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The American Short Story Collection

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Recommended by the American Library Association in "choosing the Best in Children’s video.

"An extraordinary experiment in the blending of scholarship, cinematic art...first rate talents."--The New York Times

RICHARD WRIGHT'S
Almos' A Man
A black teenage farm worker, believes that owning a gun is a mark of maturity.
Stars Levar Burton and Madge Sinclair
Color/50min/PBS
$37.00 

WILLIAM FAULKNER'S
Barn Burning
An adolescent boy in post Civil War Mississippi must reconcile his innate sense of justice and his loyalty to his father.
Stars Tommy Lee Jones and Diane Kagan
Color/40min/PBS
$37.00 

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
A reticent "ugly duckling" transforms into a sought-after vamp and wins the hearts of her manipulative cousin'suitors.
Stars Shelley Duvall and Bud Cort
Color/50min/PBS
$37.00 

STEPHEN CRANE'S
The Blue Hotel
A stranger arrives in a small 1880's Nebraska town and joins a fateful card game.
Stars David Warner and James Keach
Color/55min/PBS
$37.00
 

FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S
The Displaced Person
A Polish refugee family is brought to a Georgia farm in the late 1940's.
Stars John Houseman
Color/60min/PBS
$37.00 

RING LARDNER'S
The Golden Honeymoon
Charlie and Lucy Tate get a surprise on their vacation when they encounter Lucy's suitor of fifty years ago.
Stars James Whitmore and Teresa Wright
Color/50min/PBS
$37.00 

WILLA CATHER'S
Paul's Case
A young man steals money to gain entry to a world of glamour and refinement.
Stars Eric Roberts
Color/50min/PBS
$37.00 

JOHN UPDIKE'S
Pigeon Feathers
The story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living.
Stars Christopher Collet and Caroline McWilliams
Color/45min/PBS
$37.00 

JAMES THURBER'S
The Greatest Man In The World
An illiterate lout manages to become the first man to fly around the world and now everyone wants to make
him into a hero.
Stars Brad Davis and Carol Kane
Color/51min/PBS
$37.00 

HORTENSE CALISHER'S
The Hollow Boy
A young German immigrant and his jewish neighbor attempt an uneasy friendship in 1936's uncompromising New YorkCity.
Stars Alexis Arquette and Jerry Stiller
Color/60min/PBS
$37.00 

SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S
I'm A Fool
A young man tells a lie to a beautiful woman in hopes that his exaggerations will impress her.
Stars Ron Howard and Amy Irving
Color/40min/PBS
$37.00 

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER'S
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
A proud matriarch summons up for evaluation the successes and failures of her long years.
Stars Geraldine Fitzgerald
Color/60min/PBS
$37.00 

HENRY JAMES'
The Jolly Corner
An expatriated American who fled from the Civil War returns thirty-five years later to pursue the identity that would have been his.
Stars Salome Jens and Fritz Weaver
Color/45min/PBS
$37.00 

HAROLD BRODKEY'S
Love and Other Sorrows
Over a lazy St. Louis summer, sixteen year old Ben learns a little about love and a lot about life.
Stars Christopher Collet and Elizabeth Franz
Color/60min/PBS
$37
.00 

MARK TWAIN'S
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
A mysterious stranger who was slighted by the people of Hadleyburg reappears to disprove the town's reputation.
Stars Robert Preston and Fred Gwynne
Color/40min/PBS
$37.00 

JOHN UPDIKE'S
The Music School
A writer struggles to find a focus to his life.
Stars Ron Weyand
Color/30 min/PBS
$37.00

AMBROSE BIERCE'S
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
A Civil War spy confronts his captors.
Stars Harris Yulin
Color/30 min/PBS
$
37.00 

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S
Rappaccini's Daughter
In eighteenth-century Italy, a young scholar falls in love with a beautiful but forbidden young woman.
Stars Kathleen Beller and Kristopher Tabori
Color/60min/PBS
$37.00 

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN'S
The Revolt of Mother
A woman's firm but gentle reminder to her husband of "family" and promises.
Stars Amy Madigan
Color/60min/PBS
$37.00 

ERNEST J. GAINES'
The Sky is Gray
In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.
Stars Olivia Cole and James Bond III
Color/45min/PBS
$37.00

ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S
Soldier's Home
After serving as a soldier in World War I, Harold Krebs returns to Kansas at the war's end.
Stars Richard Backus and Nancy Marchand
Color/40min/PBS
$37.00 

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