Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short Stories

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Title: The Unrest Cure

Author: Hector Hugh Munro a. K. a. Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 18 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

When the prematurely middle-aged J.P. Huddle is recommended to take an 'unrest-cure' by a friend, he little realizes that the other passenger in the railway compartment, the prank-loving Clovis, will take this as a personal challenge. The havoc which Clovis's macabre and at times shocking practical joke causes is beyond anything that the sleepy hamlet of Tilfield has seen before. Hector Hugh Munro at his most macabre.

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Title: Tobermory

Author: Hector Hugh Munro a. K. a. Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 22 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. Hector Hugh Munro at his most masterful!

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Title: Tales Of The Macabre

Author: Hector Hugh Munro a. K. a. Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 45 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A quartet of short stories by the British master of the macabre, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym 'Saki'. This collection brings together four of his most macabre tales, all of which will surprise the listener with an uncanny twist at the end. "The Background": When Henri Deplis comes into a small inheritance and celebrates his new found wealth by getting an elaborate tattoo, he little realizes what a series of catastrophic events will ensue. The tattoo is recognized as a masterpiece of modern art and given to the city of Bergamo. This is the start of a series of restrictions on Henri Deplis' lifestyle that gradually but inevitably lead to his downfall. "The Chaplet": When master chef Monsieur Aristide Saucourt presents his signature dish to diners at the Grand Sybaris Hotel, he anticipates they will acknowledge this as the pinnacle of his career. But the moment does not go as planned and ends in a fatal tragedy involving hot soup. "The Jesting of Arlington Stringer": When Arlington Stringer makes a joke in the House of Commons, his wife is most disapproving. As his penchant for jesting continues, the noose of fate quickly and inevitably tightens around her throat. "Sredni Vashtar": Conradin is a sickly and introverted child who hates his guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. When she takes away his pet hen and threatens to do the same with his pole-cat, whom he worships like a God, Conradin makes a special prayer, and his sinister wish is answered.

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Title: Tales Of Naughty Pranks

Author: Hector Hugh Munro a. K. a. Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 45 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A quartet of short stories by the mastermind of practical jokes, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym 'Saki'. This collection brings together four of his most ingenious tales, all of which involve one character playing a prank on the others. The results range from the comic to the macabre' but all are brilliantly narrated with Saki's superb ironic wit. The Stampeding of Lady Bastable. Mrs. Sangrail is determined to offload her wayward son Clovis onto Lady Bastable for six days while she takes a trip to Scotland. Is desperation she resorts to cunning bribery, but Clovis has other ideas and devises an ingenious scheme to thwart his mother's plans. Adrian. When Mrs. Mebberley decides to take Adrian on a tour of Europe, she little suspects just how much trouble one young practical joker can cause. The party finds itself fleeing from one hotel to the next as Adrian's pranks leave a trail of mayhem. The Open Window. Framton Nuttel pays an unannounced call on Mrs. Sappleton and finds himself in the midst of a macabre spectacle which is not as it seems. A strange revelation by Mrs. Sappleton's niece causes only embarrassment at first' but then a chilling realization dawns. The Unrest-Cure. When the prematurely middle-aged J.P. Huddle is recommended to take an 'unrest-cure' by a friend, he little realizes that the other passenger in the railway compartment, the prank-loving Clovis, will take this as a personal challenge. The havoc which Clovis's grisly and at times shocking practical joke causes is beyond anything that the sleepy hamlet of Tilfield has seen before.

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Title: Curious Animal Tales

Author: Hector Hugh Munro a. K. a. Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 57 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A quartet of short stories by Britain's raconteur supreme, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym 'Saki'. This collection brings together four of his most curious and amusing tales, all of which involve animals. Saki's satirical take on the morals and eccentricities of Edwardian society, combined with a compelling narrative and an unexpected ending draw keep the reader hanging on until the very last word. 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger': Mrs. Packletide is determined to shoot a tiger in order to get one up on her arch rival Loona Bimberton. In a comical and at times ironic sequence of events, Mrs. Packletide finds herself at the mercy of another rival, just when she had least expected it. 'Tobermory': When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. 'The Mouse': When Theodoric Voler boards a train he finds he is not alone in the compartment. Not only is there a female companion asleep in one corner, there is a mouse that has hidden itself inside his clothes. Can the sensitive and prudish young man manage to undress and extricate the mouse without his female companion waking up? 'Esme': The Baroness recounts a hunting story with a twist. Instead of a fox, the quarry turns out to be an escaped hyena, which adopts her and Constance Broddle and leads them to cover up a heinous killing.

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Title: No Time Left

Author: David Baldacci

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 35 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may realize too late that his success will permanently alter his future.

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Title: The Open Window

Author: Hector Hugh Munro a. K. a. Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 9 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Framton Nuttel pays an unannounced call on Mrs. Sappleton and finds himself in the midst of a macabre spectacle which is not as it seems. Hector Hugh Munro's genius storytelling at its best.

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Title: Sunlight and Joy: An eBook Original Short Story

Author: Barbara Delinsky

Narrator: Kimberly Farr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

“Sunlight and Joy” is Barbara Delinsky’s heartwarming story about a couple relearning how to appreciate the simple things. Also included is an exclusive conversation with Barbara about what inspires her writing and an advance peek at her newest novel, Escape.   Blessed with three wonderful children and a life full of material comforts, Rick and Ellen have always had a happy, if increasingly busy, marriage. But when Rick announces that he’s been offered a promotion that will make the family pick up and move across country for a fourth time, Ellen is dismayed; she and their children have made a life for themselves in Portsmouth, not to mention that she is about to reach a pivotal point in her own teaching career. Ellen has always supported Rick’s dreams. What will he do when she tells him that she doesn’t want to start all over again for a job that will only make their lives more frantic?

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Title: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This collection brings together twelve of the finest short stories of prominent American feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Gilman's best-known work, was first published in 1892 and represents an important examination of nineteenth-century attitudes toward women's physical and mental health. Written as a collection of journal entries by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to her bedroom, the story depicts the narrator's descent into psychosis as her confinement gradually erodes her sanity. This collection also includes the stories 'The Giant Wistaria,' 'According to Solomon,' 'The Boys and the Butter,' 'Her Housekeeper,' 'Martha's Mother,' 'A Middle-Sized Artist,' 'An Offender,' 'When I Was a Witch,' 'The Cottagette,' 'Making a Living,' and 'Mr. Robert Grey Sr.'

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Title: Swim Back to Me

Author: Ann Packer

Narrator: Various

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Release date: April 5, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime. A wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother’s wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy—and vulnerability—of fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex. Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.