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The Orson Welles Library (Ultimate Classics)

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I agree that this is a great cd, and I enjoyed every story on it. HOWEVER, do not buy this expecting to hear War of the Worlds, because it is not included. As noted on the back cover, an "introduction" is included, but not the reading itself. I think it is misleading to use that story for the cover art, and to word the summary the way they do.

Hopefully, you can enjoy it for what it does include, as I did.

Orson Welles uses his sonorous, mellifluous, matchlessly expressive voice and his legendary gift for characterization to delineate these oft-told tales in a way that will make you hear them as if for the first time. And if you are indeed hearing any of them for the first time, it will make you want to run to the library to read them and to savor them as they were meant to be experienced.

These priceless tapes have Orson Welles god-like voice telling and retelling several literary classics. I play them over and over again, and hope that they will be transferred to CD.

Mr. Welles has impeccable taste in literiture and an absolutely perfect delivery and diction. I am mesmerized by every breath he takes. Heck, I would pay for Welles reading a lundry list, or the instructions to shaving cream.