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Tenterhooks

Read by Helen Taylor


Ada Leverson


The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', b…

Cinderella

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George Calderon


If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only…

Contos, volume 2

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Artur de Azevedo


Artur de Azevedo foi um dos principais autores de teatro no Brasil do século XIX. Dando continuidade à obra de Martins Pena, c…

Komische Lyrik von Busch und Morgenstern

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Christian Morgenstern


Dies ist eine Auswahl von deutschen Gedichten komischer Lyrik von Wilhelm Busch und Christian Morgenstern. This is a selection of German com…

The Unbearable Bassington

Read by NoelBadrian


Saki


The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short sto…

Toppleton's Client

Read by Cate Barratt


John Kendrick Bangs


A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simpl…

The Jumping Frog

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Mark Twain


"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorio…

The Song Against Songs

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G. K. Chesterton


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octobe…

The School For Scandal

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady …

Mr Munchausen

Read by Kevin Green


John Kendrick Bangs


The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymo…

Carry On, Jeeves

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P. G. Wodehouse


"Leave it to Jeeves" was Bertie's motto, be the question one of a colour of a tie, the style of a hat, the cut of a coat. Jeeves w…

Seventeen

Read by Jonathan Burchard


Booth Tarkington


Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently sat…

The Genial Idiot

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John Kendrick Bangs


John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with the loveable, but somewhat self-opinionated and irritating Mr Idiot. (Summary by M…

Contes humoristiques

Read by Zeckou


Théophile Gautier


Un voyageur rencontre l’amour de sa vie lorsque objets et peintures prennent vie dans une chambre d’hôtes.L’âme d’une maison vit…

An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language

Read by Anna Simon


Cuey-Na-Gael


Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that h…

Those Extraordinary Twins

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


"Those Extraordinary Twins" was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's "The Traged…

Hedda Gabler

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Henrik Ibsen


Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic Genera…

The Chronicles of Clovis

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Saki


This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…

The Lark

Read by Grant Hurlock


E. Nesbit


"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts ent…

Tea-table Talk

Read by Ruth Golding


Jerome K. Jerome


As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…

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