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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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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Here you will find the complete novels of Mark Twain: 1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Starts at Chapter 1, 2. The Prince and the Pauper Starts at Chapter 37, 3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Starts at Chapter 70, 4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Starts at Chapter 113, 5. The American Claimant Starts at Chapter 158, 6. Tom Sawyer Abroad Starts at Chapter 184, 7. Pudd'nhead Wilson Starts at Chapter 197, 8. Tom Sawyer, Detective Starts at Chapter 219, 9. A Horse's Tale Starts at Chapter 230, 10. The Mysterious Stranger Starts at Chapter 245.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Content; GREAT! Performance.. .not so much😁
- By brian deis on 01-09-20
By: Mark Twain
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A Day's Read
- By: The Great Courses, Emily Allen, Grant L. Voth, and others
- Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein, Emily Allen, Grant L. Voth
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces that you can finish - and engage with - in a day or less. Perfect for people with busy lives who still want to discover-or rediscover-just how transformative an act of reading can be, these 36 lectures range from short stories of fewer than 10 pages to novellas and novels of around 200 pages. Despite their short length, these works are powerful examinations of the same subjects and themes that longer "great books" discuss.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stories not included, only discussed
- By Julie Newman on 01-15-16
By: The Great Courses, and others
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Classic American Short Stories, Volume 3
- By: Mark Twain, Katherine Porter, Henry James, and others
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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No nation has ever achieved the literary diversity of America. From nativist humor to immigrant triumph, Americans have recorded their visions and hopes better than anyone
By: Mark Twain, and others
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25+ the World's Greatest Short Stories 1
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, the Yellow Wallpaper, the Call of Cthulhu and Other
- By: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and others
- Narrated by: Paul Gibson, David Miles, Michael Goodrick, and others
- Length: 29 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.
By: Washington Irving, and others
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The Short Stories, Volume I
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 630
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Story4 out of 5 stars 417
This definitive audio collection, read by Stacy Keach, traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style - from the plain bald language of his first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Papa wouldn't have like this recording.
- By Jerry`` on 03-16-04
By: Ernest Hemingway
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The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection - Volume One: 22 Novels and Stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Herman Hesse, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, & More
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Whose Body?, Dubliners, Steppenwolf, The Great Gatsby, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Maltese Falcon, The Magic Mountain, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Sun Also Rises, & More
- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Adam Sims, and others
- Length: 190 hrs and 45 mins
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The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century. Featuring 22 essential modern classics from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Hesse, Agatha Christie, Virigna Woolf, and many more, and read by a cast of incredible narrators including David Rintoul, Robert G. Slade, Karen Cass, Nathan Osgood, amongst others, this is an essential addition to your library.
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,880
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,618
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,615
This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence". Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightfully silly
- By Tad Davis on 09-12-11
By: Oscar Wilde
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Two: 15+ Novels, Stories, and Poems from Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Jane Austen, & More
- Anna Karenina, Ethan Frome, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Scarlet Letter, The Age of Innocence, & More
- By: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, and others
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Peter Kenny, Emma Gregory, and others
- Length: 176 hrs and 24 mins
- Highlights
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more, alongside selected poetry from Christina Rossetti; Elizabeth Browning; and Emily Dickinson. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Keeble, and many more, this is your new go-to collection to catch up on those classics you've always wanted to hear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loving it
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-25
By: Louisa May Alcott, and others
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume One: 15 Novels from Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Tolstoy, Melville, Brontë, & More
- The Brothers Karamazov, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, The Castle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, & More
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and others
- Length: 272 hrs and 9 mins
- Highlights
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 16
The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Collection
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-25
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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The Edgar Allan Poe Complete Works Collection - Stories, Poems, Novels, and Essays
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble
- Length: 59 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Finest Poe Collection
- By James on 02-13-22
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Mark Twain Complete Collection
- All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay, and others
- Length: 280 hrs and 21 mins
- Highlights
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Incredible Twain Collection with A* Narration!
- By James on 08-13-24
By: Mark Twain
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The Leo Tolstoy Complete Collection
- War and Peace; Anna Karenina; Resurrection; Short Stories; Novellas; and Non-Fiction
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory
- Length: 186 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Legendary author, flawless narrations.
- By Kindle Customer on 06-07-24
By: Leo Tolstoy
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BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection
- 90 Unmissable Tales
- By: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, and others
- Narrated by: Sam Dale, Joseph Ayre, Carolyn Pickles, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors.
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1 out of 5 stars
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These are not full cast audio dramas
- By Mollie on 03-25-23
By: Oscar Wilde, and others