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World's Greatest Short Stories

By: Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Chase Cooper
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Included

The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe,

Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin,

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving,

Prosper Mérimée
by Mateo Falcone,

Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte,

The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley,

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol,

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,

The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe,

An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Frog by Edgar Allan Poe,

The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare,

To Be Read At Dusk. by Charles Dickens,

The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev,

Nobody's Story by Charles Dickens,

The Fiddler
by Herman Melville,

The Lightning-Rod Man
by Herman Melville,

Selecting The Faculty by Robert Carlton,

The Cold Embrace by Mary E. Braddon,

Journalism In Tennessee
by Mark Twain,

The Luck Of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte,

A Jersey Centenarian
by Bret Harte,

The Notorious Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County
by Mark Twain,

and more.


The complete list of authors includes: Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Jack London, E.M. Forster

The complete list of narrators includes: Chase Cooper

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The initial narration is very poor, colourless, badly recorded and without either skill nor talent ; the first narrator appears to lack the intelligence to understand what he’s reading. After listening to him drone on for a length of two stories I could no longer bear to hear his inept and unattractive voice. No wonder it’s free …

Poor narration - there’s no substitute for using professional voiceover artists..

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