Short Stories

New Arabian Nights

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Robert Louis Stevenson


New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

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Pádraic Colum


This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Gol…

Contos Fluminenses e Histórias da Meia-Noite

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Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis


Contos Fluminenses, originalmente publicado em 1870, e Histórias da Meia-Noite, publicado em 1873, são os dois primeiros livro…

The Gift of the Magi

Read by Betsie Bush


O. Henry


The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their on…

Short Science Fiction Collection 003

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Various


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works

Read by NoelBadrian


Jane Austen


This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…

The Ruby and the Caldron

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Anna Katharine Green


A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…

Round the Sofa

Read by NoelBadrian


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…

Short Science Fiction Collection 050

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Various


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…

Castles in the Air

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Baroness Emma Orczy


Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…

Monday or Tuesday

Read by LizMourant


Virginia Woolf


Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist li…

Cuentos Rusos

Read by KendalRigans


José Carlos Bruna Santiesteban


El presente libro cuenta con 17 breves cuentos rusos tradicionales cada uno de los cuales nos trae una lección de vida similar a las …

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

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William Hope Hodgson


Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by William Hope Hodgson. Hodsgon, also a noted ph…

The Legends of the Jews, Volume 2

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Louis Ginzberg


Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; …

The King in Yellow (part 2)

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Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Shortly after returning to America, he became popular a…

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published j…

Wessex Tales

Read by Tadhg


Thomas Hardy


Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…

The Best British Short Stories of 1922

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Various and Walter de la Mare


Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales) Note: A shortened section 21 was replaced on…

Contos, volume 1

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Artur de Azevedo


Artur de Azevedo foi um dos principais autores de teatro no Brasil do século XIX. Dando continuidade à obra de Martins Pena, c…

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