Audiobook: Multilingual Short Works Collection 031 - Poetry & Prose

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- Download Bengali - দুই পাখি [Dui Pakhi] audio
- Download Chinese - 水調歌頭 [shui tiao ge tou] audio
- Download French - Les fraises de décembre audio
- Download French - Trésor-des-Fèves et Fleur-des-Pois: conte des fées audio
- Download German - Ein stummer Bericht von einem Schiffbruch audio
- Download Hebrew - פגישה, חצי פגישה [Pgisha, Khatzi Pgisha] audio
- Download Irish - Amhrán an Tae audio
- Download Italian - Decameron, Quarta Giornata, Prima Novella audio
- Download Italian - Ninna-nanna audio
- Download Luxembourgish - Kê Barométer mě audio
- Download Polish - Przygrywka audio
- Download Romanian - Bunica audio
- Download Romanian - De sărbători audio
- Download Romanian - E împărţită omenirea audio
- Download Russian - Кукушка [Kukushka] audio
- Download Spanish - Redondilla I: A los hombres audio
- Download Spanish - Temprano y con sol audio
- Download Swedish - Ett halvt ark papper audio
- Download Swedish - På rakstugan audio
- Download Ukrainian - Безсонна ніч [bezsonna nich] audio
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This is our 31st 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)
Description of Readings:
1\. Bengali - দুই পাখি \[Dui Pakhi\] - 3:03
Rabindranath Tagore
[Link to text](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.340223/page/n62/mode/2up)
Keywords: A conversation between two birds: one free and the other captive.
2\. Chinese - 水調歌頭 \[shui tiao ge tou\] - 4:12
Su Shi
[Link to text](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27123)
3\. French - Les fraises de décembre - 9:36
Claudius Ferrand
[Link to text](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23954)
Keywords: A fairytale about a young girl and her awful mother-in-law and step-sister, à la Vassilissa or Cinderella; Fables et légendes du Japon
4\. French - Trésor-des-Fèves et Fleur-des-Pois: conte des fées - 52:58
Charles Nodier
[Link to text](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k643976.texteImage)
Keywords: Conte Fées Jeunesse; Un joli bébé arrive dans une famille, la vieille dame l’appelle Trésor des Fèves, il est vif et intelligent. Ses parents l’adorent. Il part un jour … et fait la connaissance d’une gentille et jolie mignonne, Fleur des Pois… qui a une calèche magique…
5\. German - Ein stummer Bericht von einem Schiffbruch - 8:47
Holger Drachmann (1846 - 1908)
[Link to text](https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/drachman/erstarb/chap02.html)
Keywords: Deutsch, Kurzgeschichte, Mystisch, Übersetzt von Otto Hauser
6\. Hebrew - פגישה, חצי פגישה \[Pgisha, Khatzi Pgisha\] - 1:05
Rachel Bluwstein
[Link to text](https://www.davar1.co.il/24483/150716_old_davar-07/)
Keywords: meeting; lovers; emotion; memories; love; Hebrew; Israel
7\. Irish - Amhrán an Tae - 4:08
Colm de Bhailís
[Link to text](https://archive.org/details/arinuilmdeails00debh/page/4/mode/2up)
Keywords: Colm de Bhailís, Amhrán an Tae, Conamara, Marriage, Tea, Tobacco, Galway
8\. Italian - Decameron, Quarta Giornata, Prima Novella - 26:36
Giovanni Boccaccio
[Link to text](https://archive.org/details/decameron00unkngoog/page/186/mode/2up)
Keywords: ancient Italian, compelling romance, father and daughter conflict, love and death, italian noble court of XIV century, tragic ending
9\. Italian - Ninna-nanna - 2:06
Trilussa
[Link to text](https://dl.fondazionegramsci.org/imageserver/tify/iiif-gramsci-0002/6022e46f040bedbbca480515?tify={)
Keywords: poem in Italian dialect ("Romanesco"), anti-war feelings, poem written in 1917 but unluckily up to date even today as a comment to the tragic current events
10\. Luxembourgish - Kê Barométer mě - 0:52
Michel Lentz
[Link to text](https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/dkvknc/pages/229)
Keywords: bad weather, farmers, fancy-fair, clothes, poem, fun
11\. Polish - Przygrywka - 2:52
Maria Konopnicka
[Link to text](https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:PL_Maria_Konopnicka-Poezye_seria_pierwsza_013.jpg)
Keywords: poezja, marzenia, podróź
12\. Romanian - Bunica - 1:18
Ștefan Octavian Iosif
[Link to text](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Stefan_Octavian_Iosif_-_Patriarhale.pdf&page=18)
Keywords: Ștefan Octavian Iosif, lyric poetry, poezie lirică, the longing for grandmather, dorul de bunica, blândețea și frumusețea bunicii
13\. Romanian - De sărbători - 1:31
Ștefan Octavian Iosif
[Link to text](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Stefan_Octavian_Iosif_-_Poezii_(1901_-_1902).pdf&page=28)
Keywords: The Christmas celebration, the longing for the homeland, sărbătoarea Crăciunului
14\. Romanian - E împărţită omenirea - 2:41
Mihai Eminescu
[Link to text](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35323/)
Keywords: Mihai Eminescu, E împărțită omenirea, oameni simpli, înțelepti, căință, Dumnezeu
15\. Russian - Кукушка \[Kukushka\] - 0:36
Анна Ахматова
[Link to text](https://imwerden.de/publ-1165.html)
Keywords: неволя, принуждение
16\. Spanish - Redondilla I: A los hombres - 3:08
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
[Link to text](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Obras_selectas_de_la_celebre_monja_de_Me/bMcGAQAAIAAJ)
Keywords: Poesía colonial Poesía del siglo XVII
17\. Spanish - Temprano y con sol - 10:58
Emilia Pardo Bazán
[Link to text](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36805)
Keywords: young love
18\. Swedish - Ett halvt ark papper - 4:42
August Strindberg
[Link to text](https://archive.org/details/samladeskrifter38stri/page/50/mode/2up)
Keywords: death, grief, melancholia, nostalgia, starting over, light in the darkness
19\. Swedish - På rakstugan - 1:41
Albert Ulrik Bååth
[Link to text](https://books.google.se/books?id=7UEMNUe7nugC&pg=PA98)
Keywords: barbershop, gossip, scandal, suicide, morality, hypocrisy, judgmentalism, fear of death.
20\. Ukrainian - Безсонна ніч \[bezsonna nich\] - 2:04
Леся Українка
[Link to text](https://archive.org/details/libgen_00700745/page/n76/mode/1up)
Keywords: важкі часи, hard times
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