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An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


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 h…

Is He Popenjoy ?

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Anthony Trollope


Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

Love Insurance

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Earl Derr Biggers


A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks... And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows…

Göteborgsflickor

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Sigge Strömberg


Sigge Strömberg, född som Sigfrid Strömberg 22 december 1885 i Göteborg, död 3 mars 1920, svensk författare oc…

Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who…

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Irwin Leslie Gordon


A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. -- S. McGaughey From the Introduction, "The editor begs leave to in…

Winter (Shakespeare)

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William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…

Kathleen

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Christopher Morley


A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

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Variousandthomas Lansing Masson


Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

The Bent Twig

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

The Peterkin Papers

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Lucretia P. Hale


The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. Th…

Nothing But the Truth

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederic Stewart Isham


A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolu…

Coffee and Repartee

Read by Daryl Wor


John Kendrick Bangs


First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemen's boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here …

An Outback Marriage

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Andrew Barton Paterson


A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGENDBanjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivati…

Love and Mr Lewisham

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…

1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

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Mark Twain


Please note: this recording contains strong language."1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes …

Zuleika Dobson

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Max Beerbohm


A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the …

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Over The Plum Pudding

Read by David Wales


John Kendrick Bangs


Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of the…

Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)

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Jerome K. Jerome


Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harri…

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Read by Catharine Eastman


H. G. Wells


Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiment…

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