World Classics
By: William Trevor / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
ALL Yikes! -and- Good Cow! Basically? Typical William Trevor…
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
Jolly decent, but it’s an odd odd ODD day when one has to say: Simon Vance is no Jonathan Cecil…!
An Audible Original Drama
By: Robert Louis Stevenson / Adapted By: Marty Ross / Narrated By: Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale
Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
A Jolly Jaunt, but yikes! a True Undertaking…
Amazon Classics Edition
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Translated By: Constance Garnett / Narrated By: James Anderson Foster
Length: 34 hrs and 18 mins
Soooo worth the time! Might I shout a mighty Huzzah?! but NOT for this translation…?
Arkangel Shakespeare
By: William Shakespeare / Narrated By: Amanda Root, David Harewood, Roy Hudd
Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
It’s all a dream, right? I mean, is that why I fell asleep, like, SIX times…?!?
A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson / Dramatist: Libby Spurrier / Narrated By: Holliday Grainger, Clive Mantle, Carla Mendonça, Miranda Raison
Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
SUPERB production that starts whizbang sharp and then…? Scooby Doooo, where are youuuu?!?
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Uhm, not what I expected, but oddly grand.
By: Albert Camus / Narrated By: James Jenner
Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
Pretty sure it wasn’t Camus, and goodness knows I ain’t gonna blame m’self for it, but…
By: George Eliot / Narrated By: Andrew Sachs
Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
Ya know? I’m seriously considering what-all we DID read in High School…?!
By: George Bernard Shaw / Narrated By: Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, Paul Merton, Peter Hall
Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
My first George Bernard Shaw? Dude, it must be St. Paddy’s Day…
By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Rachel Atkins
Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
PERFECT Narration, came to really love Catherine!
Series: Space Odyssey Series, Book 1
By: Arthur C. Clarke / Narrated By: Dick Hill
Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
Thank GOSH the introduction by Clarke is edifying!!! And Dick Hill… is that you?!
By: E.M. Forster / Narrated By: Nadia May
Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
I know I know I know: Forster’s Masterpiece and all that -BUT-
A Novel
By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Graham Halstead
Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
History is written by the Victors, but War is lived and survived by those who lived it, who died it
By: Gabriel García Márquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
A time long past with lush prose that skirts on flowery, but dude! was our hero a creep, or what?!
Series: Jeeves and Wooster, Book 1
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
I can’t imagine ANYONE other than Jonathan Cecil as the voice of P.G. Wodehouse!!!
By: Charlotte Brontë / Narrated By: Davina Porter
Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
Loved it, but Lucy Snowe ain’t no Jane Eyre…
By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Helen Taylor
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
A different version of The Enchanted April—What a deLIGHt!!!
Stage Play
By: Choderlos de Laclos / Narrated By: Dominic West, Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, Elaine Cassidy, Adjoa Andoh, Edward Holcroft, Morfydd Clark
Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
French noblemen with English accents? Yesssss… An abridgment? Hmmmm….
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
How can something be so heartrending yet so hilarious yet so exasperating yet so yet so yet so?!
Series: Blandings Castle, Book 2
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Blandings Castle: Book 2… But Psmith: Book 4?!? Gosh, do I now have to get those?
A Signature Performance by Tim Curry
By: Charles Dickens / Narrated By: Tim Curry
Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
Oops… Methinks I watched “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” waaaay too many times.
A Myth Retold
By: C. S. Lewis / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon (aka Nadia May, Donada Peters)
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Beautifully written, exquisitely narrated!
By: Rafael Sabatini / Narrated By: Robert Whitfield
Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
A jolly swashbuckler of a jaunt!
By: Miguel de Cervantes / Translated By: Edith Grossman / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 39 hrs and 37 mins
Almost 40 hours went by so very fast!
By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Eleanor Bron
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Not sure, but I think I might’ve mightily liked this…?!
(Amazon Classics Edition)
By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
A “rediscovered” classic that became a favorite now becomes a TREASURE!
Series: Blandings Castle, Book 1
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
So many P.G. Wodehouse series, so little time: Zany, madcap, delightfully silly
By: Jules Verne / Narrated By: Bill Homewood
Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
What a charmer!!!