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Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
by Mary Sheldon
Available on: Audio Download ($10.47) | Audio CD
The late screen legend Audrey Hepburn uses music from Maurice Ravels Mother Goose as the framework for this production.
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The Dead
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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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran
Available on: Audio Download ($12.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | 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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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Available on: Audio Download ($10.47) | Audio CD ($13.46)
Zen is a way of life, a religion, and an aesthetic, as well as one of the oldest and most profound religious...
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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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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
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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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Available on: Audio Download ($15.39) | Audio CD ($21.98)
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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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
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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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98)
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio Cassette
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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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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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
by David Sedaris
Available on: Audio Download ($9.92) | Audio CD ($15.96)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories-some classic, others impending-selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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The Mark Twain Sampler
by Mark Twain
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
It is hardly an exaggeration to call Mark Twain one of the true giants of American literature, a master...
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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio Download ($25.17) | Audio CD ($32.36)
Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills...
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Classic Women's Short Stories
by Kate Chopin
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
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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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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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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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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More Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century.
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The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio Download ($43.98) | Audio CD
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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Dubliners
by James Joyce
Available on: Audio Download ($33.58) | Audio CD ($38.98)
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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A Bit on the Side
by William Trevor
Available on: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($19.99)
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…
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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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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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The Washington Irving Library
by Washington Irving
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio Cassette
A sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving earned his place in early American literature with...
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