Multilingual Short Works Collection 011

Description Multilingual Short Works Collection 011

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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)