Single Author Collections

A Dozen Short Stories

by H. G. Wells Read by Krista Zaleski 4
Twelve of H. G. Wells' early short stories (1894-1925) originally printed in various magazines and papers. His earlier works delve into the …

The Cloak

by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…

Elsie And The Child

by Arnold Bennett Read by David Wales 4.8
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…

South American Jungle Tales

by Horacio Quiroga Read by James K. White 4.8
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

Black Spirits and White

by Ralph Adams Cram Read by Andrew Gaunce 4.5
A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphe…

Youth and the Bright Medusa

by Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather Read by David Wales 4.4
Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories by Willa Cather, first published in 1920. This anthology showcases Cather…

Short Stories

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by Phil Benson 4.6
In 1859 Charles Dickens launched a new weekly journal, All the Year Round, to replace Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell remained a prolific…

Prufrock and Other Observations

by T. S. Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song…

Silver Pitchers

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …

The Piazza Tales

by Herman Melville Read by John Greenman 4
A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, "…

Rainer Maria Rilke

by Rainer Maria Rilke Read by Peter Tucker 4.8
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker

The Thirteen Travelers

by Hugh Walpole Read by David Wales 4.2
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

by Hafiz and Hafez Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.9
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

The Dwarf's Chamber

by Fergus Hume Read by David Wales 4.5
Short Stories by Fergus Hume, a prolific English novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett Read by David Wales 4.7
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five…

Poems of Nature

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Larry Wilson 5
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

The Golden Windmill

by Stacy Aumonier Read by MichaelMaggs 4.9
In this 1921 collection of short stories, many dealing with the experiences of ordinary people during the Great War, the master English stor…

The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses

by Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson Read by Arrowhead Aussie 5
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hard…

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

by Bliss Carman Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…

The Monster and Other Stories

by Stephen Crane Read by Ben Tucker 4.5
From the celebrated author of the Red Badge of Courage comes this final collection of stories released in Crane's lifetime. These stories of…

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