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Cape Cod Stories

Read by David Wales


Joseph Crosby Lincoln


This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an Amer…

A House-Boat on the Styx

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John Kendrick Bangs


The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …

The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Bri…

Humorous Ghost Stories

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Dorothy Scarborough


Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- …

More Tish

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The…

Penrod and Sam

Read by Jonathan Burchard


Booth Tarkington


Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of h…

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight

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Elizabeth Von Arnim


The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention i…

Love's Shadow

Read by Helen Taylor


Ada Leverson


The first in a trilogy of books known together as 'The Little Ottleys', this is a sparkling social comedy set in Edwardian London. Ada Lever…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Read by Martin Geeson


Laurence Sterne


After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …

Eve’s Diary (version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in…

The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

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Joel Chandler Harris


26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…

Short Humor Collection 001

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P. G. Wodehouse


This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by B…

Buttered Side Down

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Edna Ferber


"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, a…

Just William (version 2)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Richmal Crompton


Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's famil…

Uncle Remus Returns

Read by Phil Chenevert


Joel Chandler Harris


Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. …

The Calico Cat (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Charles Miner Thompson


The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…

Free Air

Read by Hollis Hanover


Sinclair Lewis


This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as th…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Dramatic Reading)

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Mark Twain


In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped s…

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Read by Martin Clifton


Douglas William Jerrold


Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

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