Short Stories
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1…
The Greater Inclination
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…
Mattinate Napoletane
Read by Davide Lequile
Salvatore Di Giacomo
Lasciati gli studi di medicina per dedicarsi al lavoro di redattore di giornale il giovane SDG seppe scrivere in quegli anni alcune tra le p…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 001
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Various
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Novelas Cortas de Asensi
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Julia de Asensi and Julia de Asensi
Julia de Asensi y Laiglesia (Madrid, 4 de mayo de 1859 - 1921) fue una escritora, periodista y traductora española. En esta obra se c…
Tales of the Five Towns
Read by Martin Clifton
Arnold Bennett
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…
Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה)
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Varioustranslated Byhelena Frank
A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, …
The Four Million
Read by Marian Brown
O. Henry
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…
Cattle Brands
Read by Nathalie J.
Andy Adams
Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the h…
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…
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…
Vita dei campi
Read by Simona
Giovanni Verga
A collection of 10 short stories printed in 1880. (Summary by Simona)
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 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…
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 …