Fiction
赤いろうそくと人魚
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Mimei Ogawa
小川未明(1882-1961)の代表作、「赤いろうそくと人魚」は1921年に東京朝日新聞に 掲載されました。老夫婦に育てられた女の子の人魚は、ろうそくに絵を描いて、商売を 繁盛させました。しかし、金に心を奪われた老夫婦は、娘を香具師に売り渡してしまいます。Red Candles …
The Enchanted Castle
Read by Kalynda
Hartwell James and Howard E. Altemus
Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once more puts on…
The Innerglow Effect
Read by Craig Robertson
Craig Robertson
Drug companies continue to come out with powerful new medicines. Some produce wondrous responses while others have unforeseen side effects.…
What Sami Sings With The Birds
Read by Daryl Wor
Johanna Spyri
Old Mary Ann has done her best to bring up her son on her own. Like other relatives, her son has a longing to travel off over the mountains.…
The White Linen Nurse
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath
Read by Bev J Stevens
Rita
A group of guests, at an exclusive luxury hotel in Hampshire, are the witnesses of an illustration of occult powers, demonstrated by “the My…
Must Not Sleep
Read by Michael Brownstein
Michael Brownstein
By turns hilarious and chilling, poet and novelist Michael Brownstein's latest novel MUST NOT SLEEP is a shamanic initiation into personal f…
Short Story Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 020: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.
Mothering on Perilous
Read by Laura Victoria
Lucy S. Furman
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…
In Brief Authority
Read by Anna Simon
F. Anstey
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…
二百十日
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Sōseki Natsume
『二百十日』は夏目漱石の小説である。明治39年10月、雑誌『中央公論』に発表され、その年12月、『鶉籠』に収録されて出版された。阿蘇山に登る、2人の青年、圭さんと碌さんの2人の会話体で終始する小説である。語られるのはビールや半熟卵を知らない宿の女とのやり取りや、道すがらの鍛冶屋の…
The Turmoil
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Booth Tarkington
The Turmoil is the first novel in the 'Growth' trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitl…
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
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Eliza Haywood
The flirtations of a rich young maiden, Miss Betsy Thoughtless with several suitors, as she alienates the right man by refusing to take the …
Mashi and Other Stories
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Rabindranath Tagore
A 1918 collection of short stories, by the popular Bengali writer. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Man in the Moone
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Francis Godwin
A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with…