Multilingual Short Works Collection 041 - Poetry & Prose

This is our 41st 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. Bengali - বঙ্গভাষা [Bangabhasha] - 01:18

Madhusudan Dutta / মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত

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Keywords: mother tongue, mother land

2. Bosnian/Serbian - Остајте овдје... [Ostajte ovdje...] - 2:02

Aleksa Šantić / Алекса Шантић

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Keywords: diaspora, belonging, Hercegovina

3. Braj - ब्रजभाषा और खड़ी बोली [Braj Bhasha Aur Khari Boli] - 09:07

Maithilisharan Gupt (मैथिलीशरण गुप्त)

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Keywords: Khariboli, Hindi, Indian Renaissance, Hindi Renaissance, Pre-Independence India, Nationalism, Indian Poetry, Indian Literature, Bilingual

4. Chinese - 差不多先生傳 [chabuduo xiansheng chuan] - 4:58

Hu Shih (胡適)

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Keywords: Mr. Close Enough, sugar, school, clerk, train, illness, doctor, death

5. Croatian - Cvijet (za njegovu sliku) - 01:13

Dragojla Jarnević

link to text (p. 111 of PDF) Keywords: Croatia, Karlovac, Kolo journal, flowers

6. French - La légende des guérets - 7:16

Joseph Faubert

Keywords: Canada Français, 1927

7. French - Nukarpiartekak - 03:14

Author unknown (Greenland folktale)

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Keywords: conte, Groenland, désir, receuilli par Gustav Holm (1849-1940) en 1884, traducteur inconnu

8. German - Valkyren - 1:55

Heinrich Heine

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Keywords: Poem, Poetry

9. Hindi - कर्तव्य पालन​ [Kartavya Palan] - 44:52

Vishwambharnath Sharma Kaushik (विशम्भरनाथ शर्मा कौशिक)

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Keywords: Communalism, Religious Harmony, Pre-Independence India, National Peace, National Unity

10. Nepali - देस को उन्नति [Des ko unnati] - 06:25

Author unknown

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Keywords: progress, life, country, Gorkhapatra

11. Polish - Do prostego człowieka - 2:00

Julian Tuwim

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Keywords: wiersz, antywojenne, dwudziestolecie międzywojenne, poem, anti war, interwar period

12. Polish - Memorjał Doktora Czang-Fu-Li - 14:33

Antoni Lange

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Keywords: historia, fantastyka, klimat, nauka

13. Polish - Pochwała lasów - 4:34

Elżbieta Drużbacka

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Keywords: wiersz, las, pola, sielanka

14. Polish - Szczęście poety - 7:29

Narcyza Żmichowska

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Keywords: wiersz, poeta

15. Portuguese - A Egreja do Diabo - 22:20

Machado de Assis

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Keywords: Religion, Humor, Satire, Supernatural, Comedy

16. Sanskrit - प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय [Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya] - 3:09

Unknown author

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Keywords: Heart Sutra, Buddism

17. Spanish - El almohadón de plumas - 12:59

Horacio Quiroga

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Keywords: Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte

18. Spanish - Apología de don Francisco I. Madero - 26:00

Luis Manuel Rojas

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Keywords: Mexican Revolution; eulogy; Francisco I. Madero

19. Spanish - Endecasílabo romance - 1:42

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Keywords: Siglos de Oro, Barroco, Poesía novohispana

20. Spanish - Las mujeres del Quijote - 24:21

María Carbonell Sánchez

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Keywords: Mujeres, Quijote, discurso, pedagoga