Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 008 by Various
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.<br /><br />01 Japanese - Chichi by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutagawa_Ryunosuke">Akutagawa Ryunosuke</a> (1892-1927) [1916] - <a href="http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000879/files/30_15215.html">Text</a> - key words: prose, fiction, father<br />02 Japanese - Hoshi by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunikida_Doppo">Kunikida Doppo</a> (1871-1908) [1896] - <a href="http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000038/files/42207_34797.html">Text</a> - key words: prose, fiction, star<br />03 Latin - Horace Ode 3: Virgil: Off to Greece from Horace Odes and Epodes by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace">Quintus Horatius Flaccus</a> (65BC-8BC) - <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9646">Text</a> - Key words: poem, ode<br />04 Latin - Catullus 3: On the Death of Lesbia's Sparrow from The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a> (84BC-54BC) [1893] - <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20732">Text</a> - Key words: poem<br />05 German - Das Sinngedicht des persischen Zeltmachers; neue Vierzeiler nach Omar Khayyâm by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klabund">Klabund (Alfred Henschke)</a> (1890-1928) [1917] - <a href="http://gedichte.xbib.de/Klabund_gedicht_Das+Sinngedicht+des+persischen+Zeltmachers.htm">Text</a> - Key words: poetry, translation of quatrains from Omar Khayyam<br />06 Russian - The Raven (Voron) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> (1809-1849) [1903] translated by V.Jabotinsky (1880-1940) - <a href="http://ru.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Ворон_(По/Жаботинский,_1897)">Text</a> - Key words: poetry<br />07 German - Sieh nicht, was andre tun by <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Morgenstern">Christian Morgenstern</a> (1871-1914) [1914] - <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9623">Text</a> - Key words: poem, Gedicht<br />08 Russian - Chto v imeni tebe moyom by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkin">Aleksandr Pushkin</a> (1799-1837) [1830] - <a href="http://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/01versus/0423_36/1830/0526.htm">Text</a> - Key words: poem<br />09 Russian - Pharaon i choral (The Cop and the Anthem) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry">O. Henry</a> (1862-1910) [1906] translated by <a href="http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Александр_Николаевич_Горлин">A.N. Gorlin</a> (1878-1939) - <a href="http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Фараон_и_хорал_(О._Генри/Горлин)">Text</a> - Key words: prose, fiction, short stories<br />10 Japanese - Caramel to Amedama by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeno_Kyūsaku">Yumeno Kyusaku</a> (1889-1927) [1936] - <a href="http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000096/files/46709_27683.html">Text</a> - Key words: prose, fiction, children, caramel, candy<br />11 Yiddish - Alte Soken by <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Olsvanger">Immanuel Oslvanger</a> (1881-1961) [1920] - <a href="http://archive.org/details/ausdervolksliter00oslvuoft">Text</a> - Key words: Comic prose<br />12 Low German - Matten Has' by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Groth">Klaus Groth</a> (1819-1899) [1853] - <a href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/4805/34">Text</a> - Key words: poetry<br />13 Polish - Chory Kotek by <a href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Jachowicz">Stanisław Jachowicz</a> (1796-1857) [1916] - <a href="http://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Bajki_i_powiastki/Chory_kotek">Text</a> - Key words: Children's poetry, Polish, English accent<br />14 Hindi - Kucchh padd by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatendu_Harishchandra">Bharatendu Harishchandra</a> (1850-1885) [] - <a href="http://www.manaskriti.com/kaavyaalaya/bhrtendu.stm">Text</a> - Key words: hindi poem<br />15 German - Fink und Frosch by <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Busch">Wilhelm Busch</a> (1832-1908) [1851-1907] - <a href="http://www.textlog.de/busch-gedichte-fink-frosch.html">Text</a> - Key words: comic poetry<br />16 German - Du bist wie eine Blume by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine">Heinrich Heine</a> (1797-1856) [1827] - <a href="http://www.heinrich-heine.net/haupt.htm">Text</a> - Key words: poetry, lyric<br />17 German - Ballade in U-Dur by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev_von_Liliencron">Detlev von Liliencron</a> (1844-1909) [1903] - <a href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/2054/18">Text</a> - Key words: ballad, poetry<br />18 Japanese - Shirotsubaki by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeno_Kyūsaku">Yumeno Kyusaku</a> (1889-1927) [1936] - <a href="http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000096/files/2301_13524.html">Text</a> - Key words: prose, fiction, children, camellia<br />19 Latin - Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a> (84–54 BC) [1893] - <a href="https://archive.org/stream/catulluswithper00owengoog#page/n30/mode/2up">Text</a> - Key words: poetry<br />20 Latin - Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a> (84–54 BC) [1893] - <a href="https://archive.org/stream/catulluswithper00owengoog#page/n34/mode/2up">Text</a> - Key words: poetry<br />21 Latin - Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a> (84–54 BC) [1893] - <a href="https://archive.org/stream/catulluswithper00owengoog#page/n36/mode/2up">Text</a> - Key words: poetry