Short Stories
Nonsense Novels
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
In Exile and Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Mary Hallock Foote
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories…
Coffee Break Collection 009 - Autumn
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is the ninth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…
Short Story Collection Vol. 084
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
And so we present the 84th Librivox Short Story Collection! Each tale is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. Once again, we have a wi…
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1
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Unknowntranslated Bycecil Henry Bompas and Unknowntranslated By Cecil Henry Bompas
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…
American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922
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Various
This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Short Science Fiction Collection 079
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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…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 007
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 007: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Mind Amongst the Spindles
Read by MaryAnn
Charles Knight
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimac…
Short Story Collection Vol. 028
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 028: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories
Read by Nick Bulka
Bret Harte
A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)
Short Story Collection Vol. 073
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Various
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Saki, Katheri…
The Indiscreet Letter
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an 'indiscreet letter.' The discussion, albeit sho…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5
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Charles Dickens
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…
Brazilian Tales
Read by Leni
Varioustranslated Byisaac Goldberg and Varioustranslated By Isaac Goldberg
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literatu…
Short Story Collection Vol. 023
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 023: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Literary Lapses
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…
Some Short Christmas Stories
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
Here are some classic, short Christmas stories from Charles Dickens, who, one may easily argue, was the greatest Christmas storyteller to da…
Invisible Links
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
The Ten-foot Chain
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Achmed Abdullah
True love can survive anything. Or can it? Four popular authors were lunching with an editor and the question came up: "What mental and…