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Henry Fielding - Old Debauchees

Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other characters, including both of the Laroons, try to manipulate Jourdain for their...

1 hour 7 minutes

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Mark Twain - Awful German Language (version 2)

This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the...

Kirsten Wever 1 hour 2 minutes

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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

Fantastic Fiction

433

Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the...

John Greenman 1 hour 26 minutes

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Charles Lamb - Mr H

Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the characters are skilfully drawn and the sharp observations of contemporary...

53 minutes

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Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance

Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories — First Romance, which had originally appeared...

John Greenman 34 minutes

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Mark Twain - Eve’s Diary (version 2)

Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is...

40 minutes

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Oliver Herford - This Giddy Globe

Is there a genre called FUN? Yes, and this is it! Insanely humorous geography that will have you rolling on the floor laughing with your sides hurting. (Summary by Neeru Iyer)

Graeme Dunlop and 2 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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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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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

514

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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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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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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Dorothy Quigley - What Dress Makes of Us

A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Ruth Golding and 7 more 1 hour 29 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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