The Little Regiment & Other Great Civil War Stories
A collection of stories about America's bloodiest conflict by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The War between the States comes alive in this outstanding anthology of Civil War stories. Conjuring up the best in historical storytelling, this collection features tales of brother taking up arms against brother; the clash of the blue and the gray; the war between north and south. Tales of heroism and victory, of death and defeat, and most of all–humanity–come alive in these thrilling stories:
"The Little Regiment" by Stephen Crane (read by David Ackroyd)
"The Die Hard" by Stephen Vincent Benet (read by William Windom)
"The Brothers" by Louisa May Alcott (read by Gabrielle de Cuir)
"One of the Missing" by Ambrose Bierce (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
"The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade Wellman (read Richard Gilliland)
"The Unknown Soldier" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (read by Dan Musselman)
"The Lamp of Psyche" by Edith Wharton (read by Amanda Karr)
"How Stonewall Came Back" by James Warner Bellah (read by William Windom)
"The Locket" by Kate Chopin (read by Judith Cummings)
"The Face" by Ed Gorman (read by William Sanderson)
A collection of stories about America's bloodiest conflict by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The War between the States comes alive in this outstanding anthology of Civil War stories. Conjuring up the best in historical storytelling, this collection features tales of brother taking up arms against brother; the clash of the blue and the gray; the war between north and south. Tales of heroism and victory, of death and defeat, and most of all–humanity–come alive in these thrilling stories:
"The Little Regiment" by Stephen Crane (read by David Ackroyd)
"The Die Hard" by Stephen Vincent Benet (read by William Windom)
"The Brothers" by Louisa May Alcott (read by Gabrielle de Cuir)
"One of the Missing" by Ambrose Bierce (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
"The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade Wellman (read Richard Gilliland)
"The Unknown Soldier" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (read by Dan Musselman)
"The Lamp of Psyche" by Edith Wharton (read by Amanda Karr)
"How Stonewall Came Back" by James Warner Bellah (read by William Windom)
"The Locket" by Kate Chopin (read by Judith Cummings)
"The Face" by Ed Gorman (read by William Sanderson)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) föddes och levde i USA. Alcott var dotter till filosofen och fritänkaren Bronson Alcott, som ingick i kretsen av transcendentalister. Fadern var särskilt intresserad av pedagogiska experiment, och Louisa May Alcott ägnade en stor del av sitt liv åt att förverkliga faderns idéer.
Hon är mest känd för sin ungdomsroman Unga kvinnor (Little Women), som senare lett till flera filmatiseringar, men har även skrivit fabler, gotiska berättelser och romaner för vuxna.
Den amerikanska författaren Edith Wharton (1862-1937) kom från en välbeställd familj i New York och reste mycket tillsammans med sina familj som liten. Under första världskriget var hon med och hjälpte belgiska flyktingar. Hon var mot slutet av sitt liv bosatt i Frankrike. Edith Wharton skildrar i sina romaner gärna den högre ståndsmiljö hon kommer ifrån med ett visst mått kritik. Hon belönades med Pulitzerpriset för Oskuldens tid.
