Short Stories audiobooks

His Tale of Bricks

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His Tale of Bricks is a humorous tale of a set of rogues in London's East End attempting an ingenious swindle at Liverpool Street station, involving the switching of one suitcase with... Read more

Arthur Jermyn

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame for his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.

Arthur Jermyn is the story of a baronet with an interest in anthropology who sets out to solve the mystery of what his great, great, great grandfather... Read more

The Disorder of the Bath

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End.

The Disorder of the Bath is an engaging and humorous story about a burglary told by a cockney rogue who has double crossed his companions and is on the run. Read more

The House of Haddock

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. The House of Haddock is the humorous story of an old rogue whose formerly genteel family has fallen on hard times. A former ancestor of his once gave a set of almshouses to the village,... Read more

Whimsical Tales

By: Arthur Morrison, H. G. Wells & J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful collection of light-hearted classic stories from some of the greatest Victorian and Edwardian-era writers.
1. 'The Tudor Cup' by Neil Munro.
2. 'The Disorder of the Bath' by Arthur Morrison.
3. 'Never bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Alan Poe.
4. 'Against Time' by J. S. Fletcher.
5. 'The House of Haddock' by Arthur Morrison.
6. 'The... Read more

White Stockings

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age.

"White Stockings" is a compelling and cleverly constructed story about a vengeful jilted lover with a gambling addiction, a racing tout, a gullible lover, a hairdresser... Read more

Six Short Stories by Arthur Morrison

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. This collection contains a selection of Morrison's best work, including humorous and horror stories.

Featuring:

'Dobbs' Parrot'
'The House of Haddock'
'The Thing in the Upper... Read more

The Student Lodger

By: Neil Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author, and literary critic who is now mainly known for his humorous short stories.

The Student Lodger is the humorous tale of a Scottish couple who take on an English divinity student as a lodger. The trainee minister turns out rather livelier than his landlords had hoped.... Read more

Cathedral

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. The twelve stories in Cathedral mark a turning point in Carver's work and "overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.... Read more

Three More Jack Reacher Novellas

By: Lee Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Child once again demonstrates his mastery of the thriller genre with an unbeatable collection of three Jack Reacher novellas and six short stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author

Too Much Time: In this original novella featuring Jack Reacher after his time in the... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Pyle's heroic version of Robin Hood begins after a conflict with some foresters leads to Robin of Locksley becoming the outlaw famous for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Each chapter tells a different tale of Robin as he recruits Merry Men, resists the authorities, and aids his fellow man. Pyle's version includes the... Read more

Men Without Women

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama).

Across seven... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Connor Sheridan

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

These vivid, tightly focused observations about the life of Dublin's poorer classes originally made publishers uneasy: the stories contain unconventional themes and coarse language, and they mention actual people and places. Today, however, the stories are admired. They are considered to be masterful representations of Dublin done with economy... Read more

From Percy Jackson: Camp Half-Blood Confidential

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer such questions as "What is this place?" and "Do I get to keep the T-shirt?" Newbies can check out the section on the Divine Cabins, read up on Magical Landmarks, and consult the chapter of Training Arenas.... Read more

The Dinner Party

By: Joshua Ferris

Narrated by: Zach Roe, Chris Kayser, Nicholas Tecosky & Jenn...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year: The first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of... Read more

Trajectory

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Arthur Morey, Fred Sanders & Mar...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre.

Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In... Read more

The Foundling

By: Lloyd Alexander

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion book to The Chronicles of Prydain, this collection of short stories revisits beloved characters and reveals more about the history of the magical land of Prydain.

Here, readers will find Dallben, destined to be an enchanter; Angharad, a princess of the House of Llyr; Kadwyr, the rascal crow; and Medwyn, the mystical protector of all... Read more

Truck stop

By: David Ericsson

Narrated by: Frederick Halbout

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Berättelser från långtradarchaufförernas liv och en blick ut över dagens Sverige. Det är ett glest industriland som träder fram, men också oväntade möten mellan människor där hoppet och kärleken kan växa. Som mellan kvinnan och mannen hon träffar på en nakenstrand, eller hos chauffören som är på en dygnslång körning från Umeå för att möta någon... Read more

Mankind & Other Stories of Women

By: Marianne Ackerman

Narrated by: Jennifer Dale

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Marianne Ackerman’s second collection of stories for Guernica puts the focus on women, their ascent into selfhood, the beauty and carnage of the their journey. Literary Montreal is the setting of two stories spun around an alpha poseur, George. Picking up from the Gothic shadows of Albert Fine in Holy Fools (Guernica, 2014), Ackerman follows the... Read more

Sunken Glow

By: Meisen Zhou

Narrated by: Bo Ma

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-wrenching saga of a prostitute and various strongmen she meets on her journey. All the men in this story are all so seemingly devoted and just, yet it's exactly this earth-shattering devotion that pushes the heroine to her downfall. Read more

A voz (Integral)

By: Danilo Barbosa

Narrated by: Daniela Schimitz

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Quem disse que o amor acontece à primeira vista? Vanessa, assim como todas as pessoas, também achava isso, Até que seu primo Luzimar veio lá da divisa de Minas visitá-la na grande São Paulo. Um moço até interessante, longe de ser o caipira que ela imaginava... Mas, antes que tirem conclusões precipitadas, esta história de amor não é dela. Tem a... Read more

No coração da noite (Integral)

By: Danilo Barbosa

Narrated by: Daniela Schimitz

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Uma mulher caminha na noite, recoberta pelas sombras. Carrega em si todas as dores e amores que a vida foi capaz de lhe proporcionar. O corpo machucado, sob a chuva torrencial, caminha com dificuldade, clamando aos anjos - e aos demônios - que a ajudem a conquistar o seu objetivo. O que ela busca? Qual é o seu destino? Através deste conto,... Read more

Dez dias para roubar o namorado da vizinha (Integral)

By: Janaina Rico

Narrated by: Janaina Rico

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcele de repente descobre que está apaixonada pelo namorado da vizinha. Mas, ele vai se mudar em 10 dias. Então ela começa a correr contra o tempo! Uma história divertida, de uma menina que não mede as consequências para conquistar o homem dos seus sonhos. Read more

Gorda, solteira, 30 anos, procura (Integral)

By: Janaina Rico

Narrated by: Janaina Rico

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Uma divertida novela em 10 capítulos contando as peripécias de Bárbara em busca de um relacionamento. Bárbara, que sempre foi a garota mais inteligente do colégio e nunca soube o que é tirar uma nota menor que nove. Aprendeu a ler sozinha, aos quatro anos, e os seus melhores amigos sempre foram os livros. E agora ela colocou um anúncio no badoo... Read more