Short Stories audiobooks

The Flying Fish

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Flying Fish' is unfinished but tells the story of an Englishman, Gethin Day, returning home after years in South America. There is a hint of the home-sickness Lawrence may have felt during his long exile. The bulk of the story is the time spent on the ship which is taking Day back to England. It is a ship of fools, a 'plague ship' and the... Read more

Matylda i Johann 1: Gorąca noc w Berlinie – opowiadanie erotyczne

By: Klara Stelnicka

Narrated by: Mirella Biel

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sięgnęła do suwaka sukienki, żeby też się jej pozbyć, ale barman chwycił jej dłoń.– Nic dziś nie robisz. My jesteśmy tu dla ciebie i zrobimy wszystko, co chcesz.Delikatnie ułożył ją na materacu i stanął obok kolegi, czekając na jej wskazówki. Czuła, że od samego patrzenia na nich może dostać orgazmu. A do tego ta propozycja spełniania jej... Read more

The Last Laugh

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Last Laugh’ is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in a dreamlike snowy London. The question left open is who the three people in the story saw on the snowy evening. Perhaps Pan, returned to destroy the Christian God, as the church is destroyed in the story and to bring love to the frigid young woman in the form of a policeman... Read more

Sun

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

'Sun' is a sensual story of a woman rediscovering her sexuality through the power of the sun. But for the unexpected arrival of her businessman husband she was ready to give herself to a local peasant but is finally pulled back to respectability by her husband. But she is free to remain apart from him in the sun. Read more

Glad Ghosts

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Glad Ghosts’ is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in the archetypical country house. He doesn't attempt to explain the supernatural happenings which occur but uses them to extol his own ideas of the power of the sex drive and the triumph of life over death. Read more

Jimmy and the Desperate Woman

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'Jimmy and the Desperate Woman' tells the improbable story of an intellectual editor persuading a working woman to live with him. We would say now 'on the rebound' from a failed marriage but Lawrence crosses the class divide and poses questions about what makes us attracted to other people. The intellectual twists and turns of the magazine... Read more

Nakarm mnie – opowiadanie erotyczne

By: Annah Viki M.

Narrated by: Mirella Biel

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Włączył ciepłą wodę pod prysznicem i wepchnął mnie tam. Spojrzałam z przerażeniem, że zostawia mnie samą. Zrozumiał. Sam ściągnął z siebie ubranie i wszedł do mnie. Kabina była przestronna. Opiekował się mną. Najpierw mnie przytulił. Przylgnęłam do jego ciała. Było twarde i sprężyste. Obejmował mnie i gładził po plecach. Woda lała się na nas.... Read more

Smile

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Smile’ is one of Lawrence's shorter pieces, a thumbnail sketch of an idea. A man is relieved that his wife is dead and struggles to hide his relief when confronted with his wife's body. The relief breaks out in a smile which he struggles to excuse. How much better it would have been, Lawrence seems to be saying, if he had just laughed out loud! Read more

The Border Line

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Border Line' is unusual in that Lawrence dabbles in the supernatural (as he was to do again in 'The Rocking-Horse Winner' two years later) and that this is less a story in the traditional sense and more an exploration of the mind of a particular woman, based on his own wife, Frieda. Katherine, in the story, realises that her real love was... Read more

El naranjo

By: Carlos Fuentes

Narrated by: Noé Velázquez

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

En El naranjo se reúnen mis más inmediatos placeres sensuales -miro, toco, pelo, muerdo, trago- pero también la sensación más antigua: mi madre, las nodrizas, las tetas, la esfera, el mundo, el huevo. -Carlos Fuentes-. Cinco relatos donde Martín II, hijo de Cortés con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martín... Read more

The Wilful Woman

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Wilful Woman’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1922. 'The Wilful Woman' remained unfinished and so the tough, spoiled, rich American woman, used to having her own way, does not get the nemesis Lawrence may have had in mind for her. Whether it was the Wordsworthian lessons of nature as she battles her way through the American wilderness or the... Read more

