Ballet Stories (Short Story)
The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves. The stories of two French ballets - Giselle and Coppelia - and the three great ballets by Tchaikovsky are presented in engaging style by Jenny Agutter, who was herself a dancer before turning to acting.
These are tales of princes and princesses, of good fairies and bad witches, and, in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the brave soldier and Clara - but does it happen, or is it a dream?
And there is the music - the lovely melody from Swan Lake, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the waltzes and the richly atmospheric passages painting, in sound, castles, forests, mists and lakes.
Publisher: NAXOS
Author: David Angus
Narrator: Jenny Agutter
ISBN: 9 62634 231 5
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
Edgar Allan Poe: The Oblong Box
One Voice Recordings presents renowned voice actor David Ian Davies' chilling performance of Edgar Allan Poe's horrific short story.
Publisher: One Voice Recordings
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Narrator: David Ian Davies
ISBN:
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
