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Molière - Misanthrope

Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows — Alceste might actually...

2 hours 10 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

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Tobias Smollett - Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

Sir Launcelot Greaves goes around the country with his comic squire, trying to be a knight and perform good deeds. This novel is written in the style of Don Quixote by the author of The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker...

Tom Penn and 2 more 10 hours 19 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

476

Molière - School for Wives

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...

1 hour 52 minutes

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446

George Farquhar - Inconstant

Subtitled «The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris — a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English settings — though still presented to the same English audience. „This comedy… had a...

2 hours 2 minutes

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Lording Barry - Family of Love

The Family of Love is an early Jacobean city comedy, first published in 1608. Published anonymously, the play was long attributed to Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, although more recent scholarship suggests that...

2 hours 37 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

424

Margaret P. Sherwood - Princess Pourquoi

Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: «She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be alien to her own sex, and undesired by the other. She shall ask and it will not...

Arielle Lipshaw and 4 more 2 hours 49 minutes

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Romance

438

Frances Eleanor Trollope - That Unfortunate Marriage

This is the funny, romantic, slightly tongue-in-cheek story of how little May Cheffington makes her way in the world despite being the sole surviving product of «that unfortunate marriage.» — Summary by Angela Rowland

Angel5 14 hours 56 minutes

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crocodile

Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His...

Tony Addison 1 hour 59 minutes

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Satire

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O. Henry - Roads of Destiny

This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. — Summary by Sid

Scott Foster and 2 more 9 hours 5 minutes

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Plays

459

Molière - Bourgeois Gentleman

The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the...

2 hours 5 minutes

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Satire

435

Francis Beaumont - Knight of the Burning Pestle

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don...

Rob Marland 2 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

442

Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin Dooley, «doctor of philosophy.» Mr. Dooley was a saloonkeeper with opinions...

Don W. Jenkins 4 hours 59 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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