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by Maya Angelou
Read by the author. Included are Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me A Cool Drink Of Water "Fore I Die, thirty-six poems in her continuing celebration of life, Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, and I Shall Not Be Moved, her most recent collection of poems, including "Our Grandmothers." (1.75 hr. 3 cs.)
DAN001 / Buy $23.85 / Rent $8
by June August
Read by Arthur Peterson. A one-person performance of the life, works, and wisdoms of one of America's best-loved writers. Many of Frost's poems are presented, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." (1 hr. 1 cs.)
DAU001 / Buy $10.95 / Rent $4.75
by Samuel Beckett
A NY Shakespeare Festival production with Irene Worth and George Voskovec. "For they say the world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those that feel, and in the world of Beckett it is both at once." (1.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DBE001 / Buy $20 / Rent $5.75
by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Read by Joanna David, Steven Pacey, and Sean Barrett. 70 Browning poems from the husband and wife who shared poetry and social causes in the mid-19th century. Madge Manfred edited this collection and wrote a narrative of the Brownings' life together. Included are Elizabeth's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" and "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," Robert's "Love Among the Ruins," "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad," and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." (2.45 hrs. 2 cs.)
DBR001 / Buy $17.95 / Rent $5.75
by Emily Dickinson
Read by Julie Harris. Known as "The Myth of Amherst" for her retirement from society while still a young woman, Dickinson had an intense inner life. Breaking with tradition, she experimented with unorthodox phrasing, rhyme and broken meter within concise verse forms. (1 hr. 1 cs.)
DDI001 / Buy $12 / Rent $4.75
by Jack Kerouac
Read by the author. This collection contains recordings of the beat poet reading his own prose and poems; many of them, out of print for 30 years, are considered collector's items. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
DKE001 / Buy $39.98 / Rent $10.25
by William Luce
Read by Julie Harris. The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen's pen name). The play portrays Isak Dinesen as an old woman, looking back on her life as an eccentric storyteller and a defiant spirit-passionate and wickedly witty. (1.75 hrs. 2 cs.)
DLU001 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Marty Martin
Read by Pat Carroll and the original cast of the highly acclaimed off-Broadway play. The play highlights both the personality of this great writer and her social milieu. This recording won a Grammy award. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DCA001 / Buy $17.95 / Rent $5.75
by Arthur Miller
An outstanding Broadway cast including Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, and Dustin Hoffman as Bernard. This play has won the Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Antoinette Perry Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (2.25 hrs. 2 cs.)
DMI001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Arthur Miller
Full cast performance by The Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, with Stuart Pankin and Jerome Dempsey. First staged in 1953 at the height of the witchhunts, this play is set in the witchburning hysteria of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, and explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. (2.25 hrs. 2 cs.)
DMI002 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Terence Rattigan
BBC Audio Collection. Two of Rattigan's most popular plays. The Browning Version is a miniature masterpiece of disillusionment and betrayal between a classics master and his unfaithful wife. The Winslow Boy is based on an edwardian cause célèbre, a father and sister's determination to clear the name of their son / brother from the accusation of stealing a five shilling postal order from a school-mate. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DRA001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Edmond Rostand
Read by Ralph Richardson as Cyrano and Anna Massey as Roxanne. Great performances in a play of which critic John Simon wrote, "not a great play, merely a perfect one." (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DRO001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Read by a full cast. Three generations of leading actors are brought together in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed new production. (3 hrs. 4 cs.)
DSH006 / Buy $22 / Rent $10.25
by William Shakespeare
BBC Audio Collection, featuring Dennis Quilley as Macbeth and Hannah Gordon as Lady Macbeth. These performances were designed for listening and feature some of the finest actors of our day. Macbeth is one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare's plays, in part because it is one of the easiest to follow. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH007 / Buy $14.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
The Old Vic Company with music by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. A charming performance of the best-loved of Shakespeare's comedies, with music, fairy magic, and a classic mix-up of star-crossed lovers. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH008 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Read by Alan Badel as Romeo, Claire Bloom as Juliet and Peter Finch as Mercutio. A superb Old Vic production of a classic play. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH009 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Starring Paul Scofield and Nicol Williamson. A historic BBC production of the great tragedy, with a full cast. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH010 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Read by Margaret Leighton as Kate and Trevor Howard as Petruchio. This is one of Shakespeare's most spirited comedies, even if we hate the ending. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH011 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Read by Paul Scofield and an all-star cast. A great production of Shakespeare's tragic tale of vanity, lust and betrayal, of a proud king whose monumental blindness to the realities of his world empowers the very evil that destroys him in the end. (3 hrs. 3 cs.)
