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Title: The Beetle Hunter and Other Stories

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Eustace

Narrator: Mark Straker

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-11

Publisher: Crimson Cats Audio Books

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A selection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. AUTHOR: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will always be remembered for his immortal creation Sherlock Holmes. But Sir Arthur was a prolific writer and left a huge legacy of other work, especially novels and short stories.

These 4 tales are taken from "Tales of the Camp", "Tales of Mystery" and "Tales of Medical Life". ABRIDGER: Grant Eustace works as a writer in a variety of fields, from film to print, and especially in creating video and DVD programmes for the corporate sector, in both drama and documentary formats, of which he has scripted over 300. But he started professionally by writing plays for BBC Radio 4 and ever since has returned regularly to both radio and audio. Before working on these tales he had dramatised 24 of the Sherlock Holmes short stories for audio publication and originated a tongue-in-cheek radio series, "Second Holmes", about the descendants of Holmes and Watson.

READER: Mark Straker trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has twice been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, appearing in over 600 plays, including "The Tempest" with Sir John Gielgud. As a reader he has worked for English Heritage, Historic Arts, the V&A, BBC Poetry Please, RNIB Talking Books and Oxford University Press.

Critic Reviews:

"These four ripping yarns are not Sherlock Holmes stories, but another part of the author's prodigious output, and they bear his distinctive mark. Enjoyment of the stories here is enhanced by the skilful period gusto of the narration." (Rachel Redford, The Oldie Magazine.)

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Title: Comfortable

Subtitle: A Tom Walker Mystery

Author: Deaver Brown

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-11

Publisher: Simply Media

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Comfortable is a coming-of-age story about a young girl who learns in her senior year that her parents are getting divorced; wants to find a proper romantic relationship; studies martial arts for self-defense; and is confronted by two attackers, whom she takes out and kills in self-defense. It features a rather stunning conclusion.

Members Reviews:

Don't Bother

Perhaps the characters were easier to follow in written form; I don't know. In any case it was almost impossible to keep all of them straight. When you have less than an hour to convey your story, there can't be too many characters. They also need to be more fully drawn than were Walker's. The author read the book himself. It would be unfair to compare him to a professional reader who are usually actors; still. At some point I may give the author another shot; for now all I'm able to say for this selection is the price isn't bad.

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Title: The Knife

Subtitle: A Stephen Crane Story

Author: Stephen Crane

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Simply Media

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"The Knife" is a story about temptation, a near betrayal, and then a recovery - a cycle of danger and redemption, told with Crane's ironic touch. A black man with a penchant for fun jokes with the white owner of a watermelon patch. They both enjoy the racial stereotyping image of the black man being entranced by watermelons. Well, Peter Washington has a moment of such entrancement. He tells his friend Alek Williams and they work themselves into a fit of envy about those watermelons. That night they both lay for the watermelons, waiting for Si Bryant, the owner, to turn out his lights and go to bed. Peter gets into the patch first; sees Alek coming from a different way, and jumps him, pretending to be protecting the patch. Peter hauls Alek off, but eventually lets him go. Peter forgets his knife. Bryant catches up with Alek and discovers Alek knows whose knife is in the patch. Alek almost gives his friend away, but, at the last moment, blames someone in another town. They both live for another day.

A bitter sweet story of pettiness by Bryant, ignoble behavior by Peter, but Alek, the older wiser man, rises above it and protects his friend using Bryant's prejudices against him in thinking he would give away his friend.

As with all Simply audiobooks, we provide an commentary in an afterword for those interested.

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Title: His New Mittens

Subtitle: A Stephen Crane Story

Author: Stephen Crane

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Simply Media

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

An interesting story about how a boy goes to school with new mittens his mother wants him to protect. To do so, he cannot join in a snowball fight with his friends with parents less scrupulous about clothing and the like. The boy ultimately gives in, gets in trouble with his mother, is made to eat alone, attempts to run away, but only makes it to their cold shed. He then gathers his forces to leave for California - wherever that might be. He gets to the street, trudges up in one direction, and see the butcher's shop.

Here is a Winesburg, Ohio, moment: when the boy enters the store, he is lucky that the store owner, having been a boy himself, sees something is wrong. He listens to young Horace and takes him back home, where all is forgiven since losing the son was far worse than the mitten issue. In thanks, and significant for the times, the mother calls the shopkeeper by his last name, and says, "Won't you have a glass of our root beer, Mr. Stickney? We make it ourselves." Their form of champagne is shared; the neighbor feeling has worked; the world, or at least that little piece of it, is back on course. Especially appealing to those who liked O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief".

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Title: Flanagan

Subtitle: A Short Filibustering Adventure

Author: Stephen Crane

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-11

Publisher: Simply Media

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Flanagan" is a story not dissimilar from "The Open Boat", except that the captain dies in "Flanagan" but not in the "Open Boat". Flanagan is hired to take a ship, aptly named the Foundling, down to Cuba to run guns and people into that country. He does so in a rickety old boat and does a good job. A gun boat finds them and barrels at them at top speed. Rather than just running, the natural instinct, Flanagan turns his ship towards the small gun boat, an unexpected chess move, and runs down the surprised small gun boat and sinks her.

