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Stories To Make You Laugh

The best medicine…

by Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dudley Warner, Edgar Alan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J M Barrie, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Ring Lardner, Saki, Stephen Leacock, William James Lampton ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

8 hours 36 min

Pure laughter, whether our own or others, makes us all feel more comfortable with the world and situations we find ourselves in. Why something is funny is hard to say but we know that there are people who are funny and can say funny things. It’s an immediate advantage for them.In this volume your hosts including Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, J M Barrie, O Henry and many others who range from the ... Read more

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Pure laughter, whether our own or others, makes us all feel more comfortable with the world and situations we find ourselves in. Why something is funny is hard to say but we know that there are people who are funny and can say funny things. It’s an immediate advantage for them.In this volume your hosts including Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, J M Barrie, O Henry and many others who range from the
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The Seven Month Itch

by Tanvier Peart ...

Narrated by Benjamin Charles, Lacy Laurel ...

Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

Seven days.One relentless best friend.A singles’ retreat in the middle of nowhere my future ex-husband decides to attend.What could go wrong?Note to self: When your best friend of twenty years shows up at your door and tells you to pack, run. It’s an ambush, not your annual girls’ trip. I wasn’t fast enough, so here I am. At a seven-day singles’ retreat in Vail, Colorado, 1,011 miles away from ... Read more

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Seven days.One relentless best friend.A singles’ retreat in the middle of nowhere my future ex-husband decides to attend.What could go wrong?Note to self: When your best friend of twenty years shows up at your door and tells you to pack, run. It’s an ambush, not your annual girls’ trip. I wasn’t fast enough, so here I am. At a seven-day singles’ retreat in Vail, Colorado, 1,011 miles away from
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The Lives and Theories of Eminent Philosophers (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Biographies, Doctrines, and Sayings from the Greek Schools of Ancient Philosophy

by Diogenes Laertius, Laurel Emberford ...

Translated by Charles Duke Yonge ...

The Lives and Theories of Eminent Philosophers is an indispensable compendium of ancient Greek philosophy, presenting biographies, doctrines, sayings, and anecdotes from Thales and Pythagoras to Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics. Its style is eclectic and doxographical: part intellectual history, part biographical miscellany, part repository of memorable apophthegms. Though not always ... Read more

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The Lives and Theories of Eminent Philosophers is an indispensable compendium of ancient Greek philosophy, presenting biographies, doctrines, sayings, and anecdotes from Thales and Pythagoras to Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics. Its style is eclectic and doxographical: part intellectual history, part biographical miscellany, part repository of memorable apophthegms. Though not always
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Wieland

by Charles Brockden Brown, Laurel Lefkow ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

Wieland (1798) is an early American novel set in 1760s Pennsylvania. Based on a real case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the story is imbued with suspense and intrigue, adopting Gothic devices such as ventriloquism and spontaneous combustion. The satanic interloper Carwin exercises his power over the narrator, Clara Wieland, wreaking havoc over the Wieland family with disastrous ... Read more

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Wieland (1798) is an early American novel set in 1760s Pennsylvania. Based on a real case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the story is imbued with suspense and intrigue, adopting Gothic devices such as ventriloquism and spontaneous combustion. The satanic interloper Carwin exercises his power over the narrator, Clara Wieland, wreaking havoc over the Wieland family with disastrous
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Ancient Greek Philosophers in Biography, Anecdote, Doctrine, and Hellenistic Tradition

by Diogenes Laertius, Laurel Emberford ...

Translated by Charles Duke Yonge ...

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is the great surviving compendium of ancient Greek philosophical biography, arranging thinkers from the Seven Sages and early Ionians to Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Skeptics, Cynics, and Epicurus. Its style is not systematic argument but learned mosaic: anecdotes, maxims, catalogues of writings, doctrinal summaries, wills, letters, and verses are ... Read more

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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is the great surviving compendium of ancient Greek philosophical biography, arranging thinkers from the Seven Sages and early Ionians to Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Skeptics, Cynics, and Epicurus. Its style is not systematic argument but learned mosaic: anecdotes, maxims, catalogues of writings, doctrinal summaries, wills, letters, and verses are
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Classic Novelists

The top ten short stories written by classic novelists.

by Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, F Scott Fitzgerald, Louisa May Alcott, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fyodor Dostovesky, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A Nineteenth-Century Protestant Critique of Catholic Confession, Clerical Power, and Female Vulnerability

by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, Laurel Emberford ...

The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional is a vehement nineteenth-century polemic against the Catholic sacrament of auricular confession, arguing that the confessional creates dangerous imbalances of spiritual and sexual power between priest and penitent women. Written in an urgent, sermonic style, it blends anecdote, moral exhortation, biblical appeal, and courtroom-like accusation. Its ... Read more

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The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional is a vehement nineteenth-century polemic against the Catholic sacrament of auricular confession, arguing that the confessional creates dangerous imbalances of spiritual and sexual power between priest and penitent women. Written in an urgent, sermonic style, it blends anecdote, moral exhortation, biblical appeal, and courtroom-like accusation. Its
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by Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Anna Sewell, Charles Dickens, Martin Howard, Narinder Dhami, Sue Perkiss, Julie Berry ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow ...

Series series Collins
Unabridged

2 hours 49 min

Four thrilling classics with adventure at their hearts, abridged especially for young listeners: The Three Musketeer’s, The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, Nicholas Nickleby. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move!Introduce your children to four much-loved adventure stories. These abridged versions of classic stories will become firm favourites in your family.Playlist:· The ... Read more

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Four thrilling classics with adventure at their hearts, abridged especially for young listeners: The Three Musketeer’s, The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, Nicholas Nickleby. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move!Introduce your children to four much-loved adventure stories. These abridged versions of classic stories will become firm favourites in your family.Playlist:· The
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3 Stories - Racial Identity

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Charles W Chesnutt, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Dunbar-Nelson ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Darrell Joe, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

2 hours 15 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - North American Men

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Edward Page Mitchell, W C Morrow, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert E Howard, Uriah Derick D'Arcy, Frank R Stockton, Charles W Chesnutt, Ring Lardner, Wallace Thurman, Henry Harland, Rudolph Fisher, Sinclair Lewis, Tod Robbins, Benjamin Rosenblatt, Booth Tarkington, William Austin ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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The Rise of Universities (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. The Rise of Universities

by Charles Homer Haskins, Laurel Emberford ...

In The Rise of Universities, Charles Homer Haskins offers a concise yet richly informed account of the medieval origins of the European university. Tracing institutions such as Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, he shows how communities of masters and students emerged from cathedral schools, legal study, ecclesiastical privilege, and urban life. His prose is lucid, economical, and gently ironic, ... Read more

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In The Rise of Universities, Charles Homer Haskins offers a concise yet richly informed account of the medieval origins of the European university. Tracing institutions such as Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, he shows how communities of masters and students emerged from cathedral schools, legal study, ecclesiastical privilege, and urban life. His prose is lucid, economical, and gently ironic,
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A Tokyo Anthology

Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920

by Sumie Jones, Charles Shirō Inouye, Dr. Anthony H. Chambers, Joel Cohn, Rebecca L. Copeland, Alan Cummings, James Dorsey, Peter Duus, Matthew Fraleigh0, Howard Hibbett1, Ken K. Ito2, Dr. Matthew Koenigsberg3, Dylan McGee4, Professor John Pierre Mertz5, J. Scott Miller6, Professor Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail7, M. Cody Poulton8, Laurel Rasplica Rodd9, Professor Eiji Sekine0, Stephen Snyder1, Dr. Takashi Wakui2 ...

The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s ... Read more

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The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s
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