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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2)

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The...

Dave Ranson and 3 more 5 hours 16 minutes

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George Calderon - Cinderella

If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere… This is «a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one.» Set on a «bleak and cheerless heath...

1 hour 34 minutes

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General Fiction

440

Brazilian Tales

«Brazilian Tales» is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period — the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at...

Leni 2 hours 57 minutes

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Don Marquis - Danny's Own Story

Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home because they need a new topic over which to bicker. Bicker they do, and fight...

Dan Kaufman and 7 more 7 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Uneasy Money

Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only a little less humorous that his mature works, it tells of the vicissitudes...

Tim Bulkeley 6 hours 41 minutes

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Margaret O. Oliphant - Miss Marjoribanks

One of the so-called «Chronicles of Carlingford», of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. The Chronicles originally appeared in the famous...

Michelle Crandall and 1 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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E. F. Benson - Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story The Male Impersonator), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 8 hours 25 minutes

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P. G. Wodehouse - Adventures of Sally

This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally's ambitious brother, an...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 23 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Children's Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his...

Ted Kaouk and 16 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Lloyd Osbourne - Wrong Box

The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have...

Andy Minter 6 hours 20 minutes

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Herbert George Jenkins - Patricia Brent, spinster

A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she «never has a nice young man to take her out». In a thoughtless moment of...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Napoleon of Notting Hill

While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: «Forward, my beauty, my Arab,» he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, «fleetest of all thy...

Ray Clare 5 hours 56 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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