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Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls

An Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker, Steven Ovitsky, Tony Barrand, John Roberts ...

Narrated by a full cast, Robertson Dean, Martin Jarvis, Moira Quirk0, Simon Templeman1, Phil Proctor2, Rosalind Ayres3, W. Morgan Sheppard4 ...

Unabridged

2 hours 20 min

The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of ... Read more

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The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of
... Read more
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Beowulf

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Anonymous ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

The earliest extant heroic epic in any European vernacular, Beowulf is considered the most important poem in Old English. The title character is a warrior of superhuman strength who accomplishes glorious deeds to honor his king. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, generous to his own men while fulfilling all the forms of courtesy at court. The narrative itself falls into two parts: ... Read more

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The earliest extant heroic epic in any European vernacular, Beowulf is considered the most important poem in Old English. The title character is a warrior of superhuman strength who accomplishes glorious deeds to honor his king. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, generous to his own men while fulfilling all the forms of courtesy at court. The narrative itself falls into two parts:
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John de Lancie, Tony Jay, Robertson Dean, Kaitlyn Hopkins, Lorna Raver, James Otis0, Jane Carr1, Ed Gilbert2 ...

Narrated by a full cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 10 min

Inspired by the classic silent film of 1919, this original audio play won the Independent Publishers Award in 1998 for best direct-to-audio production. John de Lancie stars as a young poet who visits a fair one night with his friend and girlfriend. Entering Dr. Caligari’s tent, they meet the mysterious Cesare, a kind of zombie, who is neither alive nor dead—and who forecasts doom for our high ... Read more

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Inspired by the classic silent film of 1919, this original audio play won the Independent Publishers Award in 1998 for best direct-to-audio production. John de Lancie stars as a young poet who visits a fair one night with his friend and girlfriend. Entering Dr. Caligari’s tent, they meet the mysterious Cesare, a kind of zombie, who is neither alive nor dead—and who forecasts doom for our high
... Read more
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Seven Classic Plays

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Euripedes1, Henrik Ibsen2, various authors7, Molière8, Alexandre Dumas9 ...

Narrated by Yuri Rasovsky, a full cast, John Glover, Nicholas Kepros, Barry Morse, Brian Murray0, F. Murray Abraham3, Rosemary Harris4, Lois Nettleton5, Fritz Weaver6 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 41 min

Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.A superb repertory company with ... Read more

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Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.A superb repertory company with
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An)

An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

7 hours 47 min

Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century AD.This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth century, interweaves three of Judge Dee’s most baffling ... Read more

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Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century AD.This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth century, interweaves three of Judge Dee’s most baffling
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The Art of War

The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Sun Tzu ...

Narrated by Ray Porter ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

Master Sun said: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. For those seeking a deeper understanding of this seminal work, ... Read more

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Master Sun said: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. For those seeking a deeper understanding of this seminal work,
... Read more
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Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!

A Very Grimm Tale

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Laura Sims, Josh Stanton8, Becca Tripp9, the Hollywood Theater of the Ear0 ...

Narrated by Sandra Oh, Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, a full cast, Laura Sims, Barry Creyton, Robin Sachs0, Armin Shimerman1, Ned Schmidtke2, Melinda Peterson3, Keith Szarabajka4, Kitty Swink5, Meshach Taylor6, Phil Proctor7 ...

Unabridged

2 hours 5 min

With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage? ... Read more

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With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage?
... Read more
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Craven Street

Ben Franklin in London

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Montgomery, George Grizzard, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, a distinguished cast ...

Unabridged

4 hours 14 min

Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical drama is being published by Blackstone to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthdayThis production reveals the multifaceted, complex Franklin’s little-known adventures in London before the Revolution. For fifteen years, he lived on Craven Street off the Thames, where he established a surrogate family, ... Read more

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Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical drama is being published by Blackstone to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthdayThis production reveals the multifaceted, complex Franklin’s little-known adventures in London before the Revolution. For fifteen years, he lived on Craven Street off the Thames, where he established a surrogate family,
... Read more
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A Grown-Up’s Halloween

Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish

by various authors, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker ...

Narrated by a full cast, Tom Towles, Mark Bramhall, Ira Burton, Robertson Dean0, Bo Foxworth1, Jane Jacobs2, James Otis3, Lorna Raver4, Stefan Rudnicki5, Tom Alderman6, Annabel Armour7, Carolyn Brenner8, Viola Berwick9, Hamilton Camp0, David Chadderdon1, James Deuter2, John Doremus3, Michelle M. Faith4, Gary Gears5, Joe Greco6, Melissa Greenspan7, Richard Kind8, Glenn Kovacevich9, Sonja Lanzener0, Stephen Markle1, David Mink2, Roger Mueller3, William Munchow4, Brian Murray5, Phil Proctor6, David Rasche7, Avery Schreiber8, Pat Terry9 ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals—what more could you want from an audiobook?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice ... Read more

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Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals—what more could you want from an audiobook?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice
... Read more
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The Confession

by Olen Steinhauer, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Yalta Boulevard Sequence Series
Unabridged

10 hours 41 min

Eastern Europe, 1956 — Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, a proletariat writer as well as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues, and frustrated by writer’s block, Ferenc’s attention is focused on his job. But his job is growing increasingly political, something that makes him profoundly ... Read more

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Eastern Europe, 1956 — Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, a proletariat writer as well as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues, and frustrated by writer’s block, Ferenc’s attention is focused on his job. But his job is growing increasingly political, something that makes him profoundly
... Read more
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I Am Madame X

by Gioia Diliberto, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Lorna Raver ...

Unabridged

10 hours 52 min

Madame X, John Singer Sargent’s most famous and scandalous portrait, caused an immediate furor when Sargent unveiled it at the 1884 Paris Salon.The subject’s bold pose, provocative dress, and decadent pallor shocked the public, and the critics panned the picture, smashing Sargent’s dream of a Paris career.Even before Sargent painted her portrait, Virginie Gautreau’s reputation for promiscuity and ... Read more

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Madame X, John Singer Sargent’s most famous and scandalous portrait, caused an immediate furor when Sargent unveiled it at the 1884 Paris Salon.The subject’s bold pose, provocative dress, and decadent pallor shocked the public, and the critics panned the picture, smashing Sargent’s dream of a Paris career.Even before Sargent painted her portrait, Virginie Gautreau’s reputation for promiscuity and
... Read more
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Four against the Arctic

Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World

by David Roberts, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

10 hours 45 min

In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic island. Four sailors went ashore with only two days' supplies, and only twenty pounds of flour for food. Upon return they found the ship had vanished, apparently crushed and sunk by the ice. Blessed with courage and ingenuity, the men survived more than six years of unimaginable ... Read more

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In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic island. Four sailors went ashore with only two days' supplies, and only twenty pounds of flour for food. Upon return they found the ship had vanished, apparently crushed and sunk by the ice. Blessed with courage and ingenuity, the men survived more than six years of unimaginable
... Read more

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