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By the Sawyer Method
In Interventions
A collection of short stories of social commentary, tales of love, mystery, and loss. Many of the stories revolve around children, women, an…
Told at the Club
In Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the…
A Clever Lass
In The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales
Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roo…
DISCOVERING A PRIMA DONNA
In Sketches of Gotham
If you're the sort that gets a thrill from rubbing elbows with shady characters you best leave the introductions to the streetwise Ike Swift…
Chapter 8
In Transient
Governor Alman Lampley makes an unplanned stop in a small town on the way to his destination. Everything looks familiar yet slightly off. He…
Why Bruin Has a Stumpy Tail (Norwegian legend)
In The Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day
A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by RomaSingh)
Stanzas
In Complete Poems
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…
The Story of O-tei
In Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Koko…
An Entertaining Article
In The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
The $30,000 Bequest is a collection of short stories and humorous anecdotes by the renowned author Mark Twain. In this engaging compilation,…
BUSTER THE BOASTER
In The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (version 2)
This charming collection of short stories features a bumblebee called Buster, his (extensive) family, and a great number of other animals wh…
Introduction
In The Blue Poetry Book
This anthology poetry, gathered by Andrew Lang and originally published in 1891, is read by four voices, Larry Wilson, Ciufi Galeazzi, Lynet…
Jonnasen by Dallas Lore Sharp
In The Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day
The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for…
Beneath the Wattle Boughs
In A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose
A collection of Australian writing from the public domain.
Morna Lee
In Morna Lee, and Other Poems
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Pronounced Fantasy
In Introducing Irony (Version 2)
Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the …
The Readers Corner part 2
In Astounding Stories 19, July 1931
THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an…
A Story of Divination
In In Ghostly Japan
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…
Mathurin
In The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
Irremediable
In Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages offers a compelling glimpse into the complexities of love and partnership during the Victorian…
On Teaching by Kalil Gibran
In Coffee Break Collection 023 - Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums
This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …