Multilingual Short Works Collection 040 - Poetry & Prose

This is our 40th 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. Chinese - 感恩節的生活紀實 [gan en jie de shenghuo jishi] - 8:02 Liang Shih-Qiu (梁實秋) link to text [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x030225936&seq=254] Keywords: Thanksgiving, turkey, fortune, candy, hunger 2. Chinese - 心經 [xinjing] - 2:26 Unknown author link to text [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:NLC892-411999026919-141740_般若波羅密多心經.pdf] Keywords: Heart Sutra, Heart, Enlightenment, Suffering, Form, Emptiness, Senses, Awareness, Mantra, Xuanzang, 玄奘 3. Dutch - Kennis I - 01:12 Jacques Fabrice Herman Perk link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24090] Keywords: dieren, natuur 4. French - Clair de Lune - 01:05 Paul Verlaine link to text [https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Verlaine_-_Œuvres_complètes,_Vanier,_I.djvu/93] Keywords: Classic, French, Poetry 5. German - Aphrodite - 12:12 Hermann Essig link to text [https://archive.org/details/essig_12novellen_1916/page/41/mode/1up] Keywords: humor 6. Hindi - झूठे गुरु का अंग [Jhoothe Guru Ka Ang] - 04:05 Kabir (कबीर ) link to text (p. 13) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.342092/page/13/mode/1up] Keywords: Bhakti Poetry, False Teachers, Practical Wisdom, Learning& Education 7. Luxembourgish - Un d'Liéser - 1:55 Michel Lentz link to text [https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/dkvknc/pages/9] Keywords: nature, music, feelings, harmony, poem 8. Polish - Dom na modrzewiu - 01:34 Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska link text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Maria_Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska_-_Niebieskie_migdały.djvu/35] Keywords: poezja, wiersz 9. Polish - Historia o malarzu - 17:05 Kornel Makuszyński link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Kornel_Makuszyński_-_Rzeczy_wesołe.djvu/157] Keywords: opowiadanie, humor 10. Polish - Na wulkanach Japonji - 56:11 Wacław Sieroszewski, foreword by Józef Mirski link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Na_wulkanach_Japonji] Keywords: proza, prezentacja, Japonia, historia, geografia, ludność 11. Polish - Powieści Kantorberyjskie (Prolog) - 16:11 Geoffrey Chaucer link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Poeci_angielscy_(Wybór_poezyi).djvu/10] Keywords: wiersz, opowieści kanterberyjskie, fragment, społeczeństwo, tłumacz: Jan Kasprowicz 12. Portuguese - Os dous gatos - 02:03 Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage link to text (p. 143) [https://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/ub000061.pdf] Keywords: Fábulas 13. Portuguese - O leão caçando com o burro - 2:10 Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage link to text (p. 129) [https://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/ub000061.pdf] Keywords: Fábulas 14. Portuguese - O lobo, a raposa, e a ovelha - 03:06 Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage link to text (p. 134) [https://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/ub000061.pdf] Keywords: Fábulas 15. Portuguese - Mombaça : a sua fortaleza de Jesus - 44:43 Francisco Gavicho de Lacerda link to text [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MombacaASuaFortalezaDeJesus.pdf] Keywords: História, África colonial 16. Portuguese - Soneto XX - 1:12 Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58689] Keywords: Bocage, auto-retrato, romantismo, arcadismo, lírica 17. Portuguese - Vaidade - 00:51 Florbela Espanca link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17610] Keywords: sonho, onirismo, nihilismo 18. Portuguese - Voltareis, ó Christo? - 38:13 Camilo Castelo Branco link to text [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/25844] Keywords: Amor, traição e desespero existencial 19. Spanish - El diamante de Villasola - 5:43 Miguel de Unamuno link to text [https://archive.org/details/elespejodelamuer00unam/page/151/mode/1up] Keywords: teacher-centred pedagogy, hyperindividualism, occupational burnout, existentialism, satire 20. Spanish - El espejo de la muerte - 11:26 Miguel de Unamuno link to text [https://archive.org/details/elespejodelamuer00unam/page/5/mode/1up] Keywords: tragic sense of life, faith vs doubt, human condition, existentialism, philosophy