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Jerome K. Jerome - Idle Ideas in 1905

Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including «Should Women Be Beautiful?», «Should Soldiers Be Polite?» and «Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?». Each...

StephenC and 10 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Regent

'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a...

Andy Minter 9 hours 6 minutes

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Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring...

2 hours 44 minutes

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Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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A. A. Milne - Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying...

5 hours 23 minutes

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Helen Rowland - Guide to Men

A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel....

Cori Samuel 1 hour 34 minutes

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Anne Wales Abbot - Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse

The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her...

David Lawrence and 12 more 4 hours 22 minutes

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Mark Twain - Sketches New and Old

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains «The Jumping Frog» in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which...

John Greenman 10 hours 34 minutes

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Harry Leon Wilson - Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his...

Margaret Espaillat 12 hours 15 minutes

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Mark Twain - $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)

TriciaG and 6 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Doctor Ox's Experiment

An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has offered to light the town...

Alan Winterrowd 2 hours 12 minutes

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P. G. Wodehouse - Not George Washington

It has been said that behind every successful man is a good woman. This is certainly true in the case of James Orlebar Cloyster. However, some funny things happened on his road to success. His story is humorously...

Debra Lynn 5 hours 5 minutes

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Marriage, volume 1

«Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness.» — Alexander and Campaspe. Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen («And a half,...

Patti Cunningham 7 hours 12 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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