The World's Best Classic Short Stories

By: O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Saki, Kate Chopin, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including:

'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James

'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling

'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy

'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde

'The Monkey’s Paw' by W. W. Jacobs

'An Uncomfortable Bed' by Guy de Maupassant

'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe

'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki

'The Nose' by Nicolai Gogol

'Regret' by Kate Chopin

'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry

'The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield

'A Descent into the Maelström' by Edgar Allan Poe

'The Sphinx Without a Secret' by Oscar Wilde

'The Inconsiderate' Waiter by J. M. Barrie

'The Black Poodle' by F. Anstey

'The Quest' by Saki

'The Three Strangers' by Thomas Hardy

'Oil of Dog' by Ambrose Bierce

'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

'Markheim' by Robert Louis Stevenson

'Fear' by Guy de Maupassant

'The Belated Russian Passport' by Mark Twain

'The Changeling' by W. W. Jacobs

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

'The Eyes of the Panther' by Ambrose Bierce

'The Dead' by James Joyce

'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

'The Telltale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

'My Favorite Murder' by Ambrose Bierce

'The Premature Burial' by Edgar Allan Poe

'Tobermory' by Saki

'Memoirs of a Yellow Dog' by O. Henry.

Public Domain (P)2013 Red Door Audiobooks

This is a collection of old and stodgy stories.

To make matters worse, however, there are no titles listed on the player, so you need to sample 5 or 6 different stories before you find the one you're looking for, and only then, because you've managed to find the list of stories on the main order page. Some stories are told in one piece, others are told in as many as five separate "chapters." In other words, whoever put this together didn't care about the listener. Performances are often old and stodgy, as well. It's not something most people would enjoy these days, except perhaps by a few elitist snobs.

No chapter titles.

Great stories but the chapters should have titles so that you can easily access the story you want to hear.

Tough listen

The content appeals to me greatly. I just didn't like listening to the reader. It didn't seem genuine to me.

I just can't listen to this narrator

I love these stories but just I could not bear this narrator. I tried - I really tried.

Narration is annoying

The sing-song voice of the British narrator was fine for the first story or so but was highly annoying in its sameness over time.

Really Wanted to Like This

As others have said, unfortunately the narrator’s voice is so annoying I can’t listen to the stories. I really wanted to hear these but it’s not worth it.

Hard to listen to

Liked the stories but narrator was really difficult to listen to. Very sing song voice.

Wonderful group of short stories

A wonderful group of intriguing short stories, written by world class authors and performed with great enthusiasm which one can enjoy anytime.

Terrible Narration . . .

I wish I had read the other reviews before purchasing this as I love short stories. Also there are no chapter titles and the narrator does not announce the author's name for each story either.

Bad Recording

I couldn’t even listen to it, I do t know if it was my connection or just a bad recording.