Classic Stories of the American West
Stories by Stephen Crane , Bret Harte , and Jack London
Copublished by Ten12 Entertainment
Read by various narrators
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781504741620
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ISBN: 9781504741613
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ISBN: 9781504741637
| Runtime: | 8.27 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Westerns |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
This collection features a selection of classic short stories and poems by legendary Western authors Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, and Jack London.
Stephen Crane
- “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” read by William Windom
- “The Black Riders” (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “The Five White Mice” read by Arte Johnson
- “The Blue Hotel” read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “His New Mittens” read by Robert Forster
- “A Newspaper…” (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “The Little Regiment” read by Stephen Hoye
Bret Harte
- “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” read by William Windom
- “Mary’s Album” (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “Brown of Calaveras” read by Stephen Hoye
- “The Society upon the Stanislaw” (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “Tennessee’s Partner” read by Robert Forster
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp” read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “The Pony Express” (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “The Idyl of Red Gulch” read by Rex Linn
- “Lines to a Portrait” (poem) read by Stefan Rudnicki
- “How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar” read by William Windom
Jack London
- “That Spot” read by Arte Johnson
- “War” read by David Birney
- “Moon-Face” read by William Windom
- “To Build a Fire” read by Stefan Rudnicki
Author
Author Bio: Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was an American novelist, poet, and journalist. He worked as a reporter of slum life in New York and a highly paid war correspondent for newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. He wrote many works of fiction, poems, and accounts of war, all well received but none as acclaimed as his 1895 Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. Today he is considered one of the most innovative American writers of the 1890s and one of the founders of literary realism.
Titles by Author
Author Bio: Bret Harte
Bret Harte (1836–1902) was born in Albany, New York, and was raised in New York City. He had no formal education, but he inherited a love for books. Harte wrote for the San Franciscan Golden Era paper. There he published his first condensed novels, which were brilliant parodies of the works of well-known authors, such as Dickens and Cooper. Later, he became clerk in the US branch mint. This job gave Harte time to also work for the Overland Monthly, where he published his world-famous “Luck of the Roaring Camp” and commissioned Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In 1871, Harte was hired by the Atlantic Monthly for $10,000 to write twelve stories a year, which was the highest figure paid to an American writer at the time.
Author Bio: Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Before making a living at his writing, he spent time as an oyster pirate, a sailor, a cannery worker, a gold miner, and a journalist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction writing. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike gold rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire,” “An Odyssey of the North,” and “Love of Life.” He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as “The Pearls of Parlay” and “The Heathen.” He was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, including The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Westerns |
| Runtime: | 8.27 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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