Humor (Fiction)
The Dragon of Wantley
Read by D. A. Frank
Owen Wister
The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
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H. G. Wells
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors…
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
Idle Ideas in 1905
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Jerome K. Jerome
Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should S…
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 2)
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Mark Twain
In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he…
Frenzied Fiction
Read by Debra Lynn
Stephen Leacock
From the cave man to Santa Claus; spies, know-it-alls, and journalists: all are fair game for Leacock’s special brand of humor. He touches o…
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Edward Lear
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat&q…
On Our Selection
Read by Son of the Exiles
Steele Rudd
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…
Short Story Collection Vol. 043
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 043: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Birches
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.
What Dress Makes of Us
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Dorothy Quigley
A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…
In Brief Authority
Read by Anna Simon
F. Anstey
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…
The Pothunters
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P. G. Wodehouse
The Pothunters was popular British humorist P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse's first published book. It tells the first of what would beco…
The White Linen Nurse
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…
Chorus of Women
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Aristophanes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aris…
The Roaring Girl
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Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is …
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business…
The Toys of Peace
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Saki
This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are…
The Pennycomequicks
Read by Michael Reuss
Sabine Baring-Gould
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…