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Title: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: K. Anderson Yancy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-13

Publisher: SonicMovie.net; ChicagoWood Media; WSAPL.com; Wollcott & Sheridan

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A farmer, while crossing a field, mysteriously disappears into thin air before the eyes of several witnesses, resulting in a legal proceeding to determine whether he's dead.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Classic Bierce, expertly performed.

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Title: The Coming of Cassidy

Subtitle: A Hopalong Cassidy Novel

Author: Clarence E. Mulford

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-13

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hopalong Cassidy is an iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, but immortalized in a series of films starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in the print novels, Cassidy was remade into a clean-cut hero who traveled the West with his sidekicks fighting villains who took advantage of the weak.

Clarence E. Mulford takes you back to the beginning by relating the stories (as told to him by Red and the boys of the BAR-20) of how Buck Peters started the BAR-20 ranch. It tells of how he picked up Hopalong Cassidy, Red Connors, Skinny Thompson, and many of the other colorful characters in this famous series.

Members Reviews:

Hopalong rules

this is a great book. the narrator is perfect for this, don't miss it. wonderful

Go get a Louis L'amour

What disappointed you about The Coming of Cassidy?

If you listen to a lot of westerns, and I have a lot, then you will be disappointed by this book. Clarence Mulford's writing style is awkward. I believe that he tries to impress you with his vocabulary, but it does not fit with the genre. If he uses the word 'cogitate' one more time I thought I would turn the book off! Westerns are supposed to be simple with simple people. He uses the vocabulary of a college professor for man like Hopalong. It did not fit at all...I was really disappointed.

Has The Coming of Cassidy turned you off from other books in this genre?

Not from the genre because I love westerns. I will never get another book from Mulford though.

What about R. C. Brays performance did you like?

Bray's performance was solid for a western. The book was not his fault.

What character would you cut from The Coming of Cassidy?

Characters were not a problem, the story was not bad the writing was terrible.

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Title: The Black Cat

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Thomas P. Haine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-13

Publisher: SonicMovie.net, ChicagoWood Media, Wollcott & Sheridan

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When a man tortures and kills a witch disguised as a cat, it returns from The Great Beyond to seek revenge.

Members Reviews:

I read this to help my son who is in 8th grade with his English homework.. I am not sure it was proper for him. Besides that it

Read this to help my son with his homework, he is in 8th grade. Not sure it was appropriate for his age

It was an okay short stories, hr got what he deserved.

Not sure I would recommend it and would not recommended it for a teenager.

Needed for school

My daughter had thread it and then do a project for school. Came in handy to have on kindle. No problems with it.

A real classic

I love short stories like this. I do not have the time in a day to read a novel so this was a perfect read for me.

A great classic

This is a great short story. If you don't usually have time to read novels this gets the job done.

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Title: Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Author: Kate Chopin

Narrator: Emma Hignett, Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-25-12

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of seven short stories by Kate Chopin including "The Story of an Hour", "A Respectable Woman", "The Kiss", "A Pair of Silk Stockings", "The Storm", "The Locket", and "Desiree's Baby".

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Título: Cuentos de Horacio Quiroga [Stories of Horacio Quiroga]

Autor: Horacio Quiroga

Narrador: Óscar Martín

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 51 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-12-12

Editor: Grupo Artístico 8

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 8 votos

Categorías: Classics, American Literature

Resumen del editor:

Horacio Quiroga es uno de los escritores más fascinantes de la literatura en castellano. En esta antología podrán encontrar las locuciones de los textos La gallina degollada, El almohadón de pluma, La muerte de Isolda y A la deriva, pertenecientes al libro Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte. Todos ellos están acompañados por una banda sonora compuesta expresamente para los textos, que nos sumerge en la atmósfera inquietante que es capaz de desarrollar el autor, hasta conseguir que la palabra y la música se integren por completo en un conjunto donde el oyente podrá disfrutar de la fuerza de sus palabras. La cuidada locución sigue fielmente el texto y llena de dramatismo un espacio literario donde la inquietud, la fascinación y el miedo tejen un mundo lleno de extrañas sombras.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

OBNOXIOUS background music ruins the stories

Would you try another book from Horacio Quiroga and/or Óscar Martín?

Yes.

Any additional comments?

First of all, there are only four stories in this title: La gallina degollada, El almohadon de pluma, La muerte de Isolda, & A la deriva.

