Short Stories

Round the Sofa

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Noel Badrian 4.6
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

What Men Live By

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

The Best British Short Stories

by Various and Walter de la Mare Read by David Wales 4.3
The Best British Short Stories is a curated collection featuring twenty-four short stories from a diverse array of British authors, both ren…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

The Master of Mysteries

by Frank Gelett Burgess Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Subtitled, "Being an account of the problems solved by Astro, seer of secrets, and his love affair with Valeska Wynne, his assistant.&q…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is a collection of science fiction short stories.

Tales of the Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett Read by Martin Clifton 4.6
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…

Sketches New and Old

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1882. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the or…

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

by James Baldwin Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…

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 Greater Inclination

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

Five Beloved Stories

by O. Henry Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
O. Henry wrote over 600 short stories. Naturally I have my personal top 20 stories that just seem to stand out because of their form, writin…

The House With The Mezzanine

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)

Castles in the Air

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) 4.3
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

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…

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