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    The Story Of Gulliver's Travels

    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 59 min

    Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.Jonathan Swift was an Anglo ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Good School for Every Child

    How to improve our schools

    by Cyril Taylor ...
    Sir Cyril Taylor has been at the heart of English education for over two decades, serving as an adviser to ten successive UK Education Secretaries and Four Prime Ministers, both Conservative and Labour, including Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.His passion for education has led directly to real school improvement, from the creation of City Technology Colleges to specialist schools and academies, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Sir Cyril

    My Life as a Social Entrepreneur

    by Cyril Taylor ...
    This is the remarkable life of Sir Cyril Taylor, relating his experience as a toddler in a Congo mission, a teenage platoon commander amid the Kenyan Mau Mau insurgency and a brand manager for Procter & Gamble in the early 1960s. His life's achievement has been as a social entrepreneur and educator, helping found the American Institute for Foreign Study, one of the largest study abroad ... Read more

    $14.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Jane Eyre

    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 28 min

    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”From Jane EyreJane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on October 16, 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Aleister Crowley

    Audience With Evil

    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 14 min

    Aleister Crowley was born 12 October 1875. He was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his life. Born to a wealthy family in Royal Leamington ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Beowulf

    by Unknown ...
    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 53 min

    Beowulf is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating is for the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025. Scholars call the anonymous author ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Excellence in Education

    The Making of Great Schools

    A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. It draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around. Looking at such areas as leadership, staffing, ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Of Human Bondage

    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 49 min

    The Narrow Corner is a novel by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, published by William Heinemann in 1932. A quote from Meditations, iii 10, by Marcus Aurelius, introduces the work: "Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells." In the story, set "a good many years ago" in what is now Indonesia, a young Australian, cruising the islands after his ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    “We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere"“It was long past midnight when at last Marguerite retired to rest"“Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not.”The story is set during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Iliad

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 58 min

    “The Iliad“ is an epic poem by the ancient Greek poet Homer, which recounts some of the significant events of the final weeks of the Trojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy (which was also known as Ilion, Ilios or Ilium in ancient times). Written in the mid-8th Century BCE, “The Iliad" is usually considered to be the earliest work in the whole Western literary tradition, and one of the ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war itself, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Narrated by Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 17 min

    Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakens from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn irresistibly to the dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. Levin struggles with self-esteem, and even flees to the country, before gaining the courage to return and offer himself to the beautiful and pure Kitty. Through troubled courtships, reconciliations, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus