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Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 008

Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by LibriVox volunteers.

01 Japanese - Chichi by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1916] - Text - key words: prose, fiction, father
02 Japanese - Hoshi by Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) [1896] - Text - key words: prose, fiction, star
03 Latin - Horace Ode 3: Virgil: Off to Greece from Horace Odes and Epodes by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65BC-8BC) - Text - Key words: poem, ode
04 Latin - Catullus 3: On the Death of Lesbia's Sparrow from The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84BC-54BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poem
05 German - Das Sinngedicht des persischen Zeltmachers; neue Vierzeiler nach Omar Khayyâm by Klabund (Alfred Henschke) (1890-1928) [1917] - Text - Key words: poetry, translation of quatrains from Omar Khayyam
06 Russian - The Raven (Voron) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) [1903] translated by V.Jabotinsky (1880-1940) - Text - Key words: poetry
07 German - Sieh nicht, was andre tun by Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) [1914] - Text - Key words: poem, Gedicht
08 Russian - Chto v imeni tebe moyom by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) [1830] - Text - Key words: poem
09 Russian - Pharaon i choral (The Cop and the Anthem) by O. Henry (1862-1910) [1906] translated by A.N. Gorlin (1878-1939) - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, short stories
10 Japanese - Caramel to Amedama by Yumeno Kyusaku (1889-1927) [1936] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, children, caramel, candy
11 Yiddish - Alte Soken by Immanuel Oslvanger (1881-1961) [1920] - Text - Key words: Comic prose
12 Low German - Matten Has' by Klaus Groth (1819-1899) [1853] - Text - Key words: poetry
13 Polish - Chory Kotek by Stanisław Jachowicz (1796-1857) [1916] - Text - Key words: Children's poetry, Polish, English accent
14 Hindi - Kucchh padd by Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) [] - Text - Key words: hindi poem
15 German - Fink und Frosch by Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) [1851-1907] - Text - Key words: comic poetry
16 German - Du bist wie eine Blume by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) [1827] - Text - Key words: poetry, lyric
17 German - Ballade in U-Dur by Detlev von Liliencron (1844-1909) [1903] - Text - Key words: ballad, poetry
18 Japanese - Shirotsubaki by Yumeno Kyusaku (1889-1927) [1936] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, children, camellia
19 Latin - Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poetry
20 Latin - Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poetry
21 Latin - Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BC) [1893] - Text - Key words: poetry (1 hr 46 min)

Chapters

Chichi

11:02

Read by ekzemplaro

Hoshi

8:14

Read by ekzemplaro

Horace Ode 3: Virgil: Off to Greece

2:54

Read by Arnie Horton

Catullus 3: On the Death of Lesbia's Sparrow

1:44

Read by Arnie Horton

Das Sinngedicht des persischen Zeltmachers; neue Vierzeiler nach Omar Khayyâm

25:57

Read by Algy Pug

The Raven (Voron) (original by Edgar Allan Poe)

8:51

Read by Mark Chulsky

Sieh nicht, was andre tun

1:00

Read by Monika M. C.

Chto v imeni tebe moyom

1:06

Read by tovarisch

Pharaon i choral (The Cop and the Anthem, original by O. Henry)

16:12

Read by Praeivis

Caramel to Amedama

3:19

Read by ekzemplaro

Alte Soken

2:24

Read by Joseph Finkberg

Matten Has'

1:13

Read by Claudia Salto

Chory Kotek

1:54

Read by Joseph Finkberg

Kuch Padd

1:08

Read by rookieblue

Fink und Frosch

1:23

Read by Claudia Salto

Du bist wie eine Blume

0:52

Read by Alan Weyman

Ballade in U-Dur

3:15

Read by Claudia Salto

Shirotsubaki

9:02

Read by ekzemplaro

Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque

1:53

Read by Alan Weyman

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

1:12

Read by Alan Weyman

Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire

2:02

Read by Alan Weyman