Short Stories
Short Story Collection Vol. 056
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…
Father Sergius
Read by James E. Carson
Leo Tolstoy
Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath …
The Homely Heroine
Read by Phil Chenevert
Edna Ferber
Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style …
The Chronicles of Clovis
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Saki
This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…
Short Story Collection Vol. 067
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Various
A collection of 20 short stories selected and read by Librivox readers in English.
The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales
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William Patten
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales
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Edric Vredenberg
This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (…
The Case Of The Registered Letter
Read by David Wales
Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner
A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)
Astounding Stories 07, July 1930
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Sewell Peaslee Wright
Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine - Summary by Annise
Short Science Fiction Collection 062
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in t…
Dutch Courage and Other Stories
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Jack London
Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall writ…
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
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Jerome K. Jerome
A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. (Summary by Chris Garbett)
Youth, a Narrative
Read by Chris Hughes
Joseph Conrad
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories…
The Little Gray Lady
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Francis Hopkinson Smith
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great…
The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…
More William (version 2)
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Richmal Crompton
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…
The Machine Stops (version 2)
Read by Jerome Lawsen
E. M. Forster
Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's su…
A Group of Noble Dames
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
Short Story Collection Vol. 044
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Various
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.