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Vier Erzählungen von einem Meister unheimlicher Literatur. Zusammen mit Hermann Melville und Edgar Allan Poe zählt Hawthorne zur 'dunklen' amerikanischen Romantik. 'Moby Dick' von Hermann Melville ist Nathaniel Hawthorn gewidmet. (Quelle: Wikipedia)

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"!

"The Gods of Pegāna" is the first book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, published on a commission basis in 1905... The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was followed by a further collection "Time and the Gods" and by some stories in "The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories".

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief, commits a number of burglaries in late Victorian England.

Although Raffles had been killed in the Second Boer War at the end of The Black Mask, chronicler and accomplice Bunny Manders narrates additional adventures which he had previously omitted, from various points in their criminal careers.

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.

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. Invisible Links (Osynliga länkar) is a collection of short stories with an underlying theme about the links that influence and guide people’s actions and lives. It was first published in 1894 and the English translation in 1895. The stories are often set in Lagerlöf’s Vaermland, but they also depict legends and history of Sweden, and some have connections to other works by Lagerlöf. Invisible Links is a good introduction to the writings of Selma Lagerlöf.

Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. - 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme.

Lima Barreto começou a sua colaboração na imprensa desde estudante, em 1902, no A Quinzena Alegre, depois no Tagarela, O Diabo, e na Revista da Época.

Em jornais de maior circulação, começou em 1905, escrevendo no Correio da Manhã uma série de reportagens sobre a demolição do Morro do Castelo.

Daí em diante, colaborou em vários jornais e revistas, Fon-Fon, Floreal, Gazeta da Tarde, Jornal do Commercio, Correio da Noite, A Noite (onde publicou, em folhetim, Numa e a Ninfa), Careta, ABC, um novo A Lanterna (vespertino), Brás Cubas (semanário), Hoje, Revista Souza Cruz e O Mundo Literário.

Lima Barreto foi o crítico mais agudo da época da República Velha no Brasil, rompe...

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

Leandro Gomes de Barros é considerado por alguns como o primeiro escritor brasileiro de literatura de cordel, tendo escrito mais de 230 obras. No seu tempo, era cognominado O Primeiro sem Segundo, e ainda é considerado o maior poeta popular do Brasil em todos os tempos, autor de vários clássicos e campeão absoluto de vendas, com muitos folhetos que ultrapassam a casa dos milhões de exemplares vendidos. Compôs obras-primas que eram utilizadas em obras de outros grandes autores: Ariano Suassuna, por exemplo, utilizou a história do cavalo que estercava dinheiro no seu Auto da Compadecida. Depois de fundar uma pequena gráfica, em 1906, seus folhetos se espalham pelo Nordeste, sendo conside...