Audiobooks narrated by Sir John Gielgud

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning (Author), David King, Gwen Watford, Peter Orr, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Poetry Collection: Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield, and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Themes of war, love, nature, sexuality, and much more are played out in these timeless readings of poetry from the 19th and 20th century. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Richard Burton; William Squire; Richard Marquand; Peggy Ashcroft; Margaretta Scott; Tony Church; Derek Godfrey; Patrick Garland; Gary Watson; Margaretta Scott; and Janette Richer; Gwen Watford; and David King. This collection includes poems from: • William Wordsworth • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • William Blake • Thomas Hardy • WB Yeats • Robert Browning • Lord Alfred Tennyson • Christina Rossetti • Lord Byron • Wilfred Owen • Siegfried Sassoon • Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Keats • Gerard Manley Hopkins • Dante Gabriel Rossetti • Ted Hughes

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Keats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Siegfried Sassoon, Ted Hughes, Thomas Hardy, Wb Yeats, Wilfred Owen, William Blake, William Wordsworth (Author), Full Cast, Gwen Watford, Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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The Poetry of War

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A collection of the greatest war poetry ever written, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Tragedy, war, and humanity are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written about, or on, the battlefield. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Peter Orr; Gwen Watford; and David King. This collection includes poems from: • Thomas Hardy • WB Yeats • Wilfred Owen • Siegfried Sassoon • Ted Hughes • Edward Shanks • Robert Nicholls • WN Hodgson • Patrick Mac Gill • Julian Grenfell • Edmund Blunden • Edgell Rickword • David Jones • Robert Graves • E A Mackintosh • Edward Thomas • Isaac Rosenberg • Rupert Brooke • Ivor Gurney • CH Sorley • John Masefield • Edward Lucie-Smith • Willougby Weaving • John McRae • IA Williams • David Gascoyne • Henry Reed • C Day Lewis • Stephen Spender • Dylan Thomas • Louis Max Niece • Alan Ross • Sidney Keyes • Ruthven Todd • Michael Roberts • John Betjeman • Alun Lewis • Roy Fuller • Charles Causley • Keith Douglas • Herbert Read • Patric Dickinson • Hugh MacDiarmid

Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman, Siegfried Sassoon, Ted Hughes, Thomas Hardy, Wb Yeats, Wilfred Owen (Author), David King, Gwen Watford, Peter Orr, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Comic and Curious Verse

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A collection of the funny, curious verse written during the 19th and 20th centuries, read by some of Britain's most renowned actors. Humorous and whimsical verse are collated together in these timeless readings of poetry from our funniest writers. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Imogen Stubbs; Tim Pigott-Smith; Peter Orr; Wendy Hillier. This collection includes poems from: • A.E. Housman • Benjamin Franklin King • J.K. Stephen • A.C. Swinburne • Lewis Carroll • Thomas Hardy • W.S. Gilbert • Edward Lear • William McGonagall • A.H. Clough • Robert Barnabas Brough • Thomas Grey • Lord Byron • Walter Raleigh • Oliver Goldsmith • George Canning • John Dryden • Samuel C. Boston • H.C. Beeching • C.S. Calverley • William Walsh • W.M. Thackeray • George Coleman • Hartley Coleridge • Charles Cros • George Du Maurier • W.R. Mardale • Matthew Prior • Earl Of Rochester • Thomas Love Peacock • Thomas Hood • Harry Graham

A.C. Swinburne, A.E. Housman, A.H. Clough, Benjamin Franklin King, Edward Lear, J.K. Stephen, Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy, W.S. Gilbert, Walter Raleigh, William Mcgonagall (Author), Imogen Stubbs, Sir John Gielgud, Tim Pigott-Smith, Wendy Hillier (Narrator)

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens (Author), Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Quick Classics Collection: British Writers: Silas Marner, Sons and Lovers, Bleak House

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. What was it like to love, live, and rebel in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These beloved British novels offer three dramatically different, but universally recognisable, experiences. Read by three luminaries of the stage and screen: Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, and Sir John Gielgud. Feel the pang of awakened desire, the ache of loneliness, and the sting of trouble up ahead, in three stories that continue to hold great resonance for the twenty-first century listener. This collection includes: • Silas Marner by George Eliot, read by Dame Judi Dench • Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence, read by Sir Ian McKellen • Bleak House by Charles Dickens, read by Sir John Gielgud

Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, George Eliot (Author), Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian Mckellen, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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The Importance Of Being Earnest

The Importance Of Being Earnest is undoubtedly Oscar Wilde's best known play probably due to its sharp wit that cannot help but enchant and entertain any reader or theatregoer. Here his economic and finely honed words are delivered by a superb cast that is headed by England's finest, namely Sir John Gielgud and Dame Edith Evans that help make this the ultimate listening experience for fans of classic theatre.

Oscar Wilde (Author), Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

The basis for the musical phenomenon 'Cats', this collection of 14 inviting rhymes - the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic - make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.The basis for the musical phenomenon 'Cats', this collection of 14 inviting rhymes - the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic - make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.

T. S. Eliot (Author), Irene Worth, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare (Author), Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Ages of Man

The seven ages are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and second childishness ready by Sir John GielgudThe seven ages are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and second childishness. The speach about the seven ages of man happens in 'As You Like It'. The words are spoken by the character Jaques in Act 2, Scene 7:'All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.Then the whining schoolboy with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress, eyebrow. Then, a soldier,Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slippered pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange, eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.'

William Shakespeare (Author), Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 performed by Sir John Gielgud and cast.Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was (and continues to be) classified as comedy, but its mood defy those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labeled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. Originally published in the First Folio of 1623 (where it was first labeled as a comedy), the play's first recorded performance was in 1604. The play deals with the issues of mercy, justice, and truth, and their relationship to pride and humility: 'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall'.

William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623.''The Winter's Tale' is high fantasy, a tale to be told by the fire...The play belongs to the type known as 'tragicomedy', but Shakespeare has separated the tragedy from the comedy. The first part has the same kind of tragic development as 'Othello'; the second part is pure idyllic comedy. 'The Winter's Tale' is a far better play to hear and see than to read; it needs the voice of the actor to give it life.'G.B. HARRISON, editor of texts for The Shakespeare Recording Society.

William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Gielgud (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Sir John Gielgud