Audio Books Affiliate Program

In Julius Caesar, there are no heroes, only heroic words spoken by men of ambition, arrogance, and jealousy. Yet Julius Caesar is also one of Shakespeare’s most popular and polished works, a seamless blend of highly-stylized oratory and penetrating soliloquies that lays bare the innermost workings of the human mind.

Here is Shakespeare in his prime, taking the story of history’s most notorious assassination and fashioning from it a brilliant and at times chilling indictment of politics by violence and of how even the strongest and noblest of minds can be corrupted by flattery and the lure of power.

During February you can get this Shakespeare play at a great, specially reduces price (60% off compared to the phyisical CD audio book in-store price!)

Listen to a sample recording here: Julius Caesar - Wiliam Shakespeare - Audio Book Downloads

Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter are available as a love audio book: Valentines Poems - A Dozen Red Roses - downloadable audio files for iPod and other MP3 players

This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

When you’re starting to look into the classic literature and especially Shakespeare, you’ll find out that there are many different recordings of the Bard’s plays online. Personally I find that the BBC Audiobook versions are often the ones I like best. But there are other editors who do a good job.

Buying audio books just by the nice pics on the front of the CD has never been my idea of a good buy. Therefore I prefer to visit sites that let me listen to samples. One such site is ShakespeareAudioBook.com which has a great comparative page with the Tragedies written by Shakespeare .

Listening to the samples you get a good idea what the entire recording will be like and I’ve yet to regret a choice I made that way. More sites should do this!

You own this great iPod - It has so much storage space you’ll never be able to fill it with just music alone. Here’s a great way to impress your friends and have fun.

Audio Books are hip and you may download them easily from the net. The Audio Books Corner offers over 6′000 audio book downloads

Say you pick a great classic, an audio book by Shakespeare - the coice is vast, so you pick one or two, download them to your iPod. Have a short cut to the file ready.

Maybe you prefer detective stories or romance novels, download these too and enjoy!

When you’re meeting that snob again, who tried to impress you with his cultural stuff last time you met, just mention as a side note, that you really enjoy Shakespeare and that listening to it helps you relax, then pick the shortcurt mark you have prepared, and let him listen in for 30 seconds….

Can you see how much fun that is? Well, go try it out!