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When God Laughs, and Other Stories

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Jack London


This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, …

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

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Sinclair Lewis


"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at…

Mrs. Bindle

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Herbert George Jenkins


Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…

Tales of the Fish Patrol

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Jack London


Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …

Our Mutual Friend, Version 2

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Charles Dickens


Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers

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Sinclair Lewis


“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, …

Dutch Courage and Other Stories

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Jack London


Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall writ…

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter

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Robert Louis Stevenson


More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three …

The Sorcery Club

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Elliott O'Donnell


Leon Hamar and his friends were out-of-work and starving in San Francisco after the firm they worked for went out of business. Leon acquired…

Widdershins

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Oliver Onions


Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…

Messengers of Evil

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Marcel Allain


Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…

The Pagan Madonna

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Harold Macgrath


The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting…

Louis Lambert

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Honoré de Balzac


Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosop…

The Exploits of Juve

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Marcel Allain


Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…

A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories

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Bill Nye


Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend re…

The Tinted Venus

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F. Anstey


When a young newly engaged man finds himself bound for an amusement garden with an old flame, not his fiancee, it is not surprising that he …

History and Records of the Elephant Club

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Q. K. Philander Doesticks


Mortimer Q. Thomson (September 2, 1832 – June 25, 1875) was an American journalist and humorist who wrote under the pseudonym …

A Bayard from Bengal

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F. Anstey


The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…

A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West

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Frank Norris


This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the co…

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

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Finley Peter Dunne


In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin …

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