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2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics “The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest...

This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.

Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights...

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...

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...

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of 30 people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling stories to one another, their interaction mediated (at times) by the affable host - Chaucer himself. Naxos AudioBooks’ third volume presents the tales of six people, here in an unabridged modern verse translation (by Frank Ernest Hill, 1935).

Sin embargo, la tranquilidad no es para él y cuando una millonaria le contrata para encontrar a su nieta perdida Perro Lascano salta a la oportunidad. Las pistas le conducen al submundo de la trata de mujeres para la prostitución. Este ámbito desolado, donde convergen los políticos más corruptos y los más despiadados criminales, pondrá a prueba la sagacidad y el ingenio de Lascano, que hace de cada caso una cuestión de honor.

Argentina está en transición hacia la democracia. Asesinos, ladrones, policías y militares hacen todo lo posible para redefinir sus roles en esta nueva etapa. Perro Lascano se está recuperando de sus heridas, pero no puede dejar de pensar en Eva, la misteriosa mujer de la que está enamorado. Decide ponerse en acción y salir en busca del peligroso general Giribaldi, con el fin de recuperar alguna pista sobre el paradero de Eva. Pero necesita dinero y se ve obligado a aceptar un trabajo, el de encontrar al Topo Miranda, un delincuente que robó dinero negro de un banco.

A new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—introduced by award-winning author Tobias Wolff. Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and...

NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES. This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these...

NBC University Theater initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience. In its later years, it also included short stories and plays, and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award. University Theater relied on excellent distillations of the novels. and first-class acting alongside high production values.

The 1925 New York edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time trails readers through the years before, during, and after World War I. The collection’s first two stories, “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” introduce Hemingway’s semiautobiographical character Nick Adams as a child. In total, seven stories portray the young man’s coming of age. All fourteen, including interspersed vignettes, embody the themes that Hemingway would return to throughout his career: alienation, grief, loss, and separation, as well as the regenerative powers of nature.

Observations will enable the listener to observe his own life more carefully so as to make it more of what it should be.

This classic collection includes Hemingway’s best short stories: "Indian Camp", "My Old Man", and "Big Two Hearted River", and less appreciated ones such as "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot".

An innocent schoolteacher moves to a distant settlement where cruel men prey on the weak. There are good people there too, but is she brave enough to join them?

Old Gabe is accustomed to younger, arrogant men roughing him up. When a newcomer comes in between Gabe and an ugly brawl with a fiery upstart, Gabe isn’t sure how to respond. By helping Gabe, the newcomer has made himself the target of vicious repercussions, but warning him of the danger would break a sacred, unspoken code of the West: Never venture into another man’s business. Yet, since the newcomer has already broken into Gabe’s business, Gabe starts to question if the code should be kept.

“Looking for a little trouble, boys?” asked Wild Bill Hickok. Cowhands surround Buck LaGrange with a sea of fists in a battle that was bound to happen. Why? Because Abilene is packed with angry cattlemen, desperate settlers, ambitious landowners and at least one famous gunslinger. Who'll shoot first?

He grabbed a broken axe handle and circled around Matt Hobart. Rustlers are at work, hidden in the chill darkness of a prairie December. It's bad news for the Hobarts - losing their calf could mean starvation. Can Matt fight alone?

Peter Skene takes what he wants and kills who he wants. Settlers, squatters, rustlers and Indian war parties can't stop him from owning the Bitter Valley and the biggest ranch in Oregon.

A disillusioned doctor and a brave woman join forces in a dangerous deception. It had better work.