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Thirty-Minute Stories

A Bumper Anthology of Great Classic Short Stories

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Thirty-Minute Stories

By: Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton, George Gissing, Arthur Conan Doyle, W. F. Harvey, Arnold Bennett, M. R. James
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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About this listen

A spectacular collection of outstanding half-hour short stories...perfect for commuters or bedtime listening.

  • 'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Well' by W. W. Jacobs
  • 'The Scrupulous Father' by George Gissing
  • 'The Debt' by Edith Wharton
  • 'The Problem of the Five Marks' by Melville Davisson Post
  • 'The Purple Wig' by G. K. Chesterton
  • 'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 'Humplebee' by George Gissing
  • 'The Silver Mask' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Adventure of the Three Garridebs' by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 'The Lake' by W. F. Harvey
  • 'Batchelors' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter' by M. R. James
  • 'The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone' by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 'A Thread of Scarlet' by J. J. Bell
  • 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Umbrella' by Arnold Bennett
  • 'The Little Ghost' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith
  • 'The Enemy' by Hugh Walpole

...and many more entrancing half-hour tales.

Public Domain (P)2016 Red Door Audiobooks Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Adventure Short Story
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Classic stories narrated poorly.
Not the first collection I do not listen to because of this unnecessarily sinister voice.

Narration is awfully monotonous

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