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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Available on: Audio Download ($12.98) | Audio CD
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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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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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Available on: Audio Download ($10.47)
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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Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume 1
by Ernest Hemingway
Available on: Audio Download ($17.95) | Audio CD ($24.00)
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his 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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Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
by Mary Sheldon
Available on: Audio Download ($10.47) | Audio CD ($13.46)
The late screen legend Audrey Hepburn uses music from Maurice Ravels Mother Goose as the framework for this production.
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | 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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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18)
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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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio Download ($25.17)
Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills...
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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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