Secondly, I could not finish even the first one because the background music is so loud, stressful, monotonous, and just annoying.

The narrator is great, and the price was right, but I just could not handle the terrible music. If only there were a way to turn it off!!

Worst audio ever

What disappointed you about Cuentos de Horacio Quiroga [Stories of Horacio Quiroga]?

Couldn't listen to them due to the poor audio recording

Would you ever listen to anything by Horacio Quiroga again?

Don't know

Would you be willing to try another one of Óscar Martíns performances?

Never, The music is distracting, get rid of it. Also there is an eco to the voice which is interfering with the sound. Both together make it impossible to listen to the story

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Cuentos de Horacio Quiroga [Stories of Horacio Quiroga]?

Would get rid of the eco and the music

Any additional comments?

No. although if I could I would return the item and get a refund

Genial!!! Interpretación y ambientación perfectas!

If you could sum up Cuentos de Horacio Quiroga [Stories of Horacio Quiroga] in three words, what would they be?

Me ha encantado la interpretación y la ambientación sonora que tienen los cuentos. Las historias también son de las que más me gustan de este autor.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Cuentos de Horacio Quiroga [Stories of Horacio Quiroga]?

Los finales de cada cuento son espectaculares

Which character as performed by Óscar Martín was your favorite?

Me gusta como están narrados todos los cuentos

If you could take any character from Cuentos de Horacio Quiroga [Stories of Horacio Quiroga] out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Ufff, creo que no me iría a cenar con ninguno

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Title: Selected Shorts: POE!

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Terrance Mann, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, Harris Yulin, David Margulies, Stephen Lang

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-12

Publisher: Symphony Space

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Poe! is a deliciously gripping sampling of the mad imagination of 19th century gothic master of horror and suspense, murder and mayhem, Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy, breathtaking, and soulful classic tales include: The Masque of the Red Death, the terrifying and ironic story of a nobleman who attempts to seal himself and his friends away from a terrible plague raging outside, performed by Fionnula Flanagan (Transamerica); The Pit and the Pendulum, a hair-raising first-person account of a man in a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition, performed to a fare-thee-well by Stephen Lang (Avatar); The Black Cat, in which a mans dead pet comes back to haunt him, performed by Tony winner Rene Auberjonois (Boston Legal). Plus there are dreamy, mesmerizing, and haunting readings of Poes wonderfully-atmospheric best-loved poems, The Bells, The Raven, and Annabel Lee.

Members Reviews:

I loved

I have all of these stories in book form but but hearing them read was a complete delight.Especialy the ones read by Rene Auberjonios.

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Title: An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: David Ian Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-12

Publisher: One Voice Recordings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The time is the American Civil War: Southern plantation-owner Peyton Farquahr has been condemned to death for spying against the Union cause. As he prepares to be hanged from the Owl Creek Bridge, Farquahr morosely contemplates his fate and fondly recalls his loving wife.

Members Reviews:

I loved this movie the first time I saw it

I loved this movie the first time I saw it. I watched it with my children, but a few short years later, my youngest son and a grandson died in a car wreck. Now, I have other grandchildren, but I still long to see those who aren't with us.

Losing a child or a grandchild will always be with you. Yes, I picked up the pieces, but the counselor I went to told me you never get over it. You just learn to live with it..

WELL WRITTEN SHORT STORY...BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED. It was like visiting an old friend.

First let me say that this review contains spoilers. This is a pity. The only reason I placed these spoilers in this review is that the product description here already lets the cat out of the bag as to the ending. This is a pity.

Anyway....

I first read this story years and years ago. It was one of the many short stories we had to read in a special advanced English course I took in high school. Like most kids of that age I felt I was being force fed a bunch of stuff I had absolutely no interest in and must admit that I fought it. Over the years I have forgotten most to many of the numerous stories we read during that year, which is sort of sad when you think about it, but I have to tell you that this offering from Ambrose Bierce was not one of those that I consciously or unconsciously shuffled either to the back of my mind or out of it completely. No, no - far, far from it! This one has stuck with me throughout the years and I was delighted when I found it as a free Kindle download.

A Confederate man; a planter in northern Alabama during the Civil War has been captured by Union Solders. He has been sentenced to death and the story begins on a railroad bridge as the man stands on a railroad bridge with a rope noose about his neck about to be hanged. The board he is standing upon is tilted and he begins to fall.

