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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio Download
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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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Here are some of the most enchanting fairy stories of all time. The Brothers Grimm conjure up a world of fantasy, hope and good fortune where the princess meets and marries the right prince (even if he once was a frog)...
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The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
by Edgar Allan Poe
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre...
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The Dead
Credits: Audio Download
"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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download | 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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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Credits: Audio Download
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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Winnie-The-Pooh
by A.A. Milne
Credits: Audio CD
Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection “A.A. Milne’s Pooh Classics,” the ten stories of Winnie-the-Pooh performed by Peter Dennis.
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Bible Stories for Growing Kids
by Francine Rivers
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
From best-selling author Francine Rivers and daughter Shannon Rivers Coiboin, introduce children to the stories and characters of the Bible in this new Bible story audiobook.
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Christopher Churchmouse
by Barbara Davoll
Credits: Audio CD
This audiobook contains five stories--a mix of classics and brand-new tales. Each story illustrates a Bible truth that young hearts and minds can readily understand.
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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
Credits: Audio Download | 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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Book of Guys: Stories
by Garrison Keillor
Credits: Audio CD
Eight selections from Garrison Keillor's best-selling book, including "The Mid-life Crisis of Dionysus" and "Casey at the Bat (Road Game Version)."
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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Credits: Audio Download
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
Credits: Audio Download
It is hardly an exaggeration to call Mark Twain one of the true giants of American literature, a master...
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Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume 2
by Ernest Hemingway
Credits: Audio Download
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories....
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
by David Sedaris
Credits: Audio Download
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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Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Kipling's Just So Stories, written in the late 1800s and meant to be read aloud, reveal the author's love of language as an almost musical medium, his deep affection for India, and his refusal to patronize or simplify for the sake of a young audience.
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
Credits: Audio Download
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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A Bit on the Side
by William Trevor
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Lilly's Big Day and Other Stories: 9 Stories
by Kevin Henkes
Credits: Audio CD
Lilly's Big Day: Lilly finds out that her favorite teacher, Mr. Slinger, is getting married. She's going to be the flower girl! Or is she?
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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates and The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Credits: Audio Download
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 Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
by Louis L'Amour
Credits: Audio CD
No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour....
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Tales of Beatrix Potter
by Beatrix Potter
Credits: Audio CD
This collection of twenty-two of Beatrix Potter's charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Ribby the pussy-cat, Duchess the dog, Jemima Puddle-duck, and the others…
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