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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy Price: Audio CD ($17.58) | Digital 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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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital 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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The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
by Edgar Allan Poe Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette ($23.36) | Digital Download
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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Caedmon Short Story Collection
by Eudora Welty Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($26.95)
Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
by Louis L'Amour Price: Audio CD ($17.56) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour....
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The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami Price: Audio CD ($46.38) | Digital 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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Classic Women's Short Stories
by Kate Chopin Price: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital 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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Bible Stories for Growing Kids
by Francine Rivers Price: Audio CD ($14.39)
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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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach Price: Audio Cassette ($9.56)
The tale that sent Bach soaring to fame tells the story of a seagull who practices for a lifetime to begin to know the meaning of kindness and love.
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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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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville Price: Audio CD ($16.18) | Digital 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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Essential Welty
by Eudora Welty Price: Audio CD ($10.36) | Digital Download
In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories.
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Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, Volume 1
by Ernest Hemingway Price: Audio CD ($24.00) | Digital Download
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories...
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Dubliners
by James Joyce Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Cassette ($34.95) | Digital Download
James Joyce revolutionized twentieth-century writing with his "stream of consciousness" technique. While ingeniously innovative and experimental, he was also a...
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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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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer Price: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($15.95) | Digital Download
These 4 stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes...
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The Dead
by James Joyce Price: Digital 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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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami Price: Audio CD ($23.18) | Digital Download ($23.18)
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce Price: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital 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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Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving Price: Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
This collection will demonstrate just why Washington Irving is widely recognized as the "Father of American Literature”.
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Stories
by Garrison Keillor Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
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 John Updike Audio Collection
by John Updike Price: Audio CD ($29.95) | Digital Download
he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling Price: Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital 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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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates and The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde Price: Digital 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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Great American Stories
by Mark Twain Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | Digital Download
Ten unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors...
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