Master Writers, Master Readers

Just as the style of a great writer cannot easily be imitated, the performance of a great reader is hard to duplicate. This volume features some of the best readers dramatizing some of the best writings. Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things is read by Vanessa Redgrave; Amy Tan reads her own The Hundred Secret Senses; Elizabeth Peña performs Isabel Allende's The Stories of Eva Luna; Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is read by Elliott Gould; Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is read by Paul Scofield; Jane Austen's Persuasion is read by Glenda Jackson; Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County is performed by Waller, Ben Kingsley, and Isabella Rossellini; and Michael York reads The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.