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Title: The Homely Heroine

Author: Edna Ferber

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style that later produced Show Boat and Giant, tells us about just such a heroine in this special short story. It is special to me because of her insight into the deep courage and faith of 'ordinary' people, people like most of us. And of course our failings and frailties and sometimes, the prince does not marry the right person. Yep.

Members Reviews:

satisfying read!

The heroine of this story is Pearlie, a fat, plain, sensitive stemographer. Her secret power is her ability to cook. Her personality is refreshingly lovable too. In the end, Pearlie wins. She triumhs by being herself, and not by changing to please a desirable man or this" pretty packaging counts" world..

There is irony here too, and is framed by another story. It's one of those tales you'll feel compelled to share with your friends.

Highly recommended!

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Title: A Fable

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Humorist Mark Twain demonstrates in the form of a short story fable how many individuals can come away from a story with different ideas regarding what a story was about. You might just see yourself in this delightful tale. Performed by Glenn Hascall.

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Title: Man Without a Shadow

Subtitle: An "Old-Fashioned" Mystery Series

Author: Keith Perreur-Lloyd

Narrator: Audioscape Players

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-14

Publisher: AudioscapeProductions

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

An episode of a light-hearted mystery series, with American, Canadian, and British actresses and actors. Adam Grant, or so his name appears to be, finds himself in a hotel room with a person he doesn't recognise: himself. His attempts to find out who he is, embroil him in a number of strange and sometimes dangerous situations in many parts of the world. (As this script was written in the 1970s, one may guess that its main theme was very attractive to other authors!)

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Title: The Cactus

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Trysdale was in love. He had embellished his accomplishments and his beloved had placed him squarely on a pedestal. How was he to know that one of his 'embellishments' would be his undoing? Irony abounds in this short love story gone wrong by O. Henry. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

Members Reviews:

Unbearable Voice

I have not bought this book because it is Cathy Dobson reading and her voice is simply unbearable.

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Title: The Furnished Room

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

O. Henry's poignant ghost story of a young man seeking his lost love in the city. When he rents a furnished room in the lower West Side, he senses from a mysterious and familiar scent that his lost love has recently stayed there. The ghostly essence of his lover exercises a very strange and sinister effect on him.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Romantic in the inimitable O. Henry way.

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Title: Toby

Author: A.A. Milne

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A good horse has an amazing effect on a rider - even if the rider knows nothing of horses. Our storyteller would make up whatever he needed to in order to keep the horse. He even kept his military mustache if it meant he could continue a companionship with Toby. Filled with a patchwork of humor from the mind of A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

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Title: The Man Who Stole a Meeting House

Author: John Townsend Trowbridge

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A group of travellers are telling increasingly tall tales about horse thieves and robbers...but one traveller's story trumps the lot. It is the story of a miserly farmer who steals a meeting house and carries it off. But his plans do not go at all as he expects...

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Title: Titbottom's Spectacles

Author: George William Curtis

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

George William Curtis (1824 - 1892) was a traveller, essayist and fiction writer who was particularly renowned for his short stories. He combined a highly polished style with a great sense of humour and his works we enthusiastically received in the heydays of American Periodical Literature.

In the marvellous story Titbottom's Spectacles, Curtis displays the individual charm of his work as well as the delicate atmosphere of sympathy and humour in which he sets his scenes and his characters. It is a part mystical, part satirical account of the possession of a pair of spectacles which can reveal people as they really are in their essential qualities.

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Title: Who Was She?

Author: Bayard Taylor

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Bayard Taylor (1825 - 1878) was an American writer and poet, best known for his translations of German literature, including his acclaimed Faust.

Who Was She? is a romantic mystery. The narrator is on vacation and discovers what he takes to be a secluded glen unknown to anyone else. But one day, he finds a wilted bunch of flowers and a book on the flat rock where he always sits. The book contains sketches and musings, clearly by an unmarried woman. The narrator finds a way to return the book, with his own message and an unlikely and mysterious correspondence begins, from which it becomes clear that this is the start of a strange unknown quest. But one with no map, no certain destination and few clues. The only important (and multi-layered) question is "who was she?"

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Title: Mr. Bloke's Item

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Who determines what stops the presses? Enter the world of Mark Twain who was handed an item from an emotional man late one night. The presses were stopped, the item run, and Twain was in trouble with his editor. Enjoy the humor as Twain tries to understand the importance of "Mr. Blokes Item".