LibriVox Multilingual Short Works Collection 006

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): Poetry, Short Stories

Narrators: April Gonzales, Piotr Nater, Ekzemplaro, Mlcui, Arnie Horton, Mark Chulsky

Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 3 hours and 09 minutes

Language: Multilingual

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by LibriVox volunteers.

Brief description of the contributions:
01 Tagalog - ¡Ang Reyna Elena.....! by Pascual de Leon (1893-1958) [1915] - Key words: poetry, The Queen Elena
02 Polish - Pieśń o mowie naszej by Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874-1941) [1913] - Key words: poetry, poezja, język, pruderia
03 Japanese - Tebukuro wo kaini by Niimi Nankichi (1913-1943) [1943] - Key words: prose, fiction, children, fox, mitten
04 Japanese - Sangetsuki by Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) [1942] - Key words: prose, fiction, China, tiger
05 Japanese - Butoukai by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1920] - Key words: prose, fiction, ball, dance
06 Japanese - Manaduru to Daria by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) [1948] - Key words: prose, fiction, crane, dahlia
07 Japanese - Lemon by Kajii Motojiro (1901-1932) [1928] - Key words: prose, fiction, lemon, Kyoto
08 Japanese - Mimizuku Tsushin by Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) [1941] - Key words: prose, fiction, Niigata, speech
09 Japanese - Bremen no Machigakutai by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859) translated by Kusuyama Masao(1884-1950) [1949] - Key words: prose, fiction, children, Grimm
10 Japanese - Shisakusya no Nikki by Miki Kiyoshi (1897-1945) [1939]
11 Japanese - Asahan by Shimazaki Touson (1872-1943) [1906] - Key words: prose, fiction, breakfast
12 Japanese - Sannin no Hyakusyou by Akita Ujyaku (1883-1962) [1920] - Key words: prose, fiction, peasant, baby
13 Japanese - Oborekaketa Kyodai by Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) [1921]
14 Tagalog - Ang Tubo by Jose N. Sevilla (1880-1946) [1908] - Key words: prose, poetry, legend of the tubo or "sugar cane"
15 Latin - Carmina I - Dedication to Cornelius Nepos by Caius Valerius Catullus (84 BC-54 BC) - Key words: Poetry
16 Spanish - Eldorado from Poemas by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) translated by Alberto Lasplaces (1887-1950) - Key words: Poem
17 Russian - Dobbles's Missing Overshoe by Arkady Averchenko (1881-1925) [1908] - Key words: prose (feuilleton)
18 Latin - Ode 1: To Maecenas (from Odes and Epodes) by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (aka Horace) (65 BC-8 BC) [1922] - Key words: Poem, Ode
19 Latin - Cynthia Monobiblos, Elegy 4 by Sextus Propertius (50 BC-15 BC) - Key words: Poem, Elegy