Stories about Stories: Stories where other stories are being retold and relayed

Written by Wilkie Collins

Narrated by Richard Mitchley

In ancient days people would gather around the campfire and, until more recent times, it was the most familiar way of hearing a story.

The group usually assembled in the evening, perhaps after a meal, and a story would be told. The story-teller delivering it from memory, keenly aware of the rhythm and pace necessary to keep ears listening and senses heightened.

Time passes and with the written story the same technique was used. In the pens of such luminaires as Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov and others the indelible mark of literary story telling continues.

1 - Short Stories on Stories

2 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad

3 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad

4 - The Student by Anton Chekhov

5 - The Cabman's Story. The Mysteries of a London Growler by Arthur Conan Doyle

6 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey

7 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence

8 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatol France

9 - Lost in a Pyramid (or, The Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

10 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford

11 - Ghost in the Cupboard Room by Wilkie Collins

12 - Smee by A M Burrage

13 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol

14 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant

15 - The Namesake by Willa Cather

16 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery

17 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

18 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

19 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

20 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs

21 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle

22 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad

23 - About Love by Anton Chekhov

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835470862

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.