There can be a blurred line between children’s classics and adult classics. Garrick Hagon’s existing recording of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in abridged format with energetic music (Junior Classics) makes for a lively introduction to one of the greatest American novels and an inspiration to mischievous children everywhere. This month, we release a new unabridged recording in the Complete Classics series, and this takes Mark Twain’s masterpiece more into the realm of adult world.
T. H. White’s magical and funny retelling of the Arthurian legend, The Once and Future King can also appeal to older and younger listeners. It speaks to children – which is why Disney famously made The Sword in the Stone – but Neville Jason’s imaginative reading of the work in unabridged form once again is as much for adults as children.
We are releasing a 3 CD abridgement of The Sword in the Stone with music in June. But this month we continue with the second installment of the full work: The Witch in the Wood & The Ill-Made Knight, which follows the fortunes of the newly-crowned King Arthur.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy’s dark story of hardship and poverty in nineteenth-century England, was censored on its original release in 1891 because of its challenging social critique. Released this month in a sensitive reading by Anna Bentinck, Hardy’s classic novel comes alive in all its heart-breaking beauty.
Also out this month is the unabridged version of Juliet Stevenson’s acclaimed recording of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. A true landmark of English modernist fiction, this is considered by many to be her finest work.
May 2008
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Read by Garrick Hagon
UNABRIDGED
This is the story of a boy’s adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend Huckleberry Finn, finds fun and excitement, and buried treasure, along the shores of the great river.
The Witch in the Wood &
The Ill-Made Knight
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Read by Neville Jason
UNABRIDGED
These two stories are the second and third parts of T. H. White’s classic and individual fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend. Arthur has become king, Guinevere and Lancelot (The Ill-Made Knight) fall in love, and the kingdom is threatened from the north. Neville Jason reads with measured authority.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
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Read by Anna Bentinck
UNABRIDGED
Socially critical and emotionally complex, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is Hardy’s masterpiece. It tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, forced by her family’s poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles. Violated by the son Alec, her hopes of rebuilding her life with the gentle and bookish Angel Clare founder when he learns of her past. Sensitively read by Anna Bentinck.
To the Lighthouse
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Read by Juliet Stevenson
UNABRIDGED
To The Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters’ thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson, whose abridged version has proved one of the enduring sellers of the Naxos AudioBooks catalogue.
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