Short Stories audiobooks
Amazing Inventors - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Markus Hayes
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Engineers - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Yorvik Kalachinsky-Chenovsky
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Engineering is crucial to so many aspects of our world and, in many ways, keeps the world going round. This inspirational story collection from The Amazing People Club focuses on some of the most influential engineers including Thomas Telford, Peter Henlein, Richard Pearse, Isambard Brunel and George Stephenson. Each played key roles in... Read more
View audiobookMeet Golda Meir
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Ludvig Van Beethoven
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: James Rix
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Florence Nightingale
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Elvis Presley
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Andrew Chaiken
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Wolfgang Mozart
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Thomas Jefferson
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: J S Gilbert
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Albert Einstein
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Christopher Columbus
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Markus Hayes
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet, and be inspired by, Christopher Columbus; the great explorer, colonizer and navigator, as he reveals his own incredible story. Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times for the Spanish Monarchy, opening the American continents, which would become the 'New World' of colonization for Europe. These voyages spread Christian... Read more
View audiobookThe Man Upstairs
By: P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
P.G. Wodehouse gives us a delightful romantic comedy of two struggling artists who fantastically misunderstand each other. Read more
View audiobookTo Build a Fire
By: Jack London
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A man with no name follows a wandering path into the frozen Klondike. And here, deep in the heart of Godโs country, he is forced to pit his will, mind and spirit against the forces of Mother Nature, herself. Read more
View audiobookAmerican Salvage
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
Narrated by: Ken Marks, Jeffrey Brick, Stevie Ray Dallimore ...
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and Southern Reviewโs Eudora Welty Prize. In this stunning collectionโa National Book Award finalistโCampbell paints unapologetically frank portraits of broken souls striving for redemption.In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it... Read more
View audiobookDown to a Soundless Sea
By: Thomas Steinbeck
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is a fiction debut that is cause for celebration. Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling and the power of oral history, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his father's footsteps with a brilliant story collection.Down to a Soundless Sea resonates with the rich history and culture of California, recalling vivid details of... Read more
View audiobookSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucyโs Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent.
In the collectionโs title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In โHaunting Olivia,โ two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead... Read more
The Body Snatcher
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Two student anatomists purchase the remains of humanity in the small hours of the morning. The shadowy men who bring the bodies seldom speak, and the suspicions of the students are never spoken aloud.Until one morning, when the drapery is lifted from the face of a new acquisition and one student recognizes it as the face of a dear friend, alive... Read more
View audiobookSeven Strange & Ghostly Tales
By: Brian Jacques
Narrated by: Brian Jacques
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Maybe you don't believe in ghosts, and vampires, and spooky things that creep around in the dark...
Then you don't mind sitting by a vampire's tomb at midnight. Or being locked up with the mummies in a dark museum. Or you might like to join the mysterious boy who lurks in the shadows at Saint Michael's. Or the ghost who waits by the side of the... Read more
The Lottery, and Seven Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Who can forget the first time they heard the story? Considered one of the masterpieces of American literature, โThe Lotteryโ created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. Since then it has become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. Powerful and haunting, subtle and horrifying, the tale demonstrates... Read more
View audiobookMy World and Welcome to It
By: James Thurber
Narrated by: John Cullum
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The world of James Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriageโall fall within Thurber's scope of wit and humor. Read more
View audiobookDimanche and Other Stories
By: Irรจne Nรฉmirovsky
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of never-before-translated stories by the bestselling author of Suite Franรงaise, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irรจne Nรฉmirovsky so many fans. Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten stories mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels: a keen eye for the details of social class;... Read more
View audiobookAli Baba and the Forty Thieves
By: Unknown
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In the mystical land of Arabia, there is secreted a magical door that opens with the command, โOpen, Sesame!โ Inside lays the plunder of a century of robbers and mercenaries. When Ali Baba witnesses 40 thieves open this door with the enchanted words, endless possibilities begin to unwind before him. Read more
View audiobookStories for Haiti
By: various authors
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
This special audio collection features twenty unabridged selections from 100 Stories for Haiti. Inspired by the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of talented authors worldwide submitted stories. The result is an anthology that anyone can enjoy.Authors in the collection include Nick Harkaway, Mo Fanning, Rachel Shukert, Fionnula... Read more
View audiobookThe Door in the Wall
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A young boy unlocks a world of joy and imagination. But when he returns the next day, he finds the door is not there. It has moved. How can a door move? And what is the real meaning of The Door in the Wall? Read more
View audiobookGreat Classic Science Fiction
By: various authors, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinba...
Narrated by: various narrators, Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenbl...
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories: "The Door in the Wall" by H. G. WellsโA man must... Read more
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