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Alfred001
07-07-2013, 05:18 AM
I wanted to start reading short stories and my wish was to read a lot from one wrtier before moving to another, but I'm finding it quite difficult to find them online (or in my library). I started with Kafka, you'd figure it'd be easy, a very famous, old and public domain author, and yet its quite difficult to find his short stories online or in the library. It's a different story with novels, much easier, but seems quite difficult to find short stories.

I was hoping to find audiobooks, but I've concluded that I won't be able to find those. You can find a few short stories in audio format, but my hope is to read almost everything of each author I get to and it's hard to find that many in audio format, so I've decided to settle with just text.

My question is whether there is some site that could serve as a one-stop-shop where I could find most of a public domain writer's short stories so I wouldn't have to scour the whole internet every time I move on to another writer so that I can collect 2 stories from this site, 3 from that etc. that takes up so much time?

I checked project gutenberg but they don't have even one short story by Kafka. Librivox has a few, but only a few.

OrphanPip
07-07-2013, 05:48 AM
One of the main problems public domain sites face is that translations of public domain texts are not public domain, they belong to the translator. It is possible that there are no public domain translations of Kafka's shorter works, even if the German originals are.

Alfred001
07-07-2013, 05:57 AM
One of the main problems public domain sites face is that translations of public domain texts are not public domain, they belong to the translator. It is possible that there are no public domain translations of Kafka's shorter works, even if the German originals are.

I see, that hadn't occurred to me.

XaSp18
07-07-2013, 06:14 AM
I see, that hadn't occurred to me.

I do not know any short stories which you could avail... i tried gutenberg but it seems that they're mostly classics

papillondemai
07-07-2013, 12:33 PM
Try Internet Archive. http://archive.org/index.php

astrum
07-08-2013, 12:19 AM
Here's the two websites I use:

http://librivox.org/

http://books.google.com/