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The Rod of Correction
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
The Lynching of Jube Benson
In The Heart of Happy Hollow (Version 2)
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
Philomena by Matthew Arnold
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
The Well
In The Lady of the Barge
Another collection of short stories, a mixture of the humorous and the horrifying all with unexpected twists - Summary by Inkell
Book I: Of the implements for walking the streets and signs of the weather
In Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig t…
22-Uncle Josh and the Lightning Rod Agent
In Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories invites listeners into the whimsical world of Uncle Josh, a charming old country man whose humorous tales…
The Outcast
In Stories and Pictures
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
Jill's Cat
In Short Story Collection Vol. 038
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 038: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Avila
In Poems
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his…
The Question
In Poems
A short collection of poems by the Oxford-born poet and playwright Stephen Phillips including his two major works Marpessa and Christ In Had…
Caroline
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
A Triad
In Sonnets
This is an excellent selection of introspective, inspirational and remarkably compelling sonnets from one of the greatest poets of the ninet…
Jerry Bundler
In Light Freights
A collection of weird and humorous short stories known for their good twists featuring a trio attempting some get-rich-quick schemes, the go…
The Love Philter
In Stories without Tears
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fic…
How "Ruby" Played
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 author…
Curious, If True
In Short Stories (Later works 1858-65)
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Dickens's 'Household Worlds' and 'All The Round' until he later years. From 1858 onwards, she…
Notes Episode 16: Jocelyn
In Notes from the Vault
A blizzard cripples an isolated stretch of US Highway where freezing to death would be a mercy. An antique broker holds the internet in the …
The Council of Dogs by William Roscoe
In Selections from Harris's Cabinet
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…
2 - A Doctor's Visit
In The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. …
The Spell of the Yukon
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (Version 2)
This collection deals with wanderlust in general but the bulk of the poems are based on Service’s time in the Yukon. He captures the excitem…