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The Best European Short Stories

By: Guy de Maupassant, George Sand, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Schiller, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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A delightful anthology of great works by some of Europe's greatest short story writers:

  • 1. "The Marquise", by George Sand
  • 2. "The Bundle of Letters", by Maurus Jokai
  • 3. "The Pistol Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
  • 4. "The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau", by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
  • 5. "Twenty-six Men and a Girl", by Maxim Gorky
  • 6. "Zodomirsky’s Duel", by Alexandre Dumas
  • 7. "The Mines of Falun", by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • 8. "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant
  • 9."Maestro Niccolo and the Pig", by Gio Sabadino
  • 10. "The Father", by Björnstjerne Björnson
  • 11. "Mons. Cassecrouche’s Inspiration", by George Walter Thornbury
  • 12. "Malachi’s Cove", by Anthony Trollope
  • 13. "The Judgement of Paris", by Leonard Merrick
  • 14. "A Queer Night in Paris", by Guy de Maupassant
  • 15. "Immensee", by Theodor Storm
  • 16. "The Paradise of Cats", by Emile Zolà
  • 17. "In the Reign of Terror", by Anatole France
  • 18. "The Scholar", by Ludwig Tieck
  • 19. "The Long Exile", by Count Leo Tolstoy
  • 20. "The Encased Man", by Anton Chekhov
  • 21. "The Criminal from Lost Honour", by Friedrich Schiller
  • 22. "The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie", by Clemens Brentano
  • 23. "The Black Ferry", by John Galt
  • 24. "The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier
  • 25. "The Clockmaker of Poissy", by Stanley John Weyman
  • 26. "One Thing Leads to Another", by Stacy Aumonier
  • 27. "The Roman Road", by Kenneth Grahame
  • 28. "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
  • 29. "The Honest Thief", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • 30. "The Dead", by James Joyce
  • 31. "The Stone Dragon", by R. Murray Gilchrist
  • 32. "Story", by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks

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