Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book


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This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with h…

Horror Story Collection 001


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An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…

The Man Who Would Be King


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The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afgha…

Kim


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Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling…

Captains Courageous


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Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Glouce…

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2


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In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

Just So Stories


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The Just So Stories for Little Children, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of f…

Just So Stories (version 2)


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The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…

The Jungle Book (Version 2)


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This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera th…

Seltsame Geschichten


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Seltsame Geschichten ist eine Sammlung von Spukgeschichten und anderer fantastischer Seltsamkeiten aus dem 19ten und frühen 20ten Jahrh…

Emily Climbs



Teenage orphan Emily Starr of New Moon has always wanted to be a great writer. But her old-fashioned aunt, who has never liked Emily’s writi…

Ghost Story Collection 003


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A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

The Second Jungle Book


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Kipling shows his love of the sub continent and its people and understanding of their beliefs in these tales. An older Mowgli roams the jung…

Antología de Cuentos Fantásticos


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El cuento fantástico es la narración de la realidad que mezcla elementos reales e irreales, extraños e inexplicables, c…

Just So Stories (version 5)


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The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…

If


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LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion po…

Just So Stories (version 4)


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The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio b…

Plain Tales from the Hills


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Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the cl…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 006


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A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 019


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites


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In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a long essay on "Supernatural Horror in Literature" in which he discussed the history of what came …

Short Story Collection Vol. 047


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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…

Short Story Collection Vol. 001


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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.

Puck of Pook's Hill


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Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different period…

Short Story Collection Vol. 052


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 052: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Short Story Collection Vol. 005


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Stalky & Co.


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Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town,…

The Jungle Book (Version 3)


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A story of a boy who raised by Indian wolves becomes lord of the jungle. (Summary by Jessie Yun)

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 027


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel


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This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…

Letters of Travel


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Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…

IF


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This poem is considered one of the most inspirational guidelines on how to live and act with integrity and develop a winning strategy throug…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 025


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Rewards and Fairies


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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his ch…

Short Science Fiction Collection 055


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Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Das Stigma des Tieres



Nach einer feuchtfröhlichen Silvesterfeier entweiht der volltrunkene Engländer Fleet die Hanuman-Statue in einem indischen Tempel.…

American Notes


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In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…

The Kipling Reader


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These are selections of Kipling's writings; some poems, some fiction, some history but all by the master storyteller himself. Rikki-Tikki-Ta…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 004


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LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 004: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals


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This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages


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A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the V…

International Short Stories Volume 2: English Stories


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The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of th…

Abaft The Funnel


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"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas." Thirty one early short stories by the master story…

Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books


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In the Jungle Books, Kipling tells 9 wonderful and exciting tales about Mowgli, the human baby raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of …

Short Story Collection Vol. 039


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 039: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Just So Stories (version 3)


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These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With …

Short Story Collection Vol. 050


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 050: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2)


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'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods…

Princess Mary's Gift Book


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In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors o…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization


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In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting …

Just So Stories (version 6 Dramatic Reading)


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The Just So Stories generally have the theme of a particular animal being altered from an original form to its current form by the acts of h…

My First Book


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This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…

Short Story Collection Vol. 064


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This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rud…

Short Story Collection Vol. 062


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LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, includi…

Short Story Collection Vol. 063


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This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Authors include Saki, Lord Dunsany, Rudyard Kipling, Re…

Short Story Collection Vol. 040


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 040: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Brushwood Boy


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The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream worl…

Short Story Collection Vol. 074


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A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Arthur Conan D…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 012


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Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

The Light That Failed


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This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important even…

No abandones


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Cuando las cosas vayan mal como a veces ocurrirá Cuando el camino que recorres con dificultad parece todo cuesta arriba Cuando los…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 017


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LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 017: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Story Collection Vol. 019


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 019: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

The Power of the Dog


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Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 19…

A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron


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[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…

Short Story Collection Vol. 021


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection Vol.021: A collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox memb…

Stalky & Co. (More Stories)


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This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not …

The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Jan…

LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection


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What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

Short Story Collection Vol. 045


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 045: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Short Story Collection Vol. 028


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 028: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

The White Man's Burden


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Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United …

The Gardener and The Burden



Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…

Cuentos de las montañas


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Aventurarnos en los “Cuentos de las Montañas” es zambullirnos sin concesiones en los antiguos días de la India durante la domi…

Short Story Collection Vol. 082


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A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…

The Ontario Readers: Third Book


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The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 010


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LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 010: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 018


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LibriVox's Children's Short Works Collection 018: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1


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Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018


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A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

Long Poems Collection 006


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LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 006: a collection of 17 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001


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LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a grou…

Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict


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This is the tenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…

Short Poetry Collection 096


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of April and May 2011.

