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    Fifteen Great Novellas
    Fifteen Great Novellas
    Fifteen Great Novellas
    Audiobook31 hours

    Fifteen Great Novellas

    Written by Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A wonderful anthology of fifteen of the great classic Novellas.

    1. Immensee by Theodor Storm
    2. The Jew's Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
    3. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
    4. The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy
    5. Mad Monkton by Wilkie Collins
    6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
    7. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
    8. England my England by D. H. Lawrence
    9. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce
    10. The Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    11. Smith and the Pharaohs by H. Rider Haggard
    12. The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal by Edgar Allan Poe
    13. The 39 Steps by John Buchan
    14. The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
    15. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 20, 2015
    ISBN9781467698962
    Fifteen Great Novellas
    Author

    Joseph Conrad

    Polish-born Joseph Conrad is regarded as a highly influential author, and his works are seen as a precursor to modernist literature. His often tragic insight into the human condition in novels such as Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent is unrivalled by his contemporaries.

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