Great British Short Stories

A Vintage Collection of Classic Tales

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arnold Bennet, Elizabeth Gaskell, William J. Locke, Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

A glorious collection of some of the finest British short stories ever written.

• The Dog – Arnold Bennet
• Not On The Passenger List – Barry Pain
• The Old Man’s Tale About The Queer Client – Charles Dickens
• The Half Brothers – Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Veiled Portrait – James McGovan
• Markheim – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Bottle Imp – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Adventures Of The Kind Mr. Smith – William J. Locke
• The Man Of Mystery – Barry Pain
• The Brazilian Cat – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Public Domain (P)2011 Red Door Audiobooks

Awful narration

The book is unlistenable as the narrator has unnaturally emphasized and placed inflection, expressing surprise at the end and even in the middle of every sentence.
The stories are classics but hard to evaluate given the distracting reading.