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13 - Book 1, Chapter 13 [Our Chef-D'Oeuvre]

In The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

Sixty-five Sizzling Rabbits (part one)

In The Complete Book of Cheese

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Robert Carlton Brown and Bob Brown


Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

Letter From Mr. Biggs, A

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01

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E. W. Howe


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors…

03 - The Story of Prometheus

In Old Greek Stories

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James Baldwin


A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Thes…

Ozymandias of Egypt

In Short Poetry Collection 004

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Three Bears

In Denslow's Three Bears

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W.W. Denslow and W. W. Denslow


This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

In The Story of the Three Little Pigs

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L. Leslie Booke and L. Leslie Brooke


This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…

The Impecunious Grasshopper and the Frugal Ant

In Fables for the Frivolous

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Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Introduction

In Main Street

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Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…

Chapter 01

In Candide

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Voltaire


Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…

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