Humor (Fiction)
Mornings at Bow Street
Read by Chris Caron
John Wight
This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Finley Peter Dunne
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin …
Moth Terror
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Benjamin De Casseres
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Moth Terror by Benjamin De Casseres . This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 13…
Struwwelpeter (version 2)
Read by Roman Buettner
Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishment…
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Jefferson B. Browne and Artemus Ward
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain…
Ghetto Comedies
Read by Anthony Ogus
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…
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…
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)
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…
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…
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
A Valentine (From an old Lover)
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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…
Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''
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.…
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…
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…
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: 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…