Short Stories audiobooks

The 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

Aesop'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

The 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

The 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

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

Wayside 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

The 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

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

The 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

The 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

Runaway

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

The 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

Abenteuer: 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

The 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

Zwergelinchen - 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

The Last Oracle

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind.Salvation . . . or annihilation?What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet—the next Buddha, Mohammed,... Read more

Drinking 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

What Language is That (A Story from Say You're One of Them)

By: Uwem Akpan

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 23 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

An Ex-Mas Feast (A Story from Say You're One of Them)

By: Uwem Akpan

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 1 hour

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

My 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

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonidas W. Smiley would bet on anything. Horse races, dog fights, cat fights, chicken fights - all were fair game to the gambling nature of Smiley. But he meets his match when a stranger comes into town, and puts his champion jumping frog to the test. Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sergeant Major Morris brings a mummified monkey’s paw to the White family, they embrace it as a morbid curiosity. When they learn that an old Fakir has enchanted the paw, they continue to treat the thing lightly. But the workings of the paw, once set in motion, cannot be undone, no matter what they try. Read more