Compact disc. Read by various performers. "Some of these Caedmon recordings were lightly abridged to fit their original LP format"--Container.
Contents:
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; performed by David McCallum -- The diamond necklace / Guy DeMaupassant ; performed by Claire Bloom -- Tobermory / Saki ; performed by Keith Baxter -- A painful case / James Joyce ; performed by Ciaran Hinds -- The jelly-bean / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; performed by Dylan Baker -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield ; performed by Celia Johnson -- A hungry artist / Franz Kafka ; performed by Lotte Lenya -- University days / James Thurber ; performed by Richard Kiley -- A toast to Harlem / Langston Hughes ; performed by Ossie Davis -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty ; performed by the author -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; performed by Maureen Stapleton -- Persistence of desire / John Updike ; performed by the author -- We can remember it for you wholesale / Philip K. Dick ; performed by Keir Dullea -- Homeland / Barbara Kingsolver ; performed by the author.
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