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The Oval Portrait

Episode 14 of the Short Story Collection Vol. 057 by Various podcast, hosted by LibriVox, titled "The Oval Portrait" was published on April 13, 2026 and runs 10 minutes.

April 13, 2026 ·10m · Short Story Collection Vol. 057 by Various

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Short Story Collection Vol. 017 by Various LibriVox LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 017: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members. Short Story Collection by Various Loyal Books Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain. Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton Loyal Books Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for women in colonial Australia. She wrote in response to Henry Lawson's romantic depiction of bush life during the same era. Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) LibriVox "Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. A second edition was published in 1854, which added "Feathertop," "Passages from a Relinquished Work, and "Sketches from Memory." Many of the tales collected in "Mosses from an Old Manse" are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses": "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds." William Henry Channing reviewed the coll
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