Multilingual Short Works Collection 011

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)