Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere della Sera, successivamente ripubblicate in 15 raccolte. Inizialmente erano previste 24 raccolte contenenti 365 novelle, tuttavia la prematura morte dell'autore ha impedito il raggiungimento del traguardo. Postume sono state pubblicate altre novelle scritte dall'autore. Le raccolte sono state pubblicate tra il 1922 e il 1938. L'ottava raccolta, edita nel 1925, contiene novelle pubblicate tra il 1902 ed il 1923. (Riassunto di Filippo Gioachin)
Nota: Per motivi di diritti d'autore negli Stati Uniti, alcune novelle sono state rimosse da questa raccolta. Gli abitanti di nazioni ove i diritti d'autore su quest'opera sono già cessati possono trovare le novelle mancanti su Legamus.eu
Questo libro è stato promosso dal gruppo Volontari del Libro di aNobii.
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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.Brief description of the contributions:
01 - Japanese - Sennin [1922]: prose, fiction, Oosaka, wizard
02 - Japanese - Mangan [1938]: prose, fiction, Mishima, doctor
03 - Latin - Pange lingua (gloriosi proelium certaminis) [6th Century]: poetry, medieval Latin
04 - Japanese - Matsurino ban: prose, fiction, children, festival
05 - Bulgarian - Баланиади (Balaniadi) [1917]: poetry, satire
06 - Bisaya - ¡“Fuera” kapyot! [1921]: prose, itoy-itoy
07 - Tagalog - Ang Aral ni Ina [1915]: poetry, mother's wisdom, pantas na salita
08 - Latin - Pange Lingua (Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis): poetry, chant, Lent, Christianity
09 - Tagalog - ¡Bulalakaw...! [1915]: poetry, shooting star
10 - French - La Main: Short fiction, supernatural
11 - Japanese - Kako: prose,fiction,memory,matchstick
12 - Bisaya - Si Inday, Lider na sa Piniliay [1921]: prose, women equal with men in politics
13 - Tagalog - Tag-ulan [1915]: poetry, rainy season
14 - Japanese - Nyusyano ji [1907]: prose,non-fiction,university,newspaper
15 - Welsh - Sion a Sian (poem IX) [1911]: poetry, children, nursery rhyme, plant, gerdd
16 - Japanese - Piano: prose, fiction, Yokohama, piano
17 - Japanese - Aosuisen Akasuisen [1922]: prose,fiction,children,narcissus
18 - Chinese - 水调歌头 (Shuidiaogetou): prose, Chinese, Song Dynasty
19 - Polish - O doktorze Hiszpanie [1883]: poetry, poezja, fraszka, alkohol
20 - Polish - Czlowiek Boże igrzysko [1883]: poetry, poezja, pycha, człowiek, Bóg
21 - French - Misère [1832]: poetry, hunger, misery
22 - Tagalog - Sa Aking Mga Kabatà [1906]: poetry, all languages are alike, "ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit sa hayop at malansang isda"
23 - Danish - Flugten til Amerika [1900]: Poetry, children
24 - French - Le chapeau de Sans-Âme [1887]: prose, fiction, short story, Provence, hat
25 - Japanese - Hatsukoi [1897]: poetry, first love, apple
26 - Polish - Żona modna [1882-3]: poetry, poezja, satyra, moda
27 - Japanese - Umi: prose, non-fiction, sea
28 - Japanese - Nobara [1922]: prose, fiction, war, wild rose
28 episodes
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.
20 episodes
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. Mind Amongst the Spindles is a selection of works from the Lowell Offering, a monthly periodical collecting contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female workers of the textile mills. The Lowell Mill Girls, as the workers were known, were young women aged 15-35. The Offering began in 1840 and lasted until 1845. As its popularity grew, workers contributed poems, ballads, essays and fiction. The authors often used their characters to report on conditions and situations in their lives and their works alternated between serious and farcical. (Introduction adapted from Wikipedia by MaryAnn)
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The worldwide LibriVox community brings you 26 Dutch, English, French, German and Japanese recordings of short stories, poems, non-fiction articles and even a short play - all with a Christmas theme.
