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Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse

General Fiction

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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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Humorous Fiction

858

Lawrence J. Burpee - Humour of the North

Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour.... The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious...

Barry Eads and 6 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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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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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

876

Jerome K. Jerome - Told after Supper

It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when... But...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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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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Humorous Fiction

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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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Humorous Fiction

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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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Mark Twain - Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a...

John Greenman 20 hours 14 minutes

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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot...

Lars Rolander 1 hour 56 minutes

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Family Life

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Jerome K. Jerome - They and I

A man and his three children leave the “Little Mother” at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervise the remodeling of the house he has just purchased there. The story is...

Debra Lynn 6 hours 13 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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