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The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter)....
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, from myths because they make no attempt to personify or explain the forces or processes of nature, from fairy...
The Black Poodle and Other Tales - F. Anstey
The Black Poodle and Other Tales - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
Monday, January 19, 2009 marked Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday. Though these tales need no introduction, the rationale for starting with volume two is threefold: many of the best-loved (and best) tales are included, the vast majority run from 15...
The Repairman - Harry Harrison
The Repairman - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repairman (1958) is a straight fun SF story of a man getting a job done. It is most typical of his later style in...
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life - Henry INMAN
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life - Henry INMAN
- Author: Henry INMAN
- Genre: Short Stories / Westerns / War & Military
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 053 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 053 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including short stories by Melville, Blackwood, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Wilde and Thomas Hood....
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is written in the style of a diary kept...
The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville" (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color traditions and relying on dialect,...
Short Story Collection Vol. 051 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 051 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Ghost Story Collection 001 - Various
Ghost Story Collection 001 - 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...
Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales - Various
Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stories is as complex, charismatic and clever as a cat. (Summary by Amy Larch Gramour)...
Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1 - Various
Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kinetoscope technologies. These stories grew more and more popular as the public became increasingly fascinated...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 002 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the smell of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Short Story Collection Vol. 040 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 040 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 040: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most Trollope stories. The Turkish Bath:...
Coffee Break Collection 014 - New Beginnings - Various
Coffee Break Collection 014 - New Beginnings - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This is the fourteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
Not That It Matters - A. A. MILNE
Not That It Matters - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Short Stories
More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh, but he worked for many years as editor of Punch Magazine and these are some of his best. Not That It Matters...
Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields - Thaddeus William Henry LEAVITT
Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields - Thaddeus William Henry LEAVITT
- Author: Thaddeus William Henry LEAVITT
- Genre: Short Stories
Seven short stories. - Summary by david wales...
Short Story Collection Vol. 006 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 006 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Frog Prince and Other Stories - Walter Crane
The Frog Prince and Other Stories - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot against them; and a magical lamp with a Genius inside. (by Laurie Anne Walden)...
Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2) - Guy de Maupassant
Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2) - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled "Boule de Suif et Autres...
Two Sides of a Question - May Sinclair
Two Sides of a Question - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In “The Cosmopolitan,” Frida Tancred...
The Gods of Pegāna - Lord Dunsany
The Gods of Pegāna - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Short Stories / Fantasy Fiction
"The Gods of Pegāna" is the first book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, published on a commission basis in 1905... The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was followed...
Local Color Collection Vol. 001 - Various
Local Color Collection Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)...
The Crocodile - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crocodile - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Satire / Short Stories
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His disquisitions on the state of the...
Stories in Black and White - Various
Stories in Black and White - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin...
Across The Years - Eleanor H. Porter
Across The Years - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
These 18 wonderful short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of Pollyanna, deal with those marvelous and maddeningly frustrating creatures: human beings. As always, Porter describes real people with sensitivity and an insight into all of their...
Collaboration - Henry James
Collaboration - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to collaborate on an opera. There are...
Short Story Collection Vol. 011 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 011 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 011: a collection of 10 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 1 - Marguerite of Navarre
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 1 - Marguerite of Navarre
- Author: Marguerite of Navarre
- Genre: Short Stories
THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of...
Mashi and Other Stories - Rabindranath Tagore
Mashi and Other Stories - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
A 1918 collection of short stories, by the popular Bengali writer.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Dubliners (Version 2) - James JOYCE
Dubliners (Version 2) - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish...
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories - Alice Hegan RICE
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories - Alice Hegan RICE
- Author: Alice Hegan RICE
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a volume of very cute short stories. Miss Mink for instance invites a lonely soldier to her place for dinner and realises that with this one man the entire world walked into her front door. The other stories are connected by their southern...
Sunshine Factory - Pansy
Sunshine Factory - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Short Stories / Christian Fiction
Seven very short sweet stories by Pansy that you will not soon forget! They are stories children will love, and everyone can enjoy. They will make you smile and laugh and bring tears to your eyes. And each one teaches an important lesson in a sweet,...
Bush Studies - Barbara BAYNTON
Bush Studies - Barbara BAYNTON
- Author: Barbara BAYNTON
- Genre: Short Stories
Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for women in colonial Australia. She wrote in response to Henry Lawson's romantic depiction of bush life during...
The Fables of Phaedrus - PHAEDRUS
The Fables of Phaedrus - PHAEDRUS
- Author: PHAEDRUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Short Stories
The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the "moral"), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Even though the modern concept of fable is that it should...
The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Forces - Various
The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Forces - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded" - Summary by Book's title page and david wales...
More William (version 2) - Richmal Crompton
More William (version 2) - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just William. The book was first published in 1922, (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Short Story Collection Vol. 067 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 067 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of 20 short stories selected and read by Librivox readers in English. ...
