- Rembrandt 400

Rembrandt 400

Written By : Neil MacGregor

Narrated By : Neil MacGregor

Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 43 minutes

Categories : Biographical
Arts & Drama
British
Non Fiction

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Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in BBC R3’s Sunday Feature ‘Rembrandt 400’.

He visits Amsterdam where Rembrandt made his home for the major part of his creative life and where he painted the masterpieces which hang in galleries around the world.

The actual birthday of Rembrandt is on July 15 and Amsterdam has been marking the year with all kinds of events from a new musical on Rembrandt’s life to exhibitions looking at every aspect of Rembrandt’s work, from the epic painting of The Night Watch to the small-scale etchings and drawings.

Huckleberry Finn

Written By : Mark Twain

Narrated By : Thomas Becker

Published By : In Audio

Runtime : 10 hours 19 minutes

Categories : Classics
Classic Literature
Over 10s

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Twain's story of an orphan is often cited as the greatest American novel. More info...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Written By : Jules Verne

Narrated By : Frederick Davidson

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

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The year 1866 was marked by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. For some time, sea vessels had been threatened by “an enormous thing,” a long phosphorescent object, infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale—until Captain Nemo put his submarine, the Nautilus, into... More info...

Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection, The

Written By : Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated By : Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone

Published By : Harper Collins US

Runtime : 6 hours

Categories : Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Short Stories
Classics
Poetry

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20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. More info...

Pied Piper of Hamelin, The

Written By : Various

Narrated By : Various

Published By : Select Music & Distribution

Runtime : 2 hours

Categories : Classics
Poetry

Our Price : $11.99

Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners. There are nonsense poems (The Jumblies) classic animal poems (The Snail ) stories of adventure (The Ballad of Sir... More info...

"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge."
--Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Sick of the rat race? Tim is the future!"
--Tim Colvin, office of the CTO, Morgan Stanley

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years: a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with an entirely new way of living.

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