Short Story - Classic American Short Stories

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American. Bierce's 'An Occurrence...' leaves echoes in the imagination; the stories by Crane and London recall the themes of the Civil War and the Klondike for which they are well known. Twain's humour is to the fore in The Notorious Jumping Frog.... And O. Henry's sharp observation makes his neat tales a joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.

Publisher: NAXOS
Author: Various
Narrator: William Roberts
ISBN: 9 62634 212 9 Continue ...

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.

As Cheever writes in his preface, 'These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.'

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death, in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Publisher: Harper Collins US
Author: John Cheever
Narrator: Benjamin Cheever
ISBN: 0 06 055483 5 Continue ...

An old beach house holds untold evil as 3 fishermen try to spend the night during a bad storm....will they awaken the next morning??
Publisher: Immortal Audio
Author: Unknown
Narrator: Don DuBose
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Seven great stories: 'Voice of the City,' 'The Gift of the Magi,' 'The Cop and the Anthem,' 'The Romance of a Busy Broker,' 'The Green Door,' 'The Hiding of Black Bill' and 'The Ransom of Red Chief'.

Publisher: In Audio
Author: O.Henry
Narrator: Michael Hanson
ISBN: 1 58472 213 4 Continue ...