Short Stories audiobooks
Wessex Tales
by Thomas HardyWessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. In the various short stories, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth-century marriage and its inherent restrictions, the use of grammar as a diluted form of thought, the disparities created by the..
A Changed Man And Other Tales
by Thomas HardyA Changed Man and Other Tales is a collection of twelve tales written by Thomas Hardy. The collection was originally published in book form in 1913, although all of the tales had been previously published in newspapers or magazines from 1881 to 1900. There are eleven short stories and a novella The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. At the end of t..
Group of Noble Dames
by Thomas HardyA Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century...
A Tangled Tale
by Lewis CarrollA Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives t..
Extracts from Adam's Diary
by Mark TwainExtracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. is a comic short story by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. It was first published as a book in 1904, by Harper & Bros. with numerous illustrations by Frederick Strothmann. The story was first published in 1893, The Niagara Book (Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols), pp. 93–109...
Alonso Fitz and Other Stories
by Mark TwainIn this collection, fans of Twain will surely enjoy reading his essays like "On The Decay of the Art of Lying," "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," and "Concerning the English Language," and "Speech on the Weather." While some of the other stories here are not great, it's worth reading every story here in order to understand just how gifted Tw..
Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman MelvilleHerman Melville's short fiction work Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street deals with psychological effects of an employee who works in dead letter office. Bartleby was hired by a Manhattan lawyer, to copy legal documents. His aggressive and quality work start deteriorating day by day to the point he stops working. Days passed he continue..
Double: A Petersburg Poem
by Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who rep..