Humor (Fiction)

Gigolo

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edna Ferber


Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

Behind the Beyond

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Stephen Leacock


A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia…

The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale

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Irving Bacheller


Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is a piquant parable of human nature. Bacheller's lightly humorous voice is …

The Talking Horse And Other Stories

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F. Anstey


A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range …

Shakspere: Personal Recollections

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John A. Joyce


A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…

Something Childish, but very Natural

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Something Childish, but very Natural by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry p…

The College Freshman's Don't Book

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George Fullerton Evans


A short, humorous guide of what not to do in your first year of college. (Summary by Jill Engle)

Charley's Aunt

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Brandon Thomas


The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of course they can't stay unless there is a proper chaperone. So what could be…

In Pawn

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Ellis Parker Butler


Inspired by "Lives of the Saints", fat, lazy, good-for-nothing Harvey Redding decides to give up the junk-collecting business, and…

Meet Mr. Mulliner

Read by James Hutchisson


P. G. Wodehouse


A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson

The Black Poodle and Other Tales

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F. Anstey


This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 3)

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Stephen Leacock


Widely considered a classic of Canadian humorous literature, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town tells stories set in the fictional town of M…

No. 17 (Number Seventeen)

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J. Jefferson Farjeon


A thriller about a down-and-out sailor finding his way in London. The book followed a successful play that was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, …

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

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Sir Walter Raleigh


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry proj…

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Ella Cheever Thayer


A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…

The Small Bachelor

Read by Zach Hoyt


P. G. Wodehouse


Set against a backdrop of Prohibition-era New York, The Small Bachelor is the story of a young man from the West who is trying to be an arti…

Gevleugelde Daden

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Herman Heijermans, Jr.


Het boek Gevleugelde Daden van Herman Heijermans Jr. werd uitgegeven in 1911 (sommige bronnen zeggen 1908) onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkl…

Love in a Cottage

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Nathaniel Parker Willis


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Oct…

The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibil…

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Stephen Leacock


More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are hu…

There is a Tavern in the Town

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James Stephens


The soul of Irish wit is captured in this unique tale of a barstool philosopher, the concluding story from 'Here Are Ladies' by James Stephe…

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