Short Stories audiobooks
The Yacht
By: Arnold Bennett
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English author, born in one of the Five Towns which form the background of so many of his witty stories.
When Alice joins her husband, whom due to the war she has barely seen since their marriage two years earlier, on his yacht for a belated honeymoon, she discovers that a boat is far from an ideal location to... Read more
The Far Islands
By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer, barrister, and member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and governor-general of Canada. While he was most famous for adventure stories, such as 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', he was also popular for his supernatural stories, of which 'The Far Islands' is a prime example.
The young boy, Colin,... Read more
The Lads who met the Trolls in the Hedale Wood
By: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812 - 1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folk tales.
The Lads who met the Trolls in the Hedale Wood is one such folk story. Two teenage lads are stranded in the Hedale Wood overnight. Before long they hear heavy footsteps and sniffing. Three enormous trolls are on the scent of human... Read more
The Old Ancient Ship
By: Morley Roberts
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an adventurer who worked on railways and cattle and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give.
'The Old Ancient Ship' is a mysterious and ghostly sea story. A strange old mariner,... Read more
The High Seas
By: Elinor Mordaunt
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Elinor Mordaunt (1872-1942) was an English author, writer and traveller. She lived extensively in Mauritius, Australia and the East Indies, which provided the inspiration and background for many of her works.
"The High Seas" is the story of two brothers Bran and Agar Yeld, twins, both sailors, sworn and bitter enemies. Agar has stolen Bran's... Read more
Make Westing
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: No
John Griffith 'Jack' London (1876-1916) was a popular American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
'Make Westing' is a story of a ship, the Mary Rogers, struggling to round Cape Horn in adverse weather. The way to round the Horn is always to 'make westing'. As time goes on, Captain Dan Cullen becomes more and more obsessed with making... Read more
Seafarers' Yarns
By: Jack London, Joseph Conrad & Morley Roberts
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 19 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant collection of some of the finest old sea stories ever written.
• The Overcrowded Iceberg by Morley Roberts
• The Substitute by W. W. Jacobs
• Reparation by J. D. Beresford
• The Paradise Coal-Boat by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne
• The Registered Packet by J. S. Fletcher
• Treasure Trove by Neil Munro
• The Vengeance of La Maraye by J. S.... Read more
The Open Boat
By: Stephen Crane
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was a prolific American poet, novelist and short story writer. He is recognised by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. 'The Open Boat' is probably Stephen Crane's best known and most admired story. It tells the adventure of four sailors, the captain, the oiler, the cook and the... Read more
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An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve
By: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812 - 1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folk tales.
"An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve" describes a young Norwegian soldier recovering from an illness, who finds himself stranded on Christmas Eve with a family who sit around the fire telling a series of quite extraordinary folk tales and... Read more
Bound for Rio Grande
By: A. E. Dingle
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Aylward Edward "A.E." Dingle (1874 - 1947) was a sailor and writer. His own maritime adventures were as fascinating as the sea stories he wrote. He was shipwrecked five times, including being stranded on a desert island for several weeks.
"Bound for Rio Grande" is a classic swashbuckling tale about an old sailor who is shanghaied onto a ship... Read more
Shabrichi Bhakti, Laxman Shakti
By: Shantabai Gahininath Deshmukh
Narrated by: Shantabai Gahininath Deshmukh
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
शबरीची भक्ती ही इतकी शुद्ध होती की रामालाही तिच्या हातची उष्टी बोरे खाणे हा सन्मान वाटला . रामायणात नेहमीच सर्वांसाठी शबरीची कथा ही भक्तीचे उदाहरण बनून राहिली आहे. Read more
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Debriefing
By: Susan Sontag
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private... Read more
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Hich Ti Indrayani
By: Sudarshan Maharaj Pandharpurkar
Narrated by: Sudarshan Maharaj Pandharpurkar
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
हीच ती इंद्रायणी - एक हरिकिर्तन Read more
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Hari Tethe Sant, Sant Tethe Hari
By: Sudarshan Maharaj Pandharpurkar
Narrated by: Sudarshan Maharaj Pandharpurkar
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
संत एकनाथ महाराज यांच्या जीवनावर आधारित किर्तन Read more
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Ghaiuniya Kari Sudarshan - Kirtan
By: Gahininath Maharaj Deshmukh
Narrated by: Gahininath Maharaj Deshmukh
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
गहिणीनाथ देशमुख यांचे किर्तन Read more
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Kai Sangu Devachi Maat
By: Shantabai Gahininath Deshmukh
Narrated by: Shantabai Gahininath Deshmukh
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
संत दामाजीपंत यांच्या जीवनावर आधारित किर्तन. Read more
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Behind the Lines
By: Ian Patrick
Narrated by: Michael Richard
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
These eight short stories are works of fiction, but reflect the author's real personal experiences while undergoing compulsory military training during his youth in apartheid South Africa. The stories are all based on real events but the characters are the products of creative imagination (although rooted in reality). Readers will enjoy a range... Read more
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Shri Ganpati Atharvashirsh
By: Upendra Bhatt
Narrated by: Upendra Bhatt
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
श्री गणपती अथर्वशीर्ष यात आहेत एकवीस आवर्तने Read more
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Eveningland
By: Michael Knight
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In his powerful new short story cycle, Alabama-born Michael Knight illuminates the everyday beauty and heartache of life along the shores of serene, history-haunted Mobile Bay in the days leading up to a powerful hurricane "Michael Knight is more than a master of the short story. He knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the... Read more
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The Cheese Pie
By: Geo Mihalache
Narrated by: Geo Mihalache
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Audio story for children from the series 'Stories for Vlad':The smallest tomcat, Tarcatul, learns why stealing is not nice or healthy. He receives an useful lesson. Read more
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Dating Cupid
By: Eve Langlais
Narrated by: Marie Smith
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Roxanne knows where she’d like to shove Cupid’s arrow.
Tired of cheating men and false promises of love, Roxanne launches a campaign against Cupid’s Dating Service. But it’s hard to smear a company when you’ve got the hots for the owner.
Maverick Eros is more than the CEO of hottest dating service around, he’s Cupid himself. However, forget the... Read more
Hasa Hasa Potdharun
By: Kamlakar Vaishampayan
Narrated by: Kamlakar Vaishampayan
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
विनोद सम्राट कमलाकर वैश्यपयन रचित हसा हसा पोतधरुन मध्ये १- बदला लूँगी लूँगी बदला, २-ख़ाली परकर वारती गंजी फ्रोक, ३-नवरा मूलगा नवरी मूलगि को घास देगा, ४-रायगदला जेवहा जाग एते, ५-चंद्रोणिच्याजाडा मागे लिम्बू जोपला ६-द्रौपदी वस्त्रहरन Read more
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The King Is Always Above the People
By: Daniel Alarcón
Narrated by: David DeSantos
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles.
Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets.... Read more
Dev Vase Chitti
By: Gokul Maharaj Hoande & Kacheshwar Maharaj Bargal
Narrated by: Gokul Maharaj Hoande & Kacheshwar Maharaj Bargal
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
देव वसे चित्ति हे एक किर्तन असून यात विठूचा गोडवा गायला आहे. ही फ़ाउंटन म्यूझिकचि प्रस्तुति आहे. Read more
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