Great American Stories: 10 Unabridged Classics
By Mark Twain , Stephen Crane , Ambrose Bierce , and Jack London
Read by Patrick Fraley , Bruce Robertson , Patrick Hagan , and Russ Holcomb
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: Playaway
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ISBN: 9781572703032
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ISBN: 9780792775775
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ISBN: 9780792775782
| Runtime: | 5.48 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
These ten treasured stories from the most influential authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic, oral qualities. The following stories are included in this collection:
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“The One-Million-Pound Bank Note” by Mark Twain
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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
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“A Visit to Niagara” by Mark Twain
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“Mysterious Visit” by Mark Twain
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“The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane
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“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane
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“The Eyes of the Panther” by Ambrose Bierce
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“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
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“The Love of Life” by Jack London
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“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
Author
Author Bio: Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835–1910) was born Samuel L. Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri. He is one of the most popular and influential authors our nation has ever produced, and 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 also the father of American literature.
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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.
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Author Bio: Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842–ca. 1914) was an American journalist, short-story writer, and poet. Born in Ohio, he served in the Civil War and then settled in San Francisco. He wrote for Hearst’s Examiner, his wit and satire making him the literary dictator of the Pacific coast and strongly influencing many writers. He disappeared into war-torn Mexico in 1913.
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, Playaway |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Runtime: | 5.48 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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