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Short Story Collection Vol. 085

Various

This is the 85th Librivox short story collection. Once again, readers selected stories covering a wide variety of subjects. Several stories by Anna Cora Mowatt take a quirky look at married life, Kipling's India and a lesson for a king are included in this anthology.

Genre(s): Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Story Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 The Colonel Abroad by Anna Cora Mowatt Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:27:55 en
Play 02 The Coquette by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:13:52
Play 03 The Doctor by Pu Songling Songling Pu Etext ChadH94
 00:04:21 en
Play 04 Ennui and it’s Antidote by Anna Cora Mowatt Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:45:59 en
Play 05 The First Gray Hair by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:14:37
Play 06 The Hypocritical Cat by W. H. D. Rouse W. H. D. Rouse Etext ChadH94
 00:03:13
Play 07 An Inconvenient Acquaintance by Helen Berkeley Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:37:13
Play 08 A King’s Lesson by William Morris William Morris Etext Craig Campbell
 00:17:50
Play 09 A Madman by Maurice Level Maurice Level Etext Dale Grothmann
 00:06:32
Play 10 A Mad World by Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce Etext Dale Grothmann
 00:06:12
Play 11 Make the Best of It; or Fairy Gifts By Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:17:25
Play 12 The Married Flirt by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:20:50
Play 13 It Might be Worse by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:15:11
Play 14 Nourishment of the Soul by Chuang Tzu Jin Changzu 金昌绪 Etext ChadH94
 00:06:56
Play 15 The Organ by Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher Etext Dale Grothmann
 00:04:56
Play 16 The Rescue of Pluffles by Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Etext Lynne T
 00:12:22
Play 17 Storm Ship of the Hudson by Charles M. Skinner Charles M. Skinner Etext Dale Grothmann
 00:03:44
Play 18 A Talk with a Wayfarer by Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy Etext ChadH94
 00:04:28
Play 19 Too Good a Housewife by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Etext Kelly S. Taylor
 00:17:06
Play 20 The Two Suitors by Carolyn Wells Carolyn Wells Etext Dale Grothmann
 00:02:19