NAXOS AUDIO BOOKS

Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book...

Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time. Though writing in the thirteenth century, Chaucer's wit and observation comes down undiminished through the...

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 of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, two brother knights...

The unremarkable Catholic priest, Father Brown, combines intuition and a profound interest in human nature to solve more crimes that are seemingly improbable. A prophet of a new religion appears in...

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tom silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions,...

Dante Inferno CD

Dinosaurs By Jen Green / Various Dinosaurs By Jen Green (Unabridged) / Various CD1. Chapter 1: What Were the Dinosaurs? 2. Chapter 1: Almost Everything We Know About Dinosaurs 3. Chapter 1: Two...

Prince Lef Mikolayevitch Muishkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naive, an idealist or, as many in General Yepanchin's society feel, an idiot? Certainly,...

The award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator David Timson leads US through Conan Doyle's most famous tale. This extended story brings the archetypal detective to the moors with his friend and...

A magnificent portrayal of 1890s America and the harsh realities of a dog-eat-dog world, Sister Carrie lies at the forefront of American Naturalism. When poor young provincial woman Carrie Meeber...

The politics of love, the intrigues of desire love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria's streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms moved like a great congress of eels...