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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the changing mores of American society. In «Bernice Bobs Her Hair,» wallflower...

Laurie Anne Walden 4 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who...

Philippa 1 hour 30 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Grey Woman

A «Bluebeard» story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well. (Summary by Jane Greensmith)

Jane Greensmith 2 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Richmal Crompton - More William (version 2)

More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just William. The book was first published in 1922, (Summary by Wikipedia)

Tim Bulkeley and 1 more 4 hours 48 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 034

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 034: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Lucy Lo Faro and 14 more 6 hours 59 minutes Short Story Collections

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Short Stories

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Selma Lagerlöf - Invisible Links

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. Invisible Links...

Lars Rolander 8 hours 38 minutes

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Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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H. P. Lovecraft - Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien....

Keith Worrell and 13 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 6/7 of them. (Summary by Carolyn Frances )

Carolyn Frances 6 hours 53 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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C. H. Bovill - Man of Means

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a nondescript young man to whom financial success comes through a...

Tim Bulkeley 2 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

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Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its...

Kristine Bekere and 10 more 32 hours 42 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 005

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology....

Hoosemon and 5 more 2 hours 18 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06

Plays

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06

LibriVox readers present the sixth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest...

Shurtagal and 10 more 46 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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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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