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Edna Ferber - Homely Heroine

Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style that later produced Show Boat and Giant, tells us about just such a heroine...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 37 minutes

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Travel Fiction

Washington Irving - Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from «Rip Van Winkle» and «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include «Roscoe», «The Broken Heart», «The Art of Book-making», «A Royal...

Easton and 15 more 15 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Literary Lapses

Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. «Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the...

TriciaG 4 hours 40 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 047

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Poul Anderson, Aphra Behn, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad,...

Tom Crawford and 15 more 7 hours 11 minutes Short Story Collections

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Short Stories

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922

L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character,...

Alisa 10 hours 35 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Lafcadio Hearn - In Ghostly Japan

This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 5 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

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Katherine Mansfield - In a German Pension

The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first...

skoval 3 hours 36 minutes

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Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

General Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

TriciaG 5 hours 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 1 hour 3 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 046

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 046: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Mary-Beth Blackburn and 8 more 7 hours 36 minutes Short Story Collections

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Humorous Fiction

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Short Humor Collection 001

This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 9 more 4 hours 41 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

Jane Austen - Jane Austen's Juvenilia

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her...

Claudia Wilson and 6 more 5 hours 47 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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