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Title: Japanese Fairy Tales

Author: Yei Theodora Ozaki

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2005

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 119

Ratings of Narrator: 4.34 of Total 50

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

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

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Title: Interpreter of Maladies

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrator: Matilda Novak

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Release date: January 13, 2005

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.77 of Total 43

Ratings of Narrator: 3.18 of Total 11

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in the New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.

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Title: The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Bruce Blau, Bobbie Frohman, A Full Cast, David Thorn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2004

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This delightful collection of gems by Mark Twain begins with the story of a town called Hadleyburg, which prides itself on the honesty of its citizens. One day a citizen of Hadleyburg offends a stranger passing through, who vows to take his revenge by revealing just how corruptible the sanctimonious town really is. Twain is at his best here, poking fun at common hypocrisy as the self-satisfied pillars of the community are done in by their own greed. Other stories in the collection include: 1. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg 2. The Double Barrelled Detective Story 3. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 4. The Million Dollar Bank Note 5. Benton and Mills 6. A Tale 7. Cannibalism in the Cars 8. The Stolen White Elephant 9. The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's 10. The Good Little Boy 11. The Bad Little Boy 12. Baker's Blue Jay Yarn AUTHOR Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel L. Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri. One of the most popular and influential authors our nation has ever produced, his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. He has been called not only the greatest humorist of his age but the father of American literature. "

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Title: The Short Stories Volume III

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 0 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2003

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.14 of Total 7

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bold language of this first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century. The Short Stories Volume III features Stacy Keach reading such favorites as: An Alpine Idyll, A Pursuit Race, Today is Friday, Banal Story, Now I Lay Me, After the Storm, A Clean, Well-lighted Place, The Light of the World, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, The Sea Change, A Way You'll Never Be, The Mother of the Queen, One Reader Writes, Homage to Switzerland, A Day's Wait, A Natural History of the Dead, Wine of Wyoming, The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio, and Fathers and Sons. ALL STORIES ARE UNABRIDGED

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Title: Pedro's Fables

Author: Pedro Sacristan

Narrator: Lorie Kellogg, Joe Bevilacqua

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2001

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty-Five Spanish Children's Stories, in English, written by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, produced and directed by Joe Bevilacqua, voiced by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. These timeless tales for all ages are among the more than two hundred short bedtime stories, fables, and fairy tales that entertain and educate, with all sorts of funny and dramatic characters and situations. This a great educational resource for parents and teachers. Includes: The Lazy Bird, The Poor Bunny's Magic Present, The Drawing That Talked, The Mysterious Juggling Clown, The Mocking Tiger, The Carnivorous Plant and the Butcher, August Heat, The Happy Sweeper, The Tree and the Vegetables, The Opera Singer, The Beauty Contest, The Deductive Mr. Horsefly, The Hypersensor, The Crashed Marian, A Pessimistic Dog, The Wicked Prince, The Respectful Prince and the Dwarfs, The Resentful Thumb, The Unfriendly River, The Robot with a Virus, A Frog and a Frying Pan, Stickybeard's Treasure, The Colorless Tiger, Manute the Brave, Bigmouth Fox.

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Title: Storm: Stories of Survival from Land, Sea and Sky

Series: Part of Adrenaline

Author: Rick Bass, Sebastian Junger, Jack London

Narrator: Rick Foucheux, Nick Sampson, Terence Aselford, Gary Telles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2000

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The stories in Storm tell us what happens when people find treacherous weather--or when it finds them. We are reminded of the fragility of life, the capriciousness of Nature's will, and how little we can do when both cross paths.

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Title: Tales of Irish Myths

Author: Benedict Flynn

Narrator: Marcella Riordan, Dermot Kerrigan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2000

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Three key stories from the mists of Irish legend retold by Benedict Flynn, with atmospheric music and sound effects. Enter a mysterious world where the line between the fantastical and the real is blurred mortals and immortals live strange entwined lives and nature and high magic exist side by side.

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Title: The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan, Laura Hamilton, Jeff Woodman

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2000

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Love and death, and all of the horror in between. A second helping of the most amazing short stories ever written--each one just 55 words long! Includes stories from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, Barnaby Conrad. Neil Steinberg, Herbett Gold, Norman Lear, Larry Niven and More. . .

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Title: Four Short Stories

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Carl Rigg, Perry Keenlyside

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Release date: May 11, 1995

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise. Here is a unique combination of a famous analytical intellect telling spine-tingling tales against a background of turn-of-the-century England. Nothing is quite as it seems. What is the secret of Lot No. 249? What lies in wait for an aviator in the stratosphere? And what lies inside The Sealed Room? The master story teller builds up layers of tension...