A treasure chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener.
This audio recording includes the following short stories:
“Reginald on House Parties” by Saki, read by Nigel Hawthorne
“The Sphinx without a Secret” by Oscar Wilde, read by Martin Jarvis
“Tobermory” by Saki, read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt
“On Being Idle” by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Hugh Laurie
“For Better or Worse” by W. W. Jacobs, read by Joanna David
“The Model Millionaire” by Oscar Wilde, read by T. P. McKenna
“The Garden of Truth” by E. Nesbit, read by Harriet Walker
“The Cat That Walked by Himself” by Rudyard Kipling, read by Liza Goddard
“The Girl from Arles” by Alphonse Daudet, read by Stephen Fry
“Mr. & Mrs. Dove” by Katherine Mansfield, read by Rosalind Ayres
“Georgie Porgie” by Rudyard Kipling, read by Edward Fox
“Caterpillars” by E. F. Benson, read by Patrick Malahide
“Lost Hearts” by M. R. James, read by Richard Pasco
“Ship to Tarshish” by John Buchan, read by Iain Cuthbertson
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Richard Pasco
“The Man of the Night” by Edgar Wallace, read by Robin Bailey
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by Nicky Henson
“B-24” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Brian Cox
“Pat Hobby & Orson Welles” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Kerry Shale
“Mad” by Guy de Maupassant, read by Derek Jacobi
“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Richard Griffiths
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs, read by Patrick Malahide
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Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.