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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Andrew Barton Paterson - Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. — Summary by A. Gramour

Beth Thomas and 7 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

Literary Fiction

466

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches

This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by «Q», the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Andrew Dougherty and 10 more 4 hours 56 minutes

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Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

412

Catherine Crowe - Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas

Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. «It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements—…...

David Wales 6 hours 46 minutes

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Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

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Leo Tolstoy - Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 6 more 3 hours 29 minutes

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Single Author Collections

452

Ernest Bramah - Kai Lung's Golden Hours

Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller...

David Wales 9 hours 35 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

493

M. R. James - Thin Ghost And Others

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

David Wales 3 hours 8 minutes

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Satire

589

O. Henry - Roads of Destiny

This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. — Summary by Sid

Scott Foster and 2 more 9 hours 5 minutes

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Literary Fiction

466

Charles Weathers Bump - Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not. — Summary by Amy Gramour

Brice and 7 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Louisa May Alcott - 4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface «These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The...

Roohi and 3 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream

Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is «Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland» where a man finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him...

Charbelí Ramos Chávez and 10 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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Science Fiction

570

H. G. Wells - Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of «The Time Machine» and «War of the Worlds». The science fiction master ranges over a variety of topics, each original and unexpected. Included in this collection...

J. Olpecre and 7 more 5 hours

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Smythe Hichens - Tongues of Conscience

Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific consequences. Robert Hichens writes some wonderfully evocative descriptions of...

Lisa Reichert 8 hours 43 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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