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Short Stories
- The Nostalgia Collection
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Edward Hardwicke, Iain Cuthbertson, Hugh Laurie
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
Full story listings:
Old Cornille's Secret by Alphonse Daudet, read by Stephen Fry
The Mouse by Saki, Read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Edward Hardwicke
A Tale of Terror by Thomas Hood, read by Patrick Malahide
The Homes of the Stars by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Kerry Shale
A Thousand Deaths by Jack London, read by Nicky Henson
Murder! by Arnold Bennett, read by Brian Cox
The White Wolf by Guy de Maupassant, read by Dinsdale Landen
The Mysterious Railway Passenger by Maurice Leblanc, read by Patrick Malahide
The Cheshire Cat by Lewis Carroll, read by Liza Goddard
'Divus' Johnston by John Buchan, read by Iain Cuthbertson
Dick Baker's Cat by Mark Twain, read by Richard Griffiths
The Man in the Bell by W. E. Aytoun, read by Patrick Malahide
Home Sickness by George Moore, read by T. P. McKenna
Spindleberries by John Galsworthy, read by Joanna David
The Face by E. F. Benson, read by Richard Pasco
On Being in Love by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Hugh Laurie
The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Nicky Henson
The Violet Car by E. E. Nesbitt, read by Harriet Walter
The Patch on the Quilt Sapper, read by Edward Fox
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Oliver
- 23-12-12
Great Stories, Well Read
This collection of Short Stories was really good to listen to. There is a good mix of amusing, funny, intriguing and darker stories aswell which makes for an audio book which is a pleasure to listen to without getting boring at all. The readers of each story are all very good, and also fit the stories they are telling well so that one feels that the readers fits with the story.
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6 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Mikko
- 21-01-10
Tour de force, no red line
As the writing and narrating goes, this is a real tour de force, every track is worth several repetitions, and even if you have not yet read more from the writers of these stories, you will feel the urge for it !
As a collection, however, it seems to lack the red line - the tone of the stories and the style of the narrators (and vice versa !) is as uneven as it gets. Maybe it is just this confeti or firework like quality that has been sought after, but it made the continuous listening impossible, had to stop after each story before plunging into a totally new environment of the following one.
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- Anne Cross
- 09-08-18
very disappointing
very frustrating to listen to, no introduction to each story, no announcement of the author & most stories very thin, narrated by pompous BBC English voices.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- M Campbell
- 29-05-21
No good for actual sleep
The chapters don't flow into each other so as soon as you drift it ends and you then have to select the next chapter.
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