More Classic American Short Stories

Name: More Classic American Short Stories
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Ambrose Bierce; Kate Chopin; James Fenimore Cooper; St...
ISBN: 9789629544744

Author: Ambrose Bierce; Kate Chopin; James Fenimore Cooper; Stephen Crane; O. Henry

Narrator: Garrick Hagon, and Liza Ross

Unabridged: 2 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/02/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – why is that window boarded up? – and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans. Read with sensitivity and skill by Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol Bakker

A fun audio book of short stories by Ambrose Bierce, James Fenimore Cooper, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, and O. Henry, all of them new to me. Not high literature, but a pleasant way to spend a dark winter evening while making pumpkin sausage soup. O. Henry wrote 286 stories. Any aspiring author (I'm......more

Goodreads review by Mel

Well read. These are all good stories--Cooper's is not so much a story as a memoir, but very interesting. About half of them I already knew and loved. One genre American authors have truly mastered is the short story.......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Great collection of classic American short stories. I listened to an audio recording and the two readers were excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Heather

This was a nice quick 'read,' and a nice mix of authors. I don't know if I've read any O. Henry before, but I enjoyed all three of his stories in this collection, so now I want to read more.......more

Goodreads review by John

I had a funny experience with this collection. I’ve been reading and editing so much contemporary Literary fiction recently that the opening story by Ambrose Bierce about heading to war and murder hit me at an unlikely angle. It drove nostalgia into me, for a time when short stories were plot-driven......more