Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - audio book

In an enchanting performance, two time Academy Award(R) winner Sally Field taked us on a topsy-turvy adventure through Wonderland.

Irresistibly delightful, fascinating and funny, Ms. Field's stunning interpretation brings Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and all of Lewis Carroll's remarkable Characters to life.

Produced in a simple manner that allows imaginations to soar, Carroll's triumph will charm the entire family.

Destined to become an instant classic, this audiobook will help introduce your family to the unique pleasure of classic literature.

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Lewis Carroll
Narrated By : Sally Field
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes
Category : Action & Adventure
$18.00 $11.95

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June Counsel
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Category : Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
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L. M. Montgomery
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Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 9 hours
Category : Juvenile
$39.95 $19.95

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Duration : 21 minutes
Category : Under 10s
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Tales of Irish Myths
Benedict Flynn
Narrated By : Dermot Kerrigan and Marcella Riordan
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Duration : 2 hours 35 minutes
Category : Classics
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It is a mysterious world that this selection of stories from the treasure house of Irish myths and legends describes...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - audio book

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation, starring Roy Hudd, Sarah-Jane Holm and David Bamber.

These audio editions, especially dramatised for BBC Radio, are of timeless stories that have enchanted generations of readers both young and old. The wonder and excitement of these much-loved tales live on in these acclaimed full-cast dramatisations, complete with evocative music and sound effects.

'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!'

When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it occurs to her that she's never seen a rabbit with a watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and follows him into a rabbit-hole. Then she falls down a long, long way.

Down into the world of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the Duchess, the Cheshire Cat and the Mock Turtle. Down into Wonderland, where an ordinary little girl can have the most extraordinary adventures. Lewis Carroll's classic tale has been translated into more languages than almost any other book, and remains a perennial favourite worldwide.

With David Bamber as the splendid White Rabbit, Roy Hudd as the Mad Hatter and Sarah-Jane Holm as Alice, the spellbinding and fantastic story sparkles with nonsensical life in this full-cast dramatisation.

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Lewis Carroll
Narrated By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 1 hour 55 minutes
Category : Classics
$13.49

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Gone-Away Lake
Elizabeth Enright
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Duration : 6 hours
Category : Under 10s
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Grumpy Grandad in Santa's Grotto
Ann Twigg
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Leon and the Spitting Image
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (mp3) - audio book

Alice in Wonderland

Young Alice leads an ordinary sort of life until, one day, she follows a rabbit down a hole and embarks on a series of adventures with some of the most weird and wonderful characters anyone has ever encountered! She soon discovers that nothing is ordinary in Wonderland - least of all the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess and the Mock Turtle.


Through the Looking Glass

Alice sees another world in the looking glass and wishes she could go there - but when her wish comes true she embarks on a game of chess like she's never known before! Her aim is to become Queen of the Chess Board, and in order to achieve It she takes counsel from Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn and a very helpful gnat.


Alan Bennett's delightful readings beautifully complement the sparkling wit and intelligence of Lewis Carroll's enduring children's classics.


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Lewis Carroll
Narrated By : Alan Bennett
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 2 hours 40 minutes
Category : Fairy Tales
$18.49

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Twelve-year-old Rory is an artist like her father. Through a hundred drawing lessons, he guided her hand. Together they plan to paint a beautiful mural for Rory's mother. But then Rory finds her father in his studio kissing another woman. She is so mad that she burns her sketchbook. ..


Tales from the Odyssey - Volume One - The One Eyed Giant & The Land of the Dead
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Doctor Who - The Moonbase
Various
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Duration : 2 hours
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Second Doctor Patrick Troughton faces the return of the emotionless cybermen...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - audio book

Alice's adventures, funny, inventive and disturbing, have fascinated and delighted children and adults alike since their publication. The fantasy worlds in which she finds herself introduce her to characters as varied and well known as the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat...

There are at least two ways of reading this classic children's tale. One may either regard it as an innocently inventive and diverting piece for readers of all ages - or one may choose to bring to bear on it the full weight of academic analysis, be it literary, mathematical, philosophical or psychoanalytical.

The book was first published in 1865 and 1871, and has been hugely popular ever since. Unlike most Victorian children's books (including Carroll's own Sylvie and Bruno), it is refreshingly unmoralistic and brilliantly imaginative. Perhaps one might see it as a pioneering work in the rich tradition of British children's writing which includes (for example) The Wind in the Willows, the Pooh books and the animal tales of Beatrix Potter. But Alice is in many respects more demanding and disturbing - even children unaware of symbolic interpretation may well be haunted or discomfited by the dream worlds Carroll has created, worlds where it is not quite enough to say that nonsense prevails since there is almost always a kind of perverse or inverted logic at work.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the child heroine dreams the experiences which constitute the story, and (of course) wakes at the end to tell her sister what has happened. The dream world of Wonderland is peopled largely by creatures which speak, feel and behave much like caricatured human beings: the White Rabbit, for instance, is clearly neurotically obsessed by time and terrified of authority, while the playing-card King and Queen of Hearts bicker like an ill-matched, long-married couple. Anger, violence and the threat of violence are real enough within the dreamworld - the dormouse is scalded and dunked at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party -while irritation and disillusionment seem more common than contentment - witness the doleful narrative of the Mock Turtle. At times, Alice seems to be in real danger, whether from flying saucepans in the Duchess' kitchen or from the attentions of a gigantic puppy, but at last she is able to break free from the suffocating power of her fantasy by exclaiming, after she has regained her normal size, 'Why, you're nothing but a pack of cards!'

Child listeners will surely be delighted by the picaresque variety of the story, but adults may wonder about some possible deeper or unifying interpretation. Freudian readings are legion, but it may be more interesting to see the adventure as a disturbing challenge to our conventional notions of reality Carroll repeatedly asks questions about the nature of time or the meaning of names, poses mathematical paradoxes and semantic quibbles - and the effect of this is to promote an acute unease, a fundamental, perhaps existential, uncertainty about meaning and purpose. Martin Gardner (editor of The Annotated Alice) suggests that 'the last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by a mathematician.'

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Lewis Carroll
Narrated By : Fiona Shaw
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Duration : 2 hours 25 minutes
Category : Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
$11.99

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Narrated By : Patrick Lawlor
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 2 hours
Category : Juvenile
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