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This is the tenth 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. The theme for this collection is "war and conflict" - From battles to pub brawls to divorce, studying human conflict has produced some of the most powerful pieces of writing.

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.

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...

Herman Heijermans publiceerde onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkland columns vanaf 1894 in De Telegraaf en later vanaf 1896 in het Algemeen Handelsblad. Hij maakte er meer dan 600 waaruit we er 52 hebben gekozen voor deze bloem(voor)lezing. De verhaaltjes zijn eenvoudige schetsen uit het volksleven, soms ontroerend, soms komisch.

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 017: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including Anton Chekhov, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rebecca West, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Richard Harding Davis, Harriet Beecher Stowe and G. A. Henty.

A witty collection of 12 short stories based on the Verga idea of “Humankind perennial moving state”. They have been published in 1887.

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 Co...

A collection of 10 short stories printed in 1880.

This is the story of Miss Catherwaight, collector of "dishonored honors" - medals of honor pawned by the persons they were awarded to. Part of Miss Catherwaight's collection are also the stories behind each award, and she tends to look down on their former owners for giving them away - until she finds a particular token in the shape of a heart...