Short Stories About Suicide (Audiobook)

Explore suicide stories and suicidal characters in this deep psychological collection.

Read by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 15hrs 19mins)

Featuring stories by Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostovesky, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, O Henry, Mary Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Honore De Balzac, Thomas Hardy, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Levy & more.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch.

But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds. We never really know the reason or motivation but sometimes one final, dreadful way out is the solution.

In this compilation -

1 - Short Stories About Suicide - An Introduction

2 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant

3 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostovesky

4 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

5 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

6 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad

7 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo

8 - The Furnished Room by O Henry

9 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley

10 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore

11 - A Passion in the Desert by Honore De Balzac