Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short Stories

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Title: The Deserter

Author: Stacy Aumonier

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 52 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928) was a British writer, best known for his outstanding short stories. Nobel Prize-winner John Galsworthy described Aumonier as "one of the best short story writers of all time" and predicted that he would "outlive all the writers of his day." Aumonier wrote over 85 short stories in his lifetime. He has been described as the "British Maupassant" owing to his captivating plots and his ability to create complex characters with just a few lines of carefully selected prose. His intensely visual prose meant his works were readily adaptable to the cinema screen, and several of his short stories were adapted by Alfred Hitchcock. "The Deserter" is a multi-layered story about a young man, Wainwright, who is called up to the Great War, but decides instead to desert. It is not that he is a coward, but he cannot identify with the cause of the Great War. He goes into hiding in the best possible place he can think of... and all seems to be going well. But then, one day, he meets Emma and falls in love. Suddenly he has a cause which he does believe in... somebody worth fighting for. Wainwright suddenly finds himself engaged in his own personal "Great War" and fighting just as formidable an enemy as the Germans. But like in the "Great War" outside, Wainwright's is a bitter victory.

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Title: A Considerable Murder

Author: Barry Pain

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 23 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his outstanding mystery and horror stories, often with a strange twist at the end. "A Considerable Murder" is the odd tale of a retired gentleman and his daughter who are suddenly imposed upon by an old, sick and highly cantankerous old man... a former friend of their father and grandfather, who had helped them out in earlier years. The old man is dying... is not expected to live more than a few days... and desperately needs somewhere to stay. But the old man does not die. For weeks... months... he hangs on, terrorizing the household. And in the desk, there are little packets of two drugs, which if combined, create an untraceable poison so potent that it will kill within the hour. Can the temptation to murder be resisted? And for how long?

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Title: Five Short Stories by D. H. Lawrence

Author: D.H. Lawrence

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 - 1930) is recognized as one of the greatest English novelists, poets, playwrights and short story writers. His works address such themes as emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct, wrapped up in gripping plots which range from the poignant to the downright creepy. The Rocking Horse Winner England My England Odour of Chrysanthemums The Lovely Lady Glad Ghosts

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Title: Lilac

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 42 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. Lilac is a multilayered tale of a marriage proposal. Frederick Anstey, an art dealer, asks his beloved Lily Brocket to marry him. But she is in a hurry to get away, as her Aunt Clara has appeared from out of town, and she promises to write him a letter by ten that evening to give her reply. In the intervening hours, as Frederick is tormented by doubts, he meets a series of his neighbours, each of whom sheds a different light on possible outcomes of his proposal to Lily.

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Title: The Biter Bit

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories and was a great friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens. The Biter Bit is a detective story with a twist. A rookie investigator, Matthew Sharpin, has been thrust on Scotland Yard with instructions to try him out on a case. He is assigned the case currently being worked on by experienced officer Sergeant Bulmer. Sharpin has a very high opinion of his own capabilities, which leaves him in a minority of one, as it is clear to everyone around him that he is a bumbling idiot. The story is told through the correspondence of the key characters, with Sharpin's rambling and incompetent reports taking centre stage. When it turns out, however, that Sharpin is not only inept but also corrupt, Chief Inspector Theakstone brings Sergeant Bulmer back onto the case, sending him Sharpin's reports and telling him that based on these, he ought to be able to solve the case in five minutes. Bulmer is, of course, able to correctly interpret the evidence, which Sharpin has seen but failed to understand. But can the clever listener do the same?

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Title: The Case of the White Footprints

Author: R. Austin Freeman

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in West Africa in his novels. The Case of the White Footprints is a murder mystery set in Margate. A lady has been found dead in her room in a boarding house. At first glance it looks like a clear case of suicide, but then the two doctors attending the death spot a set of white footprints in paint on the red linoleum of the floor. As the house is currently being repainted, and the window-sills were still covered in wet paint, it is clear that the woman has been murdered by someone who entered and left through the window. Moreover, the footprints have some strange peculiarities. They are bare footprints...and on both feet it appears that the little toe is missing. When Dr. Thorndyke is called onto the case these extraordinary footprints lead him immediately to the track of the murderer.

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Title: The Lovely Lady

Author: D.H. Lawrence

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 48 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was one of England's greatest novelists, poets, playwrights, and writers of short stories. His works often explore are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. "The Lovely Lady" is a short story which tells of an unnervingly dysfunctional family. The elderly mother and aunt, the lovely lady, who looks much younger than her 72 years. Her son Robert and niece Ciss are dominated by the charming but manipulative old lady. But one day Ciss discovers her aunt's terrible secret... and soon after this, Ciss commits an act which changes everything in the household...and changes her aunt beyond recognition.

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Title: The Ruby Glass

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. One recurring theme in his works, based in his own unhappy experiences of being bullied at school, is alienation in childhood. The Ruby Glass is a story of dysfunctional childhood. The Cole family play host to their little cousin, Jane, one spring. The other children, Jeremy, Helen, and Mary take an instant dislike to this scrawny, terrified child, and although they do their best to include her in their games, Jane will not join in or engage with them. The only person who seems to like Jane is Hamlet, Jeremy's beloved dog. Jeremy is having a period where whatever he does, he seems to be in increasing trouble with his parents. And the hated cousin, Jane, always seems to be at the root of everything that goes wrong. He feels that she will be the source of his downfall. Then one day, the Jane commits the worst act that any of the children could possibly imagine. And Jeremy's response...even with hindsight he cannot understand how on earth he came to do what he did. And why. Why on earth did he do that?

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Title: The Short Stories of Hugh Walpole

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. This collection includes some of Walpole's finest works, including 'The Whistle', which he described as "the best short story I have ever written" and 'The Silver Mask', of which Dennis Wheatley said: "I have rarely read a tale so grim as that magnificent example of Mr. Hugh Walpole's art". This collection includes: 'The Silver Mask' 'The Enemy' 'Batchelors' 'The Whistle' 'The Staircase' 'The Snow' 'The Tarn' 'Lilac' 'The Ruby Glass'

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Title: The Snow

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 23 minutes

Release date: August 8, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. "The Snow" is a multilayered ghost story in which the phantom of a jealous and vindictive first wife seems to haunt the new young bride of her husband. As the cracks in their relationship widen, the malevolent ghost tightens her evil grip on the second wife.