Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Downloadable audio ISBN 9781907416057) book cover

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The first of CSA Word’s popular women’s short story collections.

This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching. With stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Gaskell – it includes Ladies in Lavender by William J. Locke, the inspiration for the film of the same name starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
Narrated by Harriet Walter, a popular British actress whose movie and tv credits include Atonement, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Netflix’s The Crown.


“An outstandingly good and very unusual collection.”
the Sunday Times

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“[Harriet Walter] has an excellent dramatic sense.”
publisher’s Weekly, Usa

“CSA Word’s collections of stories ‘by or about women’ are consistently fascinating.”
the Observer


Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield & Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This volume features stories by outstanding authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.