This entire short story takes place in the doomed mans mind as he falls to the end of the rope. The reader at this point does not realize this and we watch in sickening slow motion as the rope breaks, the planter hits the water, is shot at, makes a daring escape, struggles through the woods and finally finds himself going up the steps of his home to the loving arms of his wife...snap..white searing light!

As the story progresses in becomes more and more surreal and the reader starts getting hints that not all is as it seems. When you consider when this work was written and published; around 1891, this is a rather remarkable ploy. You know something strange is going to happen but it is not until the final line; the final word that your suspicions are confirmed. Now I have never been hung. I probably should have been on a few occasions, but so far I have been fortunate. I am not at all sure that that much would go through a persons mind during the last three for four seconds of his or her life but that is rather moot. Whether this would actually happen is beside the point. The great thing about this story is that the author had the ability to make it quite real.

This story deserves to be read closely.

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Title: Tales of Soldiers from 'The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 2'

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: John Michaels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-12

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"And this was, O so long ago! How they come back to me - dimly and brokenly, but with what a magic spell - those years of youth when I was soldiering! Again I hear the far warble of blown bugles. Again I see the tall, blue smoke of camp-fires ascending from the dim valleys of Wonderland." (Ambrose Bierce, "What I Saw at Shiloh")

Here, a collection of 15 short stories by Ambrose Bierce. Bierce's participation in the Battle of Shiloh forever shaped his writing and his life. The short stories in this audiobook, although fiction, are - for the most part - based on some fact. They stand as a testament to the horror of the American Civil War.

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Title: Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon

Subtitle: The Longest Shots on Record

Author: Victor Appleton

Narrator: John Michaels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-12

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Volume 16 of the Tom Swift series, finds our hero inventing the world's largest, and of course best, cannon for Uncle Sam, able to destroy a target at a distance of over 30 miles. Not only does Tom Swift engineer this large cannon, but he also invents the propellant. Take-charge type of guy that he is, generals and villains are no match for him, not to mention his faithful giant Koku who nearly single-handedly ties down the 30-ton loose cannon on the deck of a pitching warship. Of course Tom Swift's friends Mr. Damon, Eradicate Sampson, and Ned Newton are also there to lend a hand and encouragement.

Members Reviews:

Tom Swift's Big Gun

After three years of producing Tom Swift books at a pace of five a year this is the first book where the publishing rate drops down to one a year. There is a certain nostalgic charm to the original Tom Swift but they really did feel like books written in a couple or months. I was kind of hoping we'd see an improvement in writing this time around but it feels like a very average Tom Swift book.

Tom Swift would be described as a polymath, in other words his area of expertise is incredibly broad. He's shown skills in aeronautics, radio, movie projects and just about anything scientific. This time he's showing his skills with ballistics. Just as in the previous book he's doing it for the U.S. government. Tom's intention is to sell his gigantic cannon to the U.S. so they can use it to defend the newly dug Panama Canal. So now Tom is designing weapons of war. Yikes.

I may be imagining but I do think I detect an improvement in quality. One thing I did like that the series hasn't done in awhile is actually include some real science. I legitimately learned some stuff about explosives and ballistics that I didn't know. The writer really gets into the ins and outs of building a massive cannon which is a big departure from the recent stories which devolved into adventure stories. Unfortunately the ending of the book is absolutely absurd and childish. Hopefully now that the writer reduced his output by 500% we'll see even more improvements to the quality of the writing.

Much more juvenile than I had remembered

I read some of the Tom Swift stories as a child, and thought the nostalgia would carry me through. I should have known better. This critiique applies to all of the Tom Swift books that I bought

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Title: Kate Chopin Short Stories

Author: Kate Chopin

Narrator: Victoria Mcgee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-12

Publisher: Trout Lake Media

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

From 1892 to 1895, Kate Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults, which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion. The people in her stories are usually inhabitants of Louisiana and much of her writing is set in Natchitoches in north central Louisiana. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time.

This wonderful audio collection contains some of her most important and enjoyable short stories, including The Story of an Hour, The Storm, The Locket, The Kiss, Beyond the Bayou, At the Cadian Ball, The Reflection, A Pair of Stockings, A Pair of Silk Stockings, A Respectable Woman, and Maam Pelagie.