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  25+ The World's Greatest Short...

  Washington Irving, Edgar Allan...

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  Contents:
  
  - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug
  - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener
  - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp
  - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich  
  - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
  - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog
  - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
  - James Joyce. Araby
  - Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  - Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle
  -  Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel
  - Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco
  - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla
  - O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi
  - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  - H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop
  - W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw
  - Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow
  - Henry James. Daisy Miller
  - H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu
  - Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades
  - G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross

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  Taming Of The Shrew The (Argo...

  William Shakespeare

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  ‘My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.’ 
  Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina’s own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio’s feigned cruelty, the ‘shrew’ apparently capitulates. Or does she? 
  All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations. 
  Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production. 
  The full cast includes: Frank Duncan; Tony Church; Beatrix Lehmann; V.C. Clinton-Baddeley; Dudley Jones; Peter Orr; Derek Godfrey; Donald Layne Smith; David King; Gordon Gardner; Philip Strick; Michael Bates; Peggy Ashcroft; Janette Richer; Freda Dowie. 
  This top-notch European theatre production, performed by the best in the field, brings to life the short but intense story of The Taming of the Shrew. The performing arts have never seen such a riveting interpretation of Shakespeare's work. 
  For fans of Paul Werstine (The Two Noble Kinsmen), Sparknotes (Merchant of Venice), and Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman).

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  The Wrong Box

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd...

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  “The Wrong Box” is a wonderful, farcical black comedy co written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (Stevenson’s stepson) in 1889. 
  The story is built around that mainstay of many a farce, a family squabbling over money. In this case it is the proceeds of a Tontine, a once popular investment scheme. 
   A cast of colourful characters, worthy of Dickens, are thrown together, either in the pursuit of money, or in the disposal of a mysterious corpse which makes surprising and gruesome appearances throughout the story. 
  Head Stories Audio presents "The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Narrated by Simon Hester

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  Beric the Briton: a Story of the...

  G. A. Henty

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  My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island defended themselves was acknowledged by the Roman historians, and it was only the superior discipline of the invaders that enabled them finally to triumph over the bravery and the superior physical strength of the Britons. The Roman conquest for the time was undoubtedly of immense advantage to the people -- who had previously wasted their energies in perpetual tribal wars -- as it introduced among them the civilization of Rome. In the end, however, it proved disastrous to the islanders, who lost all their military virtues. Having been defended from the savages of the north by the soldiers of Rome, the Britons were, when the legions were recalled, unable to offer any effectual resistance to the Saxons, who, coming under the guise of friendship, speedily became their masters, imposing a yoke infinitely more burdensome than that of Rome, and erasing almost every sign of the civilization that had been engrafted upon them. How far the British population disappeared under the subsequent invasion and the still more oppressive yoke of the Danes is uncertain; but as the invaders would naturally desire to retain the people to cultivate the land for them, it is probable that the great mass of the Britons were not exterminated. It is at any rate pleasant to believe that with the Saxon, Danish, and Norman blood in our veins, there is still a large admixture of that of the warriors who fought so bravely against Caesar, and who rose under Boadicea in a desperate effort to shake off the oppressive rule of Rome.. (Introduction by G.A.Henty)

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  They

  Rudyard Kipling

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  "I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks diving under stone bridges built for heavier traffic than would ever vex them again; tithe-barns larger than their churches, and an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the Knights of the Temple. Gypsies I found on a common where ...the gorse, bracken, and heath fought it out together up a mile of Roman road; and a little further on I disturbed a red fox rolling dog-fashion in the naked sunlight."  "They" is one of the spookiest and most moving short stories ever written.

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  Mr Pappas

  A. J. Alan

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  A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress.Mr. Pappas tells the story of a young female artist who has agreed to let out her studio one evening a week to a mysterious foreigner, Mr. Pappas. She is now anxious about what her sinister tenant might be getting up to in her studio...and A. J. Alan offers to hide in the place and spy on them one night. When he does so, he uncovers astounding and terrible goings on....

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