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Xun Lu
Wandering or Pang Huang was Lu Xun's second collection of stories. It was published near the end of 1925 and included 11 stories written bet…
Inheritors
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Susan Glaspell
Inheritors, (1921) by American dramatist Susan Glaspell concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest far…
African Jungle Tales
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Carl Bender
Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later…
Why do we need a public library?
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Various
Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…
Christmas Under Three Flags
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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox
This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur
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Beatrice E. Clay
"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…
The Outcry
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Henry James
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
The Village in the Jungle
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Leonard Woolf
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…
Dark Princess
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W. E. B. Du Bois
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…
Fire - Flowers
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18,…
Stories and Pictures
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I. L. Peretz
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
The Age of the Motored Things
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between humanity and technology.…
The Mother
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Pearl S. Buck
As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…
Minnie's Sacrifice
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Frances E. W. Harper
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
South African Folk-Tales
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James A. Honeÿ
James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …
Man's Rights
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Annie Denton Cridge
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…
Original Stories from Real Life
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…
The Fables of Pilpay
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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…
Folk-Lore and Legends
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Unknown
This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…
Iolanthe
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W. S. Gilbert
Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to t…