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    Compelling Short Stories: Forty Great Classic Tales
    Compelling Short Stories: Forty Great Classic Tales
    Compelling Short Stories: Forty Great Classic Tales
    Audiobook17 hours

    Compelling Short Stories: Forty Great Classic Tales

    Written by H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard and Hugh Walpole

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A rich and varied anthology of inventive classic tales by some of the world's top storytellers.

    'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells
    'The Scarecrow' by G. Ranger Wormser
    'Only a Dream' by H. Rider Haggard
    'The Magic Shop' by H. G. Wells
    'The Business of Madame Jahn' by Vincent O'Sullivan
    'The Old Portrait' by Hume Nisbet
    'The Yellow Globe' by Alexander W. Drake
    'The Last Trump' by Hugh Walpole
    'The White Cat' by W. W. Jacobs
    'The Effigy' by G. Ranger Wormser
    'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid' by H. G. Wells
    'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie
    'The Khitmatgar' by B. M. Croker
    'The Crystal Egg' by H. G. Wells
    'The Fire' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne
    'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant
    'Haunted' by G. Ranger Wormser
    'Through a Window' by H. G. Wells
    'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Marriott-Watson
    'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton...and over 20 more fascinating classic stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781509420841
    Compelling Short Stories: Forty Great Classic Tales
    Author

    H.G. Wells

    H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his science fiction novels, which are considered classics of the genre, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was born in Bromley, Kent, and worked as a teacher, before studying biology under Thomas Huxley in London.

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