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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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Humorous Fiction

475

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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Essays & Short Works

512

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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Essays & Short Works

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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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Short Stories

481

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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Essays & Short Works

450

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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Short Stories

589

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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Essays & Short Works

550

G. K. Chesterton - Defendant

A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he “defends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense,...

Ray Clare 3 hours 16 minutes

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History

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Bill Nye - Comic History of the United States

This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous...

Allyson Hester 6 hours 14 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Alarms and Discursions

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective...

Ray Clare 5 hours 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Jerome K. Jerome - Stage Land

A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, «the earnest...

David Muncaster 1 hour 54 minutes

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Humor

513

Irvin S. Cobb - One Third Off

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876–March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and wrote over 60 books and 300 short stories. Cobb has been described as «having a round...

Bryan Ness 1 hour 30 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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