This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names, with inspired readings by gifted actors.
This superlative treasury includes the following stories:
- “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by John Chancer
- “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Robert Fass
- “Cousin William” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, read by Kate Fenton
- “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper” by Mark Twain, read by Bronson Pinchot
- “A Piece of String” by Guy Le Maupassant, read by Cornelius Garrett
- “Angela, an Inverted Love Story” by W. S. Gilbert, read by Cameron Stewart
- “Oh! The Public” by Anton Chekhov, read by Cameron Stewart
- “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde, read by John Telfer
- “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, read by Jennifer Woodward
- “A Coward” by Edith Wharton, read by John Chancer
- “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, read by Jennifer Woodward
- “Araby” by James Joyce, read by John Telfer
- “The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia Woolf, read by Sarah LeFevre
- “The Interlopers” by Saki, read by Bill Wallis
- “Head and Shoulders” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Stephen R. Thorne
- “The Stranger” by Katherine Mansfield, ready by John Telfer
- “The Blind Man” by D. H. Lawrence, read by Ric Jerrom
- “Nuns at Luncheon” by Aldous Huxley, read by Simon Vance
