Multilingual Short Works Collection 032 - Poetry & Prose

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This is our 32nd 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. French - Comment Emmelka Pougatchev me donna une pièce d'argent. Histoire vraie - 5:10 Léon Tostoï Link to text Keywords: Contes et Fables, 1888 2. French - Il pleure dans mon coeur - 0:48 Paul Verlaine Link to text Keywords: Il pleut doucement sur la ville. (epigraph from Rimbaud) 3. French - Le Juge habile - 7:02 Léon Tostoï Link to text Keywords: Contes et fables, 1888 4. French - La musique pour rire - 3:23 Hector Berlioz Link to text Keywords: Les Grotesques de la musique, Humour, Musique, Société, Paris 5. French - Les Peupliers de Keranroux - 1:05 Charles Le Goffic Link to text Keywords: une poésie bretonne 6. French - Pour être lu avant le livre - 5:54 Léon Tostoï Link to text Keywords: Contes et Fables, 1888 7. French - Réflexions sur le Bonheur - 42:11 Émilie du Châtelet Link to text Keywords: Philosophie, Femme, Pensées, Bonheur 8. French - Les sottises des nations - 3:14 Hector Berlioz Link to text Keywords: Les Grotesques de la musique, Humour, Musique, Société, Paris 9. German - Ein Kriterium der Größe - 3:30 Carl Spitteler Link to text Keywords: Essay, Philosophie, Lebensweisheit 10. Hindi - प्रकाश का प्यासा [Prakash Ka Pyasa] - 1:10 Markande Link to text Keywords: That two completely different scenarios can bring out the same feeling in one 11. Luxembourgish - Sit e Giértner - 1:17 Edmond de La Fontaine Link to text Keywords: gardener, love, good men, operetta poem 12. Polish - Engramy Szatery - 39:35 Stefan Grabiński Link to text Keywords: opowiadanie, groza, kolej, wypadek, widmo 13. Romanian - Lunca din Mirceşti - 5:51 Vasile Alecsandri Link to text Keywords: spring, joy, birds, trees, countryside, travellers 14. Spanish - El mar - 9:25 Manuel Elzaburu Link to text Keywords: mar, sea, ocean, océano, puerto rico 15. Swedish - Kan en mygga besjungas? - 1:04 Thekla Knös Link to text Keywords: mosquito, spring, peacefulness, kindness, tolerance 16. Swedish - Tuschritningen - 3:18 Hjalmar Söderberg Link to text Keywords: art, intrinsic beauty, meaning of life, misunderstanding 17. Ukrainian - Вовк і жирафа [Vovk i zhyrafa] - 3:29 Sylvestr Kalynets Link to text Keywords: вовк, жирафа, байка, український, Україна, Калинець, молода Україна, 20 століття, fable, Ukrainian, Kalynets, wolf, giraffe, 20 century, Ukraine 18. Ukrainian - Пес і лис [Pes i lys] - 3:04 Anonymous (P. Sh.) Link to text Keywords: пес, лис, байка, український, Україна, П.Ш., молода Україна, 20 століття, fable, Ukrainian, P.Sh., dog, fox, 20 century, Ukraine 19. Yiddish - Das āreme Gesind - 3:22 Morris Rosenfeld Link to text Keywords: Songs from the ghetto, poor people, judge, children 20. Yiddish - Der blēicher Aprēter - 1:46 Morris Rosenfeld Link to text Keywords: Songs from the ghetto, working man, machinery, industry, hard work, poverty