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    Half Hour Stories
    Half Hour Stories
    Half Hour Stories
    Audiobook33 hours

    Half Hour Stories

    Written by E.F. Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Guy de Maupassant

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A comprehensive collection of superb classic 30-minute short stories. Perfect for commuters, joggers or bedtime listening.

    1. 'The Step' by E. F. Benson
    2. 'The Squaw' by Bram Stoker
    3. 'The Venturers' by O. Henry
    4. 'The Assignation' by Edgar Allan Poe
    5. 'Mixed Relations' by W. W. Jacobs
    6. 'Mademoiselle Fifi' by Guy de Maupassant
    7. 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    8. 'The Encased Man' by Leo Tolstoy
    9. 'MS Found in a Bottle' by Edgar Allan Poe
    10. 'A Rash Experiment' by W. W. Jacobs
    11. 'Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    12. 'The Egg' by Sherwood Anderson
    13. 'A Source of Irritation' by Stacy Aumonier
    14. 'The Horror Horn' by E. F. Benson
    15. 'The Famous Race between the Hearse and the Steamroller' by Sidney Keyes
    16. 'The Girl who was Tired of Love' by Leonard Merrick
    17. 'The Ship that Saw a Ghost' by Frank Norris
    18. 'The Mummy's Foot' by Théophile Gautier
    19. 'Lost in a Pyramid' by Louisa May Alcott
    20. 'The Story of Baelbrow' by E & H Heron

    Plus 45 other great tales
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateFeb 10, 2015
    ISBN9781467603744
    Half Hour Stories
    Author

    E.F. Benson

    Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. A great humorist, he achieved success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo(1893). Benson was a prolific author, writing over one hundred books including serious novels, ghost stories, plays, and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia and Mapp comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. Benson served as mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.  

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