DSH012 / Buy $20 / Rent $8
by William Shakespeare
Performed by Ralph Richardson, Anthony Quayle, Alan Bates, John Mills et al. This play marks a transition in focus from events, to the minds and motives of the characters. Neither Brutus nor Cassius is a hero here. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Performed by Vanessa Redgrave, Siobhan McKenna, Paul Scofield et al. In this delightful romp of deception and romance, Viola disguises herself as a young man, then falls in love with the duke she serves. He sends her to woo the feisty and impetuous Olivia for him; Olivia falls in love with the young man Viola is not. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH003 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Full cast performance with Robert Stephens, Peggy Ashcroft, and Glenda Jackson. With this play, the young Shakespeare scored his first unqualified hit, and it remains one of his most frequently performed works. The character of Richard dominates the action and many of the stage's finest actors have made their reputations playing this role. This is the story of an historic political struggle told from the point of view of the winners: for Richard's view, see Josephine Tey's The Daughter Of Time (Mystery Section). (4 hrs. 3 cs.)
DSH015 / Buy $20 / Rent $8
by William Shakespeare
Performed by Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Michell and others. A quintessential Shakesperean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and reconciliations, all within the confines of the enchanted Forest of Arden. Everyone gets their way, sinners are redeemed, and love holds sway over all. Despite its being a light comedy, it is full of keen observations about humanity in general, and in particular about the age-old tension between "civilized" society and the state of nature. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH016 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by William Shakespeare
Read by John Gielgud. A feast of 120 of the bard's poems. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH005 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by George Bernard Shaw
Read by Flo Gibson. Barbara, granddaughter of an earl, is busy saving souls in the Salvation Army while her father, a munitions maker, maintains that poverty is the worst of all crimes. You will be surprised at how easily this play flows, under the skillful readership of Flo Gibson, who makes you forget you are not hearing a complete cast. (4 hrs. 3 cs.)
DSH013 / Buy $23.50 / Rent $8
by Richard Sheridan
Performed by a cast including Dame Edith Evans, Claire Bloom and Cecil Parker. First performed in 1777, this witty play about Lady Sneerwell and her scandal-loving friends was a leader of english comedy for over a century. It is easy to follow, hilarious. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DSH001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dylan Thomas
Read by the author. This prose poem describes the archetypal anglo-saxon christmas-snow and red noses, plum puddings and presents. Thomas's language, as he writes and as he reads, is as close to perfect as there is. (1 hr. 1 cs.)
DTH001 / Buy $9.95 / Rent $4.75
by Dylan Thomas
Read by Richard Burton and cast. Thomas's most popular work is a lyrical study of a day in the life of a welsh fishing village, as revealed through the dreams and voices of its inhabitants. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
DTH002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Mark Twain
Read by Hal Holbrook. A stunning show-business success, Holbrook's brilliant one-person show sold out in NY, traveled across the US and abroad, and appeared on television. Holbrook becomes truly transformed, recreating the incisive mind and scalding tongue of the legendary man from Missouri. (1.75 hrs. 2 cs.)
DTW001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Various authors
Read by Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire and Bramwell Fletcher. Includes the works of thirty-nine british and american poets. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
DVA001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Oscar Wilde
Read by a brilliant cast including Edith Evans and John Gielgud. This hilariously witty comedy is about two young men who lead double lives. It satirizes all the important things-birth, love, marriage, respectability, death. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
DWI002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Tennessee Williams
Performed by Montgomery Clift, Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris and David Wayne. The story is of the Wingfield family: the dominating mother and abandoned wife, Amanda; her daughter Laura-lame and painfully shy-whom her mother wants to match with an eligible "gentleman caller"; Tom, sole support of the family, who leaves home to become a writer, but is haunted by the memory of Laura. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
DWI001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
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