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Rudyard Kipling - Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat
Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth was flat. How? And why? That is what this beguiling tale of Kipling's sets...
1 hour 55 minutes
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James Francis Thierry - Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories....
3 hours 52 minutes
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Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick...
20 hours 14 minutes
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John Kendrick Bangs - Half-Hours with the Idiot
Mr Idiot returns with his opinions on a number of diverse topics, including women, taxation, and international diplomacy. As always, the Idiot's silly soliloquies are packed with equal parts ridiculous fallacy and sly...
2 hours 10 minutes
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Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin Dooley, «doctor of philosophy.» Mr. Dooley was a saloonkeeper with opinions...
4 hours 59 minutes
