Humorous Fiction
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Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick...
20 hours 14 minutes
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Edward S. Van Zile - Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation
As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in the cases of «When Reginald was Caroline,» «How Chopin came to Remsen,» and «Clarissa's troublesome baby». If you're...
6 hours 3 minutes
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Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers (Version 2)
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent leader, Mr. Pickwick. Join him and his friends, Winkle, Snodgrass, and...
28 hours 4 minutes
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Bill Nye - Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''
There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong. I would not do so even if I had an idea what palliate meant.... I have taken...
6 hours 34 minutes
General Fiction
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Mark Twain - How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. Mark Twain published several collections of his short stories and essays. This...
12 hours 12 minutes
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William John Locke - Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible — and irrepressible — Frenchman in England and Paris. The author (1863-1930) was a popular British novelist, dramatist, and...
7 hours 29 minutes
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Caroline Ticknor - Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories...
5 hours 10 minutes
