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Epistolary Fiction

475

Tobias Smollett - Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary...

David Lawrence and 7 more 17 hours 32 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

449

Ludvig, Baron Holberg - Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground

Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as «Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum» (1741) is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist,...

Alan Winterrowd 3 hours 50 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

495

Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson

A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with...

Termin Dyan 8 hours 50 minutes

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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

Humorous Fiction

496

John Kendrick Bangs - Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

From Alice in Blunderland: «Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--» «Mercy!» cried Alice, «Why, that is--that is terrible.» «It certainly is,» said...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 58 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

506

George Calderon - Cinderella

If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere… This is «a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one.» Set on a «bleak and cheerless heath...

1 hour 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

582

Lucian of Samosata - Trips to the Moon

The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History ,...

Ralph Snelson 3 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

576

Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 13 minutes

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Dramatic Readings

563

Mark Twain - 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

Please note: this recording contains strong language. «1601,» wrote Mark Twain, «is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson,...

19 minutes

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Satire

606

Anton Chekhov - Proposal

The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people. They married to gain wealth and possessions. In this play, the concept of...

31 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

730

E. F. Benson - Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story The Male Impersonator), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 8 hours 25 minutes

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General Fiction

624

Virginia Woolf - Voyage Out

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America...

Grant Hurlock 17 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

647

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is...

Ellis Christoff 36 hours 10 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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