Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short Stories

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Title: The Woman Lit by Fireflies

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Carrington Macduffie, Ray Porter, Lorna Raver

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty. A band of sixties radicals, now approaching middle age, reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. A fifty-year-old suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband at a highway rest stop, exploring the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield. The Woman Lit by Fireflies is a sweeping tribute to the nation’s heartland and the colorful, courageous people who inhabit it.

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Title: The Homecoming & Other Stories

Author: Maeve Binchy

Narrator: Joanna Myers, Sean Campion, Kate Binchy, Patricia Hodge

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 57 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and compassion that have made her many novels bestsellers. In 'Homecoming', read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin’s restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? 'Telling Stories', read by Joanna Myers, sees Irene’s fiancé turning up the night before the wedding with a face as white as the dress that is to be worn the next day. Then trouble starts... In 'Needy', read by Patricia Hodge, Heather is painfully aware that Valentine’s Day declarations of love should be viewed with suspicion, even if the sender is the one she loves. And in 'The Interview', read by Kate Binchy, Bessie is deaf and needs a place in a special school. But will she pass the interview? Finely crafted and full of wit and charm, these are stories that no fan of Maeve Binchy will want to be without.

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Title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: March 2, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' as 'almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice.' Indeed, Poe's short mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths, among them Sherlock Holmes. Today, the Dupin stories still stand out as unique and utterly engrossing. In addition to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' this collection contains 'The Purloined Letter' (also featuring C. Auguste Dupin), 'The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade,' 'A Descent into the Maelstrom,' 'The Raven,' and 'The Masque of the Red Death.'

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Title: Road Rage

Author: Joe Hill, Richard Matheson, Stephen King

Narrator: Stephen Lang

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Release date: February 24, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. Throttle, by Stephen King and Joe Hill, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws, in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down . . .

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Title: Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume III

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Gary Sinise, Joe Morton, Joe Mantegna, Stephen King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: February 17, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 23

Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 8

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: -The Night Flier -Popsy -It Grows on You -You Know They Got a Hell of a Band -The Ten O'Clock People -The Fifth Quarter ...and more!

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Title: Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume II

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Matthew Broderick, Kathy Bates, Tim Curry, Stephen King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 17, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 24

Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: -Chattery Teeth -The Moving Finger -Home Delivery -Sneakers and more….

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Title: Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Rob Lowe, Gary Sinese, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Broderick, Kathy Bates, Tim Curry, Stephen King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 17, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 72

Ratings of Narrator: 4.76 of Total 17

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: Introduction (Stephen King) Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg) Crouch End (Tim Curry) Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith) Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe) The House on Maple St. (Tabitha King) Umney’s Last Case (Robert B. Parker) Head Down (Stephen King) Brooklyn August (Stephen J. Gould)

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Title: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: February 9, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This novella was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. Also included in this volume are 'The Forged Coupon,' 'After the Dance,' 'My Dream,' 'There Are No Guilty People,' and 'The Young Tsar.'

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Title: The Judgement

Author: Franz Kafka

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 29 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.15 of Total 13

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This is a short story of Georg Bendemann and his relationship with his aging father. While Georg is telling his father of his friend in Russia his father goes into a rage, ridiculing and degrading his son. Then at the end of his rant he issues his final judgment - death by drowning.

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Title: The Dead

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 3.86 of Total 7

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The main character in this short story is Gabriel Conroy and the entire short story takes place during his attendance at a holiday party, annually thrown by his aunts. Near the end of the party Gabriel sees his wife, Gretta, in a new and expanded way at the same moment when she is reminiscing on a song being sung at the party. Listen as James Joyce weaves harsh realities back into this story, as is characteristic with other stories in this series, Dubliners.