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    Classic Short Stories: From the Great Storywriters of the World
    Classic Short Stories: From the Great Storywriters of the World
    Classic Short Stories: From the Great Storywriters of the World
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    Classic Short Stories: From the Great Storywriters of the World

    Written by Mark Twain, O. Henry and Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A vintage collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written.The Fly by Katherine Mansfield, The Mezzotint by M. R. James, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy, The Jew’s Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Tobermory by Saki, The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton, B24 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Finest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling, Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain, The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce, The Brogue by Saki, The Stalled Ox – Saki, Hunted Down – Charles Dickens.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781467668798
    Classic Short Stories: From the Great Storywriters of the World
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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    • 4/5
      A great collection and very well read. Give it a try!
    • 5/5
      Love this narrator. It takes a bit time to get used to her but she’s so much better than some other narrators. Some of them make listeners feel so awkward and embarrassed just listening to their voices. This female narrator however, once you are used to her tone you can almost enjoy the stories as you are to read them yourself. I hope she records more.