Cast of What Makes Christmas Christmas:
Narrator: Pamela Krantz
Christmas Gifts: Charlotte Duckett
Money: Ruth Golding
Christmas Tree: Amanda Friday
Christmas Stocking: Snapdragon
Plum Pudding: Rapunzelina
An Old Man: David Olson
A Child: Evie Marie
The King's Son: David Lawrence
A Spirit: Lyn Silva
Audio edited by David Lawrence
Play co-ordinated by Annise
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This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)
16 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 054: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
20 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by J. M. Barrie, O. Henry, Jerome, Joyce, London, Saki, R. L. Stevenson, Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse.
20 episodes
Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems romantically well... until the ex shows up. Surprisingly modern (if a little theatrical) novella from the early 1900's. From the posthumous collection of Lillibridge short stories, A Breath of Prairie, 1911.
7 episodes
Justus van Maurik had twee beroepen. Naast schrijver van korte verhalen en toneelstukken, was hij ook fabrikant van sigaren. In zijn werk wist hij het leven van de Amsterdamse gewone man op onnavolgbare wijze vast te leggen. Deze verzameling van korte verhalen is samengesteld uit de bundels: Verspreide Novellen (1885), Uit één Pen (1886), Amsterdam bij Dag en Nacht (1896), Burgerluidjes (1901), Toen Ik Nog Jong Was (1901), Van Allerlei Slag (1907), Oude Kennissen (1909), Stille Menschen (1909), Op Reis en Thuis (1912), Uit het Volk (ca. 1915), Papieren Kinderen (ca. 1910) en Met z'n Achten (1883).Het hoorspel Een Kleine Surprise werd ingesproken door: Ernst Patinama, Marcel Coenders, Anna Simon, Availle en Pauline Coenders.
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This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)
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Julia de Asensi y Laiglesia (Madrid, 4 de mayo de 1859 - 1921) fue una escritora, periodista y traductora española. En esta obra se contienen trece breves novelas. (Introducción por Tux)
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A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)
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Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omitted from this Librivox audio book. (Summary by David Wales)
19 episodes
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
21 episodes
For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year. This year is no exception.Readers have contributed 88 recordings in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish and Yiddish, and this feast of fiction, poetry, essays, articles and musical items ranges from lectures to love letters, science to songs, travel to taxes, and politics to pirates, spiced with a dash of humour.It has, as always, been enormous fun for the readers and singers, and we hope that you, the listener, will gain just as much enjoyment as we have had producing it. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)
Some additional notes:
Section 5, Extract from The Eight-oared Victors, Chapter 35, was written by Howard Garis under his pseudonym Lester Chadwick.
Section 37, Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII also includes letters to Henry from Anne Boleyn (1501-1536).
Section 53, Letters I to VIII of Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the 18th Century was edited by Emily Fanny Dorothy Osborn McDonnell (1851-1925).
Section 54 Eight Little Letters Make Three Little Words: Words by Bert Kalmar (1884-1947); Music by Ted Snyder (1881-1965).
Section 55, Koenig Heinrich der Achte – Prologue was translated into the German by Wolf Graf Baudissin (1789-1878).
Section 65, The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup was translated into English by Shigeyoshi Obata.
Section 77, In The Year 2889 was jointly written by Jules Verne (1828-1905) and Michel Verne (1861-1925).
Section 79, Eight-day Clocks was written by Mary Mapes Dodge under her pseudonym Joel Stacy.
Section 82, Que ne suis je la fougère Bergerette du 18ième siècle. Words: Riboutté (1770-1834); Music: Pergolesi (1710-1736).
88 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a number of American women writers.
20 episodes
A collection of short stories by the legendary O. Henry. (Summary by sidhu177)
19 episodes
Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere della Sera, successivamente ripubblicate in 15 raccolte. Inizialmente erano previste 24 raccolte contenenti 365 novelle, tuttavia la prematura morte dell'autore ha impedito il raggiungimento del traguardo. Postume sono state pubblicate altre novelle scritte dall'autore. Le raccolte sono state pubblicate tra il 1896 e il 1924. L'undicesima raccolta, edita nel 1928, contiene novelle pubblicate tra il 1900 ed il 1918. (Riassunto di Filippo Gioachin)
Questo libro è stato promosso dal gruppo Volontari del Libro di aNobii.
