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Publisher:
Tantor Media |
Release
Date: May 2001 |
ISBN:
1400100321 |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: Audio book - CD / Unabridged edition / 5 CDx /
5 hours, 40 minutes |
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an Excerpt |
Genre:
Classic Fiction |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Brenda Weeaks |
Reviewer
Notes: http://www.tantor.com |
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Colonel Starbottle's Client
By Bret Harte
Narrated by John Bolen
Bret
Harte gives readers nine short stories --some of the subjects are
moral judgment, secrets best kept, and mind games. Each narrative
has an interesting story to tell, and listeners will be entertained
by his remarkable characters and surprising endings.
Colonel Starbottle’s
Client
Colonel Starbottle has a new client. Although found innocent in
the taking of a life, the victim’s family writes him demanding
he make it financially right. Starbottle reads the letters and finds
offense. He’s ready to approach the case with a heavy hand.
The kind client, however, insists on dealing with the family in
a meek way because he is attracted to a female relative of the victim.
Letters turn to visits and the situation gets out of hand. It’s
a sad story of greed, misinterpretation and the need for self-forgiveness.
It’s an ending that will haunt you.
The Postmistress
of Laurel Run
Something has gone wrong on the run of the Laurel Run postmistress.
She now has a moral decision to make. Is she honorable to her job,
fearful of her boss or loyal to a local worker? It’s a lesson
in honesty and reasoning. The ending certainly isn’t what
one would expect!
The New Assistant
at Pine Clearing School
The schoolmistress of Pine Clearing has some tough students. When
given a new assistant, misunderstandings and moods turn to respect
and attraction, but when the assistant’s secret past is revealed,
the stanch schoolmistress wrestles with morals, emotions, and doing
the right thing. In the end, who will the teacher put first, herself,
her students, the assistant, the local folks?
When is a lie a lie?
Can doing the right thing be worse than leaving well enough alone?
When the guilty hide, will justice eventually find them? This is
certainly a collection of stories written to entertain the mind
and each one does just that.
Other stories on the
tape are: A Night at “Hays,” Johnson’s “Old
Woman,” “In a Pioneer Restaurant,” “A Treasure
of the Galleon,” “Out of a Pioneer’s Trunk,”
“The Ghosts of Stuekley Castle.”
John Bolen reads the
audio book version. His voice captures the era, bringing each story
to life. It’s an entertaining, clean listen. Forget the headphones
and share a classic.
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