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Great Classic Stories II
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- By: Alphonse Daudet, Saki, Oscar Wilde
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- By Wendy on 10-22-09
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- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saki, Thomas Hardy, and others
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- By andrew on 07-14-12
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Great Classic Stories III
- 22 Unabridged Classics
- By: Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, and others
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Short Stories
- The Nostalgia Collection
- By: Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott, Saki
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Edward Hardwicke, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4 out of 5 stars 31
CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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cracking stories, but no table of contents!
- By Frances on 03-27-11
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Short Stories
- The Timeless Collection
- By: Jerome K. Jerome, Saki, Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Hugh Laurie, Maimie McCoy, Nigel Hawthorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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2 out of 5 stars
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What an odd use of excellent materials
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The Canterbury Tales
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- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers 29 of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This unabridged work is based on the new translation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful treat!
- By Tad Davis on 11-16-08
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- By: Alphonse Daudet, Saki, Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen
- By Wendy on 10-22-09
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- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saki, Thomas Hardy, and others
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Martin Jarvis, Hugh Laurie, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 71
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 72
The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please. With something for everyone this collection of classic stories read by only the best-suited and most established readers will delight the ears as a vintage wine excites the gullet; The Vintage Collection is audible gold. Features eye-catching typographical series design.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Classic Stories III
- 22 Unabridged Classics
- By: Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, and others
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Short Stories
- The Nostalgia Collection
- By: Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott, Saki
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Edward Hardwicke, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4 out of 5 stars 31
CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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cracking stories, but no table of contents!
- By Frances on 03-27-11
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Short Stories
- The Timeless Collection
- By: Jerome K. Jerome, Saki, Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Hugh Laurie, Maimie McCoy, Nigel Hawthorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 19
This collection contains: "Idle Thoughts on Babies"; "The Schartz-Meterklume Method"; "A Photographer's Day Out"; and more.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What an odd use of excellent materials
- By GeekyGal on 12-03-11
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The Canterbury Tales
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- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers 29 of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This unabridged work is based on the new translation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful treat!
- By Tad Davis on 11-16-08
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Classic American Short Stories, Volume 2
- By: Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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The greatest short story writers strive to achieve a single, dramatic effect, a feature which the early masters of this genre perfected. Although the short story came from Europe, it was reborn in America and reached a pinnacle of superb form on these shores by the turn of the 20th century. In so many of our best writers, we hear echoes of a pioneer ethos that sustains the heart of a great literature. Here are 12 of America's best.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun listening too
- By Michael on 10-01-06
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Classic American Short Stories, Volume 3
- By: Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, and others
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
No nation has ever achieved the literary diversity of America. From nativist humor to immigrant triumph, Americans have recorded their visions and hopes better than anyone
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The Oscar Wilde Collection
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 296
Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all featuring star-studded casts with the likes of Jacqueline Bisset, Miriam Margolyes, James Marsters, Alfred Molina, Roger Rees, Yeardley Smith, Eric Stoltz, and many more. This audio also includes a chilling dramatization of Wilde's sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Collection
- By Anniebligh on 03-31-12
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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,223
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 875
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling", the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect!
- By Bryan on 12-07-05
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The Canterville Ghost [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Oscar Wilde
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The ghost that haunts Canterville Chase has built a marvelous career of midnight haunting. But when an American family moves in, they simply have no respect for permanent bloodstains, nightmarish chains, or ancient legends. They even throw pillows at him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oscar Wilde's Humor Deserves to be Lingered Over
- By Amazon Customer on 04-22-17
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Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1
- By: William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Edith Wharton, and others
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture. By turns sedate and mercurial and possessing a moral mind set of various social values, the American short story reveals in its pages the psyche of a growing, sprawling nation whose sense of destiny has always been larger than life. Here are seven masterpieces that will make you smile, make you frown, and leave you pondering the mystery that surrounds the soul of a great nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully performed!
