Multilingual Short Works Collection 032 - Poetry & Prose

This is our 32nd collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English) as listed below. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. (Summary by ToddHW)

1. French - Comment Emmelka Pougatchev me donna une pièce d'argent. Histoire vraie - 5:10

Léon Tostoï

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Keywords: Contes et Fables, 1888

2. French - Il pleure dans mon coeur - 0:48

Paul Verlaine

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Keywords: Il pleut doucement sur la ville. (epigraph from Rimbaud)

3. French - Le Juge habile - 7:02

Léon Tostoï

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Keywords: Contes et fables, 1888

4. French - La musique pour rire - 3:23

Hector Berlioz

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Keywords: Les Grotesques de la musique, Humour, Musique, Société, Paris

5. French - Les Peupliers de Keranroux - 1:05

Charles Le Goffic

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Keywords: une poésie bretonne

6. French - Pour être lu avant le livre - 5:54

Léon Tostoï

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Keywords: Contes et Fables, 1888

7. French - Réflexions sur le Bonheur - 42:11

Émilie du Châtelet

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Keywords: Philosophie, Femme, Pensées, Bonheur

8. French - Les sottises des nations - 3:14

Hector Berlioz

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Keywords: Les Grotesques de la musique, Humour, Musique, Société, Paris

9. German - Ein Kriterium der Größe - 3:30

Carl Spitteler

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Keywords: Essay, Philosophie, Lebensweisheit

10. Hindi - प्रकाश का प्यासा [Prakash Ka Pyasa] - 1:10

Markande

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Keywords: That two completely different scenarios can bring out the same feeling in one

11. Luxembourgish - Sit e Giértner - 1:17

Edmond de La Fontaine

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Keywords: gardener, love, good men, operetta poem

12. Polish - Engramy Szatery - 39:35

Stefan Grabiński

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Keywords: opowiadanie, groza, kolej, wypadek, widmo

13. Romanian - Lunca din Mirceşti - 5:51

Vasile Alecsandri

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Keywords: spring, joy, birds, trees, countryside, travellers

14. Spanish - El mar - 9:25

Manuel Elzaburu

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Keywords: mar, sea, ocean, océano, puerto rico

15. Swedish - Kan en mygga besjungas? - 1:04

Thekla Knös

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Keywords: mosquito, spring, peacefulness, kindness, tolerance

16. Swedish - Tuschritningen - 3:18

Hjalmar Söderberg

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Keywords: art, intrinsic beauty, meaning of life, misunderstanding

17. Ukrainian - Вовк і жирафа [Vovk i zhyrafa] - 3:29

Sylvestr Kalynets

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Keywords: вовк, жирафа, байка, український, Україна, Калинець, молода Україна, 20 століття, fable, Ukrainian, Kalynets, wolf, giraffe, 20 century, Ukraine

18. Ukrainian - Пес і лис [Pes i lys] - 3:04

Anonymous (P. Sh.)

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Keywords: пес, лис, байка, український, Україна, П.Ш., молода Україна, 20 століття, fable, Ukrainian, P.Sh., dog, fox, 20 century, Ukraine

19. Yiddish - Das āreme Gesind - 3:22

Morris Rosenfeld

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Keywords: Songs from the ghetto, poor people, judge, children

20. Yiddish - Der blēicher Aprēter - 1:46

Morris Rosenfeld

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Keywords: Songs from the ghetto, working man, machinery, industry, hard work, poverty