Humor (Fiction)

Molly Make-Believe (version 2)

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to…

Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This is a collection of six short stories, each of them illustrating that even a marriage which looks perfect from the outside can be sabota…

J. Poindexter, Colored

Read by Grant Hurlock


Irvin S. Cobb


This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

Miss Civilization

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Richard Harding Davis


Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. Thi…

Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion

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Imogen Clark


In addition to being amusing, recipes written in a poetic form were easy to remember and used as learning tools for the young housekeeper. M…

The Priceless Pearl

Read by Nancy Halper


Alice Duer Miller


Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …

Further Foolishness

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Stephen Leacock


Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…

The Place Beyond The Winds

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Harriet Theresa Comstock


Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so…

Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (Selectio…

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William James Mcglothlin


LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…

A Deal With The Devil

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Eden Phillpotts


A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…

Amusement Only

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Richard Marsh


This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)

Humorous Readings and Recitations

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Leopold Wagner


Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…

Marge Askinforit

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

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Stephen Leacock


"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…

The School for Husbands

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Molière


In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …

Tales of the Long Bow

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G. K. Chesterton


These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …

In the Sweet Dry and Dry

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Christopher Morley


Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…

Sam In The Suburbs

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P. G. Wodehouse


A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair…

Antymonachomachia

Read by Piotr Nater


Ignacy Krasicki


Poemat opowiada o reakcjach mnichów do których klasztoru Niezgoda podrzuciła Monachomachię. Pozornie odwołując zarzuty wypowie…

Святочные рассказы, том 2

Read by Mark Chulsky


Nikolai Leskov


Николай Семёнович Лесков, русский писатель и публицист, из-за своих оригинальных и принципиальных взглядов был не принят по достоинству в ли…

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