BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection: 90 Unmissable Tales 2021
A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors.
Suspense and horror:
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'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' - Arthur Conan Doyle
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'The Signalman' - Charles Dickens
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'Lost Hearts' - MR James
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'The Sealed Room' - Arthur Conan Doyle
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'Mrs Badgery' - Wilkie Collins
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'Wailing Well' - MR James
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'The Open Window' - Saki
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'How It happened' - Arthur Conan Doyle
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'The Tell-Tale Heart' - Edgar Allan Poe
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'The Cone' - HG Wells
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'A Haunted House' - Virginia Woolf
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'Rats' - MR James
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'The Oval Portrait' - Edgar Allan Poe
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'Tarquin of Cheapside' - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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'One Crowded Hour' - Arthur Conan Doyle
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'The Mezzotint' - MR James
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'The Masque of the Red Death' - Edgar Allan Poe
Love:
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'The Kiss' - Kate Chopin
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'Eleonora' - Edgar Allan Poe
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'About Love' - Anton Chekhov
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'The Lovers' - Hans Christian Anderson
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'Love' - Guy De Maupassant
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'The Sphinx Without a Secret' - Oscar Wilde
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'A Wedding Gift' - Guy De Maupassant
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'Kew Gardens' - Virginia Woolf
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'The District Doctor' - Ivan Turgenev
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'Happiness' - Guy De Maupassant
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'A Blunder' - Anton Chekhov
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'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky' - Stephen Crane
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'In a Far-Off World' - Olive Schreiner
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'The Cook's Wedding' - Anton Chekhov
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'The Recruit' - Honore de Balzac
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'The Nightingale and the Rose' - Oscar Wilde
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'Pyramus and Thisbe' - Ovid
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'Aunt Hetty on Matrimony' - Fanny Fern
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'A Country Cottage' - Anton Chekhov
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'Marriage a la Mode' - Katherine Mansfield
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'The Statue of Limitations' - Ernest Dowson
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'The Dilettante' - Edith Wharton
Humorous:
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'Tobermory' - Saki
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'The Mesmeric Mountain' - Stephen Crane
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'The Children's Joke' - Louisa May Alcott
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'At the Siren' - Anton Chekhov
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'The Garden Party' - Katherine Mansfield
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'The Cask of Amontillado' - Edgar Allan Poe
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'The New Dress' - Virginia Woolf
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'How I Built Myself a House' - Thomas Hardy
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'The Model Millionaire' - Oscar Wilde
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'A Pair of Silk Stockings' - Kate Chopin
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'At the Barbers' - Anton Chekhov
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'A Respectable Woman' - Kate Chopin
Folk and fable:
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'The Happy Prince' - Oscar Wilde.
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'The Elves and the Shoemaker' - The Brothers Grimm
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'The Emperor's New Clothes' - Hans Christian Andersen
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'The Tongue Cut Sparrow' - Yei Theodora Ozaki
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'Finn and the Scottish Giant' - Harold F. Read
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'The Postmaster' - Rabindranath Tagore
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'The Toys of Peace' - Saki
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'The Selfish Giant' - Oscar Wilde
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'The Flower Gatherer' - Edward Thomas
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'Araby' - James Joyce
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'The Interlopers' - Saki
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'Tom Thumb' - The Brothers Grimm
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'The Kabuliwalah' - Rabindranath Tagore
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'The Monkey's Paws' - WW Jacobs
Christmas:
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'The Little Match Girl' - Hans Christian Andersen
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'Papa Panov's Special Christmas' - Leo Tolstoy
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'Christmas Storms and Sunshine' - Elizabeth Gaskell.
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'The Gift of the Magi' - O'Henry
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'At Christmas Time '- Anton Chekhov
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'A Dill Pickle' - Katherine Mansfield
Classic tales:
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'The Yellow Wallpaper' - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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'The Fall of Lord Barrymore' - Arthur Conan Doyle
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'The Necklace' - Guy De Maupassant
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'Holiday Group' - EM Delafield
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'Three Questions' - Leo Tolstoy
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'The Cop and the Anthem' - O'Henry
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'The Fly' - Katherine Mansfield
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'The Christening' - DH Lawrence
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'After the Race' - James Joyce
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'The String Quartet' - Virginia Woolf
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'Two Friends' - Guy De Maupassant
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'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' - Ambrose Bierce
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'A Gentleman Friend' - Anthon Chekhov
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'Ma'ame Pelagie' - Kate Chopin
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'Second Best' - DH Lawrence
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'El Verdugo' - Honore de Balzac
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'The Story of an Hour' - Kate Chopin
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'The Man of No Account' - Bret Hart
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'The Piece of String' - Guy De Maupassant
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