Category Archives: Short Stories
Evelina’s Garden
Author(s): Mary E. Wilkins Freeman This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95...
Garland for Girls
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott “These stories were written for my own amusement during a period...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 23, April 6, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off...
Coffee Break Collection 020 – Old Age
Author(s): Various The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox...
Editor’s Tales
Author(s): Anthony Trollope These ‘tales’ describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 25, April 20, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short...
Coffee Break Collection 022 – Days Gone By
Author(s): Various This is the twenty-second Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English...
Christmas Short Works Collection 2021
Author(s): Various The 2021 Christmas collection has some old favourites and some new, some reflections....
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 13, Jan. 27, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized...
Der Mantel
Author(s): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Akakij Akakijewitsch ist mit Leib und Seele Beamter, genauer gesagt: Kopist....
Coffee Break Collection 032 – Wilderness
Author(s): Various This is the 32nd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and...
Der Schuß von der Kanzel
Author(s): Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Der Schuß von der Kanzel ist eine humoristische Novelle von Conrad...
Flappers and Philosophers
Before the Roaring Twenties fully hit their stride, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the restless ambition...
Group of Noble Dames
Author(s): Thomas Hardy The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 20, March 16, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off...
Coffee Break Collection 018 – Pirates
Author(s): Various This is the eighteenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English...
Graustark
Author(s): George Barr McCutcheon The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and...
Coffee Break Collection 003 – Nature
Author(s): Various This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in...
England, My England
Author(s): D. H. Lawrence A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence’s typical sensibility...
Grandma Knight’s Tales
Author(s): Various Grandma Knight’s Tales* includes stories that provide entertainment and, hopefully, some moral learning...
Coffee Break Collection 036 – Cats
Author(s): Various This is the 36th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and...
Eve’s Diary (version 2)
Author(s): Mark Twain Eve’s Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was...
Coffee Break Collection 030 – Mythical Creatures
Author(s): Various This is the 30th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and...
Five Beloved Stories by O. Henry
Author(s): O. Henry O. Henry wrote over 600 short stories. Naturally I have my personal...
Father Sergius
Author(s): Leo Tolstoy Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to...
From a Swedish Homestead
When trauma and ruin fracture a young scholar’s mind, only persistent empathy can piece together...
Far Above Rubies
True nobility in literature rarely resides in temporal fame or material gain; instead, Victorian author...
Ghosts I Have Seen, and other Psychic Experiences
Author(s): Violet Tweedale In 1919, just after the devastation of WWI, Tweedale published these 34...
Edgewater People
Author(s): Mary E. Wilkins Freeman A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized...