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Take it From Dad

Read by Lee Smalley


George Livermore and George G. Livermore


Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…

New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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John Rae


After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…

Yollop

Read by Barry Eads


George Barr Mccutcheon


Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to…

The Book of Snobs

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William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

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Variousandthomas Lansing Masson


Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Guy Wetmore Carryl


Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La …

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Bill Nye


Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend re…

Gullible's Travels, Etc.

Read by Winston Tharp


Ring Lardner


Humorous stories of social climbing in America's "classless" society. - Summary by Winston Tharp

The Hunting of the Snark (version 2)

Read by Shawn Craig Smith


Lewis Carroll


The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursu…

Jack and the Check Book

Read by Cate Barratt


John Kendrick Bangs


Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you don't immediately recognize Jack and the Check …

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03

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H. G. Wells


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors…

Five O'Clock Tea

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William Dean Howells


A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the…

The Witches of New York

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Q. K. Philander Doesticks


A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Phi…

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

Read by Bridget Gaige


Edward Eggleston


"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv of…

Physiologie du jour de l'an

Read by Ezwa


Louis Couailhac


Premier de l'an, jour si triste pour les uns, si beau pour les autres, je vais essayer d'esquisser ta physionomie ; et je te traiterai aussi…

El crimen de Lord Arturo Savile

Read by Victor Villarraza


Oscar Wilde


En "El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville" se nos revela el Wilde en estado puro, el observador más irónico y despiadado …

The Mirror Of Kong Ho

Read by David Wales


Ernest Bramah


This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

Read by David Wales


William John Locke


This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible -- and irrepressible -- Frenchman in England and Par…

That Pup

Read by David Wales


Ellis Parker Butler


A puppy, unannounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales

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