Humor

And Even Now

Read by Kirsten Wever


Max Beerbohm



This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

Serpentine Street

Read by Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard


Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard



Boo Boisie is a patient in the Barmy Mental Asylum. Sure, the place is air conditioned and clean and the food is occasionally actually palat…

Grandma's Prayer

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Eugene Field



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Grandma's Prayer by Eugene Field . This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 4, 2011.E…

Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III

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Albert Bigelow Paine



This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09

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H. G. Wells



The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors…

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

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Stephen Leacock



Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

The Fiddler of Dooney

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William Butler Yeats



LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Decembe…

A Long November: A Tale of Christmas Come Too Early

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Blake M. Petit



Duncan Marks is just like you -- sick and tired of Christmask before the Thanksgiving turkey even comes out of the oven. But this year, a Sp…

The Wonderful World of Linus Bailey

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Peter James Lamb



Linus Bailey's tenth birthday, if measured on some kind of “So how did it go then?” scale, would score a one. Maybe a bit less. It started…

The Old Man and the Ass

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Jean de la Fontaine



LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the t…

The Jingle Book

Read by Betsie Bush


Carolyn Wells



A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.

Some Articles About Mark Twain

Read by John Greenman


Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates



"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…

One Third Off

Read by Bryan Ness


Irvin S. Cobb



Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876–March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and wrote over 60…

Love-Songs of Childhood

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Eugene Field



This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics f…

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…

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…

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)

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…

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