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George Gascoigne - Adventures of Master F.J.

This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married woman named Elinor, lady of the castle he is visiting in Scotland. Events in...

Grant Hurlock 3 hours 38 minutes

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Plays

467

Molière - Imaginary Invalid

The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière...

1 hour 50 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

481

F. Anstey - In Brief Authority

Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough...

Anna Simon 11 hours 13 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

502

Molière - Tartuffe

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is...

1 hour 49 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

472

George William Foote - Satires and Profanities

«Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 13 more 7 hours 22 minutes

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Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Satire

465

Arnold Bennett - Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 57 minutes

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Satire

454

Denis Diderot - Rameau's Nephew

Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation written by Denis Diderot, probably between 1761 and 1772. It was first published in...

BensonBrunswin 3 hours 30 minutes

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Satire

462

Ben Jonson - Alchemist

An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the house...

3 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

468

John Wight - Mornings at Bow Street

This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces of this book are actual reports throughout the 1870s newspaper written by...

Chris Caron 6 hours 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

480

William Dean Howells - Indian Summer

In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian...

Leonard Wilson 10 hours 42 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

424

Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (dramatic reading)

Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816). As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and...

3 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

467

Mark Twain - What is Man? and Other Essays

«What Is Man?», published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man...

John Greenman 10 hours 37 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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