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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

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Richard Steele


Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

Off-Hand Sketches

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T. S. Arthur


The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…

The Owl Critic

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James Thomas Fields


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Owl Critic by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 3, 2011.…

Divots

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P. G. Wodehouse


Divots is a humorous tale of young golfer Jack Carson’s trials and triumphs on his journey through the rugged world of competitive golf.Join…

The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading)

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G. K. Chesterton


This is undoubtedly the best of Chesterton's novels, a thriller which follows Gabriel Syme as he tries to find a way to bring the Supreme An…

Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation

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Edward S. Van Zile


As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in the cases of "When Reginald was Carolin…

Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family

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B. P. Shillaber


Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the "inappropriat…

The Skipper's Wooing

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W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Skiddoo!

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Hugh Mchugh


John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…

Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent

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Ellis Parker Butler


Traveling salesman Eliph' Hewlitt finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and decides to settle down there. - Summary by Dale Barkley

Report On an Adjudged Case

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William Cowper


William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century na…

Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

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Montague Glass


Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

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Charles S. Brooks


"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…

Adrift in the Unknown; or Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm

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William Wallace Cook


A delightful, imaginative, and sometimes silly adventure in early science fiction. Join a noble scientist and some of his less noble associa…

The Despairing Lover

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William Walsh


LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, …

The Silver Wedding

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John Godfrey Saxe


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Silver Wedding by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 12t…

History of a Life

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Barry Cornwall


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry…

Tall Tales from Texas

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Mody Coggin Boatright


Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …

The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales

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Richard Connell


Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.

A Parody Outline of History

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Donald Ogden Stewart


" Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in …

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