Short Story Collection Vol. 054: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Story Collection Vol. 054, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 054: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. This collecton comprises: Aunt Nell by George A. Birmingham (1865-1950) The Cat and Cupid by Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) Chu-Bu and Sheemish by Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett) (1878-1957) The District Doctor by Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) The Eagle’s Nest by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910) Trans: Rasmus Bjørn Anderson (1846–1936) The Indigent Brahman from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day The Reverend Lal Behari Dey (Bengali: লাল বিহারী দে - also transliterated as Lal Behari Day) (1824–1892) The Missing Mortgagee by R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943) Oliver Twist, Chapter IX by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) The Pawnshop Keeper (from Futurist Stories) by Marjorie Verner-Reed (1894-?) A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin (1850-1904) A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry (1862-1910) The Slaughter of an Ox at Sea by Pierre Loti (1850-1923); trans. T.P. O’Connor M.P. (1848-1929) The Survivors by Elsie Singmaster Lewars (1879-1958) The Sword of Welleran by Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett) (1878-1957) The Undertaker's Chat by Mark Twain (1835-1910) Up the Slide by Jack London (1876-1916) The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) War by Jack London (1876-1916) The Weight Of Obligation by Rex Beach (1877-1949) When Lincoln Licked A Bully by Irving Bacheller (1859-1940)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Story Collection Vol. 054
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:55:46

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• adventure
• short fiction

Track guide

1. 01 Aunt Nell — 19:04
2. 02 The Cat and Cupid — 36:33
3. 03 Chu-Bu and Sheemish — 9:50
4. 04 The District Doctor — 23:36
5. 05 The Eagle's Nest from Early Tales and Sketches — 9:07
6. 06 The Indigent Brahman — 17:15
7. 07 The Missing Mortgagee — 58:21
8. 08 Oliver Twist Chapter IX — 17:25
9. 09 The Pawn-Shop Keeper — 4:36
10. 10 A Respectable Woman — 8:50
11. 11 A Retrieved Reformation — 17:49
12. 12 The Slaughter of an Ox at Sea — 11:42
13. 13 The Survivors — 13:41
14. 14 The Sword of Welleran — 42:48
15. 15 The Undertaker's Chat — 8:16
16. 16 Up the Slide — 12:10
17. 17 The Upturned Face — 10:31
18. 18 War — 11:13
19. 19 The Weight Of Obligation — 47:46
20. 20 When Lincoln Licked A Bully — 35:20

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