Short Stories audiobooks

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear

By: Don Wood & Audrey Wood

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1984, a picture book in which the Little Mouse will do all he can to save his strawberry from the Big, Hungry Bear, even if it means sharing it with the reader. The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the bear... How... Read more

Fairies Towne: Parent Collector Edition Book

By: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner

Narrated by: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This novella has combined the whole "Fairies Towne" series of children's books. Read more

Graven Images

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Paul Michael, Susan Denaker & Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.

Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling... Read more

A Quiver Full of Arrows - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Sons of Fortune, Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection.

Featuring bonus interviews with the author.

From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the listener on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly... Read more

Dave Henderson’s Dog Stories

By: Dave Henderson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Henderson, a seasoned outdoorsman, presents twenty-one great stories about dogs he’s collected over the years. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some stories have been previously published and have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom.If you have come across them before,... Read more

His Last Bow

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more

Paris Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

Narrated by: Lorna Raver & Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an... Read more

Drei Geschichten (Ungekürzt)

By: Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant & Edgar Allan...

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit langer Zeit wieder ein gemeinsames Projekt der Sprecher von den 'Drei Fragezeichen': Drei Stimmen + Drei Autoren + Drei Musiker = Drei Geschichten. Unter diesem Motto ist die erste gemeinsame CD von Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck und Jens Wawrczeck bei dem Label "Lauscherlounge" entstanden. Die Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei... Read more

Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be thrilled to know that Anne Shirley does appear in these wonderful stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. In fact, page one starts off with Anne curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room, where Anne spent a fortnight of her vacation.However, most of the people who appear in this book are new to listeners of the... Read more

South Sea Tales

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language... Read more

The Summer He Didn’t Die

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that have made him a master writer.In the title novella, “The Summer He Didn’t Die,” Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more

Alentejo Blue

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing... Read more

Homeland and Other Stories - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book ReviewWith the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of numerous literary awards... Read more

Loose Woman and Woman Hollering Creek

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Loose Woman

Seductive, earthy, and at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant collection of poetry celebrates the females aspects of love--from the reflective to the overtly erotic--in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction.

These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional and accessible. They are... Read more

Mrs. Honey's Hat

By: Pam Adams

Narrated by: Child's Play

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is everyone staring at Mrs. Honey's Hat? The audio version of this well-established classic is sure to become a favourite. With a repetitive refrain and a strong emphasis on days of the week, this story is perfect for early learners. A Child's Play audio production. Read more

The Zahir - Abridged

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her... Read more

One More for the Road

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever.Sip the... Read more

The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House. Read more

Jordan County

By: Shelby Foote

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle—“a landscape in narrative”—of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations.The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more

A Long Way From Chicago

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?

August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.
August 1930: The Cowgilll boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of... Read more

Haunted

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Various

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who... Read more

Past Perfect, Present Tense

By: Richard Peck

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Richard Peck is best known as a novelist, he has been writing short stories—rousing, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining—throughout his career. “Priscilla and the Wimps,” his first, is perhaps the most-read children’s short story of all time. Others have inspired his award-winning novels: A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down... Read more