Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 8hrs 42mins)

Featuring stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky,  Elizabeth Gaskell & more.

Talent bursts from this decade with astonishing ease.  From America across Europe to Russia each and every story is an indelible mark of story-telling flecked with genius that enthralls us all.  Whatever their chosen genre their stories break new ground, cover new topics and carry a legacy that cannot be disputed.

In this compilation - 

1 - The Top Ten - The 1840's

2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol

4 - Sextons Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell

5 - The Mummys Foot by Théophile Gautier

6 - Rappaccinnis Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

7 - The Spectre of Tappington by Richard Harris Barham

8 - The Jew by Ivan Turgenev

9 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10 - Taman by Mikhail Lermantov

11 - The Return of Martin Guerre by Alexandre Dumas