Humor (Fiction)
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Read by Kevin Green
Robert Smith Surtees
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Arti…
Bei Tische, Eine gastrosophische Novelle
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Otto Roquette
Es findet ein großes Diner statt im Hause des Kommerzienrates Rosenthal v. Muffelseck, und unter den geladenen Gästen befindet si…
Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
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…
Smoke Bellew
Read by Jim Locke
Jack London
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in …
Molly Make-Believe (version 2)
Read by ashleighjane
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…
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
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…
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, …
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
Read by Betsie Bush
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…
Sam In The Suburbs
Read by Zach Hoyt
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…
A Deal With The Devil
Read by Angelique G. Campbell
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…
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…
The Inimitable Jeeves
Read by Mark Nelson
P. G. Wodehouse
Poor Bertie Wooster. His pals are always falling in love with the wrong girls, and he seems to always to be engaged to the wrong one himself…
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 (Selection)
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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…
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 …
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…
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…