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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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"Rip Van Winkle" is one of Washington Irving's most iconic scary stories. Rip falls asleep after drinking too much and awakens 20 years into the future with a rusty gun, a dead wife, and a now-adult daughter. What's more, looks like Rip has missed the entire American Civil War. George Guidall is an incredibly talented audio performer. He brings this famous and traditional American ghost story to life. Guidall plays with his intonation, utilizing both high and low registers to make this audio version even more captivating than the original. In particular, Guidall endows elderly Rip with a spot-on croaky and bewildered voice. This audiobook is a great Halloween-time listen.
Critic reviews
"Irving belongs to the number of writers who can be read by all who admire a combination of elegance, sentiment, and wit." (American Literature and Culture)
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- Narrated by: Emma Fenney, Phil Gigante, Erin Yuen
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness. Readily accessible by children, they present lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity that appeal to mature listeners as well. This collection of 18 tales includes "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Princess and the Pea", and "The Snow Queen".
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Davina Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly distorted version of our own world, where people are bedeviled by mischievous interventions from the fairies.
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21st century 19th century lit
- By M. Morgan on 04-06-07
By: Susanna Clarke
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Independent People
- By: Halldór Laxness
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
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I am so confused about this introduction
- By George M on 09-10-18
By: Halldór Laxness
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The Travel and Adventures of Little Baron Trump
- By: Ingersoll Lockwood
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged German heir who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series - a mix of fantasy and young-reader-oriented science fiction - anticipated and may have influenced L. Frank Baum's Oz series. The Travel and Adventures of Little Baron Trump describes Baron's trip around the world with his little dog, meeting new races like the Wind Eaters, Man Hoppers, and Melodious Sneezers.
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A lot of fun, and a sensitive study of a boy and his dog
- By ReadToLive on 03-04-20
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Leaves of Grass
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Ed Begley
- Length: 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Walt Whitman's celebrated poetry collection, read by Ed Begley.
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It is NOT unabridged.
- By Mark D Worthen PsyD on 09-19-15
By: Walt Whitman
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- By: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrated by: John Michaels
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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"Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him." This line was written by Ambrose Bierce in his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Death by execution has historically been ritualized, perhaps to absolve those accomplishing the execution from guilt or blame.
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This has stuck with me since highschool.
- By Shane on 08-06-20
By: Ambrose Bierce
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Tales from the Perilous Realm
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Combined into one volume, this is the definitive collection of Tolkien's five acclaimed modern classic 'fairie' tales in the vein of The Hobbit, read by Derek Jacobi. The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are joined here in one volume which reaffirms Tolkien's place as a master storyteller for listeners young and old.
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Enjoyable Tolkien short stories
- By Linda Luella on 03-28-17
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse
- By: Marguerite Henry
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early years of our country, a poor school teacher, Justin Morgan, receives a horse and her tiny colt in payment for some work. He wishes he had been given money instead. Hoping that he might sell both horses for a fair price, he asks his student, Joel, to break in the colt. To his surprise, young Joel soon discovers that this small, brown creature has special abilities: "Bub" can pull more than a team of oxen, and he can run faster than a racehorse.
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A Loved Classic
- By E. on 10-14-15
By: Marguerite Henry
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- Sher from Provo
- 06-03-18
Great Stories
Great short stories with strong morals. I love reading Irving! His imagery is vivid, and it is easy to get sucked into the situations.
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- Evelyn
- 10-30-13
Both stories are now included!
These short stories are excellent, and the narrator is one of the BEST! There had been an issue of only Rip Van Winkle being included but this has now been corrected. The length of this audiobook at the time I purchased it had been listed as 48 minutes but now it is two hours and 14 minutes long. If you purchased this prior to this correction, you just need to download it again as I did and you will gain access to both stories.
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- Doreen
- 07-15-15
Loved revisiting these two classics
Happy to confirm as reported by an earlier reviewer that both stories are, in fact, included in this audio.
I found these stories, often read in elementary school, to be every bit as much enjoyable and interesting to me now at age 60+, maybe even more so since I'm able to appreciate subtleties I missed as a child. I loved the description of the Catskills and the 18th century society.
George Guidall is as ever one of the best narrators. I happily buy anything narrated by him without apprehension and these two stories of Washington Irving are no exception.
That said, the narration of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--that story alone--by Tom Mison is excellent also.
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- B. Hayes
- 02-25-13
Sleepy Hollow Story Missing
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
I needed both stories. The title says Sleepy Hollow is included, but it is not. Have we done something wrong in the download?
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- Mark
- 04-21-08
Missing
This title was supposed to include the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. But it only contains Rip Van Winkle.
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