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T. S. Arthur - Off-Hand Sketches

The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of the incidents...

TriciaG and 9 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Mark Twain - Those Extraordinary Twins

«Those Extraordinary Twins» was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's «The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson». As Twain explains, he extricated «Twins» from «Pudd'nhead» when he...

John Greenman 2 hours 14 minutes

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454

Noah Lott - Silly Syclopedia

A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by Noah Lott (an...

Ezwa and 6 more 1 hour 53 minutes

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General Fiction

501

Barton Wood Currie - Officer 666

Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a...

Roger Melin 7 hours 51 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

549

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin of Tarascon

The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 13 more 3 hours 30 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

547

Jerome K. Jerome - Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. (Summary by Chris Garbett)

Czechchris and 2 more 6 hours 53 minutes

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Jerome K. Jerome - Idle Ideas in 1905

Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including «Should Women Be Beautiful?», «Should Soldiers Be Polite?» and «Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?». Each...

StephenC and 10 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

446

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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General Fiction

547

Arnold Bennett - Regent

'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a...

Andy Minter 9 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

513

Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring...

2 hours 44 minutes

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Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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A. A. Milne - Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying...

5 hours 23 minutes

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Helen Rowland - Guide to Men

A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel....

Cori Samuel 1 hour 34 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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