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First printed in 1878, the strange tale of The Suicide Club tells of the inscrutable gentlemen who liked playing cards and the young man with the strong death wish and a plate of cream cakes. This macabre world, where everyone is rich and reckless, provides a fascinating, chillingly interesting, and frightening story. This audiobook features one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, Sir Laurence Olivier, who unfolds the story as precisely and pendantically as it was written.

First published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, is a psychological fable for our time. It draws on intuitive knowledge of the nasty complications of the human mind (which Shakespeare used so well in his tragedies). Here, Sir Laurence Olivier unfolds the story as precisely and pedantically as it was written.

Two stories from Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories performed by Sir Laurence Olivier.

The finest Shakespearean actors including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Richard Burton perform legendary scenes from favorite plays. This recording includes classic scenes from plays including King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Sir Laurence Olivier presents a selection of classic short stories including Zodomirsky's Duel, The Purse, Little Louise, and Bartleby.

A selection of Oscar Wilde's finest work including The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Happy Prince, and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Nine spine-chilling stories from Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jerome K. Jerome, read by Laurence Olivier, Nelson Olmsted, and Basil Rathbone.

Louis Stevenson, the Swedish author best known for classics such as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , remains one of the most translated writers of all time. This audiobook contains a collection of his short stories, including "The Yellow Paint", "The Suicide Club" and "Markheim".

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is set in Denmark, and recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas based on the tales of Charles Dickens. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Case of Bardell vs Pickwick’, adapted from Charles Dickens' original 'Pickwick Papers' and Laurence Olivier starring in 'Sydney Carton' adapted from Charles Dickens' Original 'A Tale of Two Cities'.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

"Il y avait une fois trois petits cochonnets qui s'en allèrent chercher fortune de par le monde." Trois petits cochons quittent le foyer familial pour tenter leur chance dans le monde et chacun se construit une maison: l'une est en paille, l'autre est en bois, et la troisième est en brique. Un loup se présente à la porte de chacun d'eux. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889) était un spécialiste de Shakespeare et un collecteur de comptines et de contes de fées anglais.

"Aujourd'hui, sur la planète, 7 milliards d'êtres humains entrent plusieurs fois par jour en relation avec un Dieu qui les aide. Ils sont mus par le désir d'offrir à Dieu et aux autres humains leur temps, leurs biens, leur travail et parfois leur corps pour éprouver le bonheur de donner du bonheur. Méditer, trouver son chemin de vie personnel, éprouver la joie de se sentir vivant parmi ceux qu'on aime - la spiritualité élargit la fraternité à tous les croyants du monde."

Janvier 1980. Joshua Auberson est agent de sécurité à l'"Avalanche Hôtel", sublime palace des Alpes suisses. Il enquête sur la disparition d'une jeune cliente avec un sentiment d'étrangeté. Quelque chose cloche autour de lui, il en est sûr. Le barman, un géant taciturne, lui demande de le suivre dans la montagne, en pleine tempête de neige. Joshua a si froid qu'il perd connaissance... et revient à lui dans une chambre d'hôpital. Il a été pris dans une avalanche, il est resté deux jours dans le coma. Nous ne sommes pas en 1980 mais en 2018.

Dans un livre audio à la fois recueil d'aphorismes, anthologie poétique et méditation théorique, Olivier Py nous offre ses "Mille et Une Définitions du théâtre". Métaphores, allégories ou anecdotes historiques nous font voyager à travers tous les théâtres, des Grecs à nos jours. Avec des accents lyriques et jubilatoires, il fait de cet art la forme de pensée la plus urgente de son temps, un art d'etre au monde.

Une mystérieuse statuette qui semble intéresser beaucoup de monde, un explorateur écossais spécialiste des créatures exotiques, un concours d’inventions présidé par un étrange milliardaire belge... Jeux de piste, énigmes zoologiques et prototypes géniaux... Que de défis pour l’extravagante intelligence du fantastique P. P. Cul-Vert ! Et que de dangers en perspective pour ses deux gardes du corps, Rémi et Mathilde !

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.