Short Stories audiobooks
Stowaway and Milk Run - Abridged
By: Mary Higgins Clark
Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark draws on her career as a young Pan American Airway flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue from her first two published stories.
In Stowaway, a courageous flight attendant helps a desperate young man of the underground escape the Soviet police. In Milkrun, a... Read more
How Paul Robeson Saved My Life
By: Carl Reiner
Narrated by: Carl Reiner
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleven-time Emmy Award winner and icon of American comedy, Carl Reiner, performs a sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of two dozen multi-dimensional short stories— some true and others merely tales. Included in this collection are stories about a man too handsome for his personality, a lifetime bond that is created by a football... Read more
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Close Range
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more
Hi Lo to Hollywood
By: Max Evans
Narrated by: David Ackroyd
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Short stories and three novellas by award-winning chronicler of the American West, Max Evans.Prolific writer Max Evans produced a wide-ranging body of work representing several genres. From among his numerous publications, Evans selected personal favorites for this collection, which spans most of his writing career. In addition to an essay about... Read more
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Timeless Tales - Abridged
By: Bobby Norfolk
Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The children who populate these classic stories are heroes and heroines of timeless tales. Their unpredictable antics confound evil and treachery at every turn and leave listeners of generation after generation transfixed and uplifted. A forced marriage. A dangerous job. A horrible assignment. "Character-building experiences," we quip. And... Read more
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Party People - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Some folks just prefer to stay home. You know them - whole families who politely decline invitations because they don't spend money on fancy clothes, don't care for "small talk". And they certainly don't dance. They're just not "party people". Meet an earnest first-grader, intent upon convincing his hill-country parents that other children are... Read more
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Favorite Scary Stories of American Children, Volume II - Abridged
By: Richard Young & Judy Young
Narrated by: Richard Young & Judy Young
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Everybody loves scary stories, and nobody loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young gathered these stories from the most discerning of critics: the children themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. The stories in this multicultural collection come from the Ozark... Read more
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Favorite Scary Stories of American Children, Volume I - Abridged
By: Richard Yound & Judy Yound
Narrated by: Richard Yound & Judy Yound
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Everybody loves scary stories, and nobody loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young gathered these stories from the most discerning of critics: the children themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. The stories in this multicultural collection come from the Ozark... Read more
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The Washington Irving Library
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic characters as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow. A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these miniature masterpieces that have stood the... Read more
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Histórias da mulher do fim do século - Contos
By: Ivana Arruda Leite
Narrated by: Sandra Silvério & Barros Batista
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Neste audiolivro de contos, Ivana Arruda Leite conta histórias de muitas mulheres, desde a doida até a que decifra a própria morte. São histórias verdadeiras, para valer, histórias de mulheres sem medidas. Foto da capa: Edson Kumasaka. Read more
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The James Joyce Collection
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more
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Murder on the Aisle
By: Mary Clark, Joan Richter, William F Nolan, Edwa...
Narrated by: David Birney
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Prepare to be entertained by a host of Hollywood celebrities reading the finest collection of short mystery stories— many by Edgar Award-winning writers— set in the world of entertainment. The fourteen stories collected here include:
” Revival in Eastport” by Jon L. Breen
“ The... Read more
Emerald City
By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse, Madeleine Lambert & Charlie...
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
These eleven masterful stories—the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora,... Read more
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Tales of the Unexpected
By: SakiSaki
Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Master storyteller H.H. Munro— better known by the pen name “ Saki” — is famous for his witty, mischievous, and macabre stories of suspense. Saki specialized in impudent practical jokes, devilish trickery, and incredible yarns, and his writing became popular in the early 1900s for its witty and... Read more
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An Evening With Garrison Keillor, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin, Tom Wolfe and Calvin Trillin
By: Garrison Keillor
Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
What do Grammy winner Garrison Keillor, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Maya Angelou, acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, and National Book Award winner Tom Wolfe have in common? On a November night in 1990, this quartet of accomplished writers and performers united for a worthy cause— to participate in readings to benefit the... Read more
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Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Ghost Chamber” is the story of a wife's destruction and the love of a young man for an imprisoned girl. “Mr. Testator's Visitation” portrays an eerie character who visits an impoverished, unhappy lawyer. “A Child's Dream of a Star” is the sad story of a little girl who becomes an angel and waits for her brother to join her. “The Signal-Man”... Read more
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That's the Ticket & Voices in the Coal Bin
By: Mary Clark
Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark presents two short stories narrated by her daughter Carol: "That's the Ticket!"Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a... Read more
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Stalkers
By: Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Edward D. Hoch,...
Narrated by: Bess Armstrong
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
There are two types of entities: the Hunter and the Hunted— and revenge, guilt, lust, and desperation drive all of them. Darkness falls quickly when you're being stalked— but it is always dark when you' re the stalker. From shadowy city streets and Amazon jungles to deep-South swamps, this collection of eight... Read more
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Fix-It
By: David McPhail
Narrated by: Larry Robinson
Length: 3 minutes
Abridged: No
When her father finally fixes the TV set after her extended display of tears, Emma no longer cares - she's discovered the joy of reading a good book. Read more
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The Masterworks and Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Edgar Poe
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
From Edgar Allan Poe—the master of the short story and lyric poem—comes this rare treasury of classics. The outstanding works "A Descent into the Maelstrom," "Annabelle Lee," "Eldorado," "The Bells," and "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," illustrate Poe's meticulous sense of construction, with signature themes of romance and... Read more
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Whistle For Willie
By: Ezra Jack Keats
Narrated by: Linda Terheyden
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A little boy wishes he could whistle for his dog, Willie. Read more
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