50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die

by Various

32hr audiobook
01. F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi
03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying
04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War
05. E.A. Poe - The Raven
06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman
07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
08. Anonymous - Aladdin
09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence
10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates
11. Lord Alfred Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade
12. T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
13. William Dean Howells - Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
14. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
15. E.A. Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Offshore Pirate
17. Leo Tolstoy - A Letter to a Hindu
18. Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
20. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Camel's Back
21. Bram Stoker - The Judge's House
22. Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
23. Plato - The Allegory of the Cave
24. Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince
25. Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale and the Rose
26. William Blake - Songs of Innocence
27. Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty
28. H.G. Wells - The Magic Shop
29. Saki - The Music on the Hill 30. Herman Melville - Bartleby the scrivener
31. Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
32. Clement Clarke Moore - Twas the Night Before Christmas
33. Bret Harte - The Luck of Roaring Camp
34. O.Henry - The Caballero's Way
35. T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock
36. Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
37. Jack London - To Build a Fire
38. Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher
39. Henry Ford - The Terror of the Machine
40. G.K. Chesterton - The Blue Cross
41. Charles Perrault - Cinderella
42. Anton Chekhov - Difficult People
43. D.H. Lawrence - The Prussian Officer
44. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Dream of A Ridiculous Man
45. Franz Kafka - The Judgement
46. James Joyce - The Dead
47. Saki - The Unrest Cure 48. John Muir - Steep Trails
49. Anton Chekhov - Lady with a Dog
50. Anton Chekhov - The Wife

1100 pages, ebook

Published September 1, 2018

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Reviews

[Jackie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I started this but couldn't finish, and the sad part is, the narration is good. The format of this audiobook is terrible!

The chapters aren't named, so there's no way to navigate through the different stories.

And there's such a small pause between each story, it feels like they run into each other. And it also seems like these were all recorded separately before they were collected together because each one starts with the same copyright info.

[Reader]

The Free Library of Philadelphia

[Rick Presley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would benefit from an introduction to each story or maybe a little background regarding each. Also, the narrator is somewhat plain in his narration and lacks the passion that some of these stories require. It's almost as if he was paid to do a job and did it as perfunctorily as he could. Most of these stories I've read before, but it is good to be reminded of them and the authors.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cluster of 50 stories some classics. Some of the titles are: The gift of the Magi, The curious case of Benjamin Button, The Declaration of Independence, The pit and the pendulum and many more. I wanted to listen to this as many I needed to read. I enjoyed most of them. The narration was good and kept your interest.I am glad I spent the time to listen to these stories.