Humorous Fiction

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General Fiction

458

Edward Eggleston - Hoosier Schoolmaster

«Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a...

Bridget Gaige 5 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

440

Richard Harding Davis - Make-Believe Man

Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer «Patience» for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 21 minutes

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General Fiction

454

Kenneth McGaffey - Sorrows of a Show Girl

Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and...

3 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

522

Jane Austen - Emma (version 7 Dramatic Reading)

Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance....As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also...

16 hours 25 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

456

Mark Twain - Essays on Paul Bourget

Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: «What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us» and «A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget». (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 15 minutes

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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Humorous Fiction

454

Ellis Parker Butler - Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To that end, he enrolls in a correspondence course, where he gets lessons...

Margaret Espaillat and 7 more 9 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

484

F. Anstey - In Brief Authority

Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough...

Anna Simon 11 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

463

Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 28 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

480

A. A. Milne - Once a Week

A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period was first published in Punch magazine. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 7 hours 7 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

505

Molière - Tartuffe

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is...

1 hour 49 minutes

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Historical Fiction

480

Anthony Trollope - Miss Mackenzie

The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself with no one to care for, and in possession of a moderate fortune. Having money,...

Kirsten Wever 15 hours 10 minutes

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Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

479

George Gissing - Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading)

Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a light on class struggles in the Victorian era, The Paying Guest offers a look...

2 hours 42 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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