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- Great Classic Stories III
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/01/11
Formats: Digital Audy
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
- Great Classic Stories III
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/01/11
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Three Men in a Boat
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/12/91
Formats: Digital Audy
If you’ve never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you’d be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: “It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place––say a full railway compartment––where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as long as he chose.” The passage of time has not altered that verdict. Here is a perfect picture of those lazy summer days “messing about in boats.”
After his final trip up the river Thames with his three companions––Harris, George, and Montmorency the dog––Jerome K. Jerome sat down to write his proposed book, The Story of the Thames. But before he could tackle the work in the serious manner intended, his humor took over and gave birth to a masterpiece of unquenchable comedy. This is a classic of English humor, justifiably loved around the world.
- Three Men in a Boat
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/12/91
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Three Men on the Bummel
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/12/91
Formats: Digital Audy
“A ‘Bummel,’” I explained, “I should describe as a journey, long or short, without end.” However wonderful this may sound, it is often necessary to arrive back at the starting point. And, for the three fearless friends whose earlier adventures were told in Three Men in a Boat, this poses a troublesome problem.
George, Harris, and J. decide to take a cycling trip through the Black Forest—to be accomplished on a tandem plus one. Whether it is Harris’ harrowing experience with a Hanoverian road-waterer or George’s valiant attempt to buy a cushion for his aunt, their experiences are hilarious––and they may even offer some important lessons to all who may be contemplating a cycling trip in the US.
- Three Men on the Bummel
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/12/91
Formats: Digital Audy