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Librivox Short Story Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

• LibriVox’s Librivox Short Story Collection 001 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (162.9MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe - 00:26:58
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2148
  [mp3@64kbps - 12.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 25.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 21.0MB]
  Read by: Tom Yates
• The Children of the Zodiac by Rudyard Kipling - 00:42:16
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 20.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 40.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 22.0MB]
  Read by: Catharine Eastman
• Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry - 00:30:06
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #10947
  [mp3@64kbps - 14.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 28.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 20.0MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The Golden Key by George MacDonald - 01:07:28
  Source: george-macdonald.com
  [mp3@64kbps - 32.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 64.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 34.6MB]
  Read by: Peter Eastman
• Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson - 00:43:56
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2071
  [mp3@64kbps - 21.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 42.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 29.2MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The Nice People by H.C. Bunner - 00:19:47
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #10947
  [mp3@64kbps - 9.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 18.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 13.3MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler - 00:23:13
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2004
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 22.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.6MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe - 00:39:08
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2148
  [mp3@64kbps - 18.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 37.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 27.4MB]
  Read by: Eric S. Piotrowski
• Taming The Bicycle by Mark Twain - 00:28:11
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #70
  [mp3@64kbps - 13.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 27.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 16.5MB]
  Read by: Eugene Pinto
• The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - 00:18:08
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2148
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 17.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.2MB]
  Read by: Don Morgan