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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Adventures of Sally

This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally's ambitious brother, an...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 23 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Children's Fiction

536

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his...

Ted Kaouk and 16 more 11 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

500

Lloyd Osbourne - Wrong Box

The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have...

Andy Minter 6 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

527

Herbert George Jenkins - Patricia Brent, spinster

A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she «never has a nice young man to take her out». In a thoughtless moment of...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

523

G. K. Chesterton - Napoleon of Notting Hill

While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: «Forward, my beauty, my Arab,» he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, «fleetest of all thy...

Ray Clare 5 hours 56 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

503

P. G. Wodehouse - Three Men and a Maid

This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a...

Tim Bulkeley 5 hours 42 minutes

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Family Life

548

Mark Twain - Dog's Tale

This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy...

Aaron Elliott 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

466

Sir Henry W. Lucy - Faces and Places

Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 59 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

537

Israel Zangwill - Old Maids' Club

Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry, begins an Old Maids' Club, while patient young Lord Silverdale advises, observes, and writes appropriate poetry. Candidates...

TriciaG 9 hours 30 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

527

Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest (version 2)

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian...

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Epistolary Fiction

557

Edward Streeter - Dere Mable

Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an...

Rob Kunkel 1 hour 3 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

502

John A. Joyce - Shakspere: Personal Recollections

A fictitious account of a «friend» of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 7 hours 39 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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