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Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

Read by Czechchris


Jerome K. Jerome


Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second publi…

Lausbubengeschichten

Read by Klaus Neubauer


Ludwig Thoma


Humorvoll berichtet der Schüler Ludwig von seinen Streichen wider Scheinheiligkeit und falsche Autorität in Bayern zur Zeit Kö…

Once a Week

Read by Cate Barratt


A. A. Milne


A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period…

The Canterville Ghost (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Oscar Wilde


A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1…

Die toten Seelen

Read by Eva K.


Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Pawel Tschitschikow entwirft eine groteske Idee, die ihn zu Geld bringen soll. Er macht Geschäfte mit Leibeigenen, und zwar mit toten! …

Enterrado en Vida

Read by Victor Villarraza


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett escribió Enterrado en vida después de su obra más conocida y seria, Cuento de viejas, y siempre la consi…

More William

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Richmal Crompton


The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to …

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

Read by Ruth Golding


John Kendrick Bangs


From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy…

Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…

Uncle Remus & Friends

Read by Phil Chenevert


Joel Chandler Harris


Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and m…

The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry

Read by Sandra Cullum


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…

L' Art de payer ses dettes et de satisfaire ses créanciers sans débourser un sou

Read by Ezwa


Émile Marco De Saint-Hilaire


Manuel du Droit Commercial, à l'usage des gens ruinés, des solliciteurs, des surnumérateurs, des employés r&eacu…

The White Linen Nurse (version 2)

Read by MaryAnn


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…

Officer 666

Read by Roger Melin


Barton Wood Currie


Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rat…

The Europeans

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Henry James


The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…

The New Swiss Family Robinson

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

Brain Twister

Read by Catharine Eastman


Laurence M. Janifer


"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …

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