Short Stories
Short Science Fiction Collection 009
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Various
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
Coleção LibriVox de Contos Brasileiros 001
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Various
Nesta coleção, a diversidade da literatura brasileira está representada em quinze contos, lidos com sotaques que tamb&e…
Short Story Collection Vol. 047
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…
Vita dei campi
Read by Simona
Giovanni Verga
A collection of 10 short stories printed in 1880. (Summary by Simona)
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…
Fábulas, volume 2
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Aesop
Esopo é um lendário autor grego, que teria vivido na Antigüidade, ao qual se atribui a paternidade da fábula como …
Time and the Gods
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Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was a London-born Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy. He was inf…
The Gods of Pegāna
Read by Jason Mills
Lord Dunsany
"The Gods of Pegāna" is the first book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, published on a commission basis in 1905... The …
The Conjure Woman
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…
Winesburg, Ohio
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Sherwood Anderson
Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edith Wharton
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…
Short Story Collection Vol. 001
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
Read by Grant Hurlock
Fergus Hume
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
Cape Cod Stories
Read by David Wales
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an Amer…
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Bri…
The Flood
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Émile Zola
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…