"More than three hours of some of the greatest short stories of all time, brought to life by distinguished stage and screen actors.
Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti's "Play by Play," John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" read by Jack Davidson, Rolfe Humphries' "Polo Grounds" read by Fritz Weaver, Robert Francis' "Pitcher" and "Base Stealer" read by Arthur French, Robert Fitzgerald's "Cobb Would Have Caught It" read by Jonathan Hadary, Roger Angell's "Game Six" read by the author, Yusef Komunyakaa's "Glory" read by Isaiah Sheffer, W.P. Kinsella's "The Thrill of the Grass" read by John Shea, Ken Kalfus' "The Joy and Melancholy Baseball Trivia Quiz" read by Jack Davidson, T.C. Boyle's "The Hector Quesadilla Story" read by Jerry Zaks, A. Bartlett Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind" read by the author
Presented by Selected Shorts"
"This short story is about the stressful relationship between a son and his father. The family lives in a small house in the Russian countryside. Poverty has played a toll on how the father reacts to his childs need for money to attend college. An emotional conversation ensues."
"Edward Duke brilliantly performs an entire cast of characters in these delightful stories by P.G. Wodehouse, the greatest humorous writer of his age. These selections are adapted from Duke's stage show performed worldwide."
"Dave Henderson, a seasoned outdoorsman, presents twenty-one great stories about dogs he's collected over the years. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some stories have been previously published and have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom.
If you have come across them before, then it's time to get reacquainted, slowly and at your leisure, scouring each adventure as though you owned the protagonist dog. You'll be glad you did."
"Considerado por muitos como o maior escritor brasileiro de todos os tempos, Machado de Assis ganha sempre novas edições impressas e versões para os mais diferentes meios de expressão artística. Faltava apenas um Machado em áudio, em MP3, lido por um ator jovem e talentoso. Ator, violonista clássico e jornalista, RAFAEL CORTEZ atuou em peças infantis e adultas. Na televisão, iniciou sua carreira fazendo sucesso no programa CQC, da TV Bandeirantes. Neste audiolivro, a leitura de RAFAEL CORTEZ, que se diz "louco por Machado", é fluída, como se as palavras tivessem vivido dentro dele desde as primeiras leituras na escola, as releituras de adulto, desde sempre. Nos momentos decisivos da obra, RAFAEL CORTEZ encontra o melhor timbre e a entonação perfeita para deixar tudo bem claro para o ouvinte. Em O Alienista, Machado de Assis ironiza o conceito de loucura e o poder do conhecimento científico. No conto, o médico Simão Bacamarte funda um hospício e passa a internar nele todos aqueles que julga loucos. O procedimento leva a um desfecho inesperado. Esta obra, publicada entre 1881 e 1882, marcou o início da fase realista do autor e vem sendo lida por todas as gerações desde então. Com cerca de 2 horas de duração."
"A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language that seems not the least bit dated, Jack London tells eight tales of high daring and great savagery, of bravery and death, even of occasional humor, that could only take place in the exotic South Sea islands. Based around themes London considered important—race, culture, justice, and heroism—the stories derive their intensity from the author’s own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience.
Included here are the following stories: “The House of Mapuhi,” “The Whale Tooth,” “Mauki,” “Yah! Yah! Yah!” “The Heathen,” “The Terrible Solomons,” “The Inevitable White Man,” and “The Seed of McCoy.”"
"Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to political convention with the ease of one who is intimately familiar with the cares and foibles of the human condition, showing us this vista of life through the well-tempered lens of his gentle, British irony.
In this definitive collection of seventy short stories, we can browse and sightsee at our leisure, cross borders of fresh insight, admire and enjoy each whimsical tale as we journey through the imaginative landscape of a truly artful writer."
"Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set all over Europe, all written in Paris where she has long lived.
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.
Besides an introduction by Michael Ondaatje, this book includes the following stories:
'The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street''Irina''The Latehomecomer''In Transit''The Moslem Wife''From the Fifteenth District''Speck's Idea''Baum, Gabriel, 1935-( )''The Remission''Grippes and Poches''Forain''August''Mlle. Dias de Corta''In Plain Sight''Scarves, Beads, Sandals'Afterword: About the Stories, by Mavis Gallant"
"These three charming Japanese Fairy Tales were translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki in 1908. Although taken from actual Japanese folk stories, these were not literal translations, but somewhat Westernized for American readers. These stories combine fictitious creatures and magical animals with the lives of normal humans and provide an insight into a piece of ancient Japan.
The stories in this volume include:
- My Lord Bag of Rice
- The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
- The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad"
"''Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read.'' --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ''native village'' of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, which she remembered hearing as a child. In her quest, she found herself and her history throughout these highly metaphorical folk-tales, ''big old lies,'' and the lyrical language of song. With this collection, Zora Neale Hurston has come to reveal'and preserve'a beautiful and important part of American culture.
Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, anthropologist and playwright whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage are unparalleled. She is also the author of Tell My Horse, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Mule Bone. Ruby Dee, a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame, starred on Broadway in the original productions of A Raisin in the Sun and Purlie Victorious, and was featured in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. She is also an award-winning author and the producer of numerous television dramas."
"For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.
Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.
Sip the sweet innocence of youth, the wisdom -- and folly -- of age. Taste the warm mysteries of summer and bitterness of betrayed loves and abandoned places. These stories will set your mind spinning and carry you to remarkable locales: a house where lime has no boundaries; a movie theater where deconstructed schlock is drunkenly assembled into art; a wheat field that hides a strangely welcome enemy. These are but a few of the ingredients that have gone into Bradbury's savory cocktail. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations."
"Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle—“a landscape in narrative”—of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations.
The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a Black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siècle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory ,only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War.
In prose of almost biblical gravity and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives, Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
Stories in this collection are: “Rain Down Home,” “Ride Out,” “A Marriage Portion,” “Child by Fever,” “The Freedom Kick,” “Pillar of Fire,” and “The Sacred Mound.”"
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