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Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. (Summary by Chris Garbett)...
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 - Various
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales) Note: A shortened section 21 was replaced on Dec 30, 2014 with the full text....
The House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The House With The Mezzanine And Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)...
The Dead - James JOYCE
The Dead - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Short Stories
A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce's transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. "The Dead" is taken from Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners. (summary by Iremonger)...
Short Story Collection Vol. 034 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 034 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 034: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Short Stories
Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. These stories are generally sad, with a moralistic message. The collection includes: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant,...
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Author: Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / Westerns
Four 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...
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales...
Horror Story Collection 001 - Various
Horror Story Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime,...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008 - 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....
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
This is the seventh 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...
Short Story Collection Vol. 065 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 065 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 065: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Prussian Officer - D. H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Short Stories
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly are the focus of the piece and, while socially the superior of his orderly, the officer demonstrates his is the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 004 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Short Science Fiction Collection 055 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories
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...
Short Science Fiction Collection 054 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 054 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories
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...
Can Such Things Be? - Ambrose Bierce
Can Such Things Be? - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences...
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Short Stories
Volume 8 of a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The selection includes The Chorus Girl, A Gentleman Friend and A father, among others. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Road - Jack London
The Road - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Short Stories / Single Author Collections / History
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic strangers. In The Road, he relates the tales and memories of his days on the hobo road, including how the hobos...
Short Story Collection Vol. 074 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 074 - 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 Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allen Poe and others to bring you tales of mystery, the...
White Nights & Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights & Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Short Stories
White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation published in 1918 by The MacMillan Company, NY (USA) and Heinemann (UK). It contains these 7 works:- White Nights- Notes from the Underground- A Faint Heart- A Christmas Tree and...
Our Lady of the Pillar - José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
Our Lady of the Pillar - José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
- Author: José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Short Stories
A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his feelings and hatches a plan. Don Ruy rides right into a trap, but on the way, a dead man joins him and saves his...
The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. LOVECRAFT
The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Author: H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
This, the first of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 8 of his short stories as well as reflections, critiques, and eulogies by others....
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in this collection are works that appeared by themselves in magazines during Twain's lifetime, as well as essays...
Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge - Various
Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) fiction or non-fiction works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is HodgePodge: humor, romance, science, long poems,...
The Indiscreet Letter - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The Indiscreet Letter - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Short Stories
Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an 'indiscreet letter.' The discussion, albeit short, produces some rather interesting revelations during the journey and at journey's end. (Summary by Kehinde)...
Short Stories (Household Words 1850-58) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Short Stories (Household Words 1850-58) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1858. In addition to three serialized novels, Cranford, North and South, and My Lady Ludlow, Dickens published 18 shorter works...
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Short Stories
One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun. At a running time of approximately 2 1/2...
Our Old Home - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Old Home - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Short Stories
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a series of travel articles for The Atlantic Monthly.In these writings, he displays his humor, his empathetic...
American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922 - Various
American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Ten-foot Chain - Undefined
The Ten-foot Chain - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Short Stories
True love can survive anything. Or can it? Four popular authors were lunching with an editor and the question came up: "What mental and emotional reaction would a man and a woman undergo, linked together by a ten-foot chain, for three days and...
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - Pádraic Colum
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - Pádraic Colum
- Author: Pádraic Colum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, and others. (Summary by...
Actions And Reactions - Rudyard Kipling
Actions And Reactions - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of short stories by the author of the Jungle book, Kim and Just So Stories. Each story is followed by a poem, so if you like If, this may also be a book for you. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers - Ōgai MORI
Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers - Ōgai MORI
- Author: Ōgai MORI
- Genre: Short Stories
Paulownia is a collection of seven stories by three Japanese authors from the late 19th and early 20th century. Mori Ōgai was an army surgeon who was sent to study in Germany, where he developed an interest in Western literature. His most famous...
Reginald - Saki
Reginald - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been...
Short Story Collection Vol. 043 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 043 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 043: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Korean Folk Tales - Im BANG
Korean Folk Tales - Im BANG
- Author: Im BANG
- Genre: Short Stories
"To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of...
Short Story Collection Vol. 012 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 012: a collection of 11 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members....
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from burial in the great mausoleum of the...
