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David Ransom's Watch
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
A tale of human choices and lost opportunities, and how one's choices affect so many other lives, for good or ill.A borrowed watch. A selfis…
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
The Nebuly Coat
Read by Simon Evers
John Meade Falkner
Westray, a young architect, is sent to the town of Cullerne to oversee repairs to the tower of the minster there. He lodges in the town in t…
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
Gullible's Travels, Etc.
Read by Winston Tharp
Ring Lardner
Humorous stories of social climbing in America's "classless" society. - Summary by Winston Tharp
Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton
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G. K. Chesterton
This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in "The D…
Humour of the North
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Variousandlawrence J. Burpee
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and hu…
The Return of Don Quixote
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G. K. Chesterton
The mirthful story of a Don Quixote who, riding into a world of fetes and parties, tilts a humorous and well aimed lance at some of the conv…
The Splendid Outcast
Read by Tony Oliva
George Gibbs
_What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that on…
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope, Version 2)
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
P. G. Wodehouse
Their Mutual Child (aka The Coming of Bill and The White Hope) is full of the loveable characters, preposterous situations, and opportunitie…
The Gentle Grafter
Read by Leslie Walden
O. Henry
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" i…
All Things Considered
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…
Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
As in a Mirror
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
A wealthy and successful author, John Stuart King is preparing to write his next book, which includes a homeless tramp. He has done all the …
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …
The Mirror Of Kong Ho
Read by David Wales
Ernest Bramah
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…
Red Pottage
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with th…
David Copperfield, Band 08 (Version 2)
Read by josvanaken
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield von Charles Dickens ist ein viktorianischer Bildungsroman, der die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten David Copperfield er…
Ann
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Lechmere Worrall
Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex bett…