Short Stories audiobooks

Six Fairy Tales

By: Maurice Baring

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of six magical fairy stories written for children. The Glass Mender The Silver Mountain The Wise Princess The Cunning Apprentice The Minstrel The Blue Rose Read more

The Bronze Ring

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Bronze Ring" is a story in which a princess falls in love with the son of the palace gardener, although her father wishes her to marry the son of his prime minister. The king devises a quest for the two suitors and attempts to engineer the situation so that the rich youth will win. But the gardener's son does a good deed to an old woman,... Read more

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is a fairy tale from Norway. A poor family is visited one night by a white bear who promises to make them rich if they will give him their youngest daughter. At first the girl refuses, but over several days she is persuaded to go with the bear. She is carried away on his back to a marvelous castle, where... Read more

Peter Gynt

By: Peter Christen Asbjörnsen

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Peter Gynt" is the story of a hunter who gets the better of a group of trolls who like to take over peoples' farms. Read more

There’s a Witch in My Dryer

By: Linda Lee Cross

Narrated by: Melanie Taylor

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One little girl and her mother realize that laundry, especially the socks, disappears in the dryer. And, oftentimes, strange noises are heard coming from the machine. Mom tells her daughter it’s only pennies, nickels, and buckles making that noise. The mother calls the grandmother, who arrives with a magic flashlight and instructs the girl to... Read more

Una cesta de cerezas

By: Alba Castellví

Narrated by: María Pérez Moreno

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Los mayores hacemos cuanto podemos pero los pequeños, a veces... a veces lo quieren todo, no les apetece esforzarse demasiado, hacen lo que no deberían, pasarían mucho tiempo ante las pantallas, tenemos que repetirles varias veces lo mismo... Son lo mejor que tenemos, pero educarles puede ser un gran reto. Estos cuentos, que a través de sus... Read more

Frauen, die ihre Stimme erheben. Roar! (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Cecelia Ahern

Narrated by: Merete Brettschneider, Anne Moll & Theresa Unde...

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cecelia Ahern erzählt in fünfzehn Geschichten von Frauen und ihrem phantastischen Alltag. Da ist die Frau, die im Boden versinkt und dort auf andere Frauen trifft. Die Frau, die in die Schuhe ihres Mannes schlüpft und die Welt mit anderen Augen sieht. Oder die Frau, der es endlich gelingt, aus ihrer Schublade herauszuklettern. Lauter Frauen,... Read more

Parker: Selected Stories

By: Dorothy Parker

Narrated by: Elaine Stritch

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have embedded themselves in the American literary landscape, but it was her prose that proved her star and demonstrated her talent as extending far beyond her time. In her fiction, she not only brought to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick, but lay bare the uncertainties of ordinary people living... Read more

The Ice King

By: FREI

Narrated by: Sebastian Michael

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Deep inside the glacier lives The Ice King, supple and smooth. His skin is aglow with the cold, and unbelievably soft. He should be milky white, but there’s an olive tint to his hue, and no sooner do I see him, than I want to touch him."The Ice King is a poetic short story about life in a world of the senses and the expanded mind.EDEN... Read more

Vor fremden Augen. Hot Quickies

By: Vicky Carlton

Narrated by: Daniel Schwarz

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Schon mal beim Sex beobachtet worden?

Phil vernascht seine Freundin beim morgendlichen Joggen - vor den Augen einer Voyeurin, die ihn so richtig scharf macht. Doch die fremde Frau hat ein Geheimnis ...

