John Cheever Audio Collection, The (Short Story)
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
Best of O. Henry, The
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
Dubliners - Part One
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
