Stories of characters having to deal with terrible pain caused by others

Read by William Dufris(Unabridged: 4hrs 31mins)

Featuring stories by Anton Chekhov

Equality is one of the great and lauded aims of a just society. It is rarely achieved. The system is there to be exploited by those with too much money and too many resources. Or maybe just a grudge. Our classic authors including Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Morrison and others turn their pens to the nature of abuse. It may be gentle or laced with searing pain but always told with the sharpest of pens.

1 - Short Stories about Abuse - An Introduction

2 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy

4 - A Harlem Tragedy by O Henry

5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

7 - Gentle Breathing by Ivan Bunin

8 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

9 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

10 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

11 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

12 - Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt by Arthur Morrison