This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature’s most treasured names, with inspired readings by gifted actors.

This superlative treasury includes the following stories:

• “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by John Chancer • “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Robert Fass • “Cousin William” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, read by Kate Fenton • “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper” by Mark Twain, read by Bronson Pinchot • “A Piece of String” by Guy Le Maupassant, read by Cornelius Garrett • “Angela, an Inverted Love Story” by W. S. Gilbert, read by Cameron Stewart • “Oh! The Public” by Anton Chekhov, read by Cameron Stewart • “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde, read by John Telfer • “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, read by Jennifer Woodward • “A Coward” by Edith Wharton, read by John Chancer • “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, read by Jennifer Woodward • “Araby” by James Joyce, read by John Telfer • “The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia Woolf, read by Sarah LeFevre • “The Interlopers” by Saki, read by Bill Wallis • “Head and Shoulders” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Stephen R. Thorne • “The Stranger” by Katherine Mansfield, ready by John Telfer • “The Blind Man” by D. H. Lawrence, read by Ric Jerrom • “Nuns at Luncheon” by Aldous Huxley, read by Simon Vance

© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbog): 9781609980139

Release date

Lydbog: 28. september 2010