15/10/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 015
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 015: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. [chương_files]
15/10/2024
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia) [chương_files]
15/10/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 021
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection Vol.021: A collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members. [chương_files]
15/10/2024
Dead (version 2)
This novella is the final story in Joyce’s collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife. While the party is festive, full of dancing, drinking, and eating, it is also pervaded by political, religious, and sexual tensions, as well as memories of loss. When Gabriel and his wife go home at the end of the night, she reveals a long-kept secret that leads to an epiphany. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett). [chương_files]
15/10/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 025
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 025: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. [chương_files]
15/10/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 022
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 022: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. [chương_files]
15/10/2024
Dead
A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce’s transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. “The Dead” is taken from Joyce’s collection of short stories Dubliners. (summary by Iremonger) [chương_files]
14/10/2024
Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment. For Christmas, they each make a sacrifice to purchase a gift for the other, with ironic results. The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable they may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions. O. Henry ends the story by clarifying the metaphor between the characters in the story, Della and James (or Jim), and the Biblical Magi. The Gift of the Magi features O. Henry’s characteristic twist ending and use of flowery diction. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia.org) [chương_files]
14/10/2024
Stolen White Elephant
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end. (Summary written by Kristen McQuillin) [chương_files]
14/10/2024
Short Story Collection Vol. 013
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 013: a collection of 11 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. [chương_files]