Great Classic Stories III Audiobook, by various authors Play Audiobook Sample

Great Classic Stories III Audiobook

Great Classic Stories III Audiobook, by various authors Play Audiobook Sample
FlexPass™ Price: $12.95
$9.95 for new members!
(Includes UNLIMITED podcast listening)
  • Love your audiobook or we'll exchange it
  • No credits to manage, just big savings
  • Unlimited podcast listening
Add to Cart
$9.95/m - cancel anytime - 
learn more
OR
Regular Price: $21.95 Add to Cart
Read By: various narrators, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Bradshaw, John Lee, Gerard Doyle Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2011 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781609983147

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

42:13 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:55 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

20:07 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

677

Other Audiobooks Written by various authors: > View All...

Publisher Description

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators

This recording includes the following stories:

• “The Lightening-Rod Man” by Herman Melville

• “One of the Missing” by Ambrose Bierce

• “The Leopard Man’s Story” by Jack London

• “Tennessee’s Partner” by Bret Harte

• “The New Catacomb” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin

• “My Watch” and “The Widow’s Protest” by Mark Twain

• “An Ideal Family” by Kate Mansfield

• “A Painful Case” by James Joyce

• “Small Fry” by Anton Chekhov

• “The Road from Colonus” by E. M. Forster

• “Silhouettes” by Jerome K Jerome

• “The Voice of the City” by O. Henry

• “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• “The Diamond Mine” by Willa Cather

• “The Man with the Golden Brain” by Alphonse Daudet

• “Morella” by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

• “The Portrait” by Edith Wharton

• “The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard” by Anthony Hope

• “Monkey Nuts” by D. H. Lawrence

Download and start listening now!

“Memorable…Deliciously read…Clever… (The readers) have attractive, soothing voices that make the entire volume a pleasure.”

— Audiofile 

Great Classic Stories III Listener Reviews

Be the first to write a review about this audiobook!

About various authors

Bradford Hastings is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.

About the Narrators

James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Jennifer Bradshaw has lent her voice to a number of audio books, including Secret Life of a Vampire: Love at Stake, Willow Springs, and The Crime Is Murder.

John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.

Gerard Doyle, a seasoned audio narrator, he has been awarded dozens of AudioFile Earphones Awards, was named a Best Voice in Young Adult Fiction in 2008, and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He was born of Irish parents and raised and educated in England. In Great Britain he has enjoyed an extensive career in both television and repertory theater and toured nationally and internationally with the English Shakespeare Company. He has appeared in London’s West End in the gritty musical The Hired Man. In America he has appeared on Broadway in The Weir and on television in New York Undercover and Law & Order. He has taught drama at Ross School for the several years.