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8:34:56
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Catalog date:
2012-12-27
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Short Story Collection Vol. 053

Various

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including short stories by Melville, Blackwood, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Wilde and Thomas Hood.

Genre(s): Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Story Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 The Piazza Herman Melville Etext James K. White
 00:40:12 en
Play 02 The Lightning-Rod Man Herman Melville Etext James K. White
 00:19:34 en
Play 03 The Bell-Tower Herman Melville Etext James K. White
 00:40:21 en
Play 04 Titbottom's Spectacles George William Curtis Etext Laura Atkinson
 00:49:57 en
Play 05 On the Gulls’ Road Willa Cather Etext Winston Tharp
 00:45:38 en
Play 06 The Olive Algernon Blackwood Etext Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
 00:30:41 en
Play 07 The Haunted Mind Nathaniel Hawthorne Etext Britannia
 00:12:00 en
Play 08 Romance in Encyclopaedialand Robert C. Benchley Etext Bellona Times
 00:09:54 en
Play 09 The Trousseau Anton Chekhov Etext Bellona Times
 00:12:53 en
Play 10 The Star-Child Oscar Wilde Etext Alex Lau
 00:39:14 en
Play 11 The Squire Elsie Singmaster Etext Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
 00:23:10 en
Play 12 The Peasant Marey Fyodor Dostoyevsky Etext John Shefchik
 00:13:47 en
Play 13 Autumn Holiday Sarah Orne Jewett Etext Betsie Bush
 00:33:12 en
Play 14 Rappacinni's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Etext Samantha Miles
 01:09:35 en
Play 15 The Golden Cup And The Dish Of Silver Thomas Hood Etext NoelBadrian
 00:10:55 en
Play 16 The Widow of Galicia Thomas Hood Etext NoelBadrian
 00:09:08 en
Play 17 A Wireless Message Ambrose Bierce Etext Lynne T
 00:05:59 en
Play 18 The Hydrophobic Skunk Irvin S. Cobb Etext Lynne T
 00:14:00 en
Play 19 The Ole Virginia Stewart Edward White Etext Lynne T
 00:11:15 en
Play 20 The Million Dollar Freight Train Frank H. Spearman Etext Chris Harrison
 00:23:31 en