CLASSIC WOMEN'S SHORT STORIES
, ; read by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross and Teresa Gallagher. . Naxos Audiobooks, $13.98 (0pp) ISBN 978-962-634-738-6
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This fine collection of classic tales by women is complemented by appropriate, unobtrusive classical music from the Naxos music catalogue, along with a booklet with biographies of the authors and readers. All of the narrators are exemplary, but Teresa Gallagher's performance of Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" stands out. In this unusual stream-of-consciousness story, a woman sitting idly in her home notices a tiny speck on the wall, and as she wonders what it is (a hole from a nail? Dirt? An insect?) her thoughts wander to the people who owned the house previously, to history, to philosophy, to her own life and always back to the mark on the wall. Gallagher sounds completely spontaneous: listeners can easily believe that she truly
Reviewed on: 02/04/2002
Genre: Audio