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Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

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Irvin S. Cobb - Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. Summary by David Wales.

David Wales and 1 more 1 hour 18 minutes

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Robert C. Benchley - Of All Things

A collection of amusing essays satirizing serious consideration of topics including natural history, social etiquette, or indeed, civilized behavior (especially of the upper classes). (Summary by Arnold Banner)

Melora and 1 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Bill Nye - Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts

Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said «We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.» And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 34 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1

Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) «Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia.» 2.) «The Austrian Edison keeping school again» 3.) «The Canvasser's tale.» 4.) «The Czar's Soliloquy.» 5.) «English as She is...

John Greenman 2 hours 31 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Short Humor Collection 001

This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 9 more 4 hours 41 minutes

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Stephen Leacock - Further Foolishness

Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. «Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest...

TriciaG 5 hours 37 minutes

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H. P. Nichols - English as She is Wrote

"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is...

TriciaG 1 hour 23 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Stephen Leacock - Essays and Literary Studies

A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

TriciaG 5 hours 34 minutes

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Stephen Leacock - My Discovery of England

«In the course of time a very considerable public feeling was aroused in the United States and Canada over this state of affairs. The lack of reciprocity in it seemed unfair. It was felt (or at least I felt) that the...

TriciaG 4 hours 43 minutes

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Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

TriciaG 4 hours 8 minutes

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Agnes Repplier - In Our Convent Days

With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She shares the highlights (and some of the low lights) of her time there....

Mary Schneider 4 hours 14 minutes

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Lewis Carroll - Tangled Tale

Lewis Carroll (1832 — 1896) is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. 'A tangled tale'...

Availle 3 hours 18 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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