Since you are interested in Classic Comic Verse by Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert and others, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Prokofiev: Cinderella / Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Children's Classics) Brian Cant (narrator) / National Symphony Orch of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar (conductor) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orch. / Andrew Mogrelia (conductor [ Naxos Children's Classics / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Brian Cant has a nice, light and understated touch in his story-telling, with a bit of the Edith Evans for the Fairy Godmother and a touching wonderment to match Prokofiev's scintillating score." Daily Telegraph |
HENRY JAMES
The Turn of the Screw (abridged) (Read by Emma Fielding and Dermot Kerrigan) [ Naxos Audio Books / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty. Their governess... |
JANE AUSTEN
Emma (abridged) (Read by Juliet Stevenson) [ Naxos Audio Books / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2007 ] Jane Austen was born in Hampshire in 1775, the seventh of eight children. Her father was a clergyman who ensured that his children were well educated. |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (unabridged) Sean Baker / Emma Fielding / Anton Lesser / Benjamin Soames / Edward de Souza and full cast [ Naxos Audio Books / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play, Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy... |