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Short Story Classics

By: Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Publisher's Summary

A vintage collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written:

  • "The Purloined Letter", by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Nose", by Nikolai Gogol
  • "The Story of an Hour", by Kate Chopin
  • "The Gift of the Magi", by O. Henry
  • "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal", by Daniel Defoe
  • "The Lifted Veil", by George Eliot
  • "Life of Ma Parker", by Katherine Mansfield
  • "The Baron", by Katherine Mansfield
  • "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Seventh Pullet", by Saki
  • "The Yellow Paint", by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "The Sphinx Without a Secret", by Oscar Wilde
  • "The Boarded Window", by Ambrose Bierce
  • "Squire Petrick’s Lady", by Thomas Hardy
  • "The Dead", by James Joyce
  • "The Unknown Quantity", by O. Henry
  • "The Venturers", by O.Henry
  • "The One-Million-Pound Bank Note", by Mark Twain
  • "The Stolen White Elephant", by Mark Twain
Public Domain (P)2013 Red Door Audiobooks

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