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This children's classic, written in 1900 and immortalised in the Judy Garland film, retains its charm in this reading by Liza Ross. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion are all here in technicolour - with some of the music that made the film unforgettable.

Two CDs. Combines all the best elements of popular classic, epic and action story against a background of authoritative historical detail. Running time: 2hrs 30mins.

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th/20th centuries are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American. Bierce's An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge leaves echoes in the imagination, the stories by Crane and London recall the themes of the Civil War and the klondike for which they are well known. Twain...

Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943.

For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds.

Written from the perspective of an unbeliever, Fear and Trembling explores the paradox of faith, the nature of Christianity and the complexity of human emotion.

First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100, 000 people, A Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague.

A milestone in the history of the novel, Samuel Richardson's epistolary and elaborate Clarissa follows the life of a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue.

Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic - a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. `Mad, bad and dangerous to know', Lord Byron was without equal in English literature.

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colourful collection containing the complete Ukrainian and Petersburg stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.

Phineas Redux is a gripping look at the political stage in Victorian England. It is perhaps the most personal of Trollope's Palliser series, being coloured by the author's own experiences as a Liberal candidate between the time he wrote this and Phineas Finn.

When Ted Simon rode 64, 000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly thirty years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s.

The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature.

Daisy Miller is a young American girl travelling Europe with her mother and younger brother. While in Vevey, Switzerland, she becomes acquainted with Frederick Winterbourne, an idle expatriate, of well-to-do Americans.

The Victorian era was a time of great change and rapid progress. Written exclusively for Naxos AudioBooks, Great Victorians captures a fascinating period in world history.

London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor.

Nana Coupeau is a beautiful woman, able to attract men of enormous wealth with the crook of her finger.

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author's death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory.

Intended to be a defence of the Christian religion, Pensees is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason and theology.

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