Short Story - Children Playing Before A Statue of Hercules

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is collection of short stories-some classic, others impending-selected and introduced by David Sedaris.

With this audiobook a careful listener can discover the truth about loneliness, betrayal, love and hope.

Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out
By Patricia Highsmith - Read by Cherry Jones

Bullet In the Brain by Tobias Wolff
Read by Toby Wherry

Gryphon by Charles Baxter
Read by David Sedaris

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried by Amy Hempel
Read by Mary-Louise Parker

Cosmopolitan by Akhil Sharma
Read by the Author

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Author: Various
Narrator: Various
ISBN: 0743551664 Buy this Short Story

An award-winning reading of Joyce's fourteen accessible stories including 'The Dead'.

Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly

Publisher: In Audio
Author: James Joyce
Narrator: Ralph Cosham
ISBN: 1 58472 246 0 Buy this Short Story

Thirteen stories in all including the best stories of Clovis, 'The Open Window', and 'The Lumber Room' and other favorites.

Publisher: In Audio
Author: Saki
Narrator: Tom Sellwood
ISBN: 1 58472 347 5 Buy this Short Story

James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it. This book holds none of the difficulties of Joyce's later novels, such as Ulysses, yet in its way it is just as radical. These stories introduce us to the city which fed Joyce's entire creative output, and to many of the characters who made it such a well of Iiterary inspiration.
Publisher: NAXOS
Author: James Joyce
Narrator: Jim Norton
ISBN: 9 62634 173 4 Buy this Short Story