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Short Story Collection Vol. 075 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 075 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Carolyn Wells, Egerton Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Stephen Leacock and others to bring you tales of mystery, poignant...
Short Story Collection Vol. 061 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 061 - 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 Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rebecca West, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Richard Harding...
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued on Dickens' birthday, February 7th 2012, and...
Whirligigs - O. Henry
Whirligigs - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
A collection of short stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom",...
Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature - Various
Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Nature in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. Botany, geology, biology,...
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely-connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically, the events recounted...
The Goody-Naughty Book - Sarah Cory RIPPEY
The Goody-Naughty Book - Sarah Cory RIPPEY
- Author: Sarah Cory RIPPEY
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
The Goody-Naughty Book was originally published as two books back to back. Opening the book from one end, the reader experiences "The Goody Side" where the children are polite and thoughtful. However, turning the book over and beginning from the...
From a Swedish Homestead - Selma Lagerlöf
From a Swedish Homestead - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
”From a Swedish Homestead” by the Swedish author Selma Lagerloef (translated by Jessie Brochner) is a varied collection of stories, mostly set in Dalarne or Vaermland in Sweden, but also some stories or legends from Kungahalla on the west-coast at...
Short Story Collection Vol. 044 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 044 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 044: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and...
Stories in Grey - Barry Pain
Stories in Grey - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain. Pain was well-known in his time for his supernatural and horror stories. This collection contains 15 interesting examples of his work. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Story Collection Vol. 059 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 059 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories including lesser known works by Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, an early story by Dorothy Parker, and stories in various genres by authors including L. M. Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy,...
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Short Stories / General
A sequel to Oldtown Folks, featuring some of the same characters, these are 15 charming short stories told by ole' Sam Lawson to entertain Horace and Bill, two impressionable, curious and clever young boys of Oldtown (a fictional 1850's New England...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of the thirteen stories adapted as...
Short Story Collection Vol. 013 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 013 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 013: a collection of 11 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members....
Ghost Story Collection 002 - Various
Ghost Story Collection 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of...
Cattle Brands - Andy ADAMS
Cattle Brands - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / Westerns
Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the harrowing skirmishes with banditos, thrilling shoot-outs, attempt at and the recapture of stolen chattel from...
Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous - John HABBERTON
Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous - John HABBERTON
- Author: John HABBERTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life, many of...
The Flood - Émile Zola
The Flood - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature....
Short Story Collection Vol. 049 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 049 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 049: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. 'How the Hodja Saved Allah' by Cyrus Adler and Allan Ramsay...
The Four Million - O. Henry
The Four Million - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. The Four Million is the second book...
Beasts and Super-Beasts - Saki
Beasts and Super-Beasts - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Short Stories
Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro. Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggle?????s...
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories:* "The Offshore Pirate"* "The Ice Palace"* "Head and Shoulders"* "The Cut-Glass Bowl"* "Bernice Bobs Her...
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales - Bram Stoker
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula....
The Dancing Girls - Edna Ferber
The Dancing Girls - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: Short Stories
The Dancing Girls is just one of the 4 excellent short stories in this recording. All written by the master, Edna Ferber for magazines between 1910 and 1919 they naturally contain her unique mix of real people, sadness, joy and always humor. The...
Short Story Collection Vol. 073 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 073 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Saki, Katherine Mansfield, Jack London, Lord Dunsany and others to bring you tales of mystery, the thought-provoking, the...
Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry
Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
This work is O. Henry's first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the author's six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s. "The incidents embracing as they...
Round the Sofa - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
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 teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford etc.). Mrs. Gaskell...
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays in Volume 1, many first appeared alone, in magazines or newspapers, before being printed as chapters of his...
Cape Cod Stories - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
Cape Cod Stories - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Author: Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Single Author Collections
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work...
Imaginotions - Truthless Tales - Tudor JENKS
Imaginotions - Truthless Tales - Tudor JENKS
- Author: Tudor JENKS
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are not primarily aimed at children. The stories contain excellent satire, and are generally very funny and...
Frenzied Fiction - Stephen Leacock
Frenzied Fiction - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
From the cave man to Santa Claus; spies, know-it-alls, and journalists: all are fair game for Leacock’s special brand of humor. He touches on the changes time has brought about in the city, education, and work habits. Among the other topics in this...
Selected Stories of Bret Harte - Bret Harte
Selected Stories of Bret Harte - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Short Stories / Westerns
Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Short Story Collection Vol. 064 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 064 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, and Gustave Flaubert, among others. - Summary by Ruth Golding...
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories
This is a collection of Christmas short stories and poems by Eugene Field, published in 1912. The stories beautifully evoke an old-fashioned spirit of Christmas, each presenting a different angle of this special holiday. - Summary by Carolin...
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The Benevolent Author The Grateful Husband Punch,...
Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise - Lucy CLIFFORD
Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise - Lucy CLIFFORD
- Author: Lucy CLIFFORD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her lifetime as Mrs W.K. Clifford. She was famous with her mathematician husband for Sunday salons which attracted...
Short Story Collection Vol. 010 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 010: a collection of 10 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Short Stories
L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made...
