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Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, more
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Publisher's Summary

The Ultimate Classic Collection is drawn from our extensive back catalogue of over 300 short stories and showcases some of the finest examples of the genre: from romance to horror, detective and crime stories to the best of women's writing.

The stories in this superb collection are as follows:

The Girl from Arles - Alphonse Daudet, Read by Stephen Fry
Tobermory - Saki, Read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt
The Sphinx Without a Secret - Oscar Wilde, Read by Martin Jarvis
On Being Idle - Jerome K. Jerome, Read by Hugh Laurie
For Better or Worse - W.W. Jacobs, Read by Joanna David
Mr & Mrs Dove - Katherine Mansfield, Read by Rosalind Ayres
The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde, Read by T.P. McKenna
The Garden of Truth - E. Nesbit, Read by Harriet Walter
The Cat that Walked by Himself - Rudyard Kipling, Read by Liza Goddard
Pat Hobby & Orson Welles - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Read by Kerry Shale
Georgie Porgie - Rudyard Kipling, Read by Edward Fox
Mad - Guy de Maupassant, Read by Derek Jacobi
B 24 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Read by Brian Cox
Caterpillars - E.F. Benson, Read by Patrick Malahide
The Man of the Night - Edgar Wallace, Read by Robin Bailey
Reginald on House Parties - Saki, Read by Nigel Hawthorne
Dr. Heidegger�s Experiment - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Read by Nicky Henson
Ship to Tarshish - John Buchan, Read by Iain Cuthbertson
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe, Read by Richard Pasco
Lost Hearts - M.R. James, Read by Richard Pasco
The Black Cat Edgar - Allan Poe, Read by Richard Griffiths
The Monkey�s Paw - W.W. Jacobs, Read by Patrick Malahide

©2005 CSA Telltapes Ltd (P)2005 CSA Telltapes Ltd

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