Short Stories audiobooks

In the Closed Room

This is a short story about a shy, quiet little girl living in a big city. When her parents are offered the opportunity to take care of a house in the suburbs for the summer she meets another little girl in the house and they become playmates. ..

A Garland For Girls

by Louisa May Alcott

According to the author Alcott, A Garland For Girls stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have ..

Father Sergius

by Graf Leo Tolstoy

Father Sergiusis a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has ..

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1920 and first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year. It appeared shortly thereafter in the collection Flappers and Philosophers. The story concerns Bernice, a wealthy girl from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who goes to visit her cousin Marjorie for the month ..

Flappers and Philosophers

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories: "The Offshore Pirate" "The Ice Palace" "Head and Shoulders" "The Cut-Glass Bowl" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" "Benediction" "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" "The Four Fists"...

Crucial Instances

by Edith Wharton

Crucial Instances is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. The book contains a collection of seven stories, including:The Duchess at PrayerThe Angel at the GraveThe RecoveryCopy: A DialogueThe RembrandtThe Moving FingerThe Confessional..

Descent of Man and Other Stories

by Edith Wharton

This collection appeared in book form in two distinct editions, both published in 1904. The Macmillian edition had ten stories; the Scribner's edition had nine (omitting "The Letter"). The two collections also ordered the stories differently; below I use the ordering of the larger Macmillan edition. The links below go to on-line illustrated edition..

Brother Jacob

by George Eliot

Brother Jacob is a classic English novel by George Eliot Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for ..