Short Stories audiobooks
South Sea Tales
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language... Read more
View audiobookDrei Geschichten (Ungekürzt)
By: Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant & Edgar Allan...
Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Seit langer Zeit wieder ein gemeinsames Projekt der Sprecher von den 'Drei Fragezeichen': Drei Stimmen + Drei Autoren + Drei Musiker = Drei Geschichten. Unter diesem Motto ist die erste gemeinsame CD von Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck und Jens Wawrczeck bei dem Label "Lauscherlounge" entstanden. Die Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei... Read more
View audiobookAlentejo Blue
By: Monica Ali
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing... Read more
View audiobookChronicles of Avonlea
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Listeners will be thrilled to know that Anne Shirley does appear in these wonderful stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. In fact, page one starts off with Anne curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room, where Anne spent a fortnight of her vacation.However, most of the people who appear in this book are new to listeners of the... Read more
View audiobookShort Stories by Saki
By: Hector Hugh Munro
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more
View audiobookHis Last Bow
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more
View audiobookParis Stories
By: Mavis Gallant
Narrated by: Lorna Raver & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an... Read more
View audiobookDave Henderson’s Dog Stories
By: Dave Henderson
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Dave Henderson, a seasoned outdoorsman, presents twenty-one great stories about dogs he’s collected over the years. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some stories have been previously published and have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom.If you have come across them before,... Read more
View audiobookThe Summer He Didn’t Die
By: Jim Harrison
Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that have made him a master writer.In the title novella, “The Summer He Didn’t Die,” Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan... Read more
View audiobookHomeland and Other Stories - Abridged
By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver delivers a collection of 12 original tales in Homeland and Other Stories that are every bit as emotionally resonant, humorous, and heartfelt as her much-beloved novels.In settings ranging from eastern Kentucky to northern California and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Barbara Kingsolver... Read more
View audiobookLoose Woman and Woman Hollering Creek
By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Loose Woman
Seductive, earthy, and at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant collection of poetry celebrates the females aspects of love--from the reflective to the overtly erotic--in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction.
These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional and accessible. They are... Read more
Mrs. Honey's Hat
By: Pam Adams
Narrated by: Child's Play
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is everyone staring at Mrs. Honey's Hat? The audio version of this well-established classic is sure to become a favourite. With a repetitive refrain and a strong emphasis on days of the week, this story is perfect for early learners. A Child's Play audio production. Read more
View audiobookThe Zahir - Abridged
By: Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Jamie Glover
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her... Read more
View audiobookOne More for the Road
By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.Sip the... Read more
View audiobookThe Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection - Abridged
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House. Read more
View audiobookJordan County
By: Shelby Foote
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle—“a landscape in narrative”—of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations.The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the... Read more
View audiobookWinesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more
View audiobookA Long Way From Chicago
By: Richard Peck
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?
August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of... Read more
Haunted
By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Various
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who... Read more
View audiobookPast Perfect, Present Tense
By: Richard Peck
Narrated by: Various
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Though Richard Peck is best known as a novelist, he has been writing short stories—rousing, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining—throughout his career. “Priscilla and the Wimps,” his first, is perhaps the most-read children’s short story of all time. Others have inspired his award-winning novels: A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down... Read more
View audiobookThe Dorothy Parker Audio Collection - Abridged
By: Dorothy Parker
Narrated by: Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Alfre Woodar...
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authors—the inimitable Dorothy ParkerAuthor, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to... Read more
View audiobookBerenstain Bears' Stories - Abridged
By: Stan Berenstain
Narrated by: Stan Berenstain & Jan Berenstain
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A special audio containing 11 favorite Berenstain Bears stories!One day, Stan and Jan Berenstain were captured by a family of bears.It was a family of three—an overenthusiastic Papa whose high opinion of himself was exceeded only by his ability to do silly things (often placing himself in jeopardy from bees, skunks, low-hanging branches, whales,... Read more
View audiobookIreland
By: Frank Delaney
Narrated by: Frank Delaney
Length: 19 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.” — Philadelphia InquirerThis New York Times bestselling epic is an unforgettable tour de force that marries the intimate,... Read more
View audiobookRaggedy Andy Stories
By: Johnny Gruelle
Narrated by: Swoosie Kurtz
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This unabridged recording contains all the original Raggedy Andy stories as Andy is reunited with his sister, Raggedy Ann, and brings a dance, a pillow fight, and a taffy pull into the lives of the other dolls.Andy bravely ventures into the gutter to find the penny dolls, ""cures"" the French doll, and encounters the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus,... Read more
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