Short Stories audiobooks
What Salmon Know
By: Elwood Reid
Narrated by: Andre Sogliuzzo
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his knockout story collection, What Salmon Know.
Reid's characters are tough men living in a world tougher than they are.... Read more
Stories from the Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Emma Topping
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma Topping reads two of the most popular stories from The Jungle Book: "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and "Toomai of the Elephants." Read more
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Witty, Weird & Outrageous - Saki Favorite
By: Saki
Narrated by: Tom Sellwood
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Presented here are the favorites (including many of the adventures of Clovis): The Open Window, Clovis on Parental, The Lumber-Room, Sredni Vahtar and more. Read more
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Dressing Up for the Carnival
By: Carol Shields
Narrated by: Jean Smart
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Carol Shields had a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and nowhere more than in this luminous collection of short stories. Throughout these stories runs Shields' preoccupation with identityโas in the title story, about a compacted day in the life of the world, in which a procession of characters try on new selves. Yet these... Read more
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Best of O. Henry
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: Michael Hanson
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The best of O. Henry's stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Voice of the City," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and more. Read more
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El Contrabajo Y Otros Cuentos Humoristicos
By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: Carlos J. Vega
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"El contrabajo", "Los banos publicos", "La dama del perrito", "Borrachera continua", "El vengador", "El marido", "La suerte femenina".
Anton Chejov, hijo de un tendero fracasado y nieto de un siervo, comenzo a escribir historias humoristicas como medio de sostenerse y continuar sus estudios medicos. En esas historias breves, ya se nota al inmenso... Read more
Bola De Sebo Y Otras Narraciones
By: Guy de Maupassant
Narrated by: Laura Garcรญa
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Bola de sebo", que muchos creen es uno de los mejores cuentos de Maupassant, fue publicado originalmente en una coleccion dirigida por Zola y es un ataque a la moral burguesa que acepta que una mujer se entregue para salvarlos a todos, pero despues por haberse entregado es mirada con desprecio. Igualmente esta "El collar" con su sorpresivo... Read more
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Buck Meets the Monster Stick - Abridged
By: Bil Lepp
Narrated by: Bil Lepp
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Remember the Monster Stick? The greatest-and most dangerous-fishing rod ever? What about Buck, who simply "ain't no ordinary dog"? Anyone who has seen the Lepp boys perform โ or read their book, The Monster Stick โ will never forget them. In this recording, we revisit West Virginia with Bil Lepp as he tells some of the stories that made his... Read more
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How We Lost the Moon
By: Paul J. McAuley
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"On the busy, bustling, colonized future Moon, McAuley reminds us that although everyone makes mistakes, some mistakes have far greater consequences than others..." So writes Gardner Dozois, editor of the Seventeenth Annual Collection ofย The Year's Best Science Fiction, about this thrilling and meticulous sci-fi tale. Read more
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Exchange Rate
By: Hal Clement
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic novella, harried human explorers must try to figure out the lifeways and motivations of some extremely strange and enigmatic alien creatures on one of the strangest planets ever portrayed in science fiction - and do it all before the clock runs out. Read more
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Evermore
By: Sean Williams
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"We must all hang together," Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said to his revolutionary peers, "or we will assuredly all hang separately." This is a sentiment that's even more appropriate, and more urgent, when you're lost between the stars in a crippled and out-of-control ship, your shipmates aren't talking to each other (and haven't for... Read more
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A Hero of the Empire
By: Robert Silverberg
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empireโthe Arabian city we know as Mecca. Read more
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Mount Olympus
By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In this Martian adventure story, two men fly to the highest mountain on Mars, and in the process learn more about Mars and about themselves.
Bova's work is premeated by the idea of space as a new frontier, and of SF settings as opportunities for explorers and entrepreneuers, the classic Heinlein thematics of American SF. Read more
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. Thereโs 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 Corkyโs doorstep at three in the morning, wearing his yellow mackintosh and requesting a whisky and soda, while... Read more
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The Return Journey
By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In this extraordinary collection of stories,ย New York Timesย bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.
A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a... Read more
Magic Terror
By: Peter Straub
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to another kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between. . . .
AshputtleIsnโt It Romantic?
โCHILLING.โโSKILLFULLY CONSTRUCTED.โ
โThe New York TimesโKirkus Reviews (starred... Read more
This Year It Will Be Different - Abridged
By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life;... Read more
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The Lawnmower Man
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: John Glover
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "The Lawnmower Man," from Stephen King's best-selling collectionย Night Shift. Read more
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Graveyard Shift
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: John Glover
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collectionย Night Shift. Read more
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Gray Matter
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: John Glover
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Gray Matter" from Stephen King's best-selling collectionย Night Shift. Read more
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The Commemorative - Abridged
By: Myla Goldberg
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this short story by bestselling author Myla Goldberg (originally published in Harper's magazine), an unemployed artist lands a freelance job that gives him a strange brand of influence over the population of a distant island nation and places him in an equally strange relationship with the woman who hires him. Read more
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Wonderful Town - Abridged
By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Tyne Daly, Maria Tucci, Joe Morton & Timothy Je...
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more
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Dubliners
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Cosham reads with a gentle accent that enhances Joyce's Dublin... Recommended for most collections." -- Library Journal
James Joyce, 1882-1941, is one of the world's greatest writers. Dubliners, his first and most accessible fiction, was started in in 1904 and completed in 1905. Because it was considered explicit and critical of the Church, it... Read more
New England Stories
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
Narrated by: Tana Hicken
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of four short stories, nineteenth-century writer Sarah Orne Jewett explores the theme of female friendship. Tana Hicken brings authenticity to the New England towns in which each story is set. The skillful reading and vivid descriptions conjure images of strong country women living simple, inspirational, lives.
In... Read more
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