- By James on 07-08-05
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Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
- In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund
- By: Oscar Wilde
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- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is a collection of the Oscar Wilde's famous fairy tales, read by a cast of leading British actors. Additional narrators include Geoffrey Palmer O.B.E., Sir Donald Sinden, and Elaine Stritch. Music: 'Reverie De Sebastian' by Steve Davies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant Modern Fairy Tales Wonderfully Read
- By Jefferson on 11-28-10
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Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Oscar Wilde's Short Stories
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 204
"Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales continue to exert the same pull over the imagination and emotions as they did when he first read them to his children in the 1880s. Written with inspired poetic intensity and sudden flowerings of the matchless wit for which he is so well remembered, the stories combine the wisdom of parables with the impact of drama."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected
- By Jennifer on 09-17-12
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Collected Fictions
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (translator)
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Abridged
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From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but incomplete
- By Aaron on 12-17-18
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Little Dorrit
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 31 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 334
Little Dorrit is Amy, born in debtor’s prison, the youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, an inmate of the Marshalsea. The two are befriended by a man whose wife hires Little Dorrit as a seamstress. When William Dorrit inherits a fortune, he escapes the Marshalsea. The family, assuming a station befitting their wealth, travel to Italy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gripping
- By eva on 09-17-12
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The Great Detective Collection
- 24 of the Best Classic Detective Stories
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Ernest Bramah, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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- Unabridged
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An engrossing collection of detective stories featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, J. G. Reeder, and C. Auguste Dupin. 1.The Tea-Leaf by Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace 2.The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton 3.The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes by Ernest Bramah 4. The Club of One-Eyed Men by Arthur Somers Roche 5.Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin 6.The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
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3 out of 5 stars
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great stories, wrong narrator
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The Portable Atheist
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- By: Christopher Hitchens
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged is not so
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Publisher's Summary
This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, and many more.
This superlative treasury includes "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe; "A Piece of String" by Guy Le Maupassant; "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin; "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf; "Nuns at Lunch" by Aldous Huxley, and many more!
Narrators include Simon Vance, Kate Fenton, Stephen R. Thorne, Robert Fass, Bronson Pinchot, and other talents, for a superb listening experience!
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- Zaubermond
- 02-04-13
Another great selection of stories
This second collection of "Great Classic Stories" is just as rewarding as the first, with something for everyone, including comedy, tragedy, suspense, and romance.
From Huxley's brassy lunchtime companion to the sad teller of Gilbert's love story, nearly every story reveals an unforgettable character or two, and the narrators are first-rate. I particularly enjoyed Bill Wallis and Simon Vance.
Here are the stories in order:
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN by Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe
COUSIN WILLIAM by Harriet Beecher Stowe
HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER by Mark Twain
A PIECE OF STRING by Guy de Maupassant
ANGELA, AN INVERTED LOVE STORY by W. S. Gilbert
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE by Oscar Wilde
THE STORY OF AN HOUR by Kate Chopin
A JURY OF HER PEERS by Susan Glaspell
ARABY by James Joyce
THE MARK ON THE WALL by Virginia Woolf
THE INTERLOPERS by Saki
HEAD AND SHOULDERS by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STRANGER by Katherine Mansfield
THE BLIND MAN by D. H. Lawrence
NUNS AT LUNCHEON by Aldous Huxley
33 of 33 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Anna Ballard
- KELLER, TX, United States
- 04-04-11
Entertaining!
This audio book would have been worth the purchase if only for the reading of Mark Twain's "How I Edited An Agricultural Paper." I bust up laughing every time I hear that story! However, this audio book is filled with great short stories and are sure to entertain and are read by a variety of great readers. I would recommend this to anyone!
12 of 12 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- PkC
- Lynnwood, WA, United States
- 03-31-11
Great Classic Stories II
The audible download does not itemize this book by each story so I have no way to find a specific story and play it. I see no index or table of contents to review to know titles, author, narrator, etc. Maybe I am missing something but that is a huge drawback.
24 of 29 people found this review helpful
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- Jennifer
- 08-25-18
Quirky Collection
Interesting time capsule of short stories by notable authors. Some more entertaining than others-worth a listen.