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Epistolary Fiction

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Elizabeth Griffith - History Of Lady Barton

This is the story of the three Cleveland siblings: Fanny, the innocent yet very sympathetic sister; Louisa, the strong willed sister whose miserable marriage to Sir William is the center of the novel; and Sir George...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 25 minutes

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History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2)

Satire

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William Shakespeare - History of Troilus and Cressida (version 2)

The History of Troilus and Cressida has long baffled critics and audiences alike for its inconsistent tone, which ranges from bawdy comedy to somber tragedy, as well as its decidedly unheroic and unsympathetic cast...

3 hours 43 minutes

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Satire

517

William Dean Howells - Traveller from Altruria

Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor...

Foon and 4 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

554

Bill Nye - Bill Nye's Cordwood

From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at everything and everybody. This book is another wonderful collection of his...

John and 9 more 3 hours 44 minutes

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Plays

505

Molière - Love-Tiff

«The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from which there is no visible disentangling. The conversation between Valère and...

2 hours 1 minute

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Plays

554

Arthur Wing Pinero - Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that this is NOT a farce — the hypocrisy is not played for laughs. — Summary by...

3 hours 13 minutes

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Satire

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George Bernard Shaw - Candida (version 2)

This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for much of his...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 57 minutes

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Plays

503

Molière - Blunderer, or The Counterplots

A very early Moliere. From the Translator: «In this piece the plot is carried on… by a servant, Mascarille, who is the first original personage Molière has created; he is not a mere imitation of the valets of the...

2 hours 29 minutes

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Plays

444

Arthur Wing Pinero - Cabinet Minister

Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exaggerates their sentiments and magnifies their foibles. In this light it is...

3 hours 4 minutes

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Satire

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George Bernard Shaw - Arms and The Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 51 minutes

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

493

Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as «A Square», to deride the Victorian aristocracy and...

Linda Olsen Fitak and 1 more 4 hours 31 minutes

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Plays

492

Ben Jonson - Devil is an Ass

An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Squire Fabian Fitzdottrel, he finds Fabian currently beset by con men, cheats,...

3 hours 22 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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