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Wonderful Short Stories

By: Barry Pain, George Gissing, Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield, Olive Schreiner, Kenneth Grahame, Mark Twain
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Summary

A glittering collection of classic short stories.

1. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub
2. "Miracles" by Barry Pain
3. "In a Far-off World" by Olive Schreiner
4. "The House of Cobwebs" by George Gissing
5. "A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner
6. "A Very Black Business" by Ernest Bramah
7. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
8. "The Pig and Whistle" by George Gissing
9. "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub
10. "Life’s Gifts" by Olive Schreiner
11. "The Artist’s Secret" by Olive Schreiner
12. "Pigs Is Pigs" by Ellis Parker Butler
13. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey
14. "The First of April" by A. J. Alan
15. "The Apple Tree" by Katherine Mansfield
16. "The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame
17. "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
18. "The Tree of Death" by Barry Pain
19. "The Mysterious Card" by Cleveland Moffett
20. "The Card Unveiled" by Cleveland Moffett
21. "A Long Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy
22. "The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier
23. "The Girl Who Was Tired of Love" by Leonard Merrick
24. "Miss Bracelgirdle Does Her Duty" by Stacy Aumonier
25. "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant
26. "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy
27. "The Dead" by James Joyce
28. "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde
29. "The Dolls House" by Katherine Mansfield
30. "A Falling Out" by Kenneth Grahame

...and twenty more amazing classic tales.

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks

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The narrator was awful!

I really struggled to listen and in the end gave up! Definitely a wasted credit!

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