Narrated by: Steele, Allen; Vietor, Marc (Unabridged)
Price: $34.99
When two chrononauts from the 24th century travel back in time, they inadvertently disrupt the ill-fated voyage of the Hindenburg, causing it to land successfully. Now, lost in a parallel universe, th ... [more]
American Experience, The
by Poe, Edgar Allan; Wharton, Edith; Fitzgerald, F. Scott; London, Jack; Chopin, Kate; Twain, Mark; Henry, O.; Jewett, Sarah Orne; Crane, Stephen; Irving, Washington (Classic Literature, Short Stories Collections)
Narrated by: Narrators, Various
Price: $139.99
Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers. Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through ... [more]
While Bobby Norfolk was visiting the town of Kumasi in Ghana in the summer of 1993, a woman told him, "At four-thirty every afternoon, we try to gather together and have Anansi time." At her invitatio ... [more]
Melville's Bartleby is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is 'I would prefer not to'. It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza Tale ... [more]
Bayou Stories
by Chopin, Kate (Classic Literature, Short Stories Collections)
Narrated by: Kinlow, Jacqueline (Unabridged)
Price: $39.99
This collection of nine short stories takes the listener back to nineteenth-century Louisiana. Universal themes of love and death are intertwined with the issues of slavery and racism. Each story, ste ... [more]
Take a front row seat for Ashley Bryan's performance of: Beautiful Blackbird Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together Tortoise, Hare and the Sweet Potatoes Hen and Frog Frog and His Tw ... [more]
Best of O'Henry
by Henry, O. (Classic Literature, Short Stories Collections)
Narrated by: Hanson, Michael (Unabridged)
Price: $39.99
The best of O. Henry's stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Voice of the City," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and more. ... [more]
The "home theater" will never replace the drive-in theater in America's imaginary landscape. Donald Davis recalls a summer working under the lax supervision of Daff-Knee Garlic, owner and operator of ... [more]
Narrated by: Bailey, Josephine; Vance, Simon (Unabridged)
Price: $49.99
William Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age, and a new collection of stories from him is always a cause for celebration. These twelve stories include: The waiter who divulges his shocking life ... [more]
Chekhov can characterize with a single well-selected detail. He sums up relationships among a group of people, or the beliefs held by an entire country, by finding those key objects that crystallize h ... [more]
Narrated by: Archer, Ellen; Lawlor, Patrick (Unabridged)
Price: $59.99
Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on the Shore --"daringly original," wrote Steven Moore in The Washington Post Book World, "and compulsively readable" -- comes a collection that generously ... [more]
* Barney McKay * Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnall * Klooteekle * The Gingerbread Boy Rap * The King Has Goat's Ears * Uncle Monday Danger. Deception. Wild dogs and tyrants. The hero ... [more]
Broken Bones
by Davis, Donald (Short Stories Collections)
Narrated by: Davis, Donald (Unabridged)
Price: $34.99
"This is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story my Grandmother told me about when my mother broke her arm...twice! The second story in this set is my story of when we brok ... [more]
PARENTING MAGAZINE RECOMMENDED. Discover the magical world of Robert Stanek's Bugville Critters! Stanek, acclaimed author of the popular children's books The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches and ... [more]
PARENTING MAGAZINE RECOMMENDED. Discover the magical world of Robert Stanek's Bugville Critters! Stanek, acclaimed author of the popular children's books The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches and ... [more]
PARENTING MAGAZINE RECOMMENDED. Discover the magical world of Robert Stanek's Bugville Critters! Stanek, acclaimed author of the popular children's books The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches and ... [more]
"Everybody said he looked like a haunted man. The extent of my present claim for everybody is, that they were so far right. He did. Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his ... [more]
With amazing insight, Anton Chekhov wrote of the lives of the Russian common man as well as the landowner. He established the style of the modern short story and influenced many great writers, includi ... [more]
Chilling Ghost Stories
by Bierce, Ambrose; Dickens, Charles; Poe, Edgar Allan; James, M.R.; Wilde, Oscar (Classic Literature, Short Stories Collections, Young Adult)
Narrated by: Donovan, Anthony (Unabridged)
Price: $39.99
A chilling collection of ghost stories containing Rats by M.R. James, The Raven and Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe, The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce, and The S ... [more]
Classic American Short Stories
by Bierce, Ambrose; London, Jack; Twain, Mark; Henry, O.; Crane, Stephen (Short Stories Collections)
Narrated by: Roberts, William (Unabridged)
Price: $39.99
Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and con ... [more]