Short Stories

Mosses From An Old Manse

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Bob Neufeld 4.4
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…

The Magic World

by E. Nesbit Read by Ruth Golding 4.8
Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville Read by Bob Neufeld 4.6
Bartleby, the Scrivener is a thought-provoking novella that explores the complexities of human behavior and the nature of work through the e…

Short Mystery Story Collection

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Delve into the intriguing world of mystery with this collection of ten short stories, expertly curated to showcase the art of suspense and d…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

The Lilac Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Lilac Fairy Book is a captivating collection of enchanting tales curated by Andrew Lang, part of his renowned series of "Coloured&q…

Wessex Tales

by Thomas Hardy Read by Tadhg 4.7
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…

The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Pl…

The Book of Dragons

by E. Nesbit Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…

Cape Cod Stories

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln Read by David Wales 4.8
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an Amer…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

The Man Who Would Be King

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Philippa 4.6
The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afgha…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

More William

by Richmal Crompton Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.7
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to …

Dubliners

by James Joyce Read by Tadhg 4.7
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle cl…

Danger! and Other Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Danger! and Other Stories is a captivating collection of short tales by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for his creat…

Present at a Hanging

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Five Sci-Fi Short Stories

by H. Beam Piper Read by Mark Nelson 4.4
Step into the imaginative worlds crafted by H. Beam Piper, a pioneer of science fiction, in this collection of five captivating short storie…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Told after Supper

by Jerome K. Jerome Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…

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