Audiobook: Multilingual Short Works Collection 029 – Poetry & Prose

This is our 29th collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English) as listed below. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. – Summary by ToddHW

1. Catalan – Só qui só que no só io – 0:53
Joan Timoneda
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Keywords: Poesia catalana, Timoneda, só qui só, Flor d’enamorats

2. Esperanto – Ĉu estas land’?… – 1:55
Leon Zamenhof
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Keywords: poetry, poem, Leon Zamenhof

3. French – La Bergère et le ramoneur – 10:02
H. C. Andersen
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4. German – Roman: Marien Sehnsucht – 5:36
Joseph von Eichendorff
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Keywords: multilingual, german, outline

5. German – Und Satan lachte … – 15:23
Ludwig Jacobowski
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Keywords: multilingual, german, short story, satire

6. Hebrew – עַל הַשְּׁחִיטָה [Al HaShchita] – 2:27
Hayim Nahman Bialik
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Keywords: Hebrew, poem, Kishinev, pogrom, murder, Jews

7. Hebrew – צִפֹּרֶת [Tsiporet] – 3:14
Hayim Nahman Bialik
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Keywords: Hebrew, poem, love, butterfly

8. Italian – Un caso difficile – 34:47
Egisto Roggero
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Keywords: Italiano, Racconti

9. Latin – Carminum Liber Tertius, Carmen XXII – 0:47
Horace
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Keywords: poem, goddess, virgin, protector

10. Luxemburgish – E’ schlauen Hansel – 4:00
S. (Anonymous)
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Keywords: joke, worker, money, wit, telegram

11. Marathi – सोप्या व मनोरंजक गोष्टी [Sopya va Manoranjak Goshti] – 27:08
Vishṇu Vāsudeva Nāṭekara
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Keywords: Short Stories, Moral stories, kids

12. Polish – Confiteor – 12:01
Stanisław Przybyszewski
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Keywords: poezja, artysta, poeta

13. Polish – Z puszczy Białowieskiej – 52:31
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Keywords: las, przyroda, zwierzęta, polska

14. Romanian – Oaspetii Primaverii – 1:49
Vasile Alecsandri
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Keywords: poetry, poem, Vasile Alecsandri, poezie, poezii de primavara, pasteluri, pastels, spring, primavara

15. Romanian – O zi s’a dus – 2:55
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (tr. Nicolae Iorga)
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Keywords: American poetry, o zi de luptă, o seară binecuvântată cu poezie și cântec, Nicolae Iorga, The Day is Done

16. Romanian – Primăvara – 1:38
Nicolae Iorga
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Keywords: Romanian poetry, spring, primăvara

17. Romanian – Prometeu – 1:52
Nicolae Iorga
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Keywords: Romanian poetry, Prometheus, Prometeu, erou legendar

18. Romanian – Se’nalță fumul de tămâie – 2:43
Nicolae Iorga
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Keywords: Nicolae Iorga, Romanian poetry, Iisus Hristos, Mântuitorul lumii, Jertfa Crucii, Biserica, rugăciuni

19. Russian – История моей голубятни [Istoriya moiei golubyatni] – 30:35
Исаак Бабель
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Keywords: xenophobia, ксенофобия, 1905, pogrom, погром, Nikolayev, Mykolaiv, Николаев, Миколаїв

20. Ukrainian – Сiм струн [Sim strun] – 8:38
Леся Українка
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Keywords: 150-річчя Лесі Українки, поезiя