Naxos Audiobooks
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Filozofia
The Republic (EN)
Plato: In The Republic Socrates is asked the question ‘What is justice?’ And in order to answer it, he draws a long and detailed analogy between the individual and the city. Plato’s work forms the foundation of Western philosophy and covers a wide range o
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Iné
The Complete Essays (EN)
Michel de Montaigne: In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of ‘essays’ – attempts to capture the observations that came to
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Jane Eyre – YAC (EN)
Charlotte Brontëová: One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester.
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Biografie a texty
Life & Works – Antonín Dvořák
Jeremy Siepmann: One of the best loved composers of all time, Dvořák rose from rural origins to become not only a great but an influential composer.
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História
The History of the Musical (EN)
Richard Fawkes: A major production for Naxos AudioBooks and a unique Audiobook, this bold and entertaining undertaking traces the musical from its origins in classical music.
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História
Jane Austen Biography (EN)
Elizabeth Jenkins: his highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life am
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The Trial (EN)
Franz Kafka: Josef K is thirty years old. He lives in rented accommodation in a large town and works for a bank. One day, although he has done nothing wrong, he is arrested.
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King Lear (EN)
William Shakespeare: This is the ninth recording of Shakespeare plays undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, and is directed by John Tydeman.
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War and Peace (EN)
Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj: Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.
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Oliver Twist – YAC (EN)
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist runs away from the brutality of the workhouse only to find himself taken in by a gang of thieves run by the devilish Fagin, his violent side-kick Bill Sikes and the irrepressible Artful Dodger.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (EN)
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer is a dare-devil, a schemer, a prankster, a main-chancer. His inventiveness and energy know no bounds; whenever his Aunt Polly thinks he is tucked up in bed, he is most likely creeping out into the night on deeds of daring – ‘not the Model B
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Deti
Andersens Fairy Tales (EN)
Hans Christian Andersen: The world of Hans Christian Andersen is seen through the eyes of children. There is the everyday wonder of an ugly duckling being transformed into a swan; the puffed-up Emperor being fooled by his own importance…
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Treasure Island (EN)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written for children. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried trea
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Biografie a texty
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (EN)
James Joyce: This fictionalised portrait of Joyce’s youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood.
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Ulysses (EN)
James Joyce: Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language, regarded by many as the single most important novel of the twentieth century.
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Detektívky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IV (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Four more stories from the master detective. The mystery of the missing
suitor is solved and Sherlock Holmes raises his whip… an Indian past
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: In this collection are four more individual cases for Mr Sherlock
Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer, Dr Watson. They dive
into the opium dens of London in The Man with the Twisted Lip, recall the
curious history of The Mus -
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes,
narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the
mystery of the engineer’s thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes,
narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the horror
of The Speckled Band or the secret behind the curious legacy for men of
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (EN)
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts
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The Jungle Books (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: Kipling’s tales of Mowgli and his exciting life in the Indian jungle have been loved by children and adults alike ever since their publication in 1895.
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Metamorphosis (EN)
Franz Kafka: Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. This extraordinary tale of imagination was written by Kafka against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Europe and remains not just an affecting tale but a
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Klasická literatúra
Classic American Short Stories (EN)
Rôzni Autori: Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.
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Peter Pan (EN)
J.M. Barrie: The story of the little boy who refused to grow up has captured the imagination of generations of children (and the adults they grew into) since its publication in 1904. Peter Pan flies in through the bedroom window one night and teaches Wendy, John and M