Scotty Smith

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Humorous Fiction

434

Sewell Ford - Shorty McCabe

Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring.... I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only thing I knew how to do, trainin' comers to go against the champs. It ain't like...

Scotty Smith 6 hours 51 minutes

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Poetry

542

Ignatius Brennan - Humorous Poems

This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundings, and the society in which he lived. In most instances his humor is...

BettyB and 21 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Anthologies

493

John Lomax - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. «Cowboy Songs and...

Larry Wilson and 21 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

Humorous Fiction

604

Bill Nye - Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong. I would not do so even if I had an idea what palliate meant.... I have taken...

Scotty Smith 6 hours 34 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

544

H. G. Wells - Certain Personal Matters

Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pieces on a wide variety of intriguing topics from chess to death. Each essay is...

Foon and 11 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

447

Brander Matthews - Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays

This is a volume of essays by American author Brander Matthews. Matthews is today mostly remembered for his short pieces of speculative fiction, but his essays are also of enduring interest. This volume contains 15...

Scotty Smith and 7 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Short Stories

482

Tudor Jenks - Imaginotions - Truthless Tales

This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are not primarily aimed at children. The stories contain excellent satire, and are...

Dan Gurzynski and 11 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Animals & Nature

477

Sarah Noble Ives - Dog Heroes of Many Lands

Dogs are great, everyone knows that. And they can be heroes, too! This book brings together eleven dogs from around the world who have proven themselves heroes. — Summary by Carolin

Scotty Smith and 7 more 5 hours 23 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

434

Richard Middleton - Monologues

This is a collection of 32 highly diverting essays of English author Richard Middleton. Although Middleton is now best remembered for his ghost stories, he was also an accomplished poet and essayist. The musings...

Scotty Smith and 12 more 5 hours 21 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

492

Edmund Selous - Beautiful Birds

In this volume, Edmund Selous explains the beauty of birds to children. We meet some of the most beautiful birds in the world, and learn about their lives. We also learn what to do when our mothers decide to wear hats...

Scotty Smith and 5 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 073

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Saki, Katherine Mansfield, Jack London, Lord Dunsany and others to bring you tales of...

Dale Grothmann and 7 more 5 hours 13 minutes Short Story Collections

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 072

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Guy de Maupassant, Saki and others to bring...

Peter Thomlinson and 8 more 5 hours 10 minutes Short Story Collections

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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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