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Favourite Short Stories

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole, G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Summary

A thoroughly engaging collection of classic short stories from some of the greatest writers who lived.

  • 1. "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry
  • 2. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub
  • 3. "His Brother’s Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
  • 4. "Query" by Seamark
  • 5. "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy
  • 6. "The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier
  • 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
  • 8. "Charles" by A. J. Alan
  • 9. "Malachi’s Cove" by Anthony Trollope
  • 10. "A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield
  • 11. "Pigs Is Pigs" by Ellis Parker Butler
  • 12. "Moon’s Gibbet" by Egerton Castle
  • 13. "The Well" by W. W. Jacobs
  • 14. "A Coincidence" by A. J. Alan
  • 15. "In a Far-Off World" by Olive Schreiner
  • 16. "Humplebee" by George Gissing
  • 17. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson
  • 18. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain
  • 19. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey
  • 20. "The Cat" by E. F. Benson
  • 21. "Gabriel Ernest" by Saki
  • 22. "The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
  • 23. "The Enemy" by Hugh Walpole
  • 24. "The Wedding Guest" by Guy Boothby
  • 25. "A Joy Ride" by A. J. Alan
  • 26. "The Green Light" by Barry Pain
  • 27. "The Man of the Night" by Edgar Wallace
  • 28. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy
  • 29. "Lost Treasure" by Caradoc Evans
  • 30. "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chesterton
  • 31. "The Red Headed League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 32. "The Beast with Five Fingers" by W. F. Harvey
  • 33. "My Adventure in Norfolk" by A. J. Alan
  • 34. "The Bus Conductor" by E. F. Benson
  • 35. "The Comedy at Fountain Cottage" by Ernest Bramah
  • 36. "The House of Cobwebs" by George Gissing
  • 37. "A Source of Irritation" by Stacy Aumonier
  • 38. "The Nightmare Room" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 39. "The White Dog" by Fedor Sologub
  • 40. "The Club of One-Eyed Men" by Arthur Somers Roche...and ten more great short stories.
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Terrible narrator

The stories were ruined by the awful and annoying style of narration. I struggled t8 listen for more than a few minutes at a time. Waste of a credit.

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