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Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the…

Flood Tide

Read by Roger Melin

Sara Ware Bassett

Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on …

The Twin-Rivals

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George Farquhar

"This comedy was produced at Drury Lane on December 14, 1702. It is the most accurate of all Farquhar's productions. The plot, though i…

The Anniversary Poems

Read by Thomas A. Copeland

John Donne

Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of th…

Monologues

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Richard Middleton

This is a collection of 32 highly diverting essays of English author Richard Middleton. Although Middleton is now best remembered for his gh…

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 …

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 Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf

A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

Get Next!

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,…

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley

A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

Penrod

Read by Jonathan Burchard

Booth Tarkington

Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…

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…

J. Poindexter, Colored

Read by Grant Hurlock

Irvin S. Cobb

This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson

Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson

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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 …

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill