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  The Matador of the Five Towns...

  Arnold Bennett

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  The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories consists of twenty-two short stories written by Arnold Bennett, their main setting being the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands.
  Contents:
  THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS
  MIMI
  THE SUPREME ILLUSION
  THE LETTER AND THE LIE
  THE GLIMPSE
  JOCK-AT-A-VENTURE
  THE HEROISM OF THOMAS CHADWICK
  UNDER THE CLOCK
  THREE EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF MR COWLISHAW, DENTIST
  CATCHING THE TRAIN
  THE WIDOW OF THE BALCONY
  THE CAT AND CUPID
  THE FORTUNE-TELLER
  THE LONG-LOST UNCLE
  THE TIGHT HAND
  WHY THE CLOCK STOPPED
  HOT POTATOES
  HALF-A-SOVEREIGN
  THE BLUE SUIT
  THE TIGER AND THE BABY
  THE REVOLVER
  AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

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  Best Horror Stories of Arthur...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.

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  The Long Exile

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest novelists and short story writers and a master of realistic fiction. He is equally known for his complex and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, developed following a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became known for his deep moral thinking and social reforms.In the Long Exile, Tolstoy tells the story of a man who is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, but who gradually becomes aware that the experience has been sent to bring him closer to God and prepare him for the next life. After twenty-six years in prison, a crisis occurs. A new convict arrives, who turns out to be the real perpetrator of the crime for which our prisoner was wrongly convicted. Moreover, our prisoner has an opportunity to have his nemesis punished. This moral dilemma is the axis on which the story turns.

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  High Lonesome

  Barry Hannah

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  A darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into contemporary American life by “the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction” (Interview).   The thirteen masterful tales in this collection by the award-winning author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explore lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In “Uncle High Lonesome,” a young man recalls an uncle’s drinking binges and the rage unleashed, hinting at dark waters of distress. Fishing is transformed into a life-altering, almost mystical event in “A Creature in the Bay of St. Louis.” And in “Snerd and Niggero,” a deep friendship between two men is inspired by the loss of a woman they both loved. Viewed through memory and time’s distance, Barry Hannah’s characters are brightly illuminated figures from a lost time, whose occasionally bleak lives are still uncommonly true.   “Barry Hannah’s writing is raw and exhilarating, tortured, radiant, vicious, aggressive, funny, and streaked with rage, pain and bright poetic truth.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer on Airships

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  Dating with Allergies

  Martin Lundqvist

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  A flash fiction story about Jasmine and Francois who inadvertently send eachother to hospital on their first two dates, due to ignorance of the partners obscure allergies.

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  The House with the Mezzanine And...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." 
   
  Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text". The plays that Chekhov wrote were not complex, but easy to follow, and created a somewhat haunting atmosphere for the audience. 
   
  Chekhov at first wrote stories to earn money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations that influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. 
   
  Here is perhaps his finest collection. A true audiobook treasure!

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