17 episodes
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 - Numachi by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1916] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, painting
02 - Japanese - Hamano Fuyu by Nagatsuka Takashi (1879-1915) [1907] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, seashore, winter
03 - Russian - Демон. Часть 1 / Demon. Part 1 by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [1841] - Text - Key words: romantic poetry
04 - Russian - Демон. Часть 2 / Demon. Part 2 by Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) [1841] - Text - Key words: romantic poetry
05 - German - Waldeinsamkeit by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) [1851] - Text - Key words: Poem
06 - Polish - Przestroga młodemu by Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801) [1882-1883] - Text - Key words: poezja, satyra, przestroga, młodość
07 - Japanese - Tsushima Izuharakou nite by Nagatsuka Takashi (1879-1915) [1912] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, Tsushima
08 - Ukrainian - Твої очі, як те море by Ivan Franko (1856-1916) [1883] - Text - Key words: verse, lyrical
09 - Japanese - Aoi Tokeidai by Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) [1914] - Text - Key words: children, moonlight, star, night, music, prose
10 - Japanese - Ikinokuni Katsumoto nite by Nagatsuka Takashi (1879-1915) [1912] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, Iki
11 - Japanese - Safuran by Mori Ogai (1862-1922) [1914] - Text - Key words: prose,essay,saffron
12 - Danish - Guldhornene by Adam Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) [1803] - Text - Key words: poetry, great importance for the Danish Romantic period
13 - Danish - Flugten til Amerika by Christian Winther (1796-1876) [1835] - Text - Key words: poetry, children's classic
14 - Polish - Trup w obłokach by Mark Twain (1835-1910) translated by anonymous [1912] - Text - Key words: wynalazek, śmierć, opowiadanie
15 - Japanese - Syobugoto by Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948) [1920] - Text - Key words: prose, fiction, gamble
16 - Japanese - Kumade to Chyochin by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) [1899] - Text - Key words: non-fiction, bamboo rake, lantern
17 - Japanese - Nyusya no Ji by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1916] - Text - Key words: non-fiction, greeting
18 - Japanese - Sake by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) [1899] - Text - Key words: non-fiction, alcohol
18 episodes
Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories is one of many popular books written by Albert Payson Terhune that have delighted dog lovers for decades. Terhune loved dogs, and he bred and raised collies at his Sunnybank Kennels. Terhune sometimes included difficult passages in his stories, and he did not always conclude with the typical "happy ending"--but his passion for dogs was always clearly evident in his novels. An excerpt from the Foreword to this book in which Terhune describes the nature of a dog:
"Service that asks no price; forgiveness free
For injury or for injustice hard.
Stanch friendship, wanting neither thanks nor fee
Save privilege to worship and to guard:--That is their creed."
(Summary by lubee930)
21 episodes
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
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This work is O. Henry's first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the author's six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s.
"The incidents embracing as they do, a variety of subjects, hang loosely together, so loosely in fact, that at times one finds no apparent connection between them at all, and yet in the end one sees how each is intimately related to the other. ...Written by a less able hand than O. Henry's the book might have been a sad jumble, perhaps comprehensible to none but the Walrus--but as it is, one finds a joy in its every obscurity." -- The New York Times Book Review, Dec. 17, 1904)
Great mysteries are ofen meta-mysteries. For over a century this novel has masqueraded as a collection of loosely connected short stories. Looking backwards through a prism (now a commonplace critical contortion) Cabbages and Kings foreshadows many shadings: "At Swim-Two-Birds", "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote", "Tyrants Destroyed", "The Continuity of Parks". -- Elliot Gage
O. Henry spent his first years as a writer in Austin, Texas, and the University of Texas maintains a 219-item collection of his works at the Portal to Texas History (reference to publicly-available items which may not be in public domain offered to enthusiasts). — Eric W. Metzler
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 057: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
A few notes: Section 12 The Cossack was translated by Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946). Section 17 Michael, a Pastoral Poem is narrative verse. Section 18 Memoirs of a Madman, translated by Claud Field (1863-1941), is better known by the title of a later translation, Diary of a Madman. Section 20 A Carnival Jangle was written under the author's maiden name, Alice Nelson.
