Humor (Fiction)

Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (Selectio…

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Anonymous


LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…

The Place Beyond The Winds

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Harriet Theresa Comstock


Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so…

Amusement Only

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Richard Marsh


This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)

Marge Askinforit

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Barry Pain


A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

A Deal With The Devil

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Eden Phillpotts


A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

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Stephen Leacock


"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…

The School for Husbands

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Molière


In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …

Humorous Readings and Recitations

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Leopold Wagner


Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

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Christopher Morley


Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…

Antymonachomachia

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Ignacy Krasicki


Poemat opowiada o reakcjach mnichów do których klasztoru Niezgoda podrzuciła Monachomachię. Pozornie odwołując zarzuty wypowie…

Tales of the Long Bow

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G. K. Chesterton


These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …

The Priceless Pearl

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Alice Duer Miller


Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …

Святочные рассказы, том 2

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Nikolai Leskov


Николай Семёнович Лесков, русский писатель и публицист, из-за своих оригинальных и принципиальных взглядов был не принят по достоинству в ли…

Sam In The Suburbs

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P. G. Wodehouse


A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair…

Eliza

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Barry Pain


A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…

Sockerpullor och Pepparkorn: Små bilder ur skånska folklifvet förr och nu

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Henrik Wranér


This is a collection of amusing anecdotes about quirky couples from a rural part of Scania, in the south of Sweden. Written by a man from th…

The Sorrows of a Show Girl

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Kenneth Mcgaffey


Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the un…

An Ideal Husband (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…

Trolley Folly

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Henry Wallace Phillips


This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…

The One-Hoss Shay

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiec…

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