Short Stories audiobooks

Lord Emsworth and Others

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Nigel Lambert

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Contained here are nine glorious episodes from the idyllic world of Wodehouse. There’s a crime wave which broke out towards the middle of a fine summer afternoon and was to rock Blandings Castle to its foundations, Ukridge appears on Corky’s doorstep at three in the morning, wearing his yellow mackintosh and requesting a whisky and soda, while... Read more

Seedfolks

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: to Curtis, who believes he can win... Read more

The Deportees: and Other Stories

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Hugh Lee

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The eight tales in Roddy Doyle’s first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa; while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters... Read more

The Adventures of Ellery Queen

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In these ripping short stories, the mystery genre's greatest sleuth shows his chops.For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain—and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a... Read more

The Doll Maker

By: John William Wall

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful horror tale by the author of The Sound of His HornThe Doll Maker tells the tale of Clare Lydgate, a young woman studying at boarding school for her Oxford scholarship examinations. In the evenings, she escapes the school grounds by climbing over the wall of Brackenbine Hall. It is here that she encounters the charismatic and... Read more

Snowing in Greenwich Village

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Wife-Wooing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Giving Blood

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Twin Beds in Rome

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Marching through Boston

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

The Taste of Metal

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Your Lover Just Called

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Waiting Up

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Eros Rampant

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Plumbing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

The Red-Herring Theory

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Sublimating

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Nakedness

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Separating

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Gesturing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Divorcing: A Fragment

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Here Come the Maples

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Grandparenting

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Nothing Serious

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with faces old and new, this collection of stories from the master of humor promises pure entertainment for audiobook lovers everywhere.P. G. Wodehouse's famed collection of ten stories marks the reappearance of many old friends—who find themselves in delightfully absurd situations. In "How's That, Umpire?" a mutual hatred of cricket... Read more