The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat


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Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth …

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)


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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…

The Fringes Of The Fleet


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During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 039


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Poetry Collection 118


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013.

LibriVox 7th Anniversary Collection


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To celebrate the 7 years of LibriVox , readers from all around the world have recorded 77 works they have selected, all of which have 7 in …

Christmas Short Works Collection 2011


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This year's Christmas feast of short stories, essays and poetry is mostly English cuisine, with a little dash of French and Middle English s…

Short Poetry Collection 024


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Stories of Troubled Marriages


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Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are …

Actions And Reactions


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A collection of short stories by the author of the Jungle book, Kim and Just So Stories. Each story is followed by a poem, so if you like If…

The Seven Seas


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This is a collection of some of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling, These poems are centered around travelling, many of which may have been writt…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 057


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Poetry Collection 063


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Explanation


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 1st, 2009…

Short Poetry Collection 119


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013.

The New Army in Training


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Kipling's brief assessment of the British New Army being assembled to fight in the Great War. Concerns itself with training and logistics bu…

Short Poetry Collection 110


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2012.

Más allá de los límites


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El amor ignora las castas y el sueño ignora si el lecho está roto. Fui en busca del amor y me perdí. Proverbio hind&ua…

Short Poetry Collection 101


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2011.

The Bridge Builders


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A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her po…

Short Poetry Collection 125


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This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2013.

Short Poetry Collection 020


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 020: a collection of 20 public domain poems.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 061


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Story Collection Vol. 094


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Here we give you Librivox Short Story Collection 94. Readers have chosen their own texts and, once again, we have a wide range of topics, fr…

Short Poetry Collection 105


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012.

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I


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This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th J…

Short Poetry Collection 168


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This is a collection of 40 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2017.

Children's Short Works, Vol. 023


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 023: a collection of 16 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 140


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This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015.

Short Poetry Collection 004


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Sestinas


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The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlight…

Short Poetry Collection 013


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 013: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Story Collection Vol. 085


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This is the 85th Librivox short story collection. Once again, readers selected stories covering a wide variety of subjects. Several stories …

Short Poetry Collection 081


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009.

Si


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Si puedes mantener en su lugar tu cabeza cuando todos a tu alrededor, han perdido la suya y te culpan de ello.  Si crees en ti mismo…

Short Poetry Collection 117


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This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2013.

Short Poetry Collection 104


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2012.

Christmas Short Works Collection 2012


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

Tales of Terror


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A thrilling collection of spooky and sinister stories of murder, mayhem and mystery awaits within! This anthology collects classics of horr…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 022


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LibriVox's Children's Short Works Collection 022: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 028


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 028: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 085


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of January 2010.

Short Poetry Collection 007


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 007: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 099


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2011.

Short Poetry Collection 103


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2011.

Short Poetry Collection 169


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This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2017.

Short Poetry Collection 090


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of August 2010.

Short Poetry Collection 206


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This is a collection of 80 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2020.

I Keep Six Honest Serving-men


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This poem about a child's inquisitiveness, follows the short story The Elephant's Child in Rudyard KIpling's Just So Stories. (1902) - Summ…

Short Poetry Collection 074


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This is a collection of poems for the month of December 2008.

The Five Nations Vol II


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Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childre…

Coffee Break Collection 033 - Gardening


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This is the 33rd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…

Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of the Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack, from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. This was the we…

Short Poetry Collection 111


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012.

Short Poetry Collection 205


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This is a collection of 69 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2020.

Short Poetry Collection 181


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This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2018.Translated poems:The Bride of Corinth, by Johann Wolfg…

Short Poetry Collection 162


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This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2016.

