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Christopher Morley - Pipefuls

A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface «These...

klbonds and 12 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

435

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Amiable Charlatan

An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating his food, and hands him a packet underneath the table! So begins Paul...

ToddHW and 4 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Short Stories

574

A. A. Milne - Not That It Matters

More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh, but he worked for many years as editor of Punch Magazine and these are some...

Bill Mosley and 13 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

469

F. Anstey - Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a diferent background. A series of adventures of a well educated foreigner in London which...

Phil Chenevert and 12 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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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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*Non-fiction

442

Samuel H. M. Byers - With Fire and Sword (Byers)

Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. «In war some persons seek adventures; others have them in spite of themselves. It happened that the writer of this book belonged to a...

Chris Chapman and 9 more 4 hours 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

470

Eugene Field - Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have...

David Wales and 7 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

507

George Bernard Shaw - Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

InThis is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in England. Shaw uses this «exposition of Ibsenism» to illustrate the...

Gesine and 9 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Single Author Collections

474

Elbert Hubbard - Mintage

Elbert Hubbard is best known as the author of the «Little Journeys To The Homes of Famous People». These 11 short stores show the side of him that celebrated caring, friendship love among humans. The first describes...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 1 hour 44 minutes

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442

Siegfried Sassoon - War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. He served in World War I on the Western Front and was awarded the Military...

KHand and 7 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Poetry

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D. H. Lawrence - Ballad of Another Ophelia

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.

Algy Pug and 15 more 38 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

528

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Devil's Bridge

Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 10 more 24 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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