Short Stories

The Rose-colored World, and Other Fantasies

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Ethel Mary Brodie


Love stories make perfect short stories. This collection contains 16 different short stories on the different ways a love affair can play ou…

Korte Werken van Justus van Maurik

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Justus Van Maurik


Justus van Maurik had twee beroepen. Naast schrijver van korte verhalen en toneelstukken, was hij ook fabrikant van sigaren. In zijn werk wi…

Our Lady of the Pillar

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José Maria De Eça De Queirós and José Maria de Eça de Queirós


A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval Portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his fee…

The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 02 November 1895

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Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Uncle Joe's Stories

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Edward Knatchbull-Hugesson


This is an entertaining collection of varying stories recounted as only a master storyteller could deliver them. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 07 April 1896

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Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Comedies of Courtship

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Anthony Hope


A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton

La Lecture, tome 2

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Various


La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…

The Vertical City

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Fannie Hurst


As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly.The Vertical City is a collection of six…

Short Story Collection Vol. 103

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Various


We present the 103rd edition of the Librivox Short Story Collection. All stories are selected by the reader. This collection includes works …

Voces Populi

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 025 - Water

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Various


This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …

The Square Egg and Other Sketches


Kurt Kluge


Saki – Hector Hugh Munro ( 1870-1916) Language: EnglishEight amusing short pieces by Hector Hugh Munro (pen name Saki) who died in the …

LibriVox 5th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2

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Various


What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find …

Christmas Short Works Collection 2012

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H. G. Wells


The worldwide LibriVox community brings you 26 Dutch, English, French, German and Japanese recordings of short stories, poems, non-fiction a…

BLAST No. 1

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Various


BLAST, edited by Wyndham Lewis and subtitled 'Review of the Great British Vortex', was the magazine of the short-lived Vorticist movement in…

Ghetto Comedies

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Israel Zangwill


A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…

Multilingual Short Works Collection 012

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Various


This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

A Wasted Day

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Richard Harding Davis


This is a delightful little story about the most successful banker on Wall Street, who finds his philanthropic side when one of his former e…

The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 06 March 1896

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Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

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