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Fry's English Delight - Cliches
Fry’s English Delight - Cliches

Featuring sick parrots and the cliché crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and Eliot, and helped shape modern language and culture….


The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Read by: John Greenman
Length: 6:51 h
Number of MP3 files: 20
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Mark Twains first attempt at historical fiction
The identities of two identical looking young boys, one a prince and heir to King Henry VIII of England and the other a miserable pauper become confused and the prince is thrown out of the palace leaving the ignorant pauper to play the role of the prince

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Read by: John Greenman
Length: 11:40 h
Number of MP3 files: 44

A remastered LibriVox recording

Time travelling back to King Arthur’s medieval Britain
The novel explains the tale of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to medieval Britain at the time of the legendary King Arthur.