Single Author Collections

Twelve Stories and a Dream

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H. G. Wells



Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland&quo…

Emily Dickinson on Death

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Emily Dickinson



Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…

The New Life (La vita nuova)

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Dante Alighieri



One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

The Luck Of Roaring Camp And Other Sketches

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Bret Harte



Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.... He moved to …

A Thin Ghost And Others

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M. R. James



Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales

Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum

Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)


Stanley G. Weinbaum



Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story “A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first publ…

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

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H. G. Wells



A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds". The science fiction …

Cape Cod Stories

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Joseph Crosby Lincoln



This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an Amer…

Short Science Fiction Collection 008

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Alan Edward Nourse and Alan E. Nourse



This volume of the LibriVox Science-Fiction Collection is devoted to Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992). Nourse became a science fiction writer to …

Selected Short Stories

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Stephen Crane



At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, how…

The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

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Joel Chandler Harris



26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…

The Water Ghost and Others

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John Kendrick Bangs



Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

Peasant Tales of Russia

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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko



Collection of Russian peasant tales:"The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken …

The Flowers of Evil

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Charles Baudelaire



This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled "Les Fleurs du mal." It was popular in the symbolist…

Lad: A Dog

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Albert Payson Terhune



Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first p…

Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg

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G. L. Vandenburg



G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. The…

The Stolen White Elephant

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Mark Twain



In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local po…

Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery



In this first collection of stories following the characters from the "Anne of Green Gables" series, we see 12 vignettes into the …

One Basket

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Edna Ferber



This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Go…

Five Tales

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John Galsworthy



This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916…

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