20 episodes
This is the ninth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. This collection is "Autumn"! - Summary by Rosie and WoollyBee
15 episodes
A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection is unique: some make us pause to consider the meaning of Christmas, others entertain and make us smile. So curl up in front of a blazing fire and be transported back to Christmases past. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)
17 episodes
A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.
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Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for women in colonial Australia. She wrote in response to Henry Lawson's romantic depiction of bush life during the same era. - Summary by Kirsty Leishman
6 episodes
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. - 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme. - Summary by Elli
24 episodes
Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious David Faux and his idiot brother, Jacob. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.
Gram von Anton Chekhov übersetzt von Alexander Eliasberg
Staatsgeheimnisse von Matthias McDonnell Bodkin übersetzt von Margarete Jacobi
[Ringparabel] von Giovanni Boccaccio übersetzt von Karl Witte
15 episodes
Grandma Knight's Tales* includes stories that provide entertainment and, hopefully, some moral learning to small listeners. A special dedication goes out to the narrators own grandchildren, by whom this book was inspired. "Merry Christmas to my Bucket, Stuff, Jo-Jo, Buster Brown Eyes, and little Curly...grandma loves you! And a very Merry Christmas to children all over the world! Enjoy!" (Deborah Knight, December 2013) Created to inspire an early love for reading, writing, and literary works it includes the following stories...
1.) Briar Rose 2.) Grandmother 3.) Tiny or Thumbelina 4.) The Old Man and his Grandson 5.) She Was Good for Nothing 6.) The Emperor's New Suit 7.) Jack and the Beanstalk 8.) Little Red Riding Hood 9.) The Brownies and 10.) The Three Bears
*This book was created for the sole purpose of children everywhere to be able to listen and enjoy for FREE! It is not intended to be used for financial profit.
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It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to collaborate on an opera. There are costs to pay. ( david wales)
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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.
1 - Arabic - Suratu'l-Alaq (Al-Qur'an: Surah 96) prose, non-fiction, religion
2 - Finnish - Kaffe ja Tupakki (1855) by Gustaf Erik Eurén (prose)
3 - French - Fou ? (1882) by Guy de Maupassant (prose, novelette)
4 - French - Memnon ou la sagesse humaine (1750) by Voltaire (prose, novelette)
5-7 - French - La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier (1877) by Gustave Flaubert (prose, novelette)
8 - French - La main (1883) by Guy de Maupassant (prose, novelette)
9-11 - French - Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert (prose, novelette)
12 - German - [Zum Tode von Schiller] Aus einem Brief von Goethe an Zelter (1833) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (prose, letter; Goethe schreibt an Zelter nach dem Tod von Schiller.)
13 - Portuguese - Cântico do calvário (1865) Fagundes Varela (poetry; funerary lament; nenia; Romanticism)
14-15 - Portuguese - O Uraguai (1769) by Basílio da Gama (epic poetry; Indianism; jesuits; missions)
16 - Russian - Ворон (1894) by Edgar Allan Poe, transl. by Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (poetry, fantasy)
17 - Slovenian - Ilirija oživljena (1920) by Valentin Vodnik (poetry)
18 - Slovenian - Potujoče misli (1920) by Anton Funtek (poetry)
19 - Slovenian - Živali popotnice (1909) by Fran Erjavec (prose)
20 - Slovenian - Soči (1920) by Simon Gregorčič (poetry)
21 - Slovenian - Slovenija svojemu cesarju (1920) by Josip Stritar (poetry)
21 episodes
Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales
16 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 058: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
20 episodes
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.
