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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper — author of The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , etc — has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious little essay on the...

32 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jane Austen - Lady Susan

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan , which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady...

2 hours 27 minutes

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Satire

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Ambrose Bierce - Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's...

Peter Yearsley and 13 more 8 hours 35 minutes

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Poetry

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C. J. Dennis - Glugs of Gosh

First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century — but the absurdities it catalogs seem just as prevalent at the start of the twenty-first. The foolishness of...

Chris Goringe 1 hour 26 minutes

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Satire

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being...

Michelle Crandall and 19 more 33 hours 4 minutes

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Romance

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate...

Tina Tilney and 19 more 16 hours 3 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Kristin LeMoine and 10 more 33 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Alex Buie and 4 more 11 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

David Barnes and 4 more 36 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Maria Celano and 7 more 32 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Chip and 8 more 46 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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