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BBC Audiobooks America proudly announces the release of new audiobook versions of two of the most important classics of world literature, The Odyssey and The Canterbury Tales. Both releases present daring new interpretations of the classics that seek to recapture the original spirit of the stories for modern readers.
Dramatized by Award-Winning Poet Simon Armitage
Starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman
A new adaptation by Simon Armitage, published in hardcover by Norton in 2008, is presented here as originally commissioned: in a radio play starring Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman. Armitage re-introduces Homer's epic with a heightened vitality, presenting listeners a tale reinvigorated and filled with wit and guile that has been lost over the ages.
DRAMATIZATION — PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 11, 2008
3 CDs — 978-1-60283-483-5 — $24.95
Translated by Burton Raffel / Introduction by John Miles Foley
Narrated by Bill Wallis, Ric Jerrom, Mark Meadows, Cameron Stewart, Maggie Ollerenshaw, and Kim Hicks
Burton Raffel's magnificent new translation brings Chaucer’s poetry back to life, ensuring that none of the original's wit, wisdom, or humanity is lost to the modern reader. Presented in this new unabridged translation by poet, translator, and scholar Raffel, The Canterbury Tales audiobook includes a comprehensive introduction summarizing important historical events and movements defining the world of Chaucer and his pilgrims.
UNABRIDGED — PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 11, 2008
18 CDs — 978-1-60283-485-9 — $39.95
Digital Edition — 978-1-60283-501-6 — $34.95
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