Humor (Fiction)
Cobb's Anatomy
Read by Phil Chenevert
Irvin S. Cobb
Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…
Danny's Own Story
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Don Marquis
Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home be…
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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F. Anstey
Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different back…
Baled Hay
Read by Scotty Smith
Bill Nye
There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…
Chimes From A Jester’s Bells
Read by Debra Lynn
Robert Jones Burdette
Part I. The Story of Rollo; Mr. Holliday knows all there is to know about raising children, or at least he thinks he does. His attempts to t…
If Winter Don't
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decl…
A Valentine
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Jessie Pope
Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems publ…
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…
Een Ongeluksvogel
Read by Anna Simon
George Lodewijk Kepper
'Een ongeluksvogel' is een roman uit 1868, over de lotgevallen van Eduard van Bergen - zijn opvoeding, schooltijd, vriendschap, liefde en av…
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 …
Ring for Nancy
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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…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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…
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…
La gente cursi
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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…
Men I'm Not Married To
Read by Kirsten Wever
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was a poet, writer and satirist of the foibles of the early 20th century (not least, of Prohibition), and a founding member o…
El cocodrilo
Read by Victor Villarraza
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Un acontecimiento extraordinario, o el relato verídico que refiere cómo a un caballero de cierta edad y mucho respeto se lo tr…
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
Read by Joseph Tabler
Harry Leon Wilson
Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, bu…
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…