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Title: In Our Time

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories “Indian Camp” and “The Three Day Blow,” and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose, enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic. His writing suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of vision. Now recognized as one of the most important short story collections of twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides key insights into Hemingway’s later works.

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Title: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Elizabeth Berg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want–and then some? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life–or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places? Imagine that the people in these wonderful stories–who do all of these things and more–are asking you: What would you do, if nobody was looking?

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Title: Winner Take Nothing

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland” concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant; “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States; and so on. Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer. He has always excelled in that medium, and this volume reveals him at his best.

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Title: Men without Women

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship. First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often-uneasy relationship between men and women, sports and sportsmanship. “In Another Country” tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. “The Killers” is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in “Ten Indians,” in which he is presumably betrayed by his girlfriend, Prudence. And “Hills Like White Elephants” is a young couple’s subtle, heart-wrenching discussion about the future. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as one of America’s finest short story writers.

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Title: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrator: Ajay Naidu, Sarita Choudhury

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.   In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.

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Title: Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Author: Tobias Wolff

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, proved how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation” (New York Times Book Review). In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as several other astounding works. Now he returns with fresh revelations—about biding one’s time, experiencing first love, or burying one’s mother—that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary: a retired marine enrolled in college while her son trains for Iraq, a lawyer taking a difficult deposition, an American in Rome indulging the Gypsy who’s picked his pocket. In this potent new collection, as with his earlier work, Wolff displays his mastery over a quarter century, once again proving himself “a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve” (Los Angeles Times).

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Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Release date: March 8, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes 'The Killers,' the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical 'Fathers and Sons,' which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,' a 'brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention,' wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: 'I put all the true stuff in,' with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.

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Title: Collected Stories

Author: William Faulkner

Narrator: Various

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 31 hours 13 minutes

Release date: December 4, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.9 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner   Winner of the National Book Award Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.

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Title: The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections From The Frontier Stories, Volume 5

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Jason Culp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson – will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour’s short fiction, volume by handsome volume. Here, in Volume Five, is a treasure-trove of frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those who have yet to discover L'Amour’s thrilling prose – and his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West for generations to come.

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Title: Dreamsongs: Unabridged Selections

Author: George R. R. Martin

Narrator: Various

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 51 hours 56 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Dubbed 'the American Tolkien' by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a selection of his shorter works, collected into this audio collection, offering fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master. Whether writing about werewolves, wizards, or outer space, George R.R. Martin is renowned for his versatility and expansive talent, highlighted in this dazzling collection. Dreamsongs: Unabridged Selections is an invaluable chronicle of a writer at the height of his creativity—and an unforgettable listening experience for fans old and new.