James E. Carson

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. C. Bailey - Highwayman

A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been...

James E. Carson 9 hours 6 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

434

Jane Barlow - Strangers at Lisconnel

Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of...

James E. Carson 8 hours 54 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Jane Barlow - Irish Idylls

Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbelievably, an uncertain date of birth, has a turn of phrase that delights and...

James E. Carson 8 hours 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

K.G.Cross and 23 more 6 hours 19 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Humorous Fiction

442

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Joseph Kranak and 15 more 6 hours 4 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Humorous Fiction

464

Irish Wit and Humor

Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be poignant in addition to being humorous...

James E. Carson 5 hours 37 minutes

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Travel & Geography

479

Henry Fielding - Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable...

James E. Carson 5 hours 17 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Robert Hugh Benson - Confessions of a Convert

Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Mary. Benson was was a prolific and popular writer during his time, and in 1903 he became a prominent convert...

RudeJohn and 4 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester

Memoirs

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William Atherton - Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester

This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is personal and at the same time very formal and reserved. As a foot soldier...

James E. Carson 3 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Firm of Nucingen

Part of the Comedie Humane and a «supplementary» tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of one of Father Goriot's daughters. «James Waring» is a pseudonym of Ellen Marriage...

James E. Carson 3 hours 17 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Echoes of the War

Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of «Peter Pan». ( Summary by JCarson )

James E. Carson 3 hours

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Published 1800 -1900

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Honoré de Balzac - Gobseck

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in...

James E. Carson 2 hours 36 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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