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The World's Best Classic Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & W. W. Jacobs
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The World's Best Classic Short Stories

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Length 20 hours 8 minutes
Language English
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Summary

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including:

'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James
'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling
'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy
'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde
'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs
'An Uncomfortable Bed' by Guy de Maupassant
'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley
'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe
'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki
'The Nose' by Nicolai Gogol
'Regret' by Kate Chopin
'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry
'The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield
'A Descent into the Maelström' by Edgar Allan Poe
'The Sphinx Without a Secret' by Oscar Wilde
'The Inconsiderate' Waiter by J.M. Barrie
'The Black Poodle' by F. Anstey
'The Quest' by Saki
'The Three Strangers' by Thomas Hardy
'Oil of Dog' by Ambrose Bierce
'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe
'Markheim' by Robert Louis Stevenson
'Fear' by Guy de Maupassant
'The Belated Russian Passport' by Mark Twain
'The Changeling' by W.W. Jacobs
'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe
'The Eyes of the Panther' by Ambrose Bierce
'The Dead' by James Joyce
'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad
'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin
'The Telltale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe
'My Favorite Murder' by Ambrose Bierce
'The Premature Burial' by Edgar Allan Poe
'Tobermory' by Saki
'Memoirs of a Yellow Dog' by O. Henry.

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