Humorous Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - House to Let

A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 12 minutes

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)

The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family...

John W. Michaels 1 hour

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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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Humorous Fiction

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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

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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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Humorous Fiction

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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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Guy Wetmore Carryl - Mother Goose for Grownups

Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by fink)

Joseph Finkberg and 11 more 1 hour 7 minutes

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General Fiction

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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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Dramatic Readings

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Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Please note: this recording contains strong language. «1601,» wrote Mark Twain, «is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson,...

19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Anonymous - Vice in its Proper Shape

Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition, Cautionary tales of the transmigration of the souls of...

David Barnes and 5 more 1 hour 27 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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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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