10 episodes
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 Russian - Послушайте! (Poslushayte!) (poetry, non-fiction, звезда, послушайте, Mаяковский, простое как мычание, кричу кирпичу)
02 Russian - Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека (Noch', ulitsa, fonar', apteka) (poetry, non-fiction, пляски смерти, Блок)
03 Russian - Ничего не понимают. (Nichego ne ponimayut.) (poetry, non-fiction, причешите, уши, Mаяковский, простое как мычание, кричу кирпичу)
04 Finnish - Kevätkylmät (prose)
05 Finnish - Kevät ja kesä (prose)
06 Polish - Biały wyrak (kominiarz, legenda, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, potwór)
07 French - Jeannot et Colin (prose, fiction , conte philosophique, conte moral, conte satirique, critique sociale, XVIIIème siècle, siècle des Lumières)
08 Polish - Zemsta żywiołaków (pożar, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, demon)
09 Polish - Czerwona Magda (pożar, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, demon)
10 Polish - Zez (groza, horror, opowiadanie, opętanie)
11 Russian - Муравей и голубка (Muravey i Golubka) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой)
12 Russian - Черепаха и Орел (Cherepaha i Orel) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой)
13 Russian - Два товарища (Dva Tovarisha) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой)
14 Russian - Хорек (Horek) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, для детей, басни, Толстой)
15 Spanish - Lo fatal (poetry, modernism, modernismo, poesía, Nicaragua)
16 Spanish - Si ves un monte de espumas (poetry, poesía, Cuba, Versos sencillos)
17 Russian - Альбом (Albom) (prose, Chekhov, Чехов, рассказы, юмор)
18 Russian - Авиатор (Aviator) (poetry, Блок)
19 Russian - И я любил. И я изведал... (I ya lyubil. I ya izvedal) (poetry, Блок)
20 Ukrainian - Заповіт «Як умру то поховайте» (Zapovit) (poetry, Шевченко, вірш, кобзар)
20 episodes
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most Trollope stories.
The Turkish Bath: This editor, visiting a Turkish bath, is accosted by an Irish stranger, who, after some conversation, requests to submit a manuscript to the magazine. The editor's reactions to the solicitation and subsequent familiarity with the writer's circumstances forms the frame of the story. Humor arises about the Turkish bathing situation, and the reluctance of editors to make themselves available to amateur writers.
Mary Gresley is the rather sad tale of a young girl's giving up her writing career to satisfy the deathbed wish of the curate she was engaged to. The editor, in this tale (and also in the next), became rather involved emotionally with the girl and wished her to continue writing.
Josephine de Montmorenci is actually the proposed pen name of a disabled young lady, who only became acquainted with the editor because her attractive sister in law initiallly pretended to be that author.
The Panjandrum (meaning 'appearing to be important') is a magazine proposed by a group of literate but incompatible, inexperienced, would-be writers. The clash of personalities brings about the demise of the venture.
The Spotted Dog offers another writer, down on his luck; he and his wife drink excessively. He had been well educated and the editor offers him the task of indexing the work of a third person, but his drunken wife destroys the manuscript.
Mrs. Brumby is the most amusing of the tales. In this one the editor encounters a poor writer who is, unfortunately for him also a remarkably aggressive and ambitious woman. (Summary by Arnold Banner)
21 episodes
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 - Chinese - Returning (Guiqulaixici 归去来兮辞) by Tao Chien.
Key words: poetry; hermitage; nature; finiteness of human life
02 - Finnish - Kalle Saukko by August Blanche, transalted by Theodolinda Hahnsson
Key words: short story, humorous
03 - French - Le conte futur by Paul Adam
Key words: dramatic prose, fiction, love, admiration, compassion, bragging, blood
04 - French - Raité de Turin du 24 mars 1860
Key words: prose, non-fiction, history, treaty, France, Italy
05 - French - L'héritage de mon oncle Christian by Erckmann-Chatrian
Key words: fiction in prose, ghost story
06 - German - Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott by Martin Luther
Key words: popular, hymn, Martin Luther
07 - German - Im Herbste by Theodor Storm
Key words: poetry
08 - Hebrew - הכניסיני תחת כנפך (Haxnisini Taxat Knafex) by Hayim Nahman Bialik
Key words: poetry, love
09 - Hebrew - הֲכִנטות הצל (HaXintot HaTzel) by Shaul Tchernichovsky
Key words: poetry, love, nature
10 - Italian - Di sé stesso (Non son chi fui...) by Ugo Foscolo
Key words: poetry
11 - Italian - Il proprio ritratto by Ugo Foscolo
Key words: poetry
12 - Italian - In morte del fratello Giovanni by Ugo Foscolo
Key words: poetry
13 - Italian - A Zacinto by Ugo Foscolo
Key words: poetry
14 - Italian - A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo sulla riviera di Sestri by Ugo Foscolo
Key words: poetry
15 - Portuguese - I-Juca-Pirama by Gonçalves Dias
Key words: poetry, romanticism, Brazilian Literature
