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Follies in Fiction

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Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Version 2

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Stephen Leacock


A collection of humorous fiction by renowned Canadian writer, Stephen Leacock. Unlike the lighter Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town that pr…

Benigna Machiavelli

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…

The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories

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Edith Wharton


Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…

The Girls of Chequertrees

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Marion St. John Webb


Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An o…

Now We Are Six

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A. A. Milne


Milne's second book of children's poetry: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and no…

Surprise House

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Abbie Farwell Brown


Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…

Knock Three Times!

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Marion St. John Webb


“Jack and Molly were twins, and this was their ninth birthday. Such a happy, exciting day it had been; it felt like a birthday all day long,…

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One

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Edith Wharton


Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…

The Crux

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


"This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts …

Polly and Phil

In A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia

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Amanda Minnie Douglas


The early youth of an old town has a certain simplicity like the youth of human life. Its struggles, its romance, its unfolding come down th…

An Egyptian Hornet

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065

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Algernon Blackwood


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow - Read by WA

In Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow

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Lewis Carroll


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow by Lewis Carroll.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…

Uncle Wiggily and the First Pig

In Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose

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Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggly, that irrepressible rabbit, meets characters from Mother Goose in these stories. The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon; the 3 Litt…