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John Bull's Other Island Written By : George Bernard Shaw Narrator : Christopher Benjamin, Patrick Duggan and cast Published By : Harper Collins UK Length : 3 hours Type : Classic Literature Classics Price : $12.75 Buy Now! When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years. Through the two men's differing responses to the country and also the Irish people's reactions to their two visitors, Shaw is able to explore the misunderstandings and misconceptions that have characterised relations between England and Ireland for centuries. According to Shaw, 'John Bull's Other Island' was written in 1904 at the request of W.B.Yeats 'as a patriotic contribution to the repertory of the Irish Literary Theatre', but when Mr Yeats read the script he rejected it, claiming that it was beyond the resources of the Abbey Theatre. In fact, for Yeats, a play which was 'uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-Gaelic movement' must have made uncomfortable reading, and for us today, in the light of all that has happened in the intervening years, the issues raised by the play have lost none of their urgency. Other titles you may be interested in Romeo & Juliet Written By : William Shakespeare Narrator : Full Cast Performance Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Length : 3 hours Type : Dramatizations Classic Literature Shakespeare Audio Theater Price : $22.25 Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly... More... Crome Yellow Written By : Aldous Huxley Narrator : Robert Whitfield Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 6 hours Type : Classic Literature Price : $39.95 $14.95 Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian painting are just a few of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an... More... Odyssey, The Written By : Homer Narrator : John Lescault Published By : In Audio Length : 12 hours 24 minutes Type : Poetry Classic Literature Price : $39.95 $27.50 Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler, More... Therese Raquin Written By : Emile Zola Narrator : Traci Svendsgaard Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 6 hours 30 minutes Type : Classic Literature Price : $29.95 $21.95 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend Laurent. But their passion for... More... Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories, The: by F. Scott Fitzgerald Written By : F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator : various readers Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 3 hours Type : Classic Literature Price : $12.95 This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. F. Scott... More...