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