Great Classic Stories: 22 Unabridged Classics (Audio Editions)

I haven't yet read all the stories on the cd, but it's just what I need when I'm feeling tired and can close my eyes and listen to the great classic stories!

As someone who spends a fair bit of time in the car, I found these short stories an excellent way of making travelling more pleasurable. There is a good mix of comedy, horror and so on to entertain and amuse, and an interesting variety of famous names reading the stories. The only irritant I found was the American voice that provides the introduction (and calls Harriet Walter "Harriet Walker") but other than that I would recommend to anyone who is a fan of short stories

Worth buying and listening to if you have a long car journey - which we did. A nice "taste" of many authors.

Not a good CD set. I put mine in the bin before hearing them all.

I purchased this to listen to at night, but found the stories were told so well, that I couldn't get off to sleep! Excellent for listening to in the car.

Well written classic stories, which are well narrated. What more could you ask.

Some of the stories were good.

I ordered these to while away the time on a long car journey. Some of the stories are quite heavy but there is a good mix. I think there were 6 or 7 cds in all so a lot of hours worth of listening and certainly great value!

Very good eTailer

The 22 Stories are:Reginald on House Parties - SakiThe Sphinx without a Secret - Oscar WildeTobermory - SakiOn Being Idle - Jerome K JeromeThe Model Millionaire - Oscar WildeThe Garden of Truth - E. NesbitThe Cat that Walked by Himself - Rudyard KiplingThe Girl from Arles - Alphonse DaudetMr. & Mrs. Dove - Katherine MansfieldGeorgie Porgie - Rudyard KiplingCaterpillars - E.F. BentonLost Hearts - MR JamesShip to Tarshish - John BuchanThe Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan PoeThe Man of the Night - Edgar WallaceDr. Heidegger's Experiment - Nathaniel HawthorneB 24 - Arthur Conan DoylePat Hobby & Orson Welles - F. Scott FitzgeraldMad - Guy de MaupassantThe Black Cat - Edgar Allan PoeThe Monkey's Paw - WW JacobsEach short story lasts from a range of about 10 to about 45 minutes for a total of 7.5 hours. 6 discs with 3-5 narrations per disc. All narrators are British actors who read each story in character voices (like anything, some better than others - but all still enjoyable). The BBC did do an excellent job of selecting interesting short stories from its selection of Classics. I enjoyed all of them, even when there were occasional British or period phrases or places that were referenced in the tales with which I was unfamiliar. These vivid tales of human psychology were filled with interesting characters really made my lengthy daily drive to work less painful.

I enjoy the varied readers of these English and American Gothic masterpieces.The readers have achieved a fine balance between dramatization and plain reading.Although some of the British authors are new to me, especially the wickedly witty, Saki, I have not read several of the old Gothic American stories since high school English class, so they return as a surprise to me when heard in a more mature way now. For instance, I was driving along listening to "The Black Cat" and was so shocked at what was happening in the story that I turned it off. Then I drove for a while and realized I simply had to know what happened next, and turned it back on. To me that is a sign of great literature.Of course, many of these short stories are not for children and the parent who complained about their content might want to pre-screen the stories her child listens to.Hearing these stories again has been a real listening pleasure for me.

the readers put me to sleep...very annoying british 'posh' accents. the only story i recognized right off was the monkey's paw...i do recognize some other authors, so will wait til i hear both cd's to critique further

Not as good as I expected or wanted it to be. I always listen to audiobooks when I travel. I thought with a name "Great Classic" they would be great classics. The selection of stories could have been much better. It was annoying listening to some of them. It's my fault for not examining the included stories carefully before ordering.