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F. Anstey - Giant's Robe

Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his name in the literary world but mediocrity and rejection meet him at every...

Lynne T 16 hours 3 minutes

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Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Steele Rudd - Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading)

This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book «Back At Our Selection». The Synopsis: After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd's second eldest son)...

1 hour 39 minutes

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Bill Nye - Bill Nye's Cordwood

From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at everything and everybody. This book is another wonderful collection of his...

John and 9 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Brandon Thomas - Charley's Aunt

The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of course they can't stay unless there is a proper chaperone. So what could be more reasonable that getting a friend from the Drama Club to dress up and...

3 hours 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

T. W. H. Crosland - Egregious English

This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by some diamond-hard observations. The listener is also alerted to some attitudes...

David Wales 3 hours 45 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Earl Derr Biggers - Love Insurance (version 2)

On duty with Lloyds of London in NYC, young Richard Minot is sent to the St Augustine-ish town of San Marco to ensure that a wealthy young lady, Cynthia Meyrick marry his firm's client, Lord Harrowby. Then, in a...

VfkaBT 7 hours 31 minutes

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John Cecil Clay - Cupid's Cyclopedia

This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and illustrator, John Cecil Clay. Herford’s books were usually short and quite...

David Wales 1 hour 5 minutes

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Chaucer Storybook

Geoffrey Chaucer's classic «Canterbury Tales» has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stories are now available to those who would like to read them without struggling through...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

Artemus Ward - Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War

Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a...

Delmar H Dolbier 1 hour 53 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Moods

«Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.» Emerson....

Laura Riley and 7 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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Leopold Wagner - Humorous Readings and Recitations

Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to...

DrPGould and 9 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

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Unknown - Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote . Rendered homeless by the arrest of his...

Expatriate 1 hour 34 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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