Short Story - Classic Women's Short Stories

Classic Women's Short Stories

Five stories from influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. New Zealand-born, Katherine Mansfield settled in England where she wrote a series of short stories that are widely recognised as among the finest of the 20th century for their economy, clarity, sensitivity and effect. The Garden Party is one of her most famous, while The Daughters of the Late Colonel shows how her wonderful sense of wit throws a shadow of poignance. Kate Chopin, writing in the last years of the 19th century, broke new ground with her daring view of women as individuals with human needs. Lilacs and Ma'ame Pelagie are sympathetic portraits of women with differing dilemmas. Woolf's The Mark on the Wall illustrates, in short story form, the turmoil within the stillness which became such a mark of her later novels.

Publisher: NAXOS
Author: Various
Narrator: Full Cast Production
ISBN: 9 62634 238 2

John Updike Audio Collection, The

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due."

Publisher: Harper Collins US
Author: John Updike
Narrator: Various
ISBN: 0 06 057721 5

Raining Death
A disaster at a top secret lab is the cause of an ungodly storm, and what falls from the heavens brings hell to the surrounding countryside...hear the final words from the ravaged man responsible for this nightmare.
Publisher: Immortal Audio
Author: Don DuBose
Narrator: Don DuBose
ISBN:

A room for the night
A man and wife rent a room for the night....only the had room burnt down years earlier and the tenants died in the fire....
Publisher: Immortal Audio
Author: Unknown
Narrator: Don DuBose
ISBN: