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    Uncommon Stories
    Uncommon Stories
    Uncommon Stories
    Audiobook20 hours

    Uncommon Stories

    Published by Red Door Consulting

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A captivating anthology of some of the more unusual short stories written by well-known classic writers.

    1. A Witch in the Peak by R. Murray Gilchrist
    2. War by Sherwood Anderson
    3. Self-Help by W. W. Jacobs
    4. The Wolf by Guy de Maupassant
    5. Makes the Whole World Kin by O. Henry
    6. The Stone Dragon by R. Murray Gilchrist
    7. The New Englander by Sherwood Anderson
    8. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
    9. The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    10. The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace by G. F. Forest
    11. Nine O’Clock by Wilkie Collins
    12. One Thing Leads to Another by Stacy Aumonier
    13. Seeds by Sherwood Anderson
    14. The Man-Wolf by Leith Richie
    15. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
    16. The Brogue by Saki
    17. The Octave of Jealousy by Stacy Aumonier
    18. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
    19. The Idiots by Joseph Conrad
    20. The Brothers by Stacy Aumonier
    21. The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy
    22. Smith and the Pharaohs by H. Rider Haggard
    23. Moti Guj – Mutineer by Rudyard Kipling
    24. The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
    25. The Talking Horse by F. Anstey
    26. Odd Fish by Stacy Aumonier
    27. Glad Ghosts by D. H. Lawrence
    28. Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry
    29. Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
    30. Esme by Saki
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateApr 4, 2014
    ISBN9781467680103
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