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FAHRENHEIT 451

FAHRENHEIT 451

Earphones Award Winner

by Ray Bradbury | Read by Penn Badgley

Simon & Schuster Audio | Unabridged
Classics

Like many sci-fi authors, Bradbury predicted many of today's less admirable achievements, such as earbuds and huge TVs. So not surprisingly, this 1953 title is timeless. Penn Badgley, pleasant-voiced and convincing, is an outstanding narrator. His tone resonates with personality, and his subtle character shifts are effective, especially as he portrays this novel's antihero, a... Read More

THE GRASMERE AND ALFOXDEN JOURNALS

THE GRASMERE AND ALFOXDEN JOURNALS

by Dorothy Wordsworth | Read by Sarah Lambie

Naxos AudioBooks | Unabridged
Classics

Dorothy Wordsworth may not have had the gift for words that her brother William did, but she was a very good descriptive writer. Sarah Lambie brings her to life with a charming and appropriate Northern English accent. The listener gets a vivid portrait of country life in rural England at the beginning of the nineteenth century and some interesting background on the lives and... Read More

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Earphones Award Winner

by Charles Dickens | Read by Stephen Fry

SNR Audio | Unabridged
Classics

Dickens is one of those classic authors whose works are wonderfully suited to the audiobook format. With strong dialogue, unexpected plot twists, and a wide array of characters, this production is superb, thanks to British actor Stephen Fry's expert narration. His exuberant performance brings Pip's coming-of-age story to life with glorious British accents. Dickens is well-known... Read More

MALICE AFORETHOUGHT

MALICE AFORETHOUGHT

Earphones Award Winner

by Francis Iles | Read by David Timson

Naxos AudioBooks | Unabridged
Classics

Master storyteller David Timson appears to be having lots of fun delivering this British Golden Age Mystery. His performance captures each nuance of the novel's gallows humor. Dr. Edmund Bickleigh, a philanderer whom women find appealing, states that he must murder his shrewish wife, Julia. Bickleigh meticulously plans Julia's demise in hopes of marrying his latest wealthy... Read More

MONEY

MONEY

by Emile Zola | Read by Leighton Pugh

Naxos AudioBooks | Unabridged
Classics

Leighton Pugh masterfully delivers Emile Zola's heady mix of urbane prose, playful dialogue, and meticulous descriptions of stock market trading and manipulation in this one-of-a-kind cautionary tale. It's the roaring 1860s of the Second French Empire. Growth and prosperity are in the air, the Suez Canal is almost complete, and a devious stock market speculator plans to... Read More

THE NOSE, THE OVERCOAT, AND MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN

THE NOSE, THE OVERCOAT, AND MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN

by Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett [Trans.] | Read by Edoardo Ballerini

Reluctant Poet, Inc. | Unabridged
Classics

Edoardo Ballerini splendidly narrates three of the Russian writer Gogol's best-known works. All three display the author's use of the grotesque and surreal. "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" also exhibit Gogol's satire of the Russian bureaucratic hierarchy. Anyone wishing for an entry into Russian literature would do well to listen to these three works. Golden Voice Ballerini has a... Read More

PIC

PIC

by Jack Kerouac | Read by Dion Graham

Blackstone Audio | Unabridged
Classics

PIC is not much like Kerouac's other works in that the protagonist, Pictorial Review Jackson, is not based on the author. Pic is a 10-year-old Black orphan from rural North Carolina, and he's written to sound like just that. Dion Graham brings his usual masterful command of accents to Pic's story, in which his brother Slim rescues him from their aunt's house and carries him off... Read More

THE PICCADILLY MURDER

THE PICCADILLY MURDER

by Anthony Berkeley | Read by David Timson

Naxos AudioBooks | Unabridged
Classics

This audiobook, originally published in print in 1929, reintroduces a classic amateur sleuth from the Golden Age of detective stories. Celebrated narrator David Timson recounts how self-styled criminologist Ambrose Chitterwick witnesses a murder in the lounge of London's Piccadilly Palace Hotel and later investigates what took place. Timson accurately and sympathetically... Read More

THE SOUND AND THE FURY

THE SOUND AND THE FURY

Earphones Award Winner

by William Faulkner | Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Bronson Pinchot, Robin Miles

Blackstone Audio | Unabridged
Classics

One of the masterpieces of modernist American fiction, this may be a book that is better listened to than read. The intellectually challenged mind of Benjy Compson, voiced here by Golden Voice Edoardo Ballerini, is more easily entered via the ears than the eyes, and Bronson Pinchot's portrayal of Benjy's brother, the thoroughly reprehensible Jason Compson, is the nightmare he... Read More

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS Richard Hannay, Book 1

Earphones Award Winner

by John Buchan | Read by Rupert Degas

Naxos AudioBooks | Unabridged
Classics

London-born actor Rupert Degas brings his enticingly warm voice and an edge-of-your-seat intensity to his performance of John Buchan's famously propulsive spy thriller. Adapted many times, including by Alfred Hitchcock, the 1915 novel centers on mining engineer Richard Hannay, who hears of an international assassination plot and then must flee London when he becomes a murder... Read More

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