Short Stories

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…

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…

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.

Astounding Stories 05, May 1930

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Ray Cummings


The fifth issue of Astounding Stories continues the Ray Cummings serial "Brigands of the Moon", begins a 4 part novel by Murray Le…

Short Science Fiction Collection 054

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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…

Waifs and Strays

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O. Henry


These 12 O. Henry stories all deal with waifs and strays in one way or another; people who have somehow become adrift in the current of life…

Astounding Stories 03, March 1930

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Ray Cummings


This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by…

Short Story Collection Vol. 007

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Various


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…

Historic Girls

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Elbridge Streeter Brooks


Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history of their times. (Summary by Carmen H)

Fabeln

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


Gotthold Ephraim Lessing war der wichtigste deutsche Dichter der deutschen Aufklärung. Fabeln und Erzählungen, veröffentlich…

Le Piacevoli Notti, Libro 1

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Giovanni Francesco Straparola


“Le Piacevoli Notti” è una raccolta di 74 novelle composte dallo scrittore italiano Giovan Francesco Straparola negli anni '50 del XV…

Kashtanka

Read by Grant Hurlock


Anton Chekhov


"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 004

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 004: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

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Jacob A. Riis


These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

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…

Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals

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Henry David Thoreau


This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…

Short Story Collection Vol. 077

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Various


A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…

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