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Short Story Collection Vol. 040

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.

Greg W. and 9 more 9 hours 15 minutes Short Story Collections

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Short Stories

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Lewis Carroll - Tangled Tale

Lewis Carroll (1832 — 1896) is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. 'A tangled tale'...

Availle 3 hours 18 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan - Canadian Wonder Tales

This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as «fables» though many are...

Sean Michael Hogan 4 hours 30 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 006

A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Kalynda and 10 more 6 hours 32 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Humorous Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction....

Sally Ann Cook and 15 more 2 hours 51 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny, dealing with topics as absurd as a man losing his temper who then tries to...

David Lawrence and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 039

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.

Bellona Times and 8 more 9 hours 44 minutes Short Story Collections

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Short Stories

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Émile Zola - Flood

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in...

R. S. Steinberg 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edna Ferber - Buttered Side Down

«And so,» the story writers used to say, «they lived happily ever after.» Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent...

Xe Sands 4 hours 35 minutes

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Short Stories

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W. Somerset Maugham - Rain

One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun. At a...

Bellona Times 1 hour 44 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Phaedrus - Fables of Phaedrus

The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the «moral»), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Even though the modern...

Leni 1 hour 55 minutes

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Short Stories

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Arnold Bennett - Tales of the Five Towns

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of...

Martin Clifton 5 hours 39 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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