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Satire

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Robert Smythe Hichens - Green Carnation

The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas — also known as 'Bosie', whom the...

ElleyKat and 2 more 4 hours 52 minutes

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There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows

Performing Arts

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Jack Gaver - There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows

There's Laughter in the Air takes readers on a sidesplitting romp through the world of old-time radio comedy. It gives a brief history of the medium and brief but intimate accounts of some of the biggest acts from the...

Maria Kasper and 9 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

536

A. A. Milne - Happy Days

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual,...

Phil Chenevert and 17 more 8 hours 15 minutes

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General

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L. Frank Baum - Sky Island (version 2)

A little girl (Trot) and her friend (Cap'n Bill) team up with a young boy named Button-Bright. Button-Bright had found a magical umbrella in his attic. He meets the kind girl and sailor and they are transported to a...

ASPotter and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

499

Humorous Ghost Stories

Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough — The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde — The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess — «Dey ain't no ghosts» / by Ellis Parker Butler — The transferred ghost / by...

Madam Fickle and 15 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ruth Plumly Thompson - Kabumpo in Oz

Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then you'll want to hear about the latest happenings in that delightful Kingdom....

ElleyKat and 4 more 5 hours 10 minutes Oz books

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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea-going races there has...

Arnie Horton and 5 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2

This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary...

Lynne T and 25 more 18 hours 56 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Fairy Book

The sleeping beauty in the wood — Hop-O'-My-Thumb — Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper — Adventures of John Dietrich — Beauty and the Beast — Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes — Jack the...

Woolly Bee and 20 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

516

Hans Christian Andersen - Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales

Short-stories/fairy tales by H. C. Anderson, includes The Ice-maiden — The Butterfly — The Psyche — The Snail and the Rose-tree The Ice-Maiden: Written toward the end of Hans Christian Andersen's career, «The...

ElleyKat 2 hours 25 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Wonder Clock

«Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day,» retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. Serialised novels sold in this way were known as...

Cori Samuel and 20 more 22 hours 43 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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