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In Satires and Profanities
Satires and Profanities is a collection of sharp-witted essays and stories by George William Foote, a prominent figure in the realm of Freet…
Scenes 4: Scotland-Yard
In Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
Sketches by Boz is a captivating collection of short pieces by Charles Dickens, first published in 1836. This work offers a vivid glimpse in…
An Essay on Man
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
Ken
In The Farmer's Bride (Version 2)
A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminari…
Christopherson
In The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
The Mappined Life
In The Toys of Peace
The Toys of Peace is a delightful collection of short stories by the master of wit, Saki (H.H. Munro). Published posthumously in 1923, this …
Centre for the Study of the Book
University of Oxford Podcasts
Exodus
The Bible Reading's version of Exodus (KJV). The Bible Reading project aims to place a recording of the entire Bible into the public domain.…
Uncle Chatterton’s Gingerbread
In Uncollected Short Stories of L.M. Montgomery
A compilation of 80 short stories by the author of "Anne of Green Gables" that were not previously published in a book or in one o…
Jonson
In An Alphabet of History (Version 2)
These witty, engaging and amusing poetic descriptions of the lives of prominent people are not only a joy to read, but are a quick and easy …
Bendy's Sermon
In Songs of the Road
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…
Postscript
In Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds
In this book are over 30 stories by various people about men and women who have done extraordinary things during and often before the time w…
Crime and Education from Miscellaneous Papers
In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
Questions
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Revery
In Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collect…
The Clever Parson
In Five Minute Stories
Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. So…
On a Picture
In Silverpoints
Silverpoints is the first collection of poems by John Gray. Some saw Gray as a protégé of Oscar Wilde, who agreed to underwrit…
I: Glastonbury
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…
To Christopher North
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…