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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($12.95) | MP3 CD
This collection includes The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman. Gibran’s mysticism, evident here as in all his works, reveals an intense preoccupation with the spiritual and visionary.
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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
Available on: Audio CD ($16.18) | Audio Download ($14.38)
Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a classic American short story, a strange tale of a constantly busy copyist whose simple refrain, "I would prefer not to", wreaks havoc on his workplace.
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The Dead
by James Joyce
Available on: Audio Download ($4.99)
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection and widely considered to be one of the greatest short stories in the Engl
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($14.38)
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...
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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Available on: Audio CD ($17.58) | Audio Download ($16.98)
Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories.
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A Treasury of Fairy Tales
Available on: Audio Download ($4.99)
Beauty and The Beast
The Brave Little Tailer
The Giant With 3 Golden Hairs
Hansel and Gretel
Rapunzel
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
The Frog Prince
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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Download ($23.18)
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.
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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates and The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
Studies in prose... meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness.
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The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($52.18) | Audio Download ($43.98)
A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives acouple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world.
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Treasury of Classic Children's Stories
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download ($12.60)
Bedtime, playtime and long voyages in the car will never be the same again as families gather to listen to classic tales brought to life by award-winning performers.
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Treasury of Animal Stories
by Various Authors
Available on: Audio Download ($12.60)
Four original stories of heroism and courage are brought to life by four immense talents; Jack Lemmon, Burt Reynolds, Martin Short, and Jean Smart.
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Classic Chilling Tales Volume II
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38)
The vengeful dead, premonition, ghosts, pacts with the devil and a strange madness - these are the themes of this collection of chilling tales, written by some of the great names in English literature and masters of the genre.
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($18.38)
Kiplings' tales of Mowgli and his exciting life in the Indian jungle have been loved by children and adults alike ever since their publication in 1895. Mowgli the 'man-cub' must learn to fend for himself...
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Treasury of Contemporary Children's Stories
by Ari Meyers
Available on: Audio Download ($12.60)
Children of all ages will delight in listening to four original stories performed by award-winning talent.
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Classic Women's Short Stories
by Kate Chopin
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($14.38)
This collection includes five stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.
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Dubliners
by James Joyce
Available on: Audio CD ($35.08) | Audio Download ($33.58)
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.
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The Mark Twain Sampler
by Mark Twain
Available on: Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | Audio Download ($19.98)
It is hardly an exaggeration to call Mark Twain one of the true giants of American literature, a master...
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Classic Fairy Stories
by Various Authors
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38)
A selection of some of the most famous fairy stories which every child needs to foster their imagination.
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First Words
by Margaret Atwood
Available on: Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($17.47)
Most kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, or Norman...
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Sparky's Magic Piano
by Various Authors
Available on: Audio Download ($14.86)
From the very start of the recording era, the radio, the 78 and LPs have produced an unforgettable list of Classic Children's Favourites.
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More Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Download ($14.38)
Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century.
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Four Short Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($14.38)
In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise. Here is a unique combination of a famous analytical intellect telling spine-tingling tales...
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Classic Romance
by Helen Davies
Available on: Audio CD ($26.08) | Audio Download ($23.18)
This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn't be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there.
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