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General Fiction

580

August Strindberg - Red Room

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business...

William Peck 10 hours 4 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

468

Owen Wister - Dragon of Wantley

The «true» story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, and the terrible Dragon of Wantley. Oh, and don't forget the wine. (Summary by D. A....

D. A. Frank 3 hours 27 minutes

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Poetry

447

John Dryden - Dryden vs Shadwell - a Poetic Duel

Throughout history there have been many creative artists whose fame depends largely on their association with a much greater artist. Such the case of Thomas Shadwell, poet and prolific writer of low brow comedies, who...

Bob Gonzalez and 2 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

Satire

465

Laurence Oliphant - Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris, writes here under the amusing guise...

TRUEBRIT and 4 more 7 hours 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

416

Stephen Leacock - Behind the Beyond

A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast for Section 1: Narrator/Stage Directions – Tricia G Sir...

Algy Pug and 3 more 3 hours 15 minutes

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Plays

470

J. M. Barrie - Admirable Crichton

From the author of Peter Pan: Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the...

2 hours 45 minutes

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General Fiction

524

Herman Melville - Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The...

mb 10 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

580

Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age , commonly given to the era,...

TriciaG and 19 more 17 hours 8 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

582

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known...

JuliaY and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

573

Francis Coventry - History of Pompey the Little

«Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages.» At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an...

TriciaG and 10 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

520

John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2)

John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot...

Lars Rolander 1 hour 56 minutes

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Satire

491

Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey

Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 23 minutes

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New

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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