Curious Tales
Written by Wilkie Collins, Alphonse Daudet and W. W. Jacobs
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
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1. “A Joy Ride” by A. J. Alan
2. “The Death Mask” by H. D. Everett
3. “Query” by Austin Small
4. “The Dancing Partner” by Jerome K. Jerome
5. “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry
6. “The Squaw” by Bram Stoker
7. “The Interruption” by W. W. Jacobs
8. “The 19 Club” by A. J. Alan
9. “The Giraffe Problem” by Barry Pain
10. “The Man who Stole a Meeting House” by John Townsend Trowbridge
11. “The Lightning-Rod Man” by Herman Melville
12. “Gabriel-Ernest” by Saki
13. “An Undergraduate's Aunt” by F. Anstey
14. “Major Namby” by Wilkie Collins
15. “The Tale” by Joseph Conrad
16. “The Green Light” by Barry Pain
17. “A Coincidence” by A. J. Alan
18. “The Three Sisters” by W. W. Jacobs
19. “The Siege of Berlin” by Alphonse Daudet
20. “The Marquise” by George Sand
21. “The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau” by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
22. “Comrades” by Maxim Gorky
23. “The Man who was Blind” by Edwin Pugh
24. “A Witch in the Peak” by R. Murray Gilchrist
25. “My Adventure in Jermyn Street” by A. J. Alan
26. “His Brother's Keeper” by W. W. Jacobs
27. “The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield
28. “The Reverent Father Gaucher's Elixir” by Alphonse Daudet
29. “The Story of a Piebald Horse” by W. H. Hudson
30. “Long Odds” by H. Rider Haggard
…and sixteen more unusual tales.
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins, hijo del paisajista William Collins, nació en Londres en 1824. Fue aprendiz en una compañía de comercio de té, estudió Derecho, hizo sus pinitos como pintor y actor, y antes de conocer a Charles Dickens en 1851, había publicado ya una biografía de su padre, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A. (1848), una novela histórica, Antonina (1850), y un libro de viajes, Rambles Beyond Railways (1851). Pero el encuentro con Dickens fue decisivo para la trayectoria literaria de ambos. Basil (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. VI; ALBA MÍNUS núm.) inició en 1852 una serie de novelas «sensacionales», llenas de misterio y violencia pero siempre dentro de un entorno de clase media, que, con su técnica brillante y su compleja estructura, sentaron las bases del moderno relato detectivesco y obtuvieron en seguida una gran repercusión: La dama de blanco (1860), Armadale (1862) o La Piedra Lunar (1868) fueron tan aplaudidas como imitadas. Sin nombre (1862; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XVII; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XI) y Marido y mujer (1870; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XVI; ALBA MÍNUS núm.), también de este período, están escritas sin embargo con otras pautas, y sus heroínas son mujeres dramáticamente condicionadas por una arbitraria, aunque real, situación legal. En la década de 1870, Collins ensayó temas y formas nuevos: La pobre señorita Finch (1871-1872; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XXVI; ALBA MÍNUS núm 5.) es un buen ejemplo de esta época. El novelista murió en Londres en 1889, después de una larga carrera de éxitos.
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