Short Stories audiobooks

El principio del placer y otros cuentos - Abridged

By: José Emilio Pacheco

Narrated by: Alex Ortega, Adriana Galindo, Sergio Mejía, Ger...

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando En la pieza que da título a este volumen (premio Xavier Villaurrutia), Jorge, un muchacho que no entiende por qué la vida es como es, crece en una sociedad de doble moral cuyas contradicciones se acentúan a medida que lo consume el amor por una joven mayor que él. A esta... Read more

Caos Navideño - Abridged

By: Martin Lundqvist & Carlos Mora

Narrated by: Carlos Mora

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta historia de ficción flash trata sobre un elfo que se volvió homicida después de servir a Santa Claus durante demasiado tiempo. Read more

Missão cumprida - Abridged

By: Sérgio Telles

Narrated by: Guto Nejain

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Missão cumprida é um episódio do livro Mergulhador de Acapulco, no qual Sérgio Telles consegue instaurar climas insólitos que fascinam e prendem o leitor – cumprindo, assim, o postulado básico da boa literatura. (...) Constituído basicamente por registros urbanos, Mergulhador de Acapulco impressiona pela variedade das situações que aborda,... Read more

La vecchiaia è brutta - Abridged

By: Sérgio Telles

Narrated by: Luciana Mauren

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

La vecchiaia è brutta é um episódio do livro Mergulhador de Acapulco, no qual Sérgio Telles consegue instaurar climas insólitos que fascinam e prendem o leitor – cumprindo, assim, o postulado básico da boa literatura. (...) Constituído basicamente por registros urbanos, Mergulhador de Acapulco impressiona pela variedade das situações que aborda,... Read more

A Season of Regret - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more

Cartas, telegramas, telefonemas - Abridged

By: Sérgio Telles

Narrated by: Guto Nejain

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Cartas, telegramas, telefonemas é um episódio do livro Mergulhador de Acapulco, no qual Sérgio Telles consegue instaurar climas insólitos que fascinam e prendem o leitor – cumprindo, assim, o postulado básico da boa literatura. (...) Constituído basicamente por registros urbanos, Mergulhador de Acapulco impressiona pela variedade das situações... Read more

A mulher de trinta anos - Abridged

By: Eduarda Sampaio

Narrated by: Renata Aroldi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Que tal ler mais mulheres? A provocação da escritora inglesa Joanna Walsh inspirou Juliana Gomes a criar, com as amigas Juliana Leuenroth e Michelle Henriques, o Leia Mulheres em São Paulo. Mediadoras que assumiram para si a missão de promover clubes em suas cidades também escrevem. O texto passa pelo humor, pela tragédia, pela melancolia, pelo... Read more

El viento distante y otros relatos - Abridged

By: José Emilio Pacheco

Narrated by: Paris Roa & Germán Torre

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando Una niña a quien un castigo del cielo convierte en tortuga y termina siendo la triste atracción de una feria, un parque de diversiones con elefantes que dan a luz a saltimbanquis, una cautiva emparedada en un monasterio, un sádico e infame revolucionario a quien la... Read more

La sangre de Medusa y otros cuentos marginales - Abridged

By: José Emilio Pacheco

Narrated by: Paris Roa

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando Un papiro de tiempos de Alejandro Magno que une a un agitador serbio con un terrorista de la antigua Grecia, un semidiós que comparte sus aflicciones con las de un marido pusilánime, una cuadrilla de veteranos inválidos que se reivindican a punta de patas de palo o un... Read more

Bagombo Snuff Box - Abridged

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Alexander Marshall

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is vintage Vonnegut: short stories never-before collected or published in book form. They are from the era of the Golden Age of magazines: a pre-television time when publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy, and others reigned supreme as Americans' entertainment choice.

