Multilingual Short Works Collection 011
- Length
- 5 h 38 min
- Chapters
- 21
- Language
- Multilingual
- Genre
- Poetry, Short Stories
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)
Chapters
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).