Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Great Authors: Mark Twain- Collected Stories (Short Story)

Seventeen humorous stories, including The Jumping Frog of Calavarous County, Story of Old Ram, Buck Fanshaw's Funneral, Tom Quartz, What Stumped the Blue Jays, and Journalism in Tennessee

Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly


Publisher: In Audio
Author: Mark Twain
Narrator: Thomas Becker
ISBN: 1 58472 655 5 Buy this Short Story

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: Buy this Short Story

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 Buy this Short Story

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: Buy this Short Story

Louisiana Stories (Short Story)

Unabridged Stories written by Kate Chopin. Thirteen of the best of Chopin's stories of Louisiana including Desiree's Baby and Love on the Bon-Dieu.
Publisher: In Audio
Author: Kate Chopin
Narrator: Full Cast Production
ISBN: 158472 717 9 More about 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 More about this Short Story

The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares - premature burial, ghostly transformation and words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1830s and 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.


Publisher: NAXOS
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: William Roberts
ISBN: 9 62634 283 8 More about this Short Story