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Humorous Fiction

446

Saki - Unbearable Bassington

The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town....

NoelBadrian 5 hours 31 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

461

John Kendrick Bangs - Enchanted Typewriter

The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the...

Cate Barratt 2 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

471

John Kendrick Bangs - Toppleton's Client

A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr....

Cate Barratt 5 hours 4 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

495

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - School For Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady Sneerwell wants to marry Charles Surface, while Joseph Surface wants to marry...

2 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

448

Arthur W. Marchmont - Dash for a Throne

The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to fake his own death. Stumbling through different identities, he finally...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 4 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

504

Richard Harding Davis - My Buried Treasure

«This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story,...

Crln Yldz Ksr 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

508

Joseph Jacobs - Indian Fairy Tales

This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summary by sidhu177)

Gabriela Cowan and 10 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

555

Bill Nye - Remarks

«The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use. I have carefully guarded, all...

peac and 13 more 16 hours 16 minutes

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General Fiction

501

Richard Harding Davis - Princess Aline

Morton Carlton, an easy-going, rich young artist, has never taken the concepts of love and marriage all that seriously — until by accident a copy of an English illustrated paper falls into his hands, which contains a...

Crln Yldz Ksr 3 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

455

Bart Haley - In the Sweet Dry and Dry

Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most...

Daryl Wor 2 hours 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

431

Allan Monkhouse - Mary Broome

Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values....

1 hour 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

509

Christopher Morley - Mince Pie

Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: «If one asks what excuse there can be for prolonging the existence of these...

Lucretia B. and 9 more 6 hours

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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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