Humor (Fiction)
Antymonachomachia
Read by Piotr Nater
Ignacy Krasicki
Poemat opowiada o reakcjach mnichów do których klasztoru Niezgoda podrzuciła Monachomachię. Pozornie odwołując zarzuty wypowie…
Sockerpullor och Pepparkorn: Små bilder ur skånska folklifvet förr och nu
Read by Petra
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…
Eliza
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
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
Read by Tom Penn
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…
Essays on Paul Bourget
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…
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…
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
Read by Arnold
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…
Tales of St. Austin's
Read by KevinS
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…
The One-Hoss Shay
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
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…
Still - William
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
The Inimitable Jeeves
Read by Mark Nelson
P. G. Wodehouse
Poor Bertie Wooster. His pals are always falling in love with the wrong girls, and he seems to always to be engaged to the wrong one himself…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
Read by Linda Olsen Fitak
Edwin Abbott Abbott
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…
A Valentine
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Lewis Carroll
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
The Bab Ballads
Read by Graham Redman
W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…
My Buried Treasure
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for t…
The Steel Flea
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Nikolai Leskov
An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…
The Problem Club
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Barry Pain
The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…