Performed by Sir Michael Redgrave and others, The Tempest possesses a truly wonderful narrative carried by a wonderful cast. Available to download for the first time online.
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed written in 1610 11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's low nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
With an artist's touch, Nilly Dagan wondrously manages to generate a series of surprising transitions in each of her poems....
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Love is a universal feeling but a few lines of musings from a poet assembled words perhaps softly spoken can express a romance or desire that if we don't yet have we'd probably like to....
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From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, here are some meditations on love via Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the enigmatic Persian poet, read by Bill Wallis....
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and more
Narrator
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Michael Maloney, Jasper Britton, and more
Publisher
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Naxos AudioBooks
Normal Retail Price
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$ 17.98
Audible Price
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$ 12.59
Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered...
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The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition....
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The work in this volume is more varied in form and content than in his first book, and shows a change of heart, a greater acceptance of the human condition, along with a more impersonal voice....
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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were united not only as man and wife, but also as writers who shared and debated ideas, values, and literary craft....
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Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death....
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Poet, artist, and mystic, Blake wrote, I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's. Create he did....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
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content to Apple's ITunes service. I have been listening,
enjoying and creating audio books for many years. With
the arrival of the internet and portable digital devices,
audio-books began to become availalbe for download.
Having tried most of
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This link will take you to Audible...
All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
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Books in audio format are a fantastic alternative to reading.
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Here at Playtime Books we offer lots unabridged talking
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