Humor (Fiction)
The Schoolmistress
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Arthur Wing Pinero
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Th…
Dandy Dick
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Arthur Wing Pinero
“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers …
The Tale of Paddy Muskrat
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Arthur Scott Bailey
Enter Pleasant Valley, the home of the interesting and entertaining creatures and adventures born of American author Arthur Scott Bailey. Th…
Comedies of Courtship
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Anthony Hope
A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Ghetto Comedies
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Israel Zangwill
A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…
La gente cursi: novela de costumbres ridículas
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Ramón Ortega Y Frías
Novela satírica sobre la sociedad española en el siglo XIX, en particular la clase media que aspiraba a nobleza, pero a quiene…
Voces Populi
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…
Mr. Incoul's Misadventure
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Edgar Saltus
Saltus has been compared to Oscar Wilde for wit and language. His novels are entertaining, yet philosophical, exposing the vagaries of human…
Bunker Bean
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Harry Leon Wilson
Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, bu…
Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy
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Ford Madox Ford
Major Edward Brent Foster is on his way to a house in the country to stay with his aunt and uncle. So are his fiancée Olympia Peabody…
Fables for the Frivolous
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…
Tartarin of Tarascon
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Alphonse Daudet
The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures a…
The Egregious English
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T. W. H. Crosland
This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…
The Impromptu of Versailles
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Molière
The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they ha…
A New Arrival
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George Washington Cable
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A New Arrival by George W. Cable. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III
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François Rabelais
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…
Contes, récits et scènes en vers
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Gustave Nadaud
Collection de 48 poèmes humouristiques ou tragiques ainsi que 2 petites scènes de théâtre de la plume de Gustave …
Not That it Matters (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…
Swatty: A Story of Real Boys
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Ellis Parker Butler
The fun adventures of Georgie, Swatty, and Bony, as they encounter flooding rivers, emotional girls, burning buildings, rotten stumps, mean …
The Disagreeable Man
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W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 1…