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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of...

John Greenman 10 hours 1 minute

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Travel Fiction

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Henry James - Europeans

The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the...

Lee Ann Howlett 6 hours 37 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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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Two Poe Tales

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works...

Catharine Eastman 58 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Booth Tarkington - Seventeen

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus...

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel

Some time after «Three Men in a Boat», George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany. This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black...

Peter Yearsley 6 hours 37 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Penrod and Sam

Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of his life, Marjorie Jones. (Summary by Jonathan)

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

445

Sinclair Lewis - Free Air

This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by...

Hollis Hanover 8 hours 22 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Penrod

Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. (Summary by Jonathan)

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tramp Abroad

A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based...

John Greenman 15 hours 46 minutes

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Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson

A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with...

Termin Dyan 8 hours 50 minutes

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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

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John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

From Alice in Blunderland: «Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--» «Mercy!» cried Alice, «Why, that is--that is terrible.» «It certainly is,» said...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 58 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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