BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection
90 Unmissable Tales
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Written by:
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Oscar Wilde
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Virginia Woolf
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A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors.
Suspense and horror:
1. 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' - Arthur Conan Doyle
2. 'The Signalman' - Charles Dickens
3. 'Lost Hearts' - MR James
4. 'The Sealed Room' - Arthur Conan Doyle
5. 'Mrs Badgery' - Wilkie Collins
6. 'Wailing Well' - MR James
7. 'The Open Window' - Saki
8. 'How It happened' - Arthur Conan Doyle
9. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' - Edgar Allan Poe
10. 'The Cone' - HG Wells
11. 'A Haunted House' - Virginia Woolf
12. 'Rats' - MR James
13. 'The Oval Portrait' - Edgar Allan Poe
14. 'Tarquin of Cheapside' - F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. 'One Crowded Hour' - Arthur Conan Doyle
16. 'The Mezzotint' - MR James
17. 'The Masque of the Red Death' - Edgar Allan Poe
Love:
18. 'The Kiss' - Kate Chopin
19. 'Eleonora' - Edgar Allan Poe
20. 'About Love' - Anton Chekhov
21. 'The Lovers' - Hans Christian Anderson
22. 'Love' - Guy De Maupassant
23. 'The Sphinx Without a Secret' - Oscar Wilde
24. 'A Wedding Gift' - Guy De Maupassant
25. 'Kew Gardens' - Virginia Woolf
26. 'The District Doctor' - Ivan Turgenev
27. 'Happiness' - Guy De Maupassant
28. 'A Blunder' - Anton Chekhov
29. 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky' - Stephen Crane
30. 'In a Far-Off World' - Olive Schreiner
31. 'The Cook's Wedding' - Anton Chekhov
32. 'The Recruit' - Honore de Balzac
33. 'The Nightingale and the Rose' - Oscar Wilde
34. 'Pyramus and Thisbe' - Ovid
35. 'Aunt Hetty on Matrimony' - Fanny Fern
36. 'A Country Cottage' - Anton Chekhov
37. 'Marriage a la Mode' - Katherine Mansfield
38. 'The Statue of Limitations' - Ernest Dowson
39. 'The Dilettante' - Edith Wharton
Humorous:
40. 'Tobermory' - Saki
41. 'The Mesmeric Mountain' - Stephen Crane
42. 'The Children's Joke' - Louisa May Alcott
43. 'At the Siren' - Anton Chekhov
44. 'The Garden Party' - Katherine Mansfield
45. 'The Cask of Amontillado' - Edgar Allan Poe
46. 'The New Dress' - Virginia Woolf
47. 'How I Built Myself a House' - Thomas Hardy
48. 'The Model Millionaire' - Oscar Wilde
49. 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' - Kate Chopin
50. 'At the Barbers' - Anton Chekhov
51. 'A Respectable Woman' - Kate Chopin
Folk and fable:
52. 'The Happy Prince' - Oscar Wilde.
53. 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' - The Brothers Grimm
54. 'The Emperor's New Clothes' - Hans Christian Andersen
55. 'The Tongue Cut Sparrow' - Yei Theodora Ozaki
56. 'Finn and the Scottish Giant' - Harold F. Read
57. 'The Postmaster' - Rabindranath Tagore
58. 'The Toys of Peace' - Saki
59. 'The Selfish Giant' - Oscar Wilde
60. 'The Flower Gatherer' - Edward Thomas
61. 'Araby' - James Joyce
62. 'The Interlopers' - Saki
63. 'Tom Thumb' - The Brothers Grimm
64. 'The Kabuliwalah' - Rabindranath Tagore
65. 'The Monkey's Paws' - WW Jacobs
Christmas:
66. 'The Little Match Girl' - Hans Christian Andersen
67. 'Papa Panov's Special Christmas' - Leo Tolstoy
68. 'Christmas Storms and Sunshine' - Elizabeth Gaskell.
69. 'The Gift of the Magi' - O'Henry
70. 'At Christmas Time '- Anton Chekhov
71. 'A Dill Pickle' - Katherine Mansfield
Classic tales:
72. 'The Yellow Wallpaper' - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
73. 'The Fall of Lord Barrymore' - Arthur Conan Doyle
74. 'The Necklace' - Guy De Maupassant
75. 'Holiday Group' - EM Delafield
76. 'Three Questions' - Leo Tolstoy
77. 'The Cop and the Anthem' - O'Henry
78. 'The Fly' - Katherine Mansfield
79. 'The Christening' - DH Lawrence
80. 'After the Race' - James Joyce
81. 'The String Quartet' - Virginia Woolf
82. 'Two Friends' - Guy De Maupassant
83. 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' - Ambrose Bierce
84. 'A Gentleman Friend' - Anthon Chekhov
85. 'Ma'ame Pelagie' - Kate Chopin
86. 'Second Best' - DH Lawrence
87. 'El Verdugo' - Honore de Balzac
88. 'The Story of an Hour' - Kate Chopin
89. 'The Man of No Account' - Bret Hart
90. 'The Piece of String' - Guy De Maupassant
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