Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Tales of the Unexpected
    Tales of the Unexpected
    Tales of the Unexpected
    Audiobook1 hour

    Tales of the Unexpected

    Written by Kate Chopin, O. Henry and Katherine Mansfield

    Narrated by Emma Hignett

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Short Stories with a Twist. A Classic Collection by O Henry, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin and Guy de Maupassant which engage and surprise
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaland Publishing
    Release dateFeb 1, 2012
    ISBN9781908650160
    Tales of the Unexpected
    Author

    Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri,In 1851. She began writing shortly after herHusband's death and, from 1889 until her ownDeath, her stories and other miscellaneousWritings appeared in Vogue, Youth's companion,Atlantic Monthly, Century, Saturday EveningPost, and other publications. In addition to The Awakening, Mrs. Chopin published another novel, At Fault, and two collections of short stories and sketches, Bayou Folk and A Night at Acadie. The publication of The Awakening in 1899 occasioned shocked and angry response from reviewers all over the country. The book was taken off the shelves of the St. Louis mercantile library and its author was barred from the fine arts club. Kate Chopin died in 1904.

    More audiobooks from Kate Chopin

    Related to Tales of the Unexpected

    Related audiobooks

    Anthologies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Friendly Mammoth

      Jun 2, 2022

      By Anna Terreros-Martin, David Fickling Books, £6.99 JOIN MANSI ON A TRIP TO HER LOCAL natural history museum, which is “a magical place for remembering the past” (keen-eyed readers will see that it’s very much based on the Natural History Museum in

      1 min read

    • Article

      Home Is Where The Art Is

      Jun 5, 2020

      Home Is Where The Art Is
      2 min read

    • Article

      In The Running For Romance

      Mar 4, 2021

      The RNA has announced the category shortlists for the 2021 Romantic Novel of the Year Awards. • The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award: Cow Girl, Kirsty Eyre; The Bookshop of Second Chances, Jackie Fraser; The Silent Treatment, Abbie Greaves; Th

      1 min read

    • Article

      Paris Is Burning

      Jul 1, 2019

      Paris Is Burning
      1 min read

    • Article

      Paris Is Burning

      Jul 5, 2019

      Paris Is Burning
      1 min read

    • Article

      Editorial

      May 9, 2019

      What do you want to escape from? Have you already managed to outrun your enemy, or wriggled out of binds that confined you? Is there something fundamental – about your life, self or history – you would break free from if you could? These are the esse

      1 min read

    • Article

      Books to Escape With

      Jun 3, 2021

      Books to Escape With
      2 min read

    • Article

      Stranger Than Fiction

      Apr 12, 2024

      Stranger Than Fiction
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tessa Castro

      Sep 22, 2021

      IN COMPETITION No 271, you were invited to write a poem with the title Convenience. It was an inconvenient match between so many good entries and so little space to print the winners. Katie Mallett gave a recognisable account of stopping in for a del

      2 min read

    • Article

      Percy Ann’s Great Escape

      May 31, 2022

      In June 1958 I excitedly rode my bike over to Croghan School to meet our playground supervisor for the summer. The Department of Recreation in Fremont, Ohio, offered all sorts of summer activities and hired college girls studying to become teachers t

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Mind Like No Other

      Sep 28, 2023

      A Mind Like No Other
      1 min read

    • Article

      Flop Culture

      Oct 12, 2023

      Flop Culture
      1 min read

    • Article

      Snapshot

      Feb 12, 2023

      Snapshot
      1 min read

    • Article

      Mary Katrantzou

      Aug 2, 2022

      Mary Katrantzou hasn’t done a high street collaboration since shortly after her first London Fashion Week show, in 2008. But after a contact introduced her to the creative director and the CEO of Lipsy London, who have long been fans of her work, she

      2 min read

    • Article

      Who’s Up For It?

      Mar 12, 2023

      How great to see a thriller among the top four fiction works of the year. Michael Bennett’s Better the Blood weaves together fiction and reality, linking today’s society to our colonial past. We said it was “a gripping, televisual kind of story, with

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Kaiser - My Heavenly Boss

      Oct 19, 2022

      Karl Lagerfeld - or ‘the Kaiser’ - was my first boss in Paris. Though proud of this great feat, I won first prize as his lousiest assistant at the Chanel Studio. It was 1989, the height of the supermodel and the French luxury brand. Chanel’s tweed su

      5 min read

    • Article

      It’s Showtime!

      Jan 10, 2021

      It’s Showtime!
      1 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Dec 9, 2020

      Letters
      2 min read

    • Article

      Puppy Love?

      Jul 1, 2020

      Puppy Love?
      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 24, 2021

      by Lindsey Kelk (£14.99, HB, HarperCollins) We all need an escape at times, and who better to serve a delicious, escapist romance than the author of the I Heart series? Fran Cooper’s in a relationship and knows what path she’s taking – until she’s of

      2 min read

    • Article

      It’s Showtime!

      Nov 7, 2021

      It’s Showtime!
      1 min read

    • Article

      Stella Tennant

      Mar 8, 2021

      Stella Tennant
      5 min read

    • Article

      Into The Mystic

      Nov 25, 2021

      ATTENTIVE READERS WILL HAVE noticed that this column has spookily become the nerve-centre of the British opera world: like Richard Burton in The Medusa Touch, I merely have to dream up some new batshit hell and it instantly comes to pass. Of course i

      3 min read

    • Article

      First Things First

      Aug 16, 2021

      THE CHALLENGE: Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt below. ❶ Time-traveling Marie Antoinette enjoyed the pizza, but when she found QVC, she reached nirvana.—Donna Mork Reed ❷ Her rumbling stomach told Diane that the pizza was i

      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Tales of the Unexpected

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words