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Stories from the States

By: Samuel Davis, Frank R. Stockton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Grant, Max Adeler, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Gustav Kobbé
Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
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Publisher's Summary

American history overflows with good yarns. The many cultures which emigrated to the USA in the 19th Century provided a broad fertile experience on which the short story writer could draw. The authors contained in this collection were masters of the craft. The stories in the order they appear are:'Titbottoms Spectacles' by George William Curtis‘The First Piano in Camp' by Samuel Davis'Mr Tolman' by Frank R. Stockton'Mrs Bullfrog' by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Against His Judgement' by Robert Grant'A Desperate Adventure' by Max Adeler'Occurence at Owl Creek' by Ambrose Bierce'The Stout Gentleman' by Washington Irving'Clothes' by Gustav Kobbé‘Negative Gravity' by Frank R. Stockton.
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About Assembled Stories: Over the years the national press have reviewed Assembled Stories titles as "excellent", "remarkable", "entrancing", "superb", "Magic for sure", "masterly", "wonderful", "a class act", and "a splendid example of audio at its best".
‘Peter Joyce is the most remarkable one-man band in audiobook publishing. Joyce, an experienced actor, reads them all himself.’ The Independent

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