Short Stories audiobooks

Dalyrimple Goes Wrong

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Bryan Dalyrimple returns to his hometown as a war hero after World War I. But after the ticker tape parades and back-slapping handshakes, and he finds himself stuck in a dead-end job with little room for advancement, frustration begins to mount. He decides to turn to the only option left for him – crime.
Originally published in the 1920 short... Read more

A Death in the Desert

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Everett’s brother rocked the world with his incredible musical talent. And Everett is… fine. But he’s okay with that. He’s a member of “a certain lovable class of men who never accomplish anything in particular”.
But when traveling in the West, Everett meets a remarkable woman who is dying, and discovers that she has a history her brother, he... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Ivan Bunin

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Ivan Bunin was a Russian author, poet and diarist, who in 1933 (at the age of 63) won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.” Viewed by many at the time as the heir to his friend and... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Nikolai Gogol spent most of his literary career writing short stories, drawing inspiration from his childhood in Ukraine and his adult life in St. Petersburg. His stories are filled with larger than life yet relatable characters and perfectly described locations, and span many genres... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Vsevolod Garshin

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Vsevolod Garshin’s literary career followed a stint as a infantry soldier and later an officer, and he received both public and critical acclaim in the 1880s. Before his sadly early death at the age of thirtythree after a lifelong battle with mental illness he wrote and published... Read more

Legends Of Vancouver (Unabridged)

By: E. Pauline Johnson

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Emily Pauline Johnson, who was also known by the Mohawk name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet and author born in 1861. Born to a Mohawk father and an English mother, she was known for introducing indigenous culture to a wider North American and European audience. In Legends of... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was one of the most influential writers of horror fiction in the early 20th century. His fame is mostly posthumous: he was only published in pulp magazines in his lifetime, and never saw financial success. Despite that, Lovecraft’s unique blend of gothicism,... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Conan, the Cimmerian barbarian, romps across the pages of Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian adventures, slicing down enemy after enemy and trying not to fall too hard for a succession of ladies in need of rescue. Although very much a product of the pulp fantasy magazines of the 1930s, Conan... Read more

The Forerunner (Unabridged)

By: Khalil Gibran

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Published in 1920, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems is the second collection of philosophical poetry and short stories by Lebanese author Khalil Gibran. A spiritual successor to The Madman, The Forerunner consists of 25 poems and parables relating to spirituality, love, our... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Gustave Flaubert was an influential novelist who had both the characteristics of a romanticist and a realist. The short stories in this collection put that dichotomy on display. Flaubert wrote the first story, “The Dance of Death” when he was only 17 years old. It is written in a... Read more

Cantar de ciegos

By: Carlos Fuentes

Narrated by: Noé Velázquez

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Una magistral disección del provincialismo decadente que narran las desintegraciones posibles del hombre en la Ciudad de México, concebidos por un orfebre del lenguaje como lo fue Carlos Fuentes. Con Cantar de ciegos, publicado hace ya más de 50 años, Carlos Fuentes reafirmó su lugar no sólo como novelista esencial del boom, sino como un... Read more

Belief

By: Nicholas Garbini, Kieran Devaney & Louise Stahl

Narrated by: Jamie Werner

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Santa Claus Origins TaleAs town villagers, Nicholas and his wife do not know that their lives are about to change. What sparked as an idea becomes an enchanted adventure into the mystical spirit of Christmas. Their wish of bringing Christmas cheer to children is not as easy as they expected, however, and they quickly realize they need extra... Read more

Nostalgia de otro mundo

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Paula Iwasaki

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Los premiados relatos de la autora de Mi año de descanso y relajación, ganadora del Premio PEN/ Hemingway entre otros:
«Un cruce de los mejores cuentos que jamás escribirán Haruki Murakami y Lorrie Moore firmados por la mejor escritora norteamericana de su generación» (Rodrigo Fresán) UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2022 SEGÚN ELLE

«Las historias de... Read more

Zasłyszane historie. Tom 1

By: Paweł Szlachetko

Narrated by: Ewa Konstanciak

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Zbiór krótkich opowiadań stworzonych na kanwie niezwykłych opowieści, które autor słyszał na przestrzeni lat od różnych osób. Pozornie błaha porada od bezdomnej, która pośmiertnie uratowała mieszkańców całego bloku. Zmaterializowane postaci mieszkańców zamku sprzed stu lat. Poczucie fizycznej obecności zmarłego męża... Autor balansuje między... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Leonid Andreyev

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Leonid Andreyev was a Russian playwright and author of short stories and novellas, writing primarily in the first two decades of the 20th century. Matching the depression he suffered from an early age, his writing is always dark of tone with subjects including biblical parables,... Read more

Jeeves Stories (Unabridged)

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Jeeves Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the adventures of his most famous characters, Jeeves and Wooster. Wooster is a wealthy and idle young English gentleman of the interwar era. Jeeves is his extraordinarily competent valet whose... Read more

Topsyturvy (Unabridged)

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Two decades after Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the Baltimore Gun Club returns with its sights on the North Pole’s rich coal deposits. Access to the area would be facilitated under a more temperate climate, which, the team believes, can be achieved by... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Kate Chopin’s most famous work nowadays is the novel The Awakening, but at the turn of the last century she was more famous for her short fiction, published in American magazines like the St. Louis PostDispatch, Youth’s Companion, and Vogue. A prolific writer, over the course of... Read more

The Prophet (Unabridged)

By: Khalil Gibran

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Prophet is LebaneseAmerican writer Khalil Gibran’s best known work. In the book, the prophet Almustafa is returning home after 12 years in the fictional city of Orphalese. Before he boards his ship, he speaks to the people of Orphalese on a number of universal themes such as love,... Read more

While The Billy Boils (Unabridged)

By: Henry Lawson

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson’s most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney Bulletin. Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Melville’s pen ranges far and wide in this collection of his short stories and novellas, with subjects including a faraway mountain lodge, a magnificent rooster, a haunted table, and of course the inimitable scrivener Bartleby, whose tale is now viewed as one of the great English... Read more

On A Chinese Screen (Unabridged)

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maugham’s travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle “Sketches of Life in China,” there are actually only... Read more

School Stories (Unabridged)

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. School Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the trials, tribulations and adventures of the denizens of the turnofthecentury English boarding school. First published in schoolboy magazines starting in 1901, the stories originally appeared... Read more

Short Fiction (Unabridged)

By: Poul Anderson

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Poul Anderson’s prolific writing career began in 1947, while still an undergraduate physics student at the University of Minnesota, and continued throughout his life. His works were primarily science fiction and fantasy, but he also produced mysteries and historical fiction. Among... Read more