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C. H. Bovill - Man of Means

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a nondescript young man to whom financial success comes through a...

Tim Bulkeley 2 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

566

P. G. Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie

It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point...

Mark Nelson 9 hours 8 minutes

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Randall Garrett - Brain Twister

«Mark Phillips» is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a...

Catharine Eastman 5 hours 18 minutes

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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time...

John Greenman 11 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

552

Jane Austen - Emma (version 2)

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as «handsome, clever, and rich» but is...

Sibella Denton 14 hours 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

564

Guy Wetmore Carryl - Grimm Tales Made Gay

A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.(Summary by Annise)

Patrick Barringer and 2 more 1 hour 6 minutes

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Saki - Toys of Peace

This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham...

Graham Redman and 15 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 9 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

515

P. G. Wodehouse - Swoop!

The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — «England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room.» (ch....

Kristin Hughes 2 hours 3 minutes

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Scott Hemphill - First Fifty Digits of Pi

56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in...

Jonathan Horniblow and 18 more 52 minutes

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - White Linen Nurse

The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring for the invalid daughter of the Senior Surgeon. The unexpected events which...

Nathalie J. 5 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

545

Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms

In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 — 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated , in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the...

Carl Manchester 11 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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