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Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh
John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters,…
Perkins of Portland
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Ellis Parker Butler
Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions dir…
The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation
Read by Algy Pug
Francis Bickford Hornbrooke
Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in …
The Garden Of Folly
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
A 1924 collection of essays by the celebrated Canadian humorist, popular in the first half of the twentieth century throughout the English s…
The Schoolmistress
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Arthur Wing Pinero
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Th…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet
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A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick With: Carleton Hobb…
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Read by Martin Geeson
Laurence Sterne
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …
Sir Nigel
Read by Clive Catterall
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
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 …
A Chapter on Birds
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Richard Bowdler Sharpe
A short book about birds that are rare in England, but may visit from time to time.
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 …
Nonsense Novels
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
Birds of the Air
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arabella B. Buckley
Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …
Literary Lapses
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…
Essay on the Creative Imagination
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Théodule-Armand Ribot
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…
Birds of Prey
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Biltmore Oswald
Read by Nigel Boydell
J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…