Audiobooks: Fiction, Poetry, & Drama
I am a believer in the beauty and utility of audiobooks. (It helps that I drive about an hour a day.) Humans spoke and told stories before they wrote. Homer sang or chanted. Your experience of a story may be enhanced or transformed by listening to a skilled artist bring to life. I cannot imagine reading Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, because the amazing Lisette Lecat, a South African actress, has given them life inside my head with her singular readings. If you love the experience of being read to, here are some of our carefully chosen titles. If you want books to be delivered in an old and an always new way, try an audiobook soon. (Success and technological parameters have driven me to divide our audiobooks into two pages. Be sure to browse our audiobook-nonfiction as well.)
Killer Angels
Killer Angels
One of the essential books about the battle of Gettysburg. A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War. “The best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read.”–GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF “My favorite historical novel . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”–JAMES M. MCPHERSON Author of Battle Cry of Freedom “Remarkable . . . A book that changed my life . . . I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive.”–KEN BURNS Filmmaker, The Civil War “Shaara carries [the reader] swiftly and dramatically to a climax as exciting as if it were being heard for the first time.”–The Seattle Times
Read by Stephen Hoye. 11 cds, 13.5 hours, unabridged.