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Flo Gibson-narrated `Anna Karenina' is a masterpiece.

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20041017
Author:Bauers, Sandy

Byline: Sandy Bauers

To mark her 1,000th unabridged audio book recording _ a phenomenal record surely no other narrator can match _ the otherwise indomitable Flo Gibson made a mistake.

She picked "The Children's Shakespeare" by Edith Nesbit.

Gibson loves Nesbit's writing, but she realized, too late, that a book of plots didn't play to the bard's strength _ language.

But that's the whole focus of Gibson's company, Audio Book Contractors. "We're purists. We want the richness of the language kept," she said recently.

So for her 1,001st book, Gibson chose ...

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