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)
1 The Murders in the Rue Morgue 09:36
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
2 Residing in Paris during the spring… 05:27
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
3 We were strolling one night… 06:53
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
4 Not long after this… 03:45
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
5 The next day's paper… 07:04
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
6 Four of the above named witnesses… 09:29
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
7 This 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)
11 At these words… 05:54
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
12 I felt a creeping of the flesh… 08:15
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Disc 2
1 The front door of the house… 04:35
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
2 What he stated was, in substance, this… 08:12
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
3 The Pit and the Pendulum 08:17
Roberts, William (Reader)
4 So far I had not opened my eyes… 07:30
Roberts, William (Reader)
5 In the confusion attending my fall… 09:31
Roberts, William (Reader)
6 I could no longer doubt the doom… 07:28
Roberts, William (Reader)
7 Scarcely had I dropped my head… 09:51
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
8 The Tell-Tale Heart 05:07
Roberts, William (Reader)
9 I kept quite still and said nothing… 05:15
Roberts, William (Reader)
10 If still you think me mad… 05:31
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 3
Roberts, William (Reader)
1 The Fall of the House of Usher 07:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
2 Shaking off from my spirit… 05:43
Roberts, William (Reader)
3 In the manner of my friend… 07:14
Roberts, William (Reader)
4 I shall ever bear about me… 06:04
Roberts, William (Reader)
5 I well remember… 07:00
Roberts, William (Reader)
6 And now some days… 04:08
Roberts, William (Reader)
7 The impetuous fury… 05:56
Roberts, William (Reader)
8 Oppressed, as I certainly was… 06:39
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
9 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 07:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
10 When they had gone… 09:45
Roberts, William (Reader)
11 I now feel that I have reached… 04:44
Roberts, William (Reader)
12 From this period… 03:45
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 4
Roberts, William (Reader)
1 The Premature Burial 06:36
Roberts, William (Reader)
2 In the year 1810… 06:25
Roberts, William (Reader)
3 The mention of the galvanic battery… 05:59
Roberts, William (Reader)
4 For several years… 05:29
Roberts, William (Reader)
5 From the innumerable images… 06:07
Roberts, William (Reader)
6 They arrived an epoch… 03:48
Roberts, William (Reader)
7 And now, amid all my infinite… 05:52
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
8 The Cask of Amontillado 04:40
Roberts, William (Reader)
9 There were no attendants… 05:30
Roberts, William (Reader)
10 At the most remote end… 07:13
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
11 The Masque of the Red Death 07:21
Roberts, William (Reader)
12 But in spite of these things… 05:23
Roberts, William (Reader)
13 When the eyes of Prince Prospero… 04:08
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 5
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
1 Tamerlane 14:56
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
2 Dreams 02:19
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
3 Spirits of the dead 01:42
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
4 A dream 01:01
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
5 The Lake 01:28
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
6 The bowers whereat, in dreams I see… 00:59
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
7 Fairy-Land 02:03
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
8 To Helen 00:59
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
9 Israfel 02:26
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
10 Lenore 02:56
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
11 Sonnet: To Zante 03:56
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
12 Sonnet: The Haunted Palace 02:42
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
13 Sonnet: Silence 01:17
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
14 The conqueror worm 02:13
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
15 Dreamland 03:08
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
16 Eulalie 01:20
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
17 The Raven 09:25
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
18 Not long ago, the writer of these lines… 01:55
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
19 Ulalume 05:10
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
20 The Bells 05:24
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
21 A dream within a dream 01:20
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
22 For Annie 03:46
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
23 To my mother 00:57
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
24 Annabel Lee 02:26
Shale, Kerry (Reader)
Disc 6
McMillan, Roy - Author
Chancer, John (Reader)
1 Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography 07:56
Chancer, John (Reader)
2 Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809… 07:55
Chancer, John (Reader)
3 Edgar Poe was a good student… 07:09
Chancer, John (Reader)
4 By the end of 1828… 08:07
Chancer, John (Reader)
5 The years between 1831 and 1835… 07:12
Chancer, John (Reader)
6 Poe is hardly known for his journalism… 07:11
Chancer, John (Reader)
7 The family moved to New York… 07:24
Chancer, John (Reader)
8 Once Virginia had started to display… 05:52
Chancer, John (Reader)
9 Whatever the truth… 05:47
Chancer, John (Reader)
10 This tangle of emotional attachments… 06:28
Chancer, John (Reader)
11 Later, while still in what can only… 06:57
Chancer, John (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 07:32:38