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Selected Shorts has toured The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and others. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.
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A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt. This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.
Stories in this set include:
Aleksandar Hemon's "Blind Josef Pronek" - A Bosnian man struggles to make a new life in America Richard Ford's "Communist" - A teenage boy's relationship...
4) Baseball!
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A compilation, featuring more than three hours of some of the greatest short stories of all time, brought to life by distinguished stage and screen actors. Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti's "Play by Play" John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" read by Jack Davidson - Ted Williams' miraculous Fenway farewell. Rolfe Humphries' "Polo Grounds" read by Fritz Weaver Robert Francis' "Pitcher" and "Base Stealer" read by Arthur French Robert Fitzgerald's...
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Selected Short's most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone. Nicholson Baker's "Subsoil" performed by Thomas Gibson A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes. David Schickler's "Jamaica" performed by Isaiah Sheffer A man with his head stuck between the banisters has no choice but to listen in on his wife's "Gorgon Book Club." Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry" performed by Christina Pickles...
6) Travel Tales
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This compilation features a wonderful selection of travel stories from public radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Hilarity, suspense and high drama are offered up in this new mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic. Take a trip in a time machine with Madame Bovary, join...
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New American Stories presents diverse stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and found, by four of the best young, contemporary writers Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon, as performed by terrific stage and screen actors. All four writers have a unique perspective on the American experience which is reflected in their work. Whether they are immigrants from another country, or in the case of...
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A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City. This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's "Pet Milk", read by Keith Szarabajka; Martha Gellhorn's "Miami-New York", read by Joanna Gleason;...
9) Poe!
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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,"...
10) Funny Business
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From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Comedian Wyatt Cenac gives a killer performance of Simon Rich's hilarious tale of woe from the point of view of a condom in a young man's wallet. Alec Baldwin gives a delightful over-the-top performance of James Thurber's wonderfully silly classic tale of the day everybody in a...
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In this compilation characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day; delve into the secret lives of people and discover what drives them to betrayal.
12) Whodunit?
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A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix. Stories in this set include: Dashiell Hammett's "The Creeping Siamese", performed by John Shea - The Continental Op gets his man C.S. Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess", performed by Fionnula Flanagan - Intrigue in the alps in this clever tale of a jewelry heist Ed McBain's, "Improvisation",...
13) Wartime Lives
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What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British, in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son, and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East.
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This 2007 Audie Award finalist features more than three hours of some of the greatest shorts stories of all time.
• James Thurber's "The Night the Ghost Got In"
performed by Isaiah Sheffer
Comic Mayhem is unleashed when a family hears a ghost in the night... and calls in the police.
• Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"
performed by Maria Tucci
Two women reflect on romance and intrigue, long ago in Rome.
• Jack London's "Make Westing"
performed...
16) Wondrous Women
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Strong female protagonists grace this collection celebrating women in all their incarnations, young and old: mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, lovers, widows ... and a 70-year-old nun.
17) Pets!
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The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals... cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon... and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of kindergartners, dance along with a divorcee and her dog, and...
18) Behaving Badly
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The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.
20) Falling In Love
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Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones. Rick Bass's "Fires" performed by Ted Marcoux In the Rockies, a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of love. Padgett Powell's "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping" performed by Christina Pickles An eccentric southern dame cleans up her act and finds love. Laurie Colwin's "The Lone Pilgrim" performed...
