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4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott
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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 stor…
Widdershins
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Oliver Onions
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…
Men, Women and Guns
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Sapper
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…
Strictly Business
Read by Warren Kati
O. Henry
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characte…
The Spell of the Yukon
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
The Untilled Field
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George Moore and George Logan Moore
George Moore, an Irish writer involved with the Celtic Revival was influenced by the French Realists and particularly by the work of É…
Gullible's Travels
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Ring Lardner
Humorous stories of social climbing in America's "classless" society. - Summary by Winston Tharp
The Cloak
Read by Phil Chenevert
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…
Hope
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox readers bring you 16 versions of Hope, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry selection for the week of November 18, 2013.
The Light Invisible
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Robert Hugh Benson
Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old En…
The Man from Snowy River
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Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson
A collection of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, picturesque glimpses into life in the Bush. From the preface: "…
Jack and the Check Book
Read by Cate Barratt
John Kendrick Bangs
Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you don't immediately recognize Jack and the Check …
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End
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Norman Duncan
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, esp…
Seeing Things at Night
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Heywood Broun
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)
A Mirror Of Shalott
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Robert Hugh Benson
Fourteen stories of the strange by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of stori…
A Dozen Short Stories
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H. G. Wells
Twelve of H. G. Wells' early short stories (1894-1925) originally printed in various magazines and papers. His earlier works delve into the …
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
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William John Locke
This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible -- and irrepressible -- Frenchman in England and Par…
The Ring and the Book
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Robert Browning
"Better translate--"A Roman murder-case:"Position of the entire criminal cause"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,"Wit…
The Countess of Lowndes Square
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E. F. Benson
A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of "Blackmailing Stories", "Spook Stories", "Cat…