Stories from the States
Classics of American Literature
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Stories from the States
Narrated by:
Peter Newcombe Joyce
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Peter Newcombe Joyce
About this listen
American history overflows with good yarns. The many cultures which emigrated to the USA in the 19th century provided a broad fertile experience on which the short story writer could draw. The authors contained in this collection were masters of the craft.
The stories in the order they appear are:
- 'Titbottoms Spectacles' by George William Curtis
- 'The First Piano in Camp' by Samuel Davis
- 'Mr Tolman' by Frank R. Stockton
- 'Mrs Bullfrog' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 'Against His Judgement' by Robert Grant
- 'A Desperate Adventure' by Max Adeler
- 'Occurence at Owl Creek' by Ambrose Bierce
- 'The Stout Gentleman' by Washington Irving
- 'Clothes 'by Gustav Kobbé
- 'Negative Gravity' by Frank R. Stockton
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Critic reviews
"Peter Joyce is the most remarkable one-man band in audiobook publishing. Joyce, an experienced actor, reads them all himself." (The Independent)