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The Drayman
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume 5 invites listeners to explore a rich tapestry of American wit through a curated collection of 43 short…
A Fine Sight
In Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
The Case For Fowle
In The Human Boy Again
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…
The Applicant
In In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six…
On Common Sense
In The Day Before Yesterday
This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during h…
The Faire Begger
In Lucasta
"Lucasta" is of Latin origin meaning "Pure Light". Besides the dedication of the first poem to his wife, Anne Lovelace, …
2.14 A Reform Alphabet and Two Irish Questions
In Curiosities of Street Literature
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…
The Sentence
In Unprofessional Tales
A collection of stories exploring the psychological and paranormal, some stories bordering on the macabre. - Summary by Luke Castle
A Dill Pickle
In Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001
LibriVox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
Tillie
In The Mind-Bending World of Rog Phillips, Volume 1
Welcome to the maddeningly strange and inventive mind of prolific pulp genre author Rog Phillips (real name Roger Phillip Graham)! Having wr…
32 - The Story of Halfman
In The Violet Fairy Book
Step into a world of enchantment with The Violet Fairy Book, a captivating collection of fairy tales curated by Andrew Lang. First published…
Exeunt Omnes
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
Zachur with the Sack
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 17, Feb. 24, 1880
Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes delightful serialized and one-off short stories and tales fr…
Eadem
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute
In The Lost Valley and Other Stories
In this collection of otherworldly and mystifying stories from the master of weird fiction Algernon Blackwood, we are treated to the classic…
A New Game
In The Tale of Billy Woodchuck
This collection of short stories is about the amusing adventures of Billy Woodchuck and the other animals he encounters around Pleasant Vall…
In the Cliffland of the Dane
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
The Loved Dead
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
Frankincense and Myrrh
In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms
This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…
Some Materials and a Possibility
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085
"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …