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BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection
BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection
Dec 29, 2024 12:32 PM

Author:Oscar Wilde,Arthur Conan Doyle,Virginia Woolf,Various,Sam Dale,Joseph Ayre,Carolyn Pickles,Don Gilet,Clare Corbett,Ronny Jhutti,Helen Clapp,Susan Jameson,Full Cast

BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection

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

41The 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 & 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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Reviews

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—— Holly Bourne

Heart-wrenching and utterly compelling, Malibu Rising is a story about the fierce bonds between four fascinating siblings. The novel immerses us in a glamorous, star-studded world but at its heart it's full of raw human emotion. Its characters felt completely real to me - each one is flawed and messy and impossible not to love.

—— Beth O'Leary

Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need- a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book.

—— Pandora Sykes

It's a full on escapist delight.

—— Stylist, Best Fiction of 2021

Unapologetically escapist beach read fiction, it's urgent style evocative of Hollywood Wives era Jackie Collins.

—— Sunday Times

This summer's must-read novel.

—— Sarra Manning, Red

Oh, how I longed to be in California with the glamourous Riva siblings when I was reading this [...] I did not want this book to end!

—— Prima, Book of the Month

With Malibu Rising - a novel as redolent of California dreamin' as a Lana del Rey track - Jenkins Reid has lost none of her touch ... A stroke of genius ... Imagine Blue Water High and Selling Sunset had a lovechild, or Jackie Collins rewrote The O.C. , then combine these ingredients with warm, propulsive storytelling, and you'll get an inkling of this family saga's escapist magic ... Immersive and relaxing, as every great beach read should be.

—— Evening Standard

When the party starts, it's celebrity mayhem but the heart of the book is family, love and loyalty. I adored everything about this punchy and incisive take on fame and its consequences, from the sympathetic characters to the salty surf atmosphere.

—— Daily Mail

Think Selling Sunset with knobs on as Taylor Jenkins Reid again plunges us into the intoxicating, heat-heavy realm of intrigue of Malibu, this time amidst the world of the filthy rich.

—— 2021 look ahead , BBC News

Perfect pure escapism.

—— Simon Savidge

A beautifully touching and thought provoking novel interspersed with Jenkins Reid's trademark wit and humour.

—— Essential Marbella Magazine

Malibu Rising is as much an impressionistic whirl of neon sunsets, acid-wash denim and high-cut bikinis as it is a grand set piece about a glamorous party ... Jenkins Reid has an easy, breezy style that serves melodrama on a daring scale . . . Never has so much sex, tragedy, celebrity and tanned skin been crammed into one thinking person's beach read. It's 365 pages of pure exhilaration.

—— The Times

Perfect for whatever holiday you hopefully get to take this summer.

—— Irish Independent

A riveting, propulsive bookwith characters that stayed with me, not because they are complicated but because they are so vivid ... Full of warmth and tenderness ... Deliciously escapist, conjuring the sun and the sand.

—— i paper

A gorgeous, sun-soaked novel that delves into the glamour and desperate hope of 1980s Malibu.

—— The Skinny

Fast-paced and addictive, Reid's vivid world-building provides the ultimate in summer escapism. With touches of 1980s glamour and scandal, Malibu Rising is another thrilling read from a talented writer, sure to delight old fans, as well as winning her new ones.

—— Independent

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—— Stylist

Hot off the success of the immensely enjoyable 1970s band story Daisy Jones & The Six comes Taylor Jenkins Reid's latest, a superfun foray into the 1980s ... Delicious.

—— Sunday Telegraph, Novel of the Week

Simmering with sexual tension, this hugely enjoyable ensemble narrative turns on a raucous party.

—— Mail on Sunday

Malibu Rising is finely crafted commercial fiction, escapism in high definition, a quintessential beach read... If Nina Riva's party is the hottest ticket of the summer, then Malibu Rising is a front-row seat at the main event.

—— Irish Times

A gorgeous, sun-soaked novel that delves into the glamour and desperate hope of 1980s Malibu, and the saga of a family that will never be the same again.

—— The Skinny

The perfect summer novel, a vibrant story filled with sun, surfing, and flawed but lovable characters.

—— Daily Beast

After a year where most people stayed home, it's a great time to escape to the beach, even if only through Reid's writing.

—— Independent

This glamourous, compulsive novel is best enjoyed from your sun lounger with a cocktail in hand.

—— Good Housekeeping

A deliciously decadent tale of sex, tragedy, celebrity, surfboards and tanned skin in 1980s Malibu.

—— The Times

I absolutely loved her book.... It's an absolute blast to read

—— Alice- Azania Jarvis

JACKIE COLLINS, BUT BETTER Sacrilege to say "better", I know, but there we are. Set in the 1980s, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising is wonderfully written, intensely evocative and concerns the model/ surfer children of a rock star. Tons of glamour, tons of sharply observed insights about sibling relationships, plus a massive party. Beach read par excellence. See also her brilliant Daisy Jones & the Six, which is heaven (more rock stars).

—— Anonymous

When we picked up Malibu Rising, the new novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, we could barely put it down

—— That's Life

You'll never want this book to end, it will suck you in and spit you out!

—— Muddy Stilettos
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