Short Stories: The Timeless Collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jerome K. Jerome, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain (CD-Audio ISBN 9781904605980) book cover

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Stories that never age

Short Stories: The Timeless Collection features 20 well-loved and unabridged tales from the best-loved authors in the history of English literature, including the deliciously sardonic Saki and a brilliant semi-autobiographical tale by Charles Dickens, inspired by the railway. An array of well-known readers including Nigel Hawthorne, Martin Jarvis, Brian Cox, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
LISTINGS: The Windmill as I First Knew It by Alphonse Daudet, Boil Some Water Lots of It by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh by Saki, Idle Thoughts on Babies by Jerome K. Jerome, The Schartz-Metterklume Method by Saki, A Photographer’s Day Out by Lewis Carroll, Gentlemen and Players by E. W. Hornung, Mrs Amworth by E. F. Benson, Timber by John Galsworthy, Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne, No 1 Branch Line The Signalman by Charles Dickens, The Squaw by Bram Stoker, The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, The Mezzotint by M. R. James, Angela by W. S. Gilbert, The Barrister’s Story by Sapper, Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O. Henry, Oh Whistle & I’ll Come to You My Lad by M. R. James, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain.


F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jerome K. Jerome, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker & Mark Twain

This classic collection features stories from the likes of Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

Readers include top British actors Stephen Fry, Nigel Hawthorne, Rupert Friend, Martin Jarvis and Hugh Laurie.