Publisher Description
Nine spine-chilling stories from Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jerome K. Jerome, read by Laurence Olivier, Nelson Olmsted, and Basil Rathbone. Includes:
- 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Le Grand Breteche' by Honor de Balzac 'The Dancing Partner' by Jerome K. Jerome 'The Country of the Blind' by H. G. Wells 'The Black Cat' by Egdar Allan Poe 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving 'The Suicide Club' by Robert Louis Stevenson 'The Signal Man' by Charles Dickens 'The Body Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson
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About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) is considered to be one of the greatest American authors of the nineteenth century. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and made his ambition to be a writer while still a teenager. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where the poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years traveling in New England and writing short stories before his best known novel, The Scarlet Letter, was published in 1850. His writing was not at first financially rewarding, and he worked as measurer and surveyor in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses. In 1853 he was sent to Liverpool as American consul and then lived in Italy before returning to the United States in 1860.