Before that Golden Age drew to a close half a... Read more

The Man That Corrupted Hadleybu - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Bahram Sarvarinejad

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a short story by Mark Twain and was published in 1899. It tells the story of the destruction of a small town (known as Hadleyburg), which is known far and wide as an honest and moral community. The people of the town enjoy the reputation of being honest. They isolated themselves and their babies from... Read more

Fitas de promessas - Abridged

By: Maria Carolina Morais

Narrated by: Renata Aroldi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Que tal ler mais mulheres? A provocação da escritora inglesa Joanna Walsh inspirou Juliana Gomes a criar, com as amigas Juliana Leuenroth e Michelle Henriques, o Leia Mulheres em São Paulo. Mediadoras que assumiram para si a missão de promover clubes em suas cidades também escrevem. O texto passa pelo humor, pela tragédia, pela melancolia, pelo... Read more

Ouro de dentro - Abridged

By: Mariana Paiva

Narrated by: Renata Aroldi

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Que tal ler mais mulheres? A provocação da escritora inglesa Joanna Walsh inspirou Juliana Gomes a criar, com as amigas Juliana Leuenroth e Michelle Henriques, o Leia Mulheres em São Paulo. Mediadoras que assumiram para si a missão de promover clubes em suas cidades também escrevem. O texto passa pelo humor, pela tragédia, pela melancolia, pelo... Read more

Winter Light - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the isolated hills of Montana, an aging college professor clashes with trespassing hunters and reckons with his mortality. The basis for the feature film God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton and directed by Julian Higgins.

A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, Jesus... Read more

Kalk Yerine Yat - Abridged

By: Şermin Yaşar

Narrated by: Zeynep Önen

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hayat bazen bir uyku sersemliğiyle karşılar bizi. Üstümüze bir ağırlık basar, olmayacak yerde uyuyakalırız, tutulup kalır her yanımız. Hep özlemini çektiğimiz bir ses gelip uyandırır sonra, "Kalk, yerine yat" der ve insan bu sesin sıcaklığına tutunur. Ve evet, herkes günün birinde yerini bulur. Şermin Yaşar'dan sağda solda uyuyakalmaktan... Read more

Twelve Red Herrings - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Alec McCowen

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection, Twelve Red Herrings.

Featuring bonus interviews with the author.

Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves and Kane & Abel, serves up this inventive collection of a dozen short stories -- with a... Read more

Jesus Out to Sea - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON​

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke... Read more

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

الوسادة الخالية - Abridged

By: إحسان عبد القدوس

Narrated by: رهام حمدي زيدان

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

قصةٌ احتلت مكانة مميزة في الأدب العربي، وتحولت إلى واحد من أشهر أفلام السينما المصرية. مجتمعٌ يقف أمام قصة حب ويمنع زواج الحبيبين. تفرقهما الظروف ويجمع بينهما الزمن ولكن بعد فوات الأوان. تُرى هل يبقى الحب موجودًا بعد هذه السنين؟ كيف سيتكلمون وينظرون إلى بعضهما البعض دون أن يلفتوا أنظار من حولهم؟ استمع الآن إلى الوسادة الخالية... Read more

10-MINUTE TREATS: SEVENTEEN SHORT STORIES. - Abridged

By: Bernard Shevlin

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Diverse, stimulating, and wonderfully succinct, 10-Minute Treats is a compelling collection of 17 short stories from debutant author Bernard Shevlin. Covering genres including Crime, Science Fiction, Comedy, and Adventure, 10-Minute Treats offers the reader a number of evocative, thought-provoking, and plain entertaining tales that can be read... Read more

Zekamerone - Geschichten aus dem Gefängnis (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Maxim Znak

Narrated by: Bjarne Mädel & Alice Bota

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In einer auf Zellengröße geschrumpften Welt gewinnt jedes Detail an Bedeutung: die geschriebenen und ungeschriebenen Regeln des Alltags, die offenen und versteckten Erniedrigungen, die großen und kleinen Träume. Pointiert und ironisch, mit bitterem, aber nie verbittertem Humor erzählt Maxim Znak vom Alltag in der belarussischen Gefängniswelt,... Read more

Bedtime Stories - Hans Christian Andersen - The Nightingale - Abridged

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: David. L

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The emperor is intrigued by the beautiful songs of a nightingale but swiftly forgets when he received a glittering mechanical bird as a gift. He casts away the nightingale but soon suffers... Read more

Bedtime Stories - The Beautiful Princess - Abridged

By: Charles Perrault & King Bon Shi

Narrated by: Ayana.G

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A beautiful and pure, yet dumb and clumsy princess follows her heart to pursue true love when the world is against her to do so. Read more

Father Was a Wise Old Man - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father "cures" a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus... Read more