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    Masterpieces of Humour: Intriguing and Unusual Crime Stories
    Masterpieces of Humour: Intriguing and Unusual Crime Stories
    Masterpieces of Humour: Intriguing and Unusual Crime Stories
    Audiobook11 hours

    Masterpieces of Humour: Intriguing and Unusual Crime Stories

    Written by Mark Twain, W. W. Jacobs and Arnold Bennett

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A delightful collection of humorous classic tales by some of the world's greatest racconteurs. 1. "The Cabmen’s Shelter", by A. J. Alan 2. "The Giraffe Problem", by Barry Pain 3. "The Man Who Stole a Meeting House", by John Townsend Trowbridge 4. "Hot Potatoes", by Arnold Bennett 5. "Mons. Cassecrouche’s Inspiration" by George Walter Thornbury 6. "The Burglary", by Arnold Bennett 7. "The 19 Club", by A. J. Alan 8. "Self-Help" by W. W. Jacobs 9. "Gabriel-Ernest", by Saki 10. "An Undergraduate’s Aunt", by F. Anstey 11. "Major Namby", by Wilkie Collins 12. "The Lightning-Rod Man", by Herman Melville 13. "The Murder of the Mandarin", by Arnold Bennett 14. "A Coincidence", by A. J. Alan 15. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier 16. "The Mc Wiliamses and the Burglar Alarm", by Mark Twain 17. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", by O. Henry 18. "The Belated Russian Passport", by Mark Twain 19. "The Test", by W. W. Jacobs 20. "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde 21. "Smoked Skipper", by W. W. Jacobs 22. "Curried Cow", by Ambrose Bierce 23. "The Black Poodle", by F. Anstey 24. "The One Million Pound Banknote", by Mark Twain 25. "The Changeling", by W. W. Jacobs 26. "The Inconsiderate Waiter" by J. M. Barrie
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateAug 30, 2014
    ISBN9781467695497
    Masterpieces of Humour: Intriguing and Unusual Crime Stories
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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