Librivox Short Story Collection 051

Brooksmith by Henry James (1843-1916)

Champagne by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

A Comedy in Rubber O. Henry (1862-1910)

Daniel O'Rourke's Wonderful Voyage to the Moon by Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854)

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Dream Life and Real Life; A Little African Story by Olive Schreiner (1855 –1920)

The Drink of the Dead: A Legend of Bushmanland by Frederick Cornell (1867-1921)

The Fan-Letter Bride by Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894-1988)

Fog Patterns from 1001 Afternoons in Chicago (1921) by Ben Hecht (1894-1964)

The Garden Lodge Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Hearts and Hands by O. Henry (1862 – 1910)

The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Mother by Owen Wister (1860-1938)

Poems in Prose by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The Sword of Welleran by Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett)

Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

To Build a Fire (1908 version) by Jack London (1876-1916)

The Urge by Maryland Allen (?-1927), from O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

Walter Schnaffs' Adventure by Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)

Where Love is there God is also by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935)

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