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Short Story Collection Vol. 043

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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 043: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Teddy's Button

Read by GabrielleC


Amy Le Feuvre


Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contenti…

Essays and Literary Studies

Read by TriciaG


Stephen Leacock


A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…

The Girls of Gardenville

Read by Betsie Bush


Carroll Watson Rankin


It is pleasant to have another book about a group of merry, natural girls, who have the attractions of innocence and youthful faults. "…

Cincuenta textos escogidos de Quevedo

Read by Epachuko


Francisco De Quevedo


Quevedo ocupa un lugar destacadísimo en la literatura española y mundial gracias a esa "universalidad castellana del poet…

In Brief Authority

Read by Anna Simon


F. Anstey


Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…

What Dress Makes of Us

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Dorothy Quigley


A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…

Variações sobre o flirt: pequeno ensaio de psychologia urbana

Read by Leni


João Do Rio


Variações sobre o flirt: pequeno ensaio de psychologia urbana é uma curta obra de João do Rio, que guarda as mel…

The White Linen Nurse

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…

Chorus of Women

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Aristophanes


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aris…

Marriage, volume 1

Read by Patti Cunningham


Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier


"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and…

The Toys of Peace

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Saki


This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are…

Undercover Trucker: How I Saved America by Truckin' Towels for the Taliban

Read by Bill Schmalfeldt


Bill Schmalfeldt


For his second Podiobook, Bill Schmalfeldt goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. His follow-up to the non-fiction "No Doorway Wide …

The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

Read by Arnold


Anthony Trollope


Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business…

The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …

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