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Simon and Schuster's Hemingway Audio Collection.

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Simon and Schuster's Hemingway Audio Collection. [Titles listed in order of CD release].

The Old Man and the Sea. 1952. Read by Donald Sutherland. Three Compact Discs. $20.00.

A Farewell to Arms. 1929. Read by John Slattery. Eight Compact Discs. $39.95.

For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1940. Read by Campbell Scott. Sixteen Compact Discs. $49.95.

A Moveable Feast. 1964. Read by James Naughton. Five Compact Discs. $29.95.

Islands in the Stream. 1970. Read by Bruce Greenwood. Twelve Compact Discs. $49-95.

To Have and Have Not. 1937. Read by Will Patton. Five Compact Discs. $29.95.

In conjunction with the 80th anniversary of The Sun Also Rises, Simon and Schuster Audio, along with Scribner's, is in the midst of producing the major novels of Ernest Hemingway on compact disc and eAudio. All twelve major works, with the exception of The Torrents of Spring, Hemingway's 1926 parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, are scheduled for release between May 2006 and February 2007. Patrick Hemingway, according to a Simon and Schuster press release, has said "I think that my father would have been pleased to have so many of his finest works published in audio-book form. Reading Hemingway is to listen to him, to 'hear' the dialogue. The spoken word versions will certainly add another dimension to his writing and will entice new audiences to his work." Audio Hemingway is certainly nothing new, but spoken-word editions of his major works in the past were...