... ein verdammt heißer Quickie ... JETZT DOWNLOADEN! Read more

Técnicas de iluminación

By: Eloy Tizón

Narrated by: Marta Pérez & Gustavo Ausín

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué ocurrió realmente en la fiesta celebrada anoche? ¿Hubo alguna víctima? ¿Qué contiene la caja que nuestro jefe nos entrega en secreto, pidiéndonos que no la abramos, y dentro de la cual se detecta una agitación, un mínimo llanto? ¿Será un ser vivo o un mecanismo de relojería? ¿Quién es "esa otra persona que no nos interesa", que suele... Read more

Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)

"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time

"A beautifully fragmented... Read more

The Grass Harp

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Cody Roberts

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most... Read more

Road Kills

By: Isaac Thorne

Narrated by: Carol Jacobanis & Robert Thaler

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone who has ever fallen off a bike and skinned a knee can tell you that a road is a dangerous place. You can break a bone or crack your skull open barreling down some stretch of interstate at 70 miles per hour in a cage of steel, fiberglass, plastic, and rubber.  Right now you are safe. You can comfort yourself by listening to this audiobook... Read more

A Deeper Love

By: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

Narrated by: Kiersey Clemons

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is only three years since Tessa Gray lost her beloved husband William Herondale, and she is searching for a reason to live, trying to find the path of being a warlock with the guidance of her friend Catarina Loss. World War 2 rains down destruction on their world, and Tessa and Catarina become nurses who make bargains at the Shadow Market for... Read more

Fresh Ink

By: Lamar Giles

Narrated by: Guy Lockard, Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Eric ...

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

All it takes to rewrite the rules is a little fresh ink in this remarkable YA anthology from thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors writing today including Nicola Yoon, Jason Reynolds, Melissa de la Cruz, and many more, and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books. This collection features ten short stories, a graphic... Read more

Certain American States

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Thérèse Plummer & Alex Karpovsky

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists comes Certain American States, whose insightful and lonely stories beg you to discover the emotional universes hiding at their cores.The winner of a Whiting Award, Catherine Lacey brings her narrative mastery to Certain American States, her first collection of short stories. As with her... Read more

Imaginings of years past

By: Vladimir Odoyevsky

Narrated by: Mike Kuhlman

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

His own ancestry and life very nearly the stuff of novels, it is no wonder Russian writer, philosopher, musical scholar, and politician Vladimir Odoyevsky had left behind an endlessly varied, fascinating, and captivating body of work. Imaginings of Years Past gives readers a taste of the strange and wonderful literary legacy left behind by this... Read more

Native American Myths

By: Patrick Healy

Narrated by: Denise Kahn

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The teacher, Patrick Healy, travelled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half thousand myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable.
This is the ninth volume of his work, 33 Native American Myths, in his words.... Read more

Long After Midnight

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is... Read more

Il reverendo

By: Giovanni Verga

Narrated by: Gaetano Marino

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Con "Il reverendo" si aprono le "Novelle Rusticane", pubblicate da Verga nel 1883. L'autore siciliano, oltre al tema della roba, introduce nelle novelle anche una serie di tematiche sociali ed economiche della Sicilia di fine '800.
In questa novella conosciamo un reverendo di un paesino dell'entroterra siciliano. Ricco e rispettato, l'uomo ha... Read more

E due!

By: Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by: Gaetano Marino

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Pirandello ci presenta Diego Bronnes, giovane di 26 anni che ha già scontato una condanna in galera. Ora è fuori dal carcere ma fatica ad inserirsi nella società. Vorrebbe fare lo scrittore ma non riesce a trovare le forza e la concentrazione per prendere la penna in mano.
Finché un giorno, lungo il Tevere, assiste ad un tragico evento che... Read more

Il chiodo

By: Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by: Gaetano Marino

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Il chiodo", scritta da Pirandello nel 1936, è una delle ultime novelle del grande autore siciliano. I personaggi sono al centro della storia che parte da un fatto di cronaca, ovvero un omicidio avvenuto nel quartiere di Harlem, a New York.
Questa volta però non c'è spazio per il classico umorismo pirandelliano: amarezza, delusione e sconcerto... Read more

Il no di Anna

By: Luigi Pirandello

Narrated by: Gaetano Marino

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Pubblicata per la prima volta tra il settembre e l'ottobre del 1985 nella Gazzetta letteraria, "Il no di Anna" venne poi ripubblicata dalla Rivista di Roma nel 1906 con il titolo di "Lillina e Mimì" con numerose varianti.
Anna, la protagonista della novella, freme d'amore per Mondino Morgani, il giovane medico di Vignetta, che però la ignora... Read more