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Title:
Great classic stories [CD] : 22 unabridged classics.
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Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
[Bath, UK] : BBC Audiobooks, ℗2006.
Physical Description:
6 audio discs (7 hrs., 4 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781572705616
General Note:
Title from container.
Consists of comic and dramatic short stories. Most are by British Victorian and Edwardian writers, as well as including some French and Amercian writers.
Compact discs.
Performers:
Read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie, Martin Jarvis, Joanna David, Kerry Shale, Nigel Hawthorne, Rosalind Ayres and others.
Contents:
Reginald on house parties / Saki - The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie / Rudyard Kipling -- Caterpillars / E.F. Benson -- Lost hearts / M.R. James -- Ship to Tarshish / John Buchan -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The man of the night / Edgar Wallace -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- B 24 / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Pat Hobby & Orson Welles / F. Scott Fitzgerald - Mad / Guy de Maupassant -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs.
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Language:
English
