Short Stories
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 08, Dec. 23, 1879
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Various
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 08 May 1896
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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Children of the Tenements
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Jacob A. Riis
This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He …
The Good Dog Book
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John Hay Beith, John Brown, Barry Cornwall, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Henry Herbert Knibbs, John Muir, Ouida, William Robert Spencer, Eva March Tappan and J. T. Trowbridge
A collection of adult stories and poems - sad, humorous, and adventurous - about Man's Best Friend. NOTE: Most of these selections contain v…
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 10 July 1896
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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Arcadia in Avernus
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Will Lillibridge
Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems…
Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas
Read by Don W. Jenkins
F. Anstey
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies
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This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Sasha
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Aleksandr Kuprin
Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a car…
Gallegher and other Stories
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Richard Harding Davis
Set in 1890's USA, teen detective Gallegher is a copy boy for a local newspaper, but due to his superior sleuthing and feisty Huck Finn atti…
Dreams Collection 2 - Stories and Poems
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This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry)
In Old Plantation Days
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
A to Zed Collection Vol. 002
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Various
This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 12 September 1896
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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896
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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880
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Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction an…
Dr. Deane's Way, and Other Stories
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Pansy
Short stories for the young and young-at-heart. Included are a family with an overly-strict father and free-spirited daughter; a series of &…
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 11 August 1896
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The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Square Egg and Other Sketches
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Saki
Eight amusing short pieces by Hector Hugh Munro (pen name Saki) who died in the First World War, collected and published posthumously in 192…