Humor (Fiction)

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Read by Kevin LaVergne


Mark Twain


"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story fol…

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Read by Phil Chenevert


Mark Twain


Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. T…

Obras Clásicas españolas y extranjeras

Read by Victor Villarraza


Francisco De Quevedo


Esta recopilación se publicó en 1865 bajo el nombre de Obras clásicas y en ella se incluye: El marido engañado d…

Snarleyyow

Read by Arnold


Frederick Marryat


This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat h…

Miss Marjoribanks

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Margaret O. Oliphant


One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 …

More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Read by Mark F. Smith


Frank Gelett Burgess


Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…

Fables in Slang

Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)


George Ade


While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables i…

Святочные рассказы

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…

Perfect Behavior

Read by Samanem


Donald Ogden Stewart


A humorous guide to manners and etiquette for ladies and gentlemen in a social "crises," published in 1922. (Introduction by Saman…

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long co…

Is He Popenjoy ?

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Anthony Trollope


Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

Love Insurance

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Earl Derr Biggers


A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks... And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows…

Göteborgsflickor

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Sigge Strömberg


Sigge Strömberg, född som Sigfrid Strömberg 22 december 1885 i Göteborg, död 3 mars 1920, svensk författare oc…

Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who…

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Irwin Leslie Gordon


A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. -- S. McGaughey From the Introduction, "The editor begs leave to in…

Winter (Shakespeare)

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William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…

Kathleen

Read by KirksVoice


Christopher Morley


A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

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Variousandthomas Lansing Masson


Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

The Peterkin Papers

Read by entada


Lucretia P. Hale


The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. Th…

The Bent Twig

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

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