Short Stories audiobooks

The John Cheever Audio Collection

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a... Read more

When the Women Come Out to Dance

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Taye Diggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The unrivaled master of crime’s first collection of noir stories. . . . “If you thought you knew all the places Elmore Leonard could take you, think again.”—Mike LupicaIn more than 30 books spanning half a century, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions as few writers can. A literary icon praised by the New York Times Book... Read more

Great Authors – Mark Twain: Collected Stories

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Thomas Becker

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen of Twain's best-loved and funniest shorter works, including "The Jumping Frog of Calavarous County", "The Story of Old Ram", "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral", "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses", "Tom Quartz", and "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut".Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835... Read more

Medvehistória (teljes)

By: Sándor Majoros

Narrated by: József Gyabronka

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Majoros Sándor Magyar Arany Érdemkereszttel kitüntetett József Attila-díjas író, a KMI 12 szerzője Medvehistória című novellájának hangoskönyv-változata. Elbeszélő: Gyabronka József Rendezte: Hegyi Árpád Jutocsa Read more

The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between... Read more

The Minority Report and Other Stories

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Keir Dullea

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes stories that will make you lough, cringe...and stop and think. The Minority Report: a special unit that employs those with the power of... Read more

Twisted

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines, Michele Pawk & Frederick Weller

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination.

Diverse, provocative, and eerie, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signature plot twists: a beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker; a... Read more

The Short Stories Gift Edition

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bald... Read more

Minimum of Two

By: Tim Winton

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Tim Winton’s characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves. Read more

It's a Wonderful Christmas

By: Philip Van Doren Stern

Narrated by: Andy Williams

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique compilation of song and narration, legendary entertainer Andy Williams offers a charming retelling of Philip Van Doren Stern's "The Greatest Gift"— the short story which inspired the 1946 film classic It' s a Wonderful Life. This very special recording also features Williams' performance of the... Read more

The Practical Heart

By: Allan Gurganus

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In his fictional Falls, North Carolina–a watchful zone of stifling mores–Allan Gurganus’s fond and comical characters risk everything to protect their improbable hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal. Seeking warmth and true connection, they shield themselves and loved ones while creating a rarely-glimpsed world of valor, minor grandeur,... Read more

Headgames

By: Nick Earls

Narrated by: Francis Greenslade

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank and Philby meet at university. Frank is the king of cool and dysfunctionally libidinous. Philby is nervous, nerdy and dysfunctionally insecure. Somehow, they form a team, and go about chasing girls, passing their degrees and surviving many a green drink experience. The hilarious misadventures of Frank and Philby are just part of what lies... Read more

The Short Stories Volume III

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bold... Read more

Just Disgusting!

By: Andy Griffiths

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Is this the right book for you? Take the disgusting quiz and find out! Do you do any - or all - of the following: pick your nose, talk in burps or wee in swimming pools? Do you ever wear the same undies two (or more) days in a row? Do you wish you knew the most disgusting thing in the world? Do you think Brussels sprouts are a delicious mouth... Read more

Tales of Terror

By: Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Charlotte Perkins...

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham & Kimberly Schraf

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Monkey's Paw Jacobs was considered a humorist in turn of the century England, but here he gives us a masterpiece of horror. The Monkey's Paw is a Gothic tale, telling us again how wishes can go awry. The Pit and the Pendulum One of Poe's most familiar works, The Pit and the Pendulum is the first-hand account of a prisoner during the... Read more

Chekhov - Eleven Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With amazing insight, Anton Chekhov wrote of the lives of the Russian common man as well as the landowner. He established the style of the modern short story and influenced many great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf.

Includes "The Black Monk" -- a tale of a man... Read more

Just Annoying!

By: Andy Griffiths

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Is this the right book for you? Take the annoying test and find out. Do you ask 'Are we there yet?' over and over on long car trips? Do you like to drive people mad by copying everything they say and do? Do you hog the shower and use up all the hot water? Do you enjoy asking silly questions that have no real answers? Do you swing on the... Read more

Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: David Butler

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of eight stories with some words from the host and from Chaucer: The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Words of the Host, The Pardoner's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale,The Friar's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, Chaucer's Farewell.
Thought to have been born in London, England c. 1342/43,... Read more

Just Stupid!

By: Andy Griffiths

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Is this the right book for you? Take the stupid test and find out. Do you worry about getting sucked into the top of escalators? Do you push doors marked PULL and pull doors marked PUSH? Do you believe a bogeyman hides under the bed? Do you automatically turn around when somebody calls 'Hey, Stupid!'? Do you think that being able to stuff your... Read more

Just Tricking!

By: Andy Griffiths

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Is this the right book for you? Take the tricking test and find out. Do you ever pretend that you are dead to get out of going to school? Do you like to ring up people you know and pretend to be someone else? Do you leave banana skins in the middle of busy footpaths? Do you own any of the following items: fake dog poo, rubber vomit, gorilla... Read more

Just Crazy!

By: Andy Griffiths

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Is this the right book for you? Take the Crazy Test and find out. Do you bounce so high on your bed that you hit your head on the ceiling? Do you ever look in the mirror and see a crazy maniac staring back at you? Do you like to read stories about kittens, puppies and ponies getting mashed and pulverised? Do you sometimes get the urge to take... Read more

The Short Stories Volume II

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

The Man in the Black Suit

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Cullum, Peter Gerety & Becky Ann Baker

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

An intense, eerie, and instantly compelling collection of unabridged stories from Stephen King!

"The face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him, but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so... Read more

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more