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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from throughout his career, in an effort...
1903 Collection - Various
1903 Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Mind Amongst the Spindles - Charles Knight
Mind Amongst the Spindles - Charles Knight
- Author: Charles Knight
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)...
In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first world war. (Introduction by S....
Short Story Collection Vol. 070 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 070 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Mysteries, fantasy, family and hardship all make appearances in this, the 70th volume of short stories in the English language, selected and read by Librivox readers....
Waifs and Strays - O. Henry
Waifs and Strays - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
These 12 O. Henry stories all deal with waifs and strays in one way or another; people who have somehow become adrift in the current of life. Will they find their way on their own or be helped by kind hearted folk or perhaps, stay a waif and stray,...
Short Science Fiction Collection 053 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 053 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Three Short Works - Gustave Flaubert
Three Short Works - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Short Stories
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century France. Each exhibits the vigorous...
Short Story Collection Vol. 048 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 048 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 048: a collection of 19 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these anecdotes will entertain as well as...
The Golden Goose Book - L. Leslie Brooke
The Golden Goose Book - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15661. We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded and selfishness is punished but Brooke...
The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories - Leonard Merrick
The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories - Leonard Merrick
- Author: Leonard Merrick
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed to evoke a charming picture of England in the early 20th century. It is surprising that Merrick's work is no...
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories - Anthony Trollope
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay;Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale - Summary by Nicholas Clifford...
Short Story Collection Vol. 038 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 038 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 038: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
A Thief in the Night - Version 2 - E. W. Hornung
A Thief in the Night - Version 2 - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Short Stories / Single Author Collections
A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief,...
A Little Book of Christmas - John Kendrick Bangs
A Little Book of Christmas - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)...
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by Wiliam Hope Hodgson. Hodsgon, also a noted photographer and bodybuilder, might have created more stories for this intrepid sleuth of the occult, but he...
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak...
The Autobiography of a Slander - Edna Lyall
The Autobiography of a Slander - Edna Lyall
- Author: Edna Lyall
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of "the slander", Edna Lyall (pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley) reveals her...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French...
Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the...
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
- Author: Edric Vredenberg
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and more. This 15th issue of the serial, published on February 10, 1880, features...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 16, Feb. 17, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 16, Feb. 17, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children includes delightful serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles and fun. This 16th issue of the serial, published on February 17, 1880, features...
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals - Various
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories / Animals
This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
"Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here." - Lord Dunsany, the preface to "The Book of Wonder"...
Short Story Collection Vol. 062 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 062 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including George Gissing, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Anton Chekhov. (Summary by...
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life - Stewart Edward White
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Short Stories / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 016 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 016 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 016: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Sketches New and Old - Mark Twain
Sketches New and Old - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into...
Evelina's Garden - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Evelina's Garden - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Short Stories
This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirts of a small New England town in a mansion with a magnificent garden. (Introduction by BellonaTimes)...
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - Various
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of...
The Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01 - Anton Chekhov
The Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01 - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Short Stories
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett. Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor who turned to fiction as a hobby, and quickly blossomed into one of the masters of the short story genre....
The Peterkin Papers - Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkin Papers - Lucretia P. Hale
- Author: Lucretia P. Hale
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and...
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P....
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Author: Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at the end of the 19th century. From an early age Fitzpatrick believed that life should be enjoyed to the full and...
American Indian Fairy Tales - William Trowbridge Larned
American Indian Fairy Tales - William Trowbridge Larned
- Author: William Trowbridge Larned
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the...
Far Above Rubies - George MacDonald
Far Above Rubies - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Proverbs 31:10-11 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." (KJV) With this in mind, George MacDonald gives us the short story...
