Short Stories
Man and Maid
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
Local Color Collection Vol. 001
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Various
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)
Unvarnished Tales
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William Mackay
This book is a short selection of varied fictional tales. They must have been what the author wished for them to be and certainly perfect fo…
The Lost Valley
Read by Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
Algernon Blackwood
A set of twin brothers have spent every waking moment of their lives together and are terrified of separating. However, when both men set th…
The Little Angel and Other Stories
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
This is a volume of short works by Leonid Andreyev. - Summary by Carolin
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 04 January 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…
Ghosts I Have Seen, and other Psychic Experiences
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Violet Tweedale
In 1919, just after the devastation of WWI, Tweedale published these 34 fact-based testimonials, just a sampling of her psychic experiences …
A Long Way from Disney - Part I
Read by Seth Harwood
Seth Harwood
It's the 1980s in Boston: the Celtics are rolling, the Patriots got crushed by the Bears, and the Sox are the Sox. Adam Berkman is learning …
Coffee Break Collection 033 - Gardening
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Various
This is the 33rd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…
Captures
Read by Lee Smalley
John Galsworthy
Brief plot lines of these 16 stories by Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy: 01, 02, 03 "A Feud" The breaking of an engagem…
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 09 June 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…
Tales of the Samurai: Stories Illustrating Bushido, the Moral Principles of the…
Read by tombooker
Asataro Miyamori
The following tales of the samurai, the knights of old Japan, are based largely on real facts. They have been adapted from among traditional…
The Gardener and The Burden
Rudyard Kipling
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 08, Dec. 23, 1879
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Various
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 08 May 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…
Arcadia in Avernus
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Will Lillibridge
Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems…
Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas
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…
The Good Dog Book
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John Hay Beith, John Brown, Barry Cornwall, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Henry Herbert Knibbs, John Muir, Ouida, William Robert Spencer, Eva March Tappan and J. T. Trowbridge
A collection of adult stories and poems - sad, humorous, and adventurous - about Man's Best Friend. NOTE: Most of these selections contain v…
Children of the Tenements
Read by Judi Mason
Jacob A. Riis
This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He …
Sasha
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Aleksandr Kuprin
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…