Humor (Fiction)

O. Henryana

Read by Phil Schempf


O. Henry


A book of poems and short stories. - Summary by Fritz

Once A Week (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


A. A. Milne


Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …

The Silly Syclopedia

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Noah Lott


A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing C…

Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Read by Elijah Fisher


Richard Steele


Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Henry Fielding


"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…

Stupidity

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Amy Lowell


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010.

The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Der heilige Bürokrazius

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Rudolf Greinz


Eine heitere Legende - Summary by Projekt Gutenberg

Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Anstey


F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…

The Owl Critic

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James Thomas Fields


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Owl Critic by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 3, 2011.…

The Flatting-Mill

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William Cowper


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Flatting-Mill by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011.…

One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame

Read by Nat Spratt


Robert Barr


Robert Barr approaches romance in two short stories in his engaging and subtly humorous style.In One Day's Courtship, British artist John Tr…

Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent

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Ellis Parker Butler


Traveling salesman Eliph' Hewlitt finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and decides to settle down there. - Summary by Dale Barkley

Skiddoo!

Read by Laurie Banza


Hugh Mchugh


John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…

Tall Tales from Texas

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Mody Coggin Boatright


Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …

Maarten Chuzzlewit

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


De familie Chuzzlewit is op jacht naar de erfenis van de oude Maarten Chuzzlewit. De kleinzoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, heeft daarnaast ook zijn …

Off-Hand Sketches

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T. S. Arthur


The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…

A Parody Outline of History

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Donald Ogden Stewart


" Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in …

Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family

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B. P. Shillaber


Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the "inappropriat…

At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

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Charles S. Brooks


"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…

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