Short Stories audiobooks

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story written by Washington Irving about how human mind can react to superstition beliefs much against the sixth sense. It has been rumored or believed by Sleepy hallow residents that a headless horseman rides in the night. The story moves around three key characters Ichabod Crane, a school teacher want to ma..

Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing

by Lewis Carroll

Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing is a letter writing guide written by Lewis Carroll. This book is divided into chapters of On Stamp-Cases, How to begin a Letter, How to go on with a Letter, How to end a Letter, and On registering Correspondence...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

Written during American Civil War, A dead Man’s dream or An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is top of the short stories which brings out Ambrose Bierce's unique style of narration which abandon linear narration in favor of internal mind. Confederate sympathizer Peyton Farquhar has been trapped by a soldier who made him to visit Owl Creek Bridge sta..

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The Turn of the Screw is a occult fiction novel written by Henry James, an American-English novelist and one of the key figures in literary realism writings. Unable to take care of parent-less Miles and Flora, their uncle appoints a young governess and gives full responsibility of the children at Forlorn estate. The governess has reasons to believe..

2 B R 0 2 B

by Kurt Vonnegut

2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut and the title is derived Hamlet's dialogue "To be or not to be". Down the years human defeats ageing process and a society with out death has evolved. Births and deaths are controlled by government and for every birth one has to die volunteerly. A man whose wife is about deliver triplets..

Eve's Diary

by Mark Twain

Eve's Diary is a comical narration of the first women Eve's life from her creation, her life at Eden, meeting her man Adam and her expulsion from Eden. Unlike other books of series, Eve's diary is written in lighter tone with a strong appreciation for beauty and love. It is believed that the death of his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens would have provo..

Best Russian Short Stories

by Thomas Seltzer

Best Russian Short Stories is anthology of 18th and 19th century Russian literature compiled by Thomas Seltzer. The editor's efforts are commendable in collecting the works of not only well known authors but also many authors who were neglected for unknowing reasons in-spite of their literary value...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories which portrayed 14th century English society and the Church. The author present the tales as part of the story telling contest participated by a group of pilgrims during their travel from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Though the ..