This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names, with inspired readings by gifted actors.

This superlative treasury includes the following stories:

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by John Chancer"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Robert Fass"Cousin William" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, read by Kate Fenton"How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" by Mark Twain, read by Bronson Pinchot"A Piece of String" by Guy Le Maupassant, read by Cornelius Garrett"Angela, an Inverted Love Story" by W. S. Gilbert, read by Cameron Stewart"Oh! The Public" by Anton Chekhov, read by Cameron Stewart"The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde, read by John Telfer"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, read by Jennifer Woodward"A Coward" by Edith Wharton, read by John Chancer"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, read by Jennifer Woodward"Araby" by James Joyce, read by John Telfer"The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf, read by Sarah LeFevre"The Interlopers" by Saki, read by Bill Wallis"Head and Shoulders" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Stephen R. Thorne"The Stranger" by Katherine Mansfield, ready by John Telfer"The Blind Man" by D. H. Lawrence, read by Ric Jerrom"Nuns at Luncheon" by Aldous Huxley, read by Simon Vance