The Great British Short Story Collection Audiobook By Barry Pain, E. F. Benson, Stacy Aumonier, W. F. Harvey, W. W. Jacobs, Wilkie Collins, John Buchan cover art

The Great British Short Story Collection

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The Great British Short Story Collection

By: Barry Pain, E. F. Benson, Stacy Aumonier, W. F. Harvey, W. W. Jacobs, Wilkie Collins, John Buchan
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers.

  • 1. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
  • 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
  • 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
  • 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain
  • 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier
  • 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy
  • 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
  • 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey
  • 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain
  • 10. "An Undergraduate's Aunt" by F. Anstey
  • 11. "An Idyll of London" by Beatrice Harraden
  • 12. "Hot Potatoes" by Arnold Bennett
  • 13. "Bagnell Terrace" by E. F. Benson
  • 14. "Malachi's Cove" by Anthony Trollope
  • 15. "Moon's Gibbet" by Egerton Castle
  • 16. "The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
  • 17. "The Giraffe Problem" by Barry Pain
  • 18. "The Man who was Blind" by Edwin Pugh
  • 19. "The Perfect Murcer" by Stacy Aumonier
  • 20. "The Other Side" by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
  • 21. "The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame
  • 22. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson
  • 23. "The Dead Hand" by Wilkie Collins
  • 24. "The Wind in the Portico" by John Buchan
  • 25. "The Smile of La Gioconda" by Morley Roberts
  • 26. "The Room" by Stacy Aumonier
  • 27. "The Octave of Jealousy" by Stacy Aumonier
  • 28. "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
  • 29. "The Salt of the Earth" by Barry Pain
  • 30. "The Diary of Mr. Poynter" by M. R. James

....and over 20 more exciting stories.

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories European World Literature British Short Stories Classic Collection

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What a disappointment! The first story on both the American and British collections is read by a woman whose melodramatic, annoyingly-lilting reading style is quite unbearable. I simply cannot understand why they would have chosen her to read at all. I think I am going to have to ask for my credits back.

Awful Voice of Reader!!!

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I loved all the stories in this collection, but the narrator's voice was dreadful: forced, unnatural and devoid of any emotion. I had to force myself to listen to the stories and now avoid this narrator's readings. Unfortunately, she seems to have a monopoly on some really great collections.

terrible voice

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First rate stories. Horrible narration. One of the most irritating, monotone voices I have ever heard.

Awful narrator.

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