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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…

John Wyndham Chocky



Adapted for radio by John Tydeman 
With Eric Thompson Matthew is twelve, and a completely normal child. Suddenly he starts asking unusual qu…

Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…

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John Kendrick Bangs


Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …

Essays and Literary Studies

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Stephen Leacock


A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…

That Pup

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Ellis Parker Butler


A puppy, unannounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales

Books Fatal to Their Authors

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield


This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…

Tad Coon's Great Adventure

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John Breck


“Tad Coon was lost! And Doctor Muskrat and Nibble felt pretty discouraged over their chances of ever seeing him again.” Tad Coon’s adventur…

The Arizona Callahan

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Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and H. Bedford-Jones


The same distinguished writer who gave you such thrilling stories of far places as “The Brazen Peacock” and “Lou-Lou” knows the odd corners …

Red Men And White

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Owen Wister


These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …

The Three Just Men

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Edgar Wallace


It is early twentieth century England and all is not well. Innocent citizens are found murdered by an apparent snake bite accredited to a di…

Winnowed Wisdom

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Stephen Leacock


This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales

Bob and Ray WOR 124 August 30, 1973


BNRToast


Mr and Mrs Broadway show, Henry Gladstone and the Sophisticates    Thursday,     08/30/1973 Next Episode: http…

Petticoat Government, Volume 3

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Frances Milton Trollope


The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.

One-Act Play Collection 002

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This collection of eight one-act dramas features plays by Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Susan Glaspell, William Dean…

Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves

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A Highland Seer and Lillian Shearon


Reading the Cup is essentially a domestic form of Fortune-telling to be practiced at home, and with success by anyone who will take the trou…

Touch and Go

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D. H. Lawrence


A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated …

Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

Aus der Sommerfrische

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Hans Hoffmann


Mit viel Menschenkenntnis und feinem Humor erzählt Hoffmann in diesen Kurzgeschichten von manchmal sehr natürlichen Eindrücke…

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones


Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …

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