Audiobooks

 

Arabian Nights, The

Author : Sir Richard Burton

Performed By : Philip Madoc

Publisher : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 3 hours 50 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature
Classics

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Though The Arabian Nights are generally known as stories for children, they were originally tales for adults full of adventure, sexuality, violence and the supernatural.

They certainly inspired the imagination of Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century explorer, linguist and erotologist who brought all his worldly experience and a superbly expressive prose style to bear on the tales of Sindbad the Seaman and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Scheherazade must keep her king entertained with stories if she is to avoid the promised sentence of death.

Philip Madoc's sonorous performance allows the tales to weave their own enchantment as they have done down the centuries.

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Cairo Trilogy, The: Episode 1

Author : Naguib Mahfouz

Performed By : Full-Cast Production

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 1 hour

Categories : General
Dramatizations

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Omar Sharif leads an all-Egyptian cast in a three-parter recorded entirely in Egypt's capital...

"Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz's novels, this is a gripping family saga, with a monstrous father, loving mother and their four children, set in seductive Cairo from 1917 to 1953 against a backdrop of political upheaval." --- The Times