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Short Story Collection Vol. 033

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 033: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Selvin and 4 more 2 hours 32 minutes Short Story Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1

Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) «Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia.» 2.) «The Austrian Edison keeping school again» 3.) «The Canvasser's tale.» 4.) «The Czar's Soliloquy.» 5.) «English as She is...

John Greenman 2 hours 31 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Those Extraordinary Twins

«Those Extraordinary Twins» was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's «The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson». As Twain explains, he extricated «Twins» from «Pudd'nhead» when he...

John Greenman 2 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Detective

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a...

John Greenman 2 hours 8 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Mark Twain - Double Barreled Detective Story

A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes,...

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Historical Fiction

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Mark Twain - Horse's Tale (Version 2)

A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a...

John Greenman 1 hour 54 minutes

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Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

General Fiction

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Mark Twain - Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to «be remembered» somehow. Taken as a...

John Greenman 1 hour 53 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mark Twain - In Defense of Harriet Shelley

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the «real» Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's «Life of Shelley». Even though, as Twain writes, «Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it,...

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

Fantastic Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the...

John Greenman 1 hour 26 minutes

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)

Erotica

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Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2)

Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as «1601», this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author...

John Greenman 1 hour 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Essays on Paul Bourget

Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: «What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us» and «A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget». (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 15 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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