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Mark Twain - Anti-imperialist Writings

This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamphlets). (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

John Greenman 5 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

455

Bart Haley - In the Sweet Dry and Dry

Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most...

Daryl Wor 2 hours 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

428

Allan Monkhouse - Mary Broome

Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values....

1 hour 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

479

John Kendrick Bangs - Idiot

The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their...

Gregg Margarite 2 hours 17 minutes

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General Fiction

459

Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)

Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their...

John Greenman 16 hours 9 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

527

Gaius Petronius Arbiter - Satyricon

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus...

Ann Boulais and 5 more 7 hours 56 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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John Kendrick Bangs - Autobiography of Methuselah

A satirical look at early biblical events from the point of view of someone who was there to witness most of them: the oldest man in recorded history. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)

Matthew Reece 2 hours 27 minutes

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Romance

676

Anthony Trollope - Small House at Allington

Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have...

Nicholas Clifford and 13 more 25 hours 15 minutes Barsetshire Series by Anthony Trollope

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General Fiction

472

George Douglas Brown - House with the Green Shutters

The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on...

lennich 9 hours 5 minutes

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Satire

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Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm

Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with...

Leonard Wilson 32 hours 48 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

580

G. K. Chesterton - Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of «Progressive» Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of...

Charles Bice and 12 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

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Charles Miner Thompson - Calico Cat (version 2)

The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat on his fence… and hits a man skulking in the...

Mark F. Smith 2 hours 30 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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