Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1 Audiobook

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1 Author: William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Edith Wharton, more Narrator: Charlton Griffin Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 03-31-05 Publisher: Audio Connoisseur Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 146 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Selections in Volume 1: "A Journey" by Edith Wharton - A woman tries to conceal the death of her husband on a train trip. "Impulse" by Conrad Aiken After a lifetime of pushing his luck, a man pushes it a little too far. "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" by Thomas Wolfe A lonely man with a map tries to understand a little piece of the earth. "A Christian Education" by Robert Penn Warren A troubled farmer recalls the life and death of a retarded boy. "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner In prose as fully mature and beautiful as anything he ever wrote, this is one of the most searing indictments of revenge ever put on paper. "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather A youth decides to put his life of fantasy and that of the real world on a collision course. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét This beautiful, riproaring tall-tale embraces all that is good in American life. Critic Reviews: "Charlton Griffin is dazzlingly good, with regional accents, with the change in timbre from a boy's voice to a woman's and a man's, and most of all with his nuanced understanding of how to deliver the narrative from writer to reader without getting himself in the way." (AudioFile) "With its flawless technical recording values and masterful presentation, this first volume in the Audio Connoisseur Classic American Short Stories series will leave the listener eagerly awaiting a second volume!" (Midwest Book Review)