This audiobook is part of 'Classics for the New Decade', an anthology series from HarperCollins Children's Books, celebrating the most acclaimed and enduring works of literature. To the best of our knowledge, all works included in this collection are out of copyright and available in the public domain. To give a true sense of the classics genre, we have tried to retain the original form of the stories.


Evergreen Classic Short Stories for Children brings together some of the most popular and beloved stories by celebrated authors like Guy de Maupassant, James Joyce and Rudyard Kipling, and extracts from classics such as Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby. With a mix of genres including mystery, romance, crime and supernatural, and a host of popular characters such as Tom Sawyer, Sherlock Holmes, Mr Darcy and Jo March, this is the perfect book to immerse yourself in a range of classic literature.

Authors featured in this anthology include Agatha Christie, Emily Bronte, Rabindranath Tagore, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edgar Allan Poe among others.