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Rod Beacham The Hubris File
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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Hubris File Sat 31st Jul 1982, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Rod Beacham With Geoffrey Collins …
Marwan
Read by Aram Schefrin
Aram Schefrin
How did an Egyptian city planner, a Yemeni religious fanatic, a boy from the United Arab Emirates who worshipped sex, not Allah, and a young…
Winnowed Wisdom
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
Nick Fisher The Chimes Of Midnight
Fear on Four First broadcast: Thu 4th Sep 1997, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM The Man in Black welcomes you to The Chimes…
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…
Further Foolishness
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Stephen Leacock
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074
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Various
Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain…
A Book of Scoundrels
Read by Greg Lewin
Charles Whibley
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
Ann
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Lechmere Worrall
Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex bett…
The Bookman, March 1921
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John Farrar
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illus…
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 …
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books
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Edward Francis Harkins
The purpose of this book is to renew an intimate acquaintance with the women whom the American reading public regards as favorites, and to …
Sherlock Holmes 48 10 10 The Guy Fawkes Society
The discovery of a murdered man leads Holmes to infiltrate a gang of conspirators in order to avert a catastrophe.
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
The Book of This and That
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Robert Lynd
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…
The Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day
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William Patten
The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for…
My Religion
Read by David Wales
Arnold Bennett, J. D. Beresford, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Arthur Jones, Compton Mackenzie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Hugh Walpole, Rebecca West and Israel Zangwill
This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …