A+Audio is an audio series with enormous appeal for students and literature lovers alike.
Created by top scholars from America's top universities, this innovative format features a one-hour audio and companion study booklet for each literary masterpiece.
Compelling performances by well-known stage and screen actors and insightful critical analysis will enable literature fans and students to experience the classics as never before.
MACBETH on A+ AUDIO was written by Dr. Markl Breitenberg, PhD, a teacher of literature and critical theory at Swarthmore College. Dr. Breitenberg specializes in Shakespeare and Renaissance culture. This program is presented by Rogers Rees, an actor and director who recently appeared in the films The Pink Panther, Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, and in the television series The West Wing
MACBETH is William Shakespeare's immortal tale of boundless, bloody ambition. Mystical predictions from witches and ghosts combined with an uncontrollable lust for power to trap Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, in a web of political intrigue, madness, and murder.
FRANKENSTEIN on A+ AUDIO was written by Richard Kaye, PhD, an author whose works have appears in The New York Times, Arizona Quarterly, and Studies In English Literature. This program is presented by Julian Sands, an actor whose credits include the movies Boxing Helena and A Room with a View as well as guest appearances on the television series 24, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: SVU.
Mary Shelley creates the most famous "monster" of all time in this classic tale of nineteenth-century man's attempt to control nature and science. The remains of corpses stitched together and brought to life by harnessed electricity bring Dr. Frankenstein face-to-face with both mortality and morality in his tiny, terrified village.
THE GREAT GATSBY on A+ AUDIO was written by Richard Glatzer, a Hollywood writer and film director. This program is presented by Lawrence Pressman, a film and television actor who has recently appeared on the television series Bones, Medium and Crossing Jordan.
F.Scott Fitzgerald studies the reverse side of the glamorous Roaring Twenties. Glittering wealth and determined decadence are contrasted with a backdrop of betrayal, illegal deals, and ironically mistaken murder. |