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By Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, M R James, Gertrude Atherton, Perceval Landon, Robert W Chambers, W W Jacobs, E T A Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ernst Raupach

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley

Unabridged — 16 hours, 31 minutes

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Overview

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.

Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.

Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the si...