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Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction

By: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, Aldous Huxley, Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Roth, Paul Theroux, Orson Welles, Isabel Allende, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: David Birney, Michael York
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The full list of authors includes: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fizgerald, Aldous Huxley, Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Roth, Paul Theroux, David Birney, Roscoe Lee Browne, Elliot Gould, Elixabeth Pena, Ron Silver, Orson Welles, Isabel Allende.

Inaugurating Dove Audio's Modern Classics Collection - an eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years - Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction features: "The Imperial Icehouse" by Paul Theroux; "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad; "High Darktown" by James Ellroy; "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman; "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley; "You Can't Tell a Man By the Song He Sings" by Philip Roth; and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

©1922, Renewed by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lenahan 1949; 1986 by James Ellroy (P)1999 NewStar Media Inc.

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