Humor
History of a Life
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Barry Cornwall
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry…
The Silver Wedding
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John Godfrey Saxe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Silver Wedding by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 12t…
The Despairing Lover
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William Walsh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, …
Life In California
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Mark Twain
This recording is chapters 56 through 61 plus 78 of the 1879 edition of 'Roughing It' by Mark Twain (1835-1910). The chapters contain in Tw…
Cheese Curd for Bait
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James Mcintyre
Cheese Curd for Bait is a whimsical collection of poetry by James McIntyre, a celebrated figure in Canadian literature known for his humorou…
The Australaise
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C. J. Dennis
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of The Austra--laise by C.J.Dennis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.…
This Simian World
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Clarence Day
Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes…
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Robert Henry Newell
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…
Merry Autumn
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 10t…
A Poe-em of Passion
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Charles F. Lummis
A Poe-em of Passion is a witty parody by Charles F. Lummis that playfully reimagines Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem, Annabel Lee. With a lig…
Is Sex Necessary?
Read by Zach Hoyt
James Thurber and E. B. White
From the Foreword: “During the past year, two factors in our civilization have been greatly overemphasized. One is aviation, the other is s…
The Poet's Forge
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Helen Hunt Jackson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Poet's Forge by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November …