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Fifty Great Classic Stories

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Kenneth Grahame, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Stacy Aumonier, D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Fifty great classic short stories selected from the works of the best writers of the last century.

  • "Juxtapositions", by Stacy Aumonier
  • "The Misogynist", by Henry Prothero
  • "Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa May Alcott
  • "An Egyptian Cigarette" by Kate Chopin
  • "The Roman Road", by Kenneth Grahame
  • "The Mark of the Beast", by Rudyard Kipling
  • "My Adventure in Norfolk", by A. J. Alan
  • "Gabriel-Ernest", by Saki
  • "The Mother Stone", by John Galsworthy
  • "The Egg", by Sherwood Anderson
  • "Rats", by M. R. James
  • "The Ring of Thoth", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Ship That Saw a Ghost", by Frank Norris
  • "The Brothers", by Stacy Aumonier
  • "The Girl Who Was Tired of Love", by Leonard Merrick
  • "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennet
  • "Found on a Drowned Man", by Guy de Maupassant
  • "An Undergraduate’s Aunt", by F. Anstey
  • "H2 etc.", by A. J. Alan
  • "The Wolf", by Guy de Maupassant
  • "The Black Cat", by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Chaplet", by Saki
  • "The Grey Parrot", by W. W. Jacobs
  • "The One Million Pound Banknote", by Mark Twain
  • "Major Namby", by Wilkie Collins
  • "Blackmail", by John Galsworthy
  • "A Lucky Number", by S. B. Hale
  • and other stories
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics
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This was absolutely awful ... I wanted to enjoy it but the awful monotonous droning of Cathy Dobson as the narrator spoilt it totally. I only managed to listed to 1-1/2 stories before snatching my headphones off.... Awful awful awful. So disappointed as I have no doubt the stories are great.

How could the performance have been better?

see above

Any additional comments?

Please redo this collection with a different narrator. Just because she's an author in her own right, does not make her a good reader!! I note one other reviewer also made similar comments.

dreadful narration

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Just bad (more words required). Really bad, bad bad bad bad bad bad bad, pretty damn bad!

Bad

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Poor narration- had to stop listening. Very distracting unbalanced voice. Pity as the stories would be great if well narrated

Great Classics but disappointing narrator

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