Humor (Fiction)

The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading)

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Eliza Armstrong


The Teacup Club (For the Advancement of Woman) is formed when Dorothy decides to found an intellectual club of her own - to teach her fiance…

Das Bombardement von Åbo

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Carl Spitteler


Dies ist eine leicht absurde Erzählung über das Bombardement der Finnischen Stadt Åbo durch die Briten, und wie es die Leben…

Grotesques and Fantasies

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Israel Zangwill


A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, …

Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Mark Twain


Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long…

Satires and Profanities

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George William Foote


"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…

Sunbeams

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George Wilbur Peck


George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, &qu…

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

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Cal Stewart


A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. (Summary by Philip Martin)

Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading)

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Steele Rudd


This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2)

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Stephen Leacock


Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…

He

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Andrew Lang


This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer)You will not think, therefore, tha…

Lines on The Mermaid Tavern

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John Keats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August…

Bauerngeselchtes

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Adam Karrillon


Adam Karrillon (1853-1938) war Arzt und Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Heimatromane aus dem Odenwald sowie durch Reiseerzä…

A Family of Noblemen

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…

Mortal Coils

Read by Kirsten Wever


Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

The Old Debauchees

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Henry Fielding


Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…

Phantasmagoria and other poems

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Lewis Carroll


This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…

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…

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

Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

A Bayard from Bengal

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Anstey


The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…

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