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The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings these stories to the English reader. Included in the collection are twelve stories selected by Cervantes, including "A...
Short Story Collection Vol. 052 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 052: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
A Garland for Girls - Louisa May Alcott
A Garland for Girls - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
"These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work.If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007 - 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 stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of a few small New England villages at the turn of the last century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a...
2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5) - Kurt VONNEGUT, JR.
2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5) - Kurt VONNEGUT, JR.
- Author: Kurt VONNEGUT JR.
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of what over population was going to...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took this reputation so to heart that they brought up their children shielded from all temptation and trained...
The Ghost Ship & Other Stories - Richard MIDDLETON
The Ghost Ship & Other Stories - Richard MIDDLETON
- Author: Richard MIDDLETON
- Genre: Short Stories
Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an eminent literary figure in his day, admired by, among others, Edgar Jepson, Arthur Machen, and Raymond...
Coffee Break Collection 013 - Weather - Various
Coffee Break Collection 013 - Weather - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This is the thirteenth 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...
The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of art. One of the stories, "The...
Stolen Souls - William Le Queux
Stolen Souls - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)...
Clog Shop Chronicles - John ACKWORTH
Clog Shop Chronicles - John ACKWORTH
- Author: John ACKWORTH
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his...
Short Story Collection Vol. 002 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 002: a collection of 10 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Kitty's Picnic and other Stories - Anonymous
Kitty's Picnic and other Stories - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of short stories for boys and girls that spark the imagination and teach life lessons. (summary by Ladeebug)...
Monday Tales - Alphonse DAUDET
Monday Tales - Alphonse DAUDET
- Author: Alphonse DAUDET
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before the turn of the last century. The settings of the stories also take us all over France, Belgium, and...
Short Story Collection Vol. 072 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 072 - 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 Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Guy de Maupassant, Saki and others to bring you tales of mystery, the...
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his...
Short Science Fiction Collection 050 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 050 - 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...
Lifted Masks - Susan Glaspell
Lifted Masks - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)...
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Author: Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is famous...
The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / 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 Trimmed Lamp follows The Four...
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood ANDERSON
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Short Stories
Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together...
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath it, Father Sergius struggles to find peace and, if not happiness, then at least contentment. But he is always...
Short Story Collection Vol. 003 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 003: a collection of 20 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is an 1888 collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde. It is most famous for The Happy Prince, the short tale of a metal statue who befriends a...
Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה) - Various
Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, tragedy and pathos set mostly in the Jewish communities of 19th-century eastern Europe, Russia, and the...
The White Elephant And Other Tales from Old India Retold - Georgene FAULKNER
The White Elephant And Other Tales from Old India Retold - Georgene FAULKNER
- Author: Georgene FAULKNER
- Genre: Short Stories / Family / General
This book is a collection of short stories from India. - Summary by sid...
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio HEARN
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of Buddhist Proverbs and explaining...
The King in Yellow (part 2) - Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow (part 2) - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Short Stories
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Shortly after returning to America, he became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels; he is now best known as the author of “The King In Yellow”,...
Four Weird Tales - Algernon Blackwood
Four Weird Tales - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery. (Summary by Stephen Harris)...
Brazilian Tales - Various
Brazilian Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at familiarizing the reader with a...
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one of New Zealand's premiere female writers....
The King in Yellow (part 1) - Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow (part 1) - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of...
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are...
Short Story Collection Vol. 055 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by J. M. Barrie, O. Henry, Jerome, Joyce, London, Saki, R. L. Stevenson, Trollope, Wilde and...
Tales of Terror and Mystery - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories in "Tales of Terror and Mystery", a suppressed uneasiness gradually...
The Story of the Greeks - H. A. GUERBER
The Story of the Greeks - H. A. GUERBER
- Author: H. A. GUERBER
- Genre: Short Stories
This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! - Summary by Ann Boulais...
A Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy
A Changed Man And Other Tales - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales...
Canadian Wonder Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
Canadian Wonder Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
- Author: Cyrus Macmillan
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as "fables" though many are without obvious moral. (Summary by...