16 - Russian - Случай с классиком (Sluchai s klassikom) by Anton Chekhov
Key words: prose, Chekhov, Чехов, рассказы, юмор
17 - Russian - Страшная ночь (Strashnaya noch') by Anton Chekhov
Key words: prose, Chekhov, Чехов, рассказы, юмор
18 - Russian - Я вас любил... (Ya vas lyubil) by Alexander Pushkin
Key words: romantic poetry
19 - Spanish - A unos ojos azules by Fernanda Siliuto
Key words: poetry, lyrical, love, nature, romanticism
20 - Swedish - Dagen svalnar by Edith Södergran
Key words: poetry, modernism, Finland, Swedish literature
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Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California gold rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. - Summary by Wikipedia and david wales
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This year is the 9th anniversary of our illustrious community, and readers have found and recorded 99 items with a connection with the number nine... neuf... neun... nueve...nove... девять...εννέα... There are short stories, poems, bible readings, non-fiction articles and songs.The items are mostly in English, but this year we have one or more contributions in ten other languages: Ancient Greek, Dutch, German, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian. (Summary by RuthieG)
99 episodes
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories including lesser known works by Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, an early story by Dorothy Parker, and stories in various genres by authors including L. M. Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka and Algernon Blackwood.
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Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the legitimate heir can be traced. In the odd assortment of objects that pass across her counter, Hagar uncovers one mystery after another. Some items are linked to actual crimes, others to iniquitous acts of human deceit and betrayal. Whether investigating independently or alongside the police, Hagar combines her native shrewdness with woman's intuition to help untangle the webs of wickedness she encounters, that justice might prevail in the end. Though the individual mysteries in Hagar of the Pawn-shop may be read separately, they are so arranged by Fergus Hume as to form a linked set, with characters from earlier stories popping up again later on, one as Hagar's love interest and another as her nemesis. - Summary by Grant Hurlock
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This year's Christmas collection of short stories and non-fiction, a play, poems, and bible readings features readings in English, Bulgarian, French, German, Italian and Swedish.
Cast list for The Christmas Dinner:
Mother Goose: Bev J StevensGrandfather: Ray KasperGrandmother: Ronelle SpiegelFather: J KorthMother: Maria KasperWalter: Beth ThomasGertrude: Kimberly KrausSanta Claus: Phil ChenevertNarrator: MaryAnn SpiegelEdited by: MaryAnn Spiegel
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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.
15 episodes
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Das Faß Amontillado übersetzt von Gisela Etzel
Vor der Galavorstellung übersetzt von Franz Weil
Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier.
15 episodes
This year is the 10th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox and to celebrate, readers have found and recorded 100 items with a connection to the number ten... ... dix... zehn... diez...dez... десять... There are short stories, poems, excerpts from books, bible readings and non-fiction articles.The items are mostly in English, but this year we have eighteen contributions in other languages: French, German, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish..
100 episodes
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to three serialized novels, Cranford, North and South, and My Lady Ludlow, Dickens published 18 shorter works by Gaskell, which made her the major literary contributor to the magazine apart from Dickens himself. This collection brings together all of the short stories and non-fiction pieces that Gaskell published in the magazine between 1850 and 1853. Lizzie Leigh and The Heart of John Middleton are examples of Gaskell's writing on the working classes of the industrial north of England, while the Well of Pen Morfa is set in rural North Wales. The Old Nurse's Story, a ghostly tale, and The Squire's Story, a mystery, were written for Christmas editions of the magazine. Appearing in 1853, Morton Hall and My French Master, are among Gaskell's most sophisticated works. Historical fictions of the decline of the aristocracy in England and France, both have happy endings, but deal poignantly with themes of loss and the passage of time. From Gaskell's varied non-fiction pieces, we learn about inexplicable disappearances, the life of an expatriate gardener at the Persian court, the history of the Huguenots, and are invited to a day out on a sheep farm in the far north of England. (Summary by Phil Benson)
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