Morsels of Mayhem

By: Mark Tullius

Narrated by: Gabriel Michael

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Three short horror stories and one piece of nonfiction by Mark Tullius, one of the hardest-hitting authors around.The tales are bound to leave you more than a touch unsettled.Find yourself: an overweight father ignored by his family. a gang member breaking into a neighborhood church. a cameraman who finds himself in a hopeless situation. an... Read more

The Princess

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Princess' of the story is a spoiled, sexless woman who is thrown in with a passionate man whom she takes into her bed and then rejects. This rejection leads to his ultimate death. Lawrence again pleads his case for the necessary domination of woman by man and shows the sterility of a life lead without sexual passion. Set against the bleak... Read more

The Overtone

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Overtone' looks at a sterile marriage with no children and no spontaneous sexual feeling between the couple. Lawrence seems to lose interest in the story, although he introduces a younger woman, who walks away baffled at the end. His purpose seems to be to analyse the relationship between men and women in religious terms - Christianity for... Read more

Blood Feast

By: Malika Moustadraf

Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Lameece Issaq

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Africa. Blood Feast is the complete collection of Moustadraf’s published short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. A teenage girl suffers through a dystopian rite... Read more

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Horse Dealer's Daughter’ is a story, gripping in its content. It encompasses the terror of death and disgrace which is redeemed by passion and sexuality. The question Lawrence leaves open is whether the doctor's avowal of love is genuine or driven by the awakening of his own sexuality and pity for the woman. Read more

The Primrose Path

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Primrose Path’ looks at what can be the ephemeral nature of man and woman love and the horror and certainty of death which seems to hang over all the characters in this haunting short story. Read more

Monkey Nuts

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Monkey Nuts’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1922. 'Monkey Nuts' turns the traditional love story on its head. It is the woman (the new liberated woman Lawrence had little time for) who does the chasing and the boy who is reluctant. Lawrence seems to be saying it is the unspoken love between the two men in the story which is more satisfying than... Read more

You Touched Me

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'You Touched Me' is a comic/tragic story of a forced marriage brought about by an accidental touch in the night but the depth of the writing leaves the reader unsure if the couple are marrying for money or to release the passions realised by the touch. Read more

Rex

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'Rex' is a riotous story of the turmoil caused in a household by the arrival of a puppy. The setting is similar to the one found in 'Sons and Lovers' but Lawrence thought this scene deserved the fuller treatment of a short story. The question of the destructive force of unconditional love is left open. Read more

The Blind Man

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Blind Man' is a delicate study of a loving relationship blighted by the man's blindness and disfigurement in the first world war. The arrival of an old friend of the woman brings into the open feelings and fears previously suppressed. Read more

Fanny and Annie

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The theme of the woman for whom the man is not 'good enough' is worked out fully in Lawrence's novel 'Sons and Lovers'. The story is beautifully observed as are the relationships in working families of the time. The suspense of 'will she, won't she marry him' is kept on the boil until the last line of the story. 'Fanny and Annie' is a small... Read more

Wintry Peacock

By: D H Lawrence

Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

'Wintry Peacock' is, on the surface, a tale of misdirected love or even irresponsible love, the relationship between the wife and the peacock being the most strange but it is the conspiracy of the two men in the story to prevent the truth coming out about the husband's love child that is most disturbing. The innocent are punished and the guilty... Read more

Spaghetti horror

By: Emilio Salgari, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti & Gaspare ...

Narrated by: Luca Breda

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Una giovane sposa morbosamente attratta da un ritratto misterioso. Un uomo talmente ossessionato dal proprio trauma da non riuscire a vivere una vita normale. Un grande castello nero, dimenticato da tutti tranne che da un ragazzo che continua a vedere, in sogno, lo stesso identico paesaggio. E ancora la storia di due fratelli che non riescono a... Read more