Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short Stories

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Title: Dangerous Laughter

Author: Steven Millhauser

Narrator: Sharon Washington, Jim Frangione, Andy Paris, Adam Grupper, George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Release date: September 30, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser's imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that's given up its chronicling of history. Characterized by 'phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement' each story 'focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition.' (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: You Think That’s Bad: Stories

Author: Jim Shepard

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but doesn’t resist sharing her confidences. A young Alpine researcher is smitten by the girlfriend of his dead brother, killed in an avalanche he believes he caused. An unlucky farm boy becomes the manservant of a French nobleman who’s as proud of having served with Joan of Arc as he’s aroused by slaughtering children. A free spirit tracks an ancient Shia sect, becoming the first Western woman to travel the Arabian Deserts. From the inventor of the Godzilla epics to a miserable G.I. in New Guinea, each is complicit in his or her downfall and comes to learn that, in love, knowing better is never enough.

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Title: Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (Audiobook)

Author: Robert Shearman

Narrator: Jane Goddard, Toby Hadoke, India Fisher

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

WINNER OF THE READERS' AWARD IN THE EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY SHORT STORY COMPETITION! Six stories: Love Among the Lobelias performed by Toby Hadoke Luxembourg performed by Jane Goddard Pang performed by Toby Hadoke George Clooney's Moustache performed by India Fisher Sweet Nothings performed by Jane Goddard One Last Love Song performed by India Fisher The first love song in the world, as composed by a pig in the Garden of Eden. The Devil, alarmed when his hobby of writing romantic fiction begins to upstage his day job. Hearts kept in Tupperware boxes, small countries that vanish from the European mainland overnight, and a kidnapper who gets more than he bargained for when his victim associates him with George Clooney. It could only be Robert Shearman's 'Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical'. Six stories of the comic and the frightening and the downright weird, taken from his multi-award winning short story collection. "Shearman offers us haunting, nightmare alternatives to our world. He makes each story cling to you, forces you to make sense of it and somehow inhabit it." Steven Moffat, executive producer of Doctor Who. "His stories are like the bastard offspring of Philip K Dick and Jonathan Carroll, but with a quirky personality that is completely their own." Stephen Jones, World Fantasy award winning editor of Best New Horror.

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Title: Poe’s Detective: The Dupin Stories

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 0 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed originator of the detective story. His brilliant, imaginative sleuth C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding investigators like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. This audio collection of Poe’s three Dupin stories also includes one non-Dupin detective tale, “Thou Art the Man.” It features celebrity narrator Bronson Pinchot. The story titles are: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” “The Purloined Letter,” and “Thou Art the Man.”

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Title: A Coward

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: John Chancer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 39 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Penned in 1899 by Edith Wharton, this short story features the proper Mrs. Carstyle, her husband Mr. Carstyle, and their daughter Irene who are all are taken with their guest and an eligible bachelor named Vibart. Narrator John Chancer is a film and television actor with professional readings of many audiobooks to his credit.

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Title: A Piece of String

Author: Guy De Maupassant

Narrator: Cornelius Garrett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 14 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

How does picking up a piece of string lead to a poor old man’s death? Find out in this Guy de Maupassant tale, narrated by actor Cornelius Garrett.

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Title: Cousin William

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: Kate Fenton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 26 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin comes the short tale about a grown-up girl named Mary who finds good company with her cousin William—until the townspeople get to talking.

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Title: Angela: An Inverted Love Story

Author: W. S. Gilbert

Narrator: Cameron Stewart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 13 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This is the sweet story of a paralyzed man in Venice, who sees out of his window a young girl across the way. Unbeknownst to her, she brightens his days over the course of several years, and he begins to fall in love with her. One day he throws out a flower into the canal between them to say 'good morning' and she responds in kind. They still haven't spoken a word, but his heart is lifted. Until, that is, the young maid grows up and the gondolier boys start calling on her.

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Title: Araby

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: John Telfer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 14 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A teenage boy falls in love with his friend's sister and must finagle a trip to a bazaar at nearby Araby to win her heart. But will it be that easy?

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Title: The Maples Stories

Author: John Updike

Narrator: Peter Van Norden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2009

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, 'Snowing in Greenwich Village,' about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement.