Short Stories audiobooks
A Good Fuck Spoiled
By: Laura Lippman
Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more
View audiobookHardly Knew Her
By: Laura Lippman
Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more
View audiobookThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie. Read more
View audiobookSandhill County Lines
By: Clay Reynolds
Narrated by: Jeffrey Brick, Cynthia Darlow, Julia Gibson & L...
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Comprising nine hardscrabble tales set across the great state of Texas and beyond, Sandhill County Lines is a triumph from author Clay Reynolds. Off the beaten path, concealed behind the weather-worn clapboard walls of decaying farm houses, desperate folk struggle and strive. These are their stories. "Clay Reynolds's stories are earthy, frank,... Read more
View audiobookRip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more
View audiobookThe Baron of Grogswig
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Baron of Grogswig abandons his riotous ways of carousal and gaiety, and settles down - only to discover that simple domesticity is not the peaceful life he had envisioned. But, just when the Baron feels he can't take it any more, an unexpected visitor changes everything. Read more
View audiobookAesop's Fables, with eBook
By: Aesop
Narrated by: Jonathan Kent
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. Aesop's Fables are classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern-day audiences. They... Read more
View audiobookThe Ambitious Guest
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A vicious tempest is raging on a New England mountainside. A young traveler sojourns through the sea of wind and snow, finding refuge in a cottage, cozily nestled in the notch of a hill. The traveler burns with a determination to make his name known to the world. But that will all have to wait until the storm subsides. Read more
View audiobookThe Women of Brewster Place - Abridged
By: Gloria Naylor
Narrated by: Tonya Pinkins
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones
“[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to write her compassion and outrage large, and she pulls it off... Read more
Dubliners - Abridged
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Gerald McSorley
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in... Read more
View audiobookWayside School Gets a Little Stranger
By: Louis Sachar
Narrated by: Louis Sachar
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger!
Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it’s a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth... Read more
Fine Just The Way It Is
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
2009 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming.
Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable... Read more
The Mercedes Coffin
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus in the spellbinding new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett ""Dr. Ben"" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and... Read more
View audiobookThe Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifteen stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her own short lifetime, was compared to Chekhov. The tales are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. With careful, quiet observation, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling ideas. Her stories... Read more
View audiobookThe Eyes
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A story of how individual destiny can be shaped and formed by mentors and friends. Culwin is a modern villain, whose crimes arise from holding his tongue at crucial moments, so that events further entangle themselves. Read more
View audiobookThe Mortal Immortal
By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An ancient alchemist drags out his weary life in search of the elixir of immortality. But, when his vengeful assistant quaffs the mixture, he discovers that the effects of the draft of immortality may never wear off. Mary Shelley explores the concept of immortality, following a character that never ages through a ponderous and thought provoking... Read more
View audiobookThe Captain of the Pole Star
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings. Read more
View audiobookRunaway
By: Alice Munro
Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about women of all ages and circumstances—and about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises.The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In “Passion,” a country girl emerging into the... Read more
View audiobookAbenteuer: Spannende Hörspiele - Abridged
By: Robert L. Stevenson & Daniel Defoe
Narrated by: Robert Doppelbauer, Michael Brandes, Sascha Fis...
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Zwei spannende Klassiker der Abenteuerliteratur aufwändig vertont: Robinson Crusoe - Ich bin Robinson Crusoe - Hier bin ich 1659 gelandet - Freitag und ich Die Schatzinsel - Teil 1 - Teil 2 Read more
View audiobookThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Alexander Spencer
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleven short stories including The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squires and The Final Problem. Read more
View audiobookZwergelinchen - Abridged
By: Tanja Strohm, Kurt Hummel, Karsten Stingl & Mat...
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ein Musical nach dem Buch "Zwergelinchen - eine phantasievolle Reise ins Land der Entspannung" von Tanja Strohm. Das unterhaltsame und spannende Hörvergnügen für Kinder und Erwachsene beinhaltet sieben traumhafte Songs plus original Playbacks und alle Texte zum Mitsingen: - Hippelich und zickelich - Zwergelinchen - Leo, der... Read more
View audiobookDrinking Coffee Elsewhere
By: Z. Z. Packer
Narrated by: Shirley Jordan
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Audie® Award Finalist!
A remarkable debut short-story collection by a fresh and captivating new voice in American literature. Read more
The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren
By: Nelson Algren
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
O. Henry and National Book Award-winning author Nelson Algren has inspired thousands with his tough, gritty accounts of urban life. Written over the course of four decades, this collection of 12 stories centers around Depression-era Texas. Characterized by small-town strife, political corruption and frontier-style justice, each tale is a... Read more
View audiobookMy Parent's Bedroom (A Story from Say You're One of Them)
By: Uwem Akpan
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets... Read more
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