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Librivox’s Short Story Collection 004

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

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mp3 and ogg files

• The Bet by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) (translator unknown) – 00:17:50
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #13437
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 17.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.1MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) – 00:38:08
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #512
  [mp3@64kbps - 18.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 36.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 22.2MB]
  Read by: Katy Preston
• The Dilettante by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) – 00:24:29
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #4519
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 23.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 16.3MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) – 00:39:35
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #14471
  [mp3@64kbps - 19.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 38.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 17.1MB]
  Read by: Efkan Efe
• Eveline by James Joyce (1882-1941) – 00:11:38
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2814
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.9MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) – 00:27:51
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #306
  [mp3@64kbps - 13.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 26.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 15.1MB]
  Read by: Nikolle Doolin
• The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) – 00:11:55
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #10806
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.0MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The Glamour of New Orleans by Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) – 00:05:04
  Source: Originally published in the New Orleans Item, November 26, 1878.
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.6MB]
  Read by: Oscar Goff
• The Idyl of Red Gulch by Bret Harte (1836-1902) – 00:24:35
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #16556
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 23.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 17.9MB]
  Read by: Curtis Brown
• Legend of the Bleeding-heart by Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931) – 00:15:54
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #17825
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 15.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.2MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• Long Distance by Edna Ferber (1885-1968) – 00:14:14
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #14714
  [mp3@64kbps - 6.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 13.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.2MB]
  Read by: Eva
• The Lost Sanjak by Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916) – 00:17:32
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #1870
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 16.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.9MB]
  Read by: David Barnes
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) – 00:16:00
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2148
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 15.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 9.7MB]
  Read by: Juan Carlos Bagnell
• The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France (1844-1924) (translator unknown) – 00:16:09
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #15143
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 15.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.6MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (1842-?1914) – 00:22:01
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #375
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 21.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 10.9MB]
  Read by: Matthew Stewart-Fulton
• The Quicksand by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) – 00:42:30
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #4519
  [mp3@64kbps - 20.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 40.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 28.9MB]
  Read by: William Coon
• The War Prayer by Mark Twain (1835-1910) – 00:09:17
  Source: Wikisource
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 8.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.7MB]
  Read by: Scott Henkel
• What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862) – 00:35:13
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #15143
  [mp3@64kbps - 16.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 33.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 19.3MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• The Woman Who Tried to be Good Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862) – 00:29:40
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #11395
  [mp3@64kbps - 14.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 28.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 15.3MB]
  Read by: Eva
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) – 00:28:18
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #1952
  [mp3@64kbps - 13.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 27.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 15.6MB]
  Read by: Justine Young