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by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis Read by Katarina K. Müller 4.7
In Papéis Avulsos
Papéis avulsos é um livro de contos do escritor Machado de Assis, lançado em 1882. Foi o terceiro livro de contos publi…

Author's Note, Chapters I & II

by George Sand Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.2
In The Devil's Pool
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women o…

00 - Preface

by Aleksandr Kuprin Read by KevinS
In Sasha
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…

The Last Book

by Alphonse Daudet Read by tovarisch 4.7
In Monday Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before…

74 - Un début dans la vie 9/17

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Bernard 4.8
In La Comédie Humaine: 04 - Scènes de la vie privée tome 4 (date incertaine, avant début décembre 1845)
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…

Introduction

by Frank Norris Read by David Wales 4.1
In The Third Circle
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…

Preface

by Stephen Leacock Read by Esther 4.2
In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…

No Story

by O. Henry Read by tovarisch 4.1
In Options
O. Henry needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonder…

Introductory Note

by Katherine Mansfield Read by Rob Marland 3.7
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…

Chapter IV - Our Grand Project, part 2

by Wilkie Collins Read by Peter John Keeble 4.3
In The Queen of Hearts
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…

Preface

by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by Gesine 3.4
In The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance

by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Read by Wayne Cooke 4
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …

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