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LibriVox 20th Anniversary Collection

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"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..."
Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005

In celebration of LibriVox's 20th anniversary, here is collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words 'twenty' or 'twentieth' or the number '20.' Each piece is selected and read by a LibriVox volunteer.

Genre(s): Poetry, Short Stories, Essays & Short Works

Language: Multilingual

Keyword(s): anthology (40), short works (33)

Section	Chapter	Author	Source	Reader	Time	Language
Play 01	Twenty Ways to Cook Potatoes	Myrtle Reed	Etext	Devorah Allen	00:09:48	en
Play 02	After Twenty Years	O. Henry	Etext	Beeswaxcandle	00:08:17	en
Play 03	À vingt ans on a l’œil difficile et très fier	Sully Prudhomme	Etext	Isad	00:01:34	fr
Play 04	Car c'est l'âme de mes vingt ans	Jean Richepin	Etext	Christiane Jehanne	00:01:09	fr
Play 05	Excerpt from Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary	Thomas Davidson	Etext	Julie Anne Thompson	00:08:34	en
Play 06	The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty (excerpt)	Louis F. Post	Etext	Sue Anderson	00:11:15	en
Play 07	"In September" from Twenty Poems	Robert Kelley Weeks	Etext	Kylie6Q	00:00:59	en
Play 08	The Heart at Twenty	William John Locke	Etext	Rapunzelina	00:17:38	en
Play 09	J’aurai vingt ans demain	Alice de Chambrier	Etext	Isad	00:01:46	fr
Play 10	One and Twenty	Samuel Johnson	Etext	Phil Schempf	00:01:55	en
Play 11	'The Princess With Twenty Petticoats	William Elliot Griffis	Etext	ShrimpPhish	00:13:39	en
Play 12	Psalm 20	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	MamaPhish	00:01:24	en
Play 13	Tale Twenty: A Scientific Phenomenon	Anonymous	Etext	Winnifred Assmann	00:20:45	en
Play 14	"Song of Myself," Section 20	Walt Whitman	Etext	Chris Pyle	00:02:46	en
Play 15	Sonnet 20 from Astrophil and Stella	Sir Philip Sidney	Etext	Alan Mapstone	00:01:53	en
Play 16	Sonnet XX	Michael Drayton	Etext	Public Domain Scholar	00:01:15	en
Play 17	Sonnet XX	E. C.	Etext	Public Domain Scholar	00:01:17	en
Play 18	What Should Be the Master Demand of Twentieth Century Civilization	Edwin Markham	Etext	Larry Wilson	00:12:15	en
Play 19	"Public Activities and Investigations", from Twenty Years At Hull House	Jane Addams	Etext	Michele Fry	00:43:35	en
Play 20	Twenty Froggies	George Cooper	Etext	Carrie Mae Streb	00:01:09	en
Play 21	The Twenty-Kroner Story	A. E. W. Mason	Etext	Rapunzelina	00:08:17	en
Play 22	Twenty Minutes for Refreshments	Owen Wister	Etext	TriciaG	00:58:45	en
Play 23	20 Mule Team Brigade	Pacific Coast Borax Company	Etext	Stacey Malcolm	00:01:10	en
Play 24	Twenty Quick Soups	Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer	Etext	BettyB	00:16:06	en
Play 25	Twenty-Six and One	Maxim Gorky	Etext	Caro Davy	00:37:17	en
Play 26	Twenty Years Ago	A. J. Gault	Etext	mleigh	00:03:34	en
Play 27	Twenty Years of Arctic Struggle	J. Kennedy MacLean	Etext	Garth Burton	00:09:39	en
Play 28	"Ungetraut und getraut", from Heiraten: Zwanzig Ehegeschichten	August Strindberg	Etext	czandra	00:19:58	de
Play 29	Vingt ans hier! Vingt ans sonnés!	Jean Richepin	Etext	Christiane Jehanne	00:02:32	fr
Play 30	"When I Was One and Twenty" from A Shropshire Lad	A. E. Housman	Etext	LakshV	00:01:18	en
Play 31	Within Twenty Miles of London in the Nineteenth Century	Louisa Crow	Etext	Beeswaxcandle	00:14:50	en
Play 32	Zwanzig Mark	Gustav Falke	Etext	lorda	00:02:06	de

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