aleichem
Format: MP3 CD
Author Sholem Aleichem
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 5h 55m
This audiobook, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair. The central character, Tevye the milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also dispe...
View BookAuthor: Wilkie Collins
Format: MP3 CD
Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 56m
The Moonstone, a large, beautiful yellow diamond, stolen from an Indian shrine, is given to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday and, that same night, stolen again. Sergeant Cuff is employed to find the precious stone and has no shortage of suspects. As each character describes their version of events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds...
View BookAuthor: Sholem Aleichem
Format: Stream / Download
Author Sholem Aleichem
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 5h 55m
Tevye the Milkman, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for Fiddler on the Roof. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair. The central character, Tevye the Milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also disp...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 50m
The first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's autobiographical masterpiece, 'Remembrance of Things Past', one of the major achievements of 20th-century literature. The narrator sets out to rediscover large areas of his past, and to resurrect his past life and the people and places that most affected him.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 45m
Continues the story of Marcel's entry into the highest circles of the French aristocracy. Having renewed his acquaintance with the enchanting Albertine, who submits to his advances, Marcel finds himself pursued by the predatory Baron de Charlus. The music is by Ciurlionis, Breton, Widor and D'Indy. Part two of the fourth volume of Proust's 'Remembr...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 56m
Marcel penetrates into the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchess de Guermantes. The music is by Boellmann, D'Indy, Ciurlionis and Breton. Part one of the fourth volume of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' series.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 45m
Based on the definitive edition and translation of the classic French novel, the second volume, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, follows the narrator's transition from childhood to adolescence and first love on the beaches of Normandy. As the novel ends, we are introduced to Albertine, whom the narrator meets in a Norman ocean-side resort named...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 45m
The young narrator succumbs to the charms of the enchanting Gilberte, but his plan to ingratiate himself with her by becoming friends with her parents backfires badly when Gilberte begins to distance himself from him. A classic account of the pangs of adolescent love. Part one of the third volume of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' series.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 4h
'Swann in Love' tells the story of man-about-town Charles Swann's passionate, tormented love affair with the courtesan Odette de Crecy, and of its surprising outcome. Set in the degenerate demi-monde of 19th century Paris as well as in the fashionable drawing rooms of the aristocracy, this audiobook vividly brings to life the original novel.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
SeriesRemembrance of Things Past, Book 7
Duration 3h 56m
Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
SeriesRemembrance of Things Past, Book 5
Duration 7h 41m
Marcel's suspicions that Albertine is attracted to her own sex lead to his keeping her a virtual prisoner in his Paris Apartment, while the Baron de Charlus, obsessed with the young violinist Charles Morel, receives an unexpected shock. Volumes 9 and 10 of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' series.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
Format: MP3 CD
Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
SeriesRemembrance of Things Past, Book 6
Duration 3h 58m
Albertine has finally made her escape from Marcel's Paris apartment, where his obsessive jealousy has turned her into a virtual prisoner. Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect on him of her flight, but soon he is devastated by news of an even more irreversible loss.
View BookAuthor: Horace Walpole
Format: MP3 CD
Author Horace Walpole
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 2h 33m
Regarded as the first Gothic novel, 'The Castle of Otranto' tells the story of the Prince of Otranto, mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet. This triggers a chain of events involving jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in a heady atmosphere of thunderclaps, moonlight and dark castle walls.
View BookAuthor: Voltaire
Format: MP3 CD
Author Voltaire
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 7h 3m
Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism 'Candide' is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, 'Zadig'. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humour and sly wit, whilst parodying the formulae of so many contemporary novels.
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