Product Description: Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mystery stories that set the groundwork for the creation of the Philip Marlowe character. His fast-paced style has become the hallmark of American mystery at its best. 4 cassettes.

Product Description: It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of "Black Mask" and "Dime Detective Magazine", are eight of his finest stories including "The Man Who Liked Dogs", "The Lady in the Lake" and "Bay City Blues"...read more

Product Description: Ramond Chandler's great gritty detective, Philip Marlow, is in Red Wind, and Elliott Gould portrays him perfectly. A mystery masterpiece by the master of mystery weaving.

Presents a collection of the author's short stories, travel writings, and reflections on nineteenth-century English society.

Amazon.com Review: Listening to these time-honored poems, it's difficult to imagine the young Frost struggling to find a publisher for his work. In fact, he was nearly 40 (and living in England, of all places) when A Boy's Will, his first collection, appeared. Over the next 50 years he would become the quintessential American poet, securing a well-cushioned catbird seat in the literary canon. Performers Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Elliott Gould, among others, heighten the conversational cadences of a writer who seldom strayed from his beloved iambs. Included are "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Fear," and much more, all complete and unabridged. (Running time: 1 hour, 1 cassette) --Martha Silano

Product Description: Aesop's fables present examples of selfishness turned to generosity, deception evolving into honor, and gloom unfolding to pleasure. Celebrity readers include Ellen Barkin, Glenda Jackson, Sharon Stone, and Michael York.

Amazon.com Review: A sonnet is a structured poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. William Shakespeare is the acknowledged master of this medium, turning each set of 140 syllables into miniature dramas about love, lust, betrayal, shame, and death...read more

Product Description: Carl Sandburg's first published book of verse dates back to 1916. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace and a love and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people."

Product Description: Aesop's fables present examples of selfishness turning to generosity, deception evolving into honor, and gloom unfolding to pleasure. These are moral tales which have survived since the life of Aesop and have traveled by language and distance...read more

Product Description: A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. The way business is looking, even a hunch is enough. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds, without his necktie...read more