Humorous Fiction

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Robert C. Benchley - Love Conquers All

Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, was a writer, humorist and actor of note during the 1920s through the early 1940s. Born in Massachusetts, he spent his early literary career in New York City as an editor, critic and...

Ted Delorme 6 hours 53 minutes

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P. G. Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school friend Psmith,...

Kristen McQuillin and 7 more 5 hours 51 minutes

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Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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...

Esther and 7 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter (version 2)

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a...

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William Shakespeare - Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a...

Martin Clifton 33 minutes

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Mark Twain - Chapters from my Autobiography

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but...

John Greenman 10 hours 35 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and...

Betsie Bush and 11 more 10 hours 31 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 8 more 8 hours 48 minutes

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Henry James - International Episode

Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short but delightful novel....

Alex Foster and 5 more 3 hours 1 minute

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P. G. Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves

Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant houseguests,...

Mark Nelson 5 hours 12 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe...

2 hours 18 minutes

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Douglas William Jerrold - Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a playwright and later a journalist. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles...

Martin Clifton 4 hours 22 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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