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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…

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…

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…

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 …

A Nineteenth-Century Jonah

In LibriVox 19th Anniversary Collection

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Frank Thomas Bullen


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

The Magic Bon Bons by L. Frank Baum

In Coffee Break Collection 039 - Magic

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L. Frank Baum


This is the 39th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Four sonnets by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

In Sonnets of This Century

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Various


This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It…

Ave Maria

In Narrative Poems

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Alfred Austin


Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913) became English Poet Laureate after the death of Tennyson. He was awarded the post only after several other poets…

1100 Words

In Plum Pudding (version 2)

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Christopher Morley


Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…