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Stories
by Garrison Keillor
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
Includes Keillor's own favorite stories from his years as a contributor to The New Yorker and his bestselling books.
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The Dead
Price: 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
Price: 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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The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
by Edgar Allan Poe
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($25.95)
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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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Price: 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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Book of Guys: Stories
by Garrison Keillor
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
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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A Treasury of Fairy Tales
Price: 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
Price: 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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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Price: Audio Download ($15.39) | 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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Essential Welty
by Eudora Welty
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($10.36)
In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories.
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Price: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($17.98) | 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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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
by Louis L'Amour
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.56) | Audio Cassette
No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour....
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette
These 4 stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes...
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Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume 1
by Ernest Hemingway
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($30.00)
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories...
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Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
by Mary Sheldon
Price: 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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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Price: Audio Download ($25.17) | Audio CD
Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills...
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
Price: 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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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
Price: 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 Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates and The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Price: 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
Price: 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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Classic Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Price: Audio CD ($15.95)
The Bells, The Cask of Amontillado ? The Tell-Tale Heart ? The Fall of the House of Usher ? The Raven?
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The Best of O. Henry
by O. Henry
Price: Audio CD ($12.76)
The best of O. Henry's stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Voice of the City," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and more.
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The Mark Twain Sampler
by Mark Twain
Price: 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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Classic Women's Short Stories
by Kate Chopin
Price: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($17.98) | 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
Price: 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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