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"Going beyond biography,
Donald Dewey captures the wistful America of the 1940s and
'50s and the screen icon who symbolized it.With polished
ease and impeccable pacing,Parker brings listeners into each
chapter and onto each movie set to glimpse Hollywood's inner
workings. Parker narrates with the same casual yet focused
flair that characterized Stewart's acting style. In this
way, Parker lends an instant comfort and intimacy to the
text and its subject, while giving Dewey's writing center
stage to engage and captivate the listener."AudioFile
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The "two cities" are Paris in
the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette,
a French physician, having been called in to treat a young
peasant and his sister, realizes that they have been cruelly
abused by the Marquis de St. Evremonde and his brother. To
ensure Dr. Manette's silence, the Marquis has him confined
for eighteen years in the Bastille. The doctor has just been
released, demented, when the story opens. He is brought to
England where he gradually recovers his health and his
sanity.
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Bill Masen wakes in his
hospital bed, eyes bandaged. Something is wrong, it's
unusually quiet and no one has come to his room. When he
removes his bandages he finds a world that has changed
utterly. Most of the population are completely blind — only
those who didn't watch the night sky can still see.
And as law and order break down, a new menace appears — triffids, walking carnivorous plants that can kill a human
with their lethal sting. For Bill and the other survivors,
it's now a battle to stay alive.
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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk
Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the
pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a
thousand years of Western classical music and the composers
who have sought to express in music the deepest of human
feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music
- many musical expressions are also explained - with the
text illustrated by performances from some of the most
highly praised recordings of recent years.
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Every bit as dazzling as the
best of his dramas and comedies, Shakespeare's sonnets
represent one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned.
And because they are love poems of an extraordinarily
personal variety, these timeless sonnets also afford us our
most intimate glimpses of the soul behind the genius that
was Shakespeare. As read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud--
perhaps the greatest interpreter of the Bard we shall ever
know-- the sonnets in this selection come alive with all the
passion and profound human insight of their brilliant
creator.
A Shakespeare Recording Society Production |
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Jack Rosenthal had always
resisted writing an autobiography, until he hit on an
original way of writing it: it would be as a screenplay,
with himself as the central character, the storyline that of
his own life, the supporting cast drawn from the many
wonderful and sometimes eccentric people who touched, shaped
and shared that life.
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Thanks to British narrator
Frederick Davidson's performance, it is safe to say that
there will not be a better recording of Tolstoy's
masterpiece for some time....the genius of this book is
everlasting. The impressive dialog sparkles with humor and
wit, and the vivid scenes of battle are riveting. An entire
universe is created by one of the foremost thinkers of the
19th century, and Davidson's exquisite narration heightens
the perfection of this novel, regarded as one of the
greatest in literature."--Library Journal
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