The Ultimate Classic Collection focuses on the very best in timeless short fiction. Drawn from an extensive range of short stories carefully marrying text and reader, and showcases some of the finest examples of the genre: from romance to horror, detective and crime stories to the best of women's writing.

The Girl from Arles by Alphonse Daudet read by Stephen Fry

Tobermory by Saki read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt

The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde read by Martin Jarvis

On Being Idle by Jerome K. Jerome read by Hugh Laurie

For Better or Worse by W.W. Jacobs read by Joanna David

Mr & Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield read by Rosalind Ayres

The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde read by T.P. McKenna

The Garden of Truth by E. Nesbit read by Harriet Walter

The Cat that Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling read by Liza Goddard

Pat Hobby & Orson Welles by F. Scott Fitzgerald read by Kerry Shale

Georgie Porgie by Rudyard Kipling read by Edward Fox

Mad by Guy de Maupassant read by Derek Jacobi

B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle read by Brian Cox

Caterpillars by E.F. Benson read by Patrick Malahide

The Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace read by Robin Bailey

Reginald on House Parties by Saki read by Nigel Hawthorne

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne read by Nicky Henson

Ship to Tarshish by John Buchan read by Iain Cuthbertson

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe read by Richard Pasco

Lost Hearts by M.R. James read by Richard Pasco

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe read by Richard Griffiths

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs read by Patrick Malahide