Short Poetry Collection 011


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 011: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Barrack-Room Ballads


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Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…

Short Poetry Collection 080


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009.

Multilingual Short Work Collection 002



by various authors Language: variousThis is a collection for poetry and short prose in English and German.

Short Poetry Collection 068


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 068: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

Short Poetry Collection 172


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This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2017.

Short Poetry Collection 032


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 032: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Five Nations Vol I


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Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childr…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 038


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 038: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 065


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

Short Poetry Collection 041


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 041: a collection of 20 public-domain poems

Short Poetry Collection 076


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This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009.

A to Zed Collection Vol. 002


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This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

Short Poetry Collection 133


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This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2014.

Short Poetry Collection 124


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2013.

Short Poetry Collection 102


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2011.

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084


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Ghosts everywhere, and of any colour," was the promise of Spectropia, a book of "surprising spectral illusions" published in …

Children's Short Works, Vol. 033


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 033: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 190


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This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2019.

De Padvinder



anonymous Language: DutchEen kort maar spannend verhaal voor kinderen, gelezen door Wisse (9 jaar) en Floris (7 jaar). Karel woont met zijn …

Poetic Duets


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This selection of poems has many favourites from authors such as Edward Lear and Robert Browning, as well as less well known authors. We hop…

Short Poetry Collection 195


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This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2019.

Short Poetry Collection 163


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This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George …

Short Poetry Collection 157


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This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2016.

Short Poetry Collection 208


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This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020.

Short Poetry Collection 029


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 029: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 069


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 069: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

Baa Baa Black Sheep



Two little Anglo-Indian children on a visit to England from India, nicknamed 'Punch' and 'Judy', aged six and three, are left with foster-pa…

Short Poetry Collection 148


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This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015.

Short Poetry Collection 051


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 051: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 059


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 059: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. II


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This collection of non-fiction and fiction pieces is the second volume commemorating the First World War. The majority of the items, all cho…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 091


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"Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles." Store purchases by tube was one of John Watkins Jr'…

Short Poetry Collection 138


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This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014.

Short Poetry Collection 186


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This is a collection of 34 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2018.

Coffee Break Collection 027 - Sports


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This is the 27th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read poems, fiction and non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes…

Before Edgehill Fight


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Before Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7, 2019…

Short Poetry Collection 214


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This is a collection of 59 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2021.

Short Poetry Collection 203


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This is a collection of 63 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2020.

Short Poetry Collection 132


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This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014.

Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime


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This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fict…

Short Poetry Collection 077


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2009.

Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations


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This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…

The Gardener and The Burden


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Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…

Short Poetry Collection 224


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This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2022.

Children's Short Works, Vol. 044


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 044: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 216


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This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2021.

Short Poetry Collection 217


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This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2021.

Children's Short Works, Vol. 048


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 048: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Debits and Credits


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This is a collection of short stories, poems, and play fragments published in 1926. Many of them are set during World War I. Many have stron…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 047


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 047: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Christmas Short Works Collection 2022


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The 2022 Christmas collection brings some old favourites along with some new selections, from the traditional to the bizarre. Among the sele…

Christmas Short Works Collection 2017


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This year's Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features 29 readings in English, Lithuanian, Spanish and Romanian.

Short Poetry Collection 231


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This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2022.

Short Poetry Collection 225


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This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2022.

Children's Short Works, Vol. 051


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 059


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Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. - Summary by schrm

Short Poetry Collection 235


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This is a collection of 37 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2022.

Short Poetry Collection 233


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This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2022.

The Winners


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Winners by Rudyard Kipling .This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 26, 2023…

Short Poetry Collection 221


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This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2021.

The Derelict


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling .This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 10, 2024. …

Short Poetry Collection 219


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This is a collection of 40 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2021.

Children's Short Works, Vol. 052


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 052: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 226


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This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2022.

Short Poetry Collection 232


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This is a collection of 42 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2022.

Short Poetry Collection 228


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This is a collection of 37 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2022.

Coffee Break Collection 038 - Horses


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This is the 38th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Short Poetry Collection 248


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This is a collection of 52 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during January 2024.

Children's Short Works, Vol. 055


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Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 055: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Short Poetry Collection 241


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This is a collection of 33 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2023.