Afterward, his men make sure to gun down the survivors in their life boats to assure no followup. After this great victory, Flanagan sees a storm whirling up in the distance. It comes upon him and is about to destroy his ship, even after they try heading as far towards the Florida coast as possible. They can't make it and so abandon ship. This is during a great party on shore, at which people, upon hearing of the shipwreck, come down to the shore to gawk. "Later there floated to them a body with a calm Irish face (presumably Flanagan). The expedition of the Foundling will never be historic." The story ends in a dull thud, exhibiting the classic irony of a Crane short story.

Every bit as interesting as "The Open Boat", this is a companion piece with somewhat similar results. As with all Simply audio books, we provide a commentary in an afterword for those interested.

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Title: A Great Mistake

Subtitle: A Stephen Crane Story

Author: Stephen Crane

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-11

Publisher: Simply Media

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"A Great Mistake", which is quite short, is an unexpected Stephen Crane jewel. Crane is best known for three short stories, "The Open Boat", thought by many to be the best short story ever written, "The Blue Hotel", and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky". Simply has recorded over ten more stories that deserve to be right up there with the top three. As Simply says, this is not an NFL Power ranking, or a compare and contrast assignment. This is your opportunity to enjoy many of Crane's other illuminating and moving works." A Great Mistake" relates to a common theme of coveting something out of reach, in this case on fruit cart, when fruit was a far more expensive and unobtainable product than today. The story paints the picture and sets the scene of the "babe," to quote Crane's description, observing, dreaming, and scheming about seeing and getting fruit off of the Italian's fruit stand. The denouement is violent and non-violent at the same time as the Italian "...whirled him (the babe) fiercely, and took from the little fingers a lemon." Another remarkable and under-appreciated work by Mr. Crane.

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Titolo: Novelle scelte [Novelle Choices]

Autore: Giovanni Verga

Narratore: Claudio Carini

Formato: Abridged

Durata: 1 hr and 14 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 02-03-11

Editore: Recitar Leggendo Audiolibri

Categoria: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Riepilogo Editore:

Le più belle novelle di Verga in una interpretazione ad alta voce capace di cogliere e valorizzare tutte le sfumature e i caratteri dei tanti personaggi che hanno reso celebre il grande autore siciliano.

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Título: Algo de los que Sobran [About the Unwanted]

Autor: Pía Barros

Narrador: Bruaulio Martinez, Teresa Hales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 43 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 02-01-11

Editor: Audiolibros Patagonia

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

En los cuentos de Pía Barros hay un crudo realismo y una mágica sorpresa. Maestra del relato, deja caer en sus cuentos toda la vitalidad que ilumina y guía su propia vida. Personajes del mundo corriente adquieren fisonomías especiales en las historias crudas, donde el dolor, la sorpresa y la tragedia, entretejen con ironía desenlaces sorpresivos, como debe ser en todo cuento.

Este género, quizás el más difícil de la literatura, requiere de una mezcla armoniosa entre la simplicidad de la mirada del escritor y tortuosidad de las vidas de los seres humanos, para que, con palabras directas, los hechos de la vida se puedan transformar en retratos que, al decir de los escritores sabios, servirán de eneseñanza a las generaciones.

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Título: Relatos del Sur [Stories from the South]

Autor: Pía Barros, Ramón Diaz Eterovic, Walter Garib, Virginia Vidal, Carolina Rivas, Diego Muñoz, Juan Armando Epple, Lilian Elphick

Narrador: Braulio Martinez, Teresa Hales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 1 hr and 14 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 02-01-11

Editor: Audiolibros Patagonia

Calificaciones: 3.5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

Son las voces de un pueblo que combina el humor con el dolor y la ironía con la esperanza de un modo excepcional.

Desde el sur del continente americano, en la soledad de las montañas y los bosques, cerca de los hielos y los valles, mirando de frente el desierto y el mar, estos relatos nacen con toda la fuerza de un pueblo que se nos revela con su mezcla maravillosa de paisajes y ciudades de bullicios vigorosos. Un desborde de energía en la urbe que se esconde entre las cumbres, poblada de gente creativa y heredera de culturas que lentamente se encuentran con el paso de la historia.

Esta colección se inicia con relatos de escritores y escritoras de Chile, pequeño país al sur del mundo.

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Title: Dead Air

Subtitle: Broadcasts from Beyond

Author: Jasper Bark

Narrator: Jasper Bark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-11

Publisher: Create Digital Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

There's a place where the dead go to record their final stories. An underground frequency that carries the last testaments of the damned and the dispossessed.

Broadcasts that lurk in the black static between stations, whispering truths too terrible to tell anywhere else. This is Dead Air - you have been warned....

Acclaimed performer and cult novelist Jasper Bark presents a collection of tales more terrifying than anything you have ever heard. Read by the author with a original soundtrack of music and special effects, this is a unique audio experience that will take you to places no other audiobook dares to go.