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P. G. Wodehouse - Clicking of Cuthbert

Join the Oldest Member...whether you like it or not...and be carried on a magic carpet ride through the world of golf, love, and...aunts...as seen through the eyes of the creator of Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings...

Jonathan Burchard and 6 more 6 hours 8 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Jerome K. Jerome - Tea-table Talk

As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display «the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books.» It takes the...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 33 minutes

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Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction....

Sally Ann Cook and 15 more 2 hours 51 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny, dealing with topics as absurd as a man losing his temper who then tries to...

David Lawrence and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Lewis Carroll - Hunting of the Snark (version 2)

The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursue an elusive creature known as a snark. (Summary by Shawn Craig Smith)...

Shawn Craig Smith 39 minutes

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Book of Snobs

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the...

Julie VW and 19 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Offshore Pirate

This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball movie comedies of the 1930's in that it features a determined young heiress...

Bellona Times 1 hour 17 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Nonsense Novels

Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

TriciaG 3 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edna Ferber - Buttered Side Down

«And so,» the story writers used to say, «they lived happily ever after.» Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent...

Xe Sands 4 hours 35 minutes

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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

TriciaG 3 hours 48 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Clarence Day - This Simian World

Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become...

Epistomolus 1 hour 46 minutes

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Stephen Leacock - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

«Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich» is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic «Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.» Like that work, it is a...

Linda Lee Paquet and 4 more 6 hours 46 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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