Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction; Poetry
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA692112
Barcode: 9789626349212
Release Date: 12/2008

POE, E.A.: Essential Poe (The) (Unabridged)

Part of the Naxos AudioBooks ‘Essential’ series, this CD combines some of Poe’s best-loved ghost stories, plus a selection of poetry including The Raven and an additional biography. This audiobook features The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial and The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Poe, Edgar Allan - Author
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
1The Murders in the Rue Morgue09:36
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
2Residing in Paris during the spring…05:27
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
3We were strolling one night…06:53
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
4Not long after this…03:45
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
5The next day's paper…07:04
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
6Four of the above named witnesses…09:29
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
7This is one of those miserable thoroughfares…03:58
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
8'I am now awaiting,' continued he…05:32
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
9'Let us now transport ourselves…'07:12
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
10'The next question…'03:42
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
11At these words…05:54
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
12I felt a creeping of the flesh…08:15
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Disc 2
1The front door of the house…04:35
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
2What he stated was, in substance, this…08:12
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
3The Pit and the Pendulum08:17
Roberts, William (Reader)
4So far I had not opened my eyes…07:30
Roberts, William (Reader)
5In the confusion attending my fall…09:31
Roberts, William (Reader)
6I could no longer doubt the doom…07:28
Roberts, William (Reader)
7Scarcely had I dropped my head…09:51
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
8The Tell-Tale Heart05:07
Roberts, William (Reader)
9I kept quite still and said nothing…05:15
Roberts, William (Reader)
10If still you think me mad…05:31
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 3
Roberts, William (Reader)
1The Fall of the House of Usher07:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
2Shaking off from my spirit…05:43
Roberts, William (Reader)
3In the manner of my friend…07:14
Roberts, William (Reader)
4I shall ever bear about me…06:04
Roberts, William (Reader)
5I well remember…07:00
Roberts, William (Reader)
6And now some days…04:08
Roberts, William (Reader)
7The impetuous fury…05:56
Roberts, William (Reader)
8Oppressed, as I certainly was…06:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
9The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar07:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
10When they had gone…09:45
Roberts, William (Reader)
11I now feel that I have reached…04:44
Roberts, William (Reader)
12From this period…03:45
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 4
Roberts, William (Reader)
1The Premature Burial06:36
Roberts, William (Reader)
2In the year 1810…06:25
Roberts, William (Reader)
3The mention of the galvanic battery…05:59
Roberts, William (Reader)
4For several years…05:29
Roberts, William (Reader)
5From the innumerable images…06:07
Roberts, William (Reader)
6They arrived an epoch…03:48
Roberts, William (Reader)
7And now, amid all my infinite…05:52
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
8The Cask of Amontillado04:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
9There were no attendants…05:30
Roberts, William (Reader)
10At the most remote end…07:13
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
11The Masque of the Red Death07:21
Roberts, William (Reader)
12But in spite of these things…05:23
Roberts, William (Reader)
13When the eyes of Prince Prospero…04:08
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 5
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
1Tamerlane14:56
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
2Dreams02:19
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
3Spirits of the dead01:42
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
4A dream01:01
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
5The Lake01:28
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
6The bowers whereat, in dreams I see…00:59
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
7Fairy-Land02:03
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
8To Helen00:59
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
9Israfel02:26
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
10Lenore02:56
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
11Sonnet: To Zante03:56
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
12Sonnet: The Haunted Palace02:42
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
13Sonnet: Silence01:17
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
14The conqueror worm02:13
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
15Dreamland03:08
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
16Eulalie01:20
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
17The Raven09:25
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
18Not long ago, the writer of these lines…01:55
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
19Ulalume05:10
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
20The Bells05:24
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
21A dream within a dream01:20
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
22For Annie03:46
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
23To my mother00:57
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
24Annabel Lee02:26
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Disc 6
McMillan, Roy - Author
Chancer, John (Reader)
1Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography07:56
Chancer, John (Reader)
2Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809…07:55
Chancer, John (Reader)
3Edgar Poe was a good student…07:09
Chancer, John (Reader)
4By the end of 1828…08:07
Chancer, John (Reader)
5The years between 1831 and 1835…07:12
Chancer, John (Reader)
6Poe is hardly known for his journalism…07:11
Chancer, John (Reader)
7The family moved to New York…07:24
Chancer, John (Reader)
8Once Virginia had started to display…05:52
Chancer, John (Reader)
9Whatever the truth…05:47
Chancer, John (Reader)
10This tangle of emotional attachments…06:28
Chancer, John (Reader)
11Later, while still in what can only…06:57
Chancer, John (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 07:32:38