Showing results by publisher "Saland Publishing" in Literature & Fiction

The Marlowe Society performs an unabridged version of Shakespeare's tragedy featuring Romeo and Juliet, whose untimely deaths unite their feuding families.

Orson Welles stars in this full-cast performance of Dumas' classic novel about a young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous 'friends' in the early 19th century. He escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

An all-star cast including John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Anthony Quayle, and Peggy Ashcroft come together to read all 154 Sonnets.

A young Jane Asher stars in this full-cast performance of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the story of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a land of peculiar and amusing wonders.

The History of Henry Esmond tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England — specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration — and utilizes characters both real (but dramatized) and imagined.

A young Jane Asher stars in this full cast performance of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass.

From James Joyce's Dubliners, "A Little Cloud" is a story of reflection and awareness that challenges thought.

A full-cast dramatization of the classic starring Orson Welles.

Sir Michael Redgrave and Boris Karloff read a selection of favourite stories by Hans Christian Andersen, including 'The Tinder Box', 'The Princess and the Pea', 'The Staunch Tin Soldier', 'The Ugly Duckling', 'The Little Match Seller', and 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.

Emma Topping reads two of the most popular stories from The Jungle Book: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Toomai of the Elephants.

Martyn Green reads a selection of stories from The Arabian Nights including "Aladdin", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "The Flying Horse", and "The Speaking Bird".

Only a portion of Edgar Allan Poe's writing is morbid, but this portion is the most personal and the most orginal, and is popular almost to the exclusion of everything else he wrote. Here, Nelson Olmsted reads a selection including perhaps Poe's most celebrated tale, "The Raven".

An entertaining selection of some of Potter's best loved animal tales.

This is a delightful collection of classic nursery tales including The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen and The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter complemented by favourite songs such as "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Hush Little Baby".

Basil Rathbone and Jane Powell narrate the Brothers Grimm tale, with music from Humperdinck's opera performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of 66 poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Tasha Tudor's watercolor paintings evoke a simpler time in the past, and celebrate two of the things she loves most -- children and nature.

The Pardoner's Tale is one of the The The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The story is in the form of an exemplum: the Pardoner first explains the theme he will address, then tells his story and finally draws the conclusion he had already mentioned in his introduction. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross.

A dramatized, abridged performance of Alice in Wonderland with Eva Le Gallienne, Bambi Linn, and Margaret Webster.

One of Shakespeare's late romances, The Tempest centres on the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who initially uses his magical powers to punish his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore. The entire play takes place on an island under his control, where the native inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, respectively aid or hinder his work.

Four imaginative fables by one of the world's great storytellers propose whimsical explanations of how certain animals acquired their distinctive physical characteristics.