Short Stories

This collection of 18 campfire stories include funny stories about farts and summer camp. There are spooky tales of graveyards, blood-red rivers, and stories about Bigfoot. There are true stories about being lost in Yellowstone National Park and an inspiring Native American legend of Tsali. There are scary tales to make your hair stand on end. The book also includes some urban legends which have been passed down from generation to generation. There are some tales that might make you jump out of your skin.

A young woman, staying in her great aunt’s historical home while in town for a funeral, experiences a ghostly encounter one night but soon realizes it might just be a relative wishing her one final farewell.

The Classic Anne of Green Gables Collection: 6 of the 8 Books in the Beloved "Anne Shirley" Series + 2 Avonlea Short Story Collections, contains: Book 1: Anne of Green Gables, Book 2: Anne of Avonlea, Book 3: Anne of the Island, Book 4: Anne's House of Dreams, Book 5: Rainbow Valley, Book 6: Rilla of Ingleside, Book 7: Chronicles of Avonlea, Book 8: In Further Chronicles of Avonlea.

Jane Austen wrote Love and Friendship (originally spelled Love and Freindship [ sic]) when she was just 14 years old. The three notebooks that contain her early works, including this story, are currently on display at the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. Taking the form as letters written by the heroine to the daughter of her friend, this story resembles a fairy tale that lampoons the conventions of romantic stories at the time.

In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity.

An android who knows nothing besides his work in a factory is given one final week to explore the world before he is forced to undergo mandatory reprogramming in this bittersweet precursor to TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets, now available in trade paperback! A Macmillan Audio production...

Short Stories in English for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in English for Beginners will make learning English easy and enjoyable.

Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.

From Brad Thor, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code of Conduct, comes a lightning-paced short story, pitting Scot Harvath against a threat unlike any he’s faced before… A deadly betrayal is at the center of The Athens Solution. When a game-changing weapon falls into the wrong...

In The Bookshop with No Clock, a traveler steps through a fog-covered alley and into a quiet shop where time itself has learned to rest. There are no ticking hands, no closing hours—only the hush of turning pages, the scent of aged paper, and a shopkeeper who understands that some books find their readers when the heart is ready. This is a gentle story about discovery, memory, and the slow rhythm of calm returning to a hurried mind. Within this bookshop, every creak of the wooden floor and flicker of amber light invites the listener to slow down.

In this romantic-comedy novella, the sexiest player in the NFL and a small-town librarian prove that when opposites attract, their chemistry can be game changing.

A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem.

All of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection.

The People We Know is a collection of stories about ordinary lives that linger long after the moment has passed.

في هذه الرواية البديعة قرر ديستويفسكي كتابة الرواية الرومانسية، ليلة رقيقة حالمة نقضيها مع بطلي هذه الحكاية، حيث يقرر البطل عدم الإفصاح لحبيبته عن مشاعره العميقة تجاهها خوفًا من فقده لصداقتها، بينما تعيش البطلة حالة من الارتباك والتردد وهي تحاول أن تتبين مشاعرها تجاهه دون إفصاح أو مواربة.

Michel Ducobu, né à Bruxelles en 1942, agrégé de Lettres de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, est professeur de français à Namur, poète, chroniqueur, homme de théâtre, adaptateur et metteur en scène. Il est une des figures emblématiques du paysage littéraire de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Pour ce livre-audio, il lit avec chaleur trois nouvelles La Jupe (celle d'un professeur de Français qui va marquer la vie du narrateur), Vanité à la chandelle et Les Martinets .

Un père tue son fils après que celui-ci s'est laissé subordonner et a livré un voleur à la police. Le devoir et l'amour, la malice de l'enfance et la loi inflexible du clan s'y affrontent tragiquement. Cette nouvelle de 1829 a vu le jour dix ans avant le premier voyage de Mérimée en Corse. Pour l'élaborer, l'auteur devait s'inspirer d'un récit fort répandu et plusieurs fois rapporté par écrit, partie prenante enfin, d'une certaine « légende corse ».

Tres historias interconectadas que detallan las investigaciones del príncipe Florizel de Bohemia y su fiel jefe de caballerías el coronel Geraldine; escritas por el brillante escritor Robert Louis Stevenson, respecto a una potente sociedad secreta y cruel que aprovecha las más bajas ruinas de las personas en situaciones de extrema vulnerabilidad, donde cada noche una siniestra partida de naipes decidirá el fatídico destino de sus participantes bajo las estrictas normas de EL CLUB DE LOS SUICIDAS.

La passion sincère du cruel don Blas pour sa jeune épouse Inès cause bien du malheur aux protagonistes de ce drame de la jalousie. Celui-ci envie en effet à Fernando, fiancé d'Inès, sa jeunesse et sa candeur. Pour le punir de ce crime, il envoie le jeune homme en prison, épouse Inès et fait le vide autour d'elle. Le retour inattendu de Fernando, qui s'introduit chez sa belle dissimulé dans un coffre, provoquera la chute. Que faire ? Fuir à nouveau, renoncer, avouer ?

Lauréate de la loterie des visas, Akunna quitte le Nigeria pour les États-Unis ; elle y découvre un pays qui a bien peu à voir avec celui de ses attentes. À Kano, dans le nord du Nigeria, une violente émeute intercommunautaire réunit deux femmes que tout sépare : une marchande d'oignons musulmane et une étudiante issue de la bourgeoisie chrétienne de Lagos.