Short Stories: The Ultimate Classic Collection

by Various

Overview

This volume in CSA Word's famous Short Story compilation series focuses on the very best in timeless short fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904605546
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	10/27/2005
Series:	CSA Word Recording
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 5.83(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Amongst the 22 stories included in this instalment, are tales by classic authors such as Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Conan Doyle, read by talented and esteemed actors including Nigel Hawthorne, Hugh Laurie, Derek Jacobi and Richard Griffiths.

Editorial Reviews

Here we have 22 comic and dramatic short stories. Two are French, a few more American, and the majority are by British Victorian and Edwardian writers. The overall atmosphere of the volume is gothic. (Only F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Pat Hobby and Orson Welles” seems out of place.) The stories vary in familiarity, from W.W. Jacobs’s relatively obscure “For Better or Worse” to the same author’s overexposed “Monkey’s Paw.” In between are short works by Kipling, Mansfield, Poe, Hawthorne, Maupassant, and other masters. The collection boasts performances by veteran British actors— including such audio luminaries as Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Stephen Fry, and the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne. The readings range from fine to superb. Not a dud in the lot. Y.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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