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George Oliver Onions was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historica…

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

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Robert Smith Surtees

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …

Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This is a collection of six short stories, each of them illustrating that even a marriage which looks perfect from the outside can be sabota…

Molly Make-Believe (version 2)

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to…

Smoke Bellew

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Jack London

Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in …

J. Poindexter, Colored

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Irvin S. Cobb

This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion

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Imogen Clark

In addition to being amusing, recipes written in a poetic form were easy to remember and used as learning tools for the young housekeeper. M…

Miss Civilization

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Richard Harding Davis

Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. Thi…

Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (Selectio…

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Anonymous

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…

Further Foolishness

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Stephen Leacock

Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…

The Place Beyond The Winds

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Harriet Theresa Comstock

Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so…

Marge Askinforit

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Barry Pain

A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

Amusement Only

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Richard Marsh

This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

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Stephen Leacock

"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…

Humorous Readings and Recitations

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Leopold Wagner

Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…

A Deal With The Devil

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Eden Phillpotts

A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…

The School for Husbands

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Molière

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

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Christopher Morley

Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…

Antymonachomachia

Read by Piotr Nater

Ignacy Krasicki

Poemat opowiada o reakcjach mnichów do których klasztoru Niezgoda podrzuciła Monachomachię. Pozornie odwołując zarzuty wypowie…

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