Humor (Fiction)

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…

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…

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 …

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, …

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…

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…

Antymonachomachia

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Ignacy Krasicki


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

Святочные рассказы, том 2

Read by Mark Chulsky


Nikolai Leskov


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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Essays on Paul Bourget

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Mark Twain


Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…

The Idiot at home

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John Kendrick Bangs


The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

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George Wilbur Peck


A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a wri…

The Foolish Dictionary

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Charles Wayland Towne


"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

Tales of St. Austin's

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P. G. Wodehouse


Early short stories from Wodehouse focusing on life at St. Austin's, a fictional English public school. Also, Included are four humorous ess…

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