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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Cave On Thunder Cloud

Tish Carberry reluctantly takes her two best friends, Aggie and Lizzie, on a camping trip into the hills of their Midwestern American town, only to fall in with outlaws on the lam from a train robbery! Comic adventure...

VfkaBT 1 hour 24 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Arthur Wing Pinero - Dandy Dick

“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic play,...

2 hours 43 minutes

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Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as «A Square», to deride the Victorian aristocracy and...

Linda Olsen Fitak and 1 more 4 hours 31 minutes

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Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter

Humorous Fiction

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Montague Glass - Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment...

realisticspeakers and 1 more 8 hours 30 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Inimitable Jeeves

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all was to turn to Jeeves — Bertie's Man. He understood human nature, especially...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert W. Chambers - In Search of the Unknown

Robert Chambers was a contemporary of Lovecraft, and this book consists of «weird supernatural tales» in a somewhat similar manner, except that the emphasis is on humor rather than horror. The narrator works for the...

Peter Eastman 9 hours 14 minutes

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Molière - Impromptu of Versailles

The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they had prepared, the King has just asked for an entirely new piece — to be ready...

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Humorous Fiction

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Bill Nye - Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

«What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as...

DrPGould and 14 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Ernest Bramah - Mirror Of Kong Ho

This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is...

David Wales 5 hours 57 minutes

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...

Expatriate 19 hours 34 minutes

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Molière - School for Wives

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...

1 hour 52 minutes

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Molière - School for Husbands

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...

1 hour 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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