50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories - Selections from Irving, Wilde, Chopin, Wells, Chekhov, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and Many More
50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories - Vol. 2
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50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories - Selections from Irving, Wilde, Chopin, Wells, Chekhov, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Bradbury, Christie and Many More
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Kenneth Elliot
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Peter Coates
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David J Miles
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Mike Hogan
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Michael Goodrick
About this listen
This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and Russian literature.
Some of the outstanding authors included in this collection: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H. P. Lovecraft, John Galsworthy , Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and many more.
This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts.
Washington Irving. Rip van Winkle
Charlotte Bronte. Napoleon and the Spectre
Mary Shelley. The Mortal Immortal
Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat
Ivan Turgenev. First Love
Charles Dickens. Nobody's Story
Herman Melville. Bartleby, The Scrivener
Mark Twain
A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco
Answers to Correspondents
Among the Fenians
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Cold Embrace
Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Parson's Horse Race
Joel Chandler Harris. The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
Guy de Maupassant. The Piece of String
Leo Tolstoy
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
God Sees The Truth, But Waits
Oscar Wilde. The Happy Prince
Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat
Kate Chopin. The Awakening
H. G. Wells. The Star
Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries
A Malefactor
Arthur Conan Doyle
Lot No. 249
The Crime Of The Brigadier
Rudyard Kipling. The Cat That Walked By Himself
Jack London. To Build A Fire
H. H. Munro, or Saki. Gabriel-Ernest
O. Henry. The Caballero's Way
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Cottagette
James Joyce. The Dead
Franz Kafka. In the Penal Colony
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Christmas Tree And The Wedding
John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Offshore Pirate
G. K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross
Ivan Bunin
The Grammar Of Love
Gentle Breathing
Aleksandr Kuprin. The Outrage - A True Story
Ernest Hemingway
Up in Michigan
Out of Season
My Old Man
Ray Bradbury
A Little Journey
Zero Hour
H. P. Lovecraft. The Shadow over Innsmouth
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Cup Of Life
The Beer Story
Moonshine Springs
Agatha Christie
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The complete list of authors includes: Washington Irving, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joel Chandler Harris, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, Kate Chopin, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, G. K. Chesterton, Ivan Bunin, Aleksandr Kuprin, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Mikhail Bulgakov, Agatha Christie
The complete list of narrators includes: Kenneth Elliot, Peter Coates, David J Miles, Mike Hogan, Michael Goodrick, Mark Bowen, Sharon Plummer, Abigail Reno, John Lingua, Jim Gerard, Carl Hughes, Anthony Bottoms
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