Humor (Fiction)

Come Out of the Kitchen!

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Alice Duer Miller


A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …

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

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…

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…

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…

Tartarin of Tarascon

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Alphonse Daudet


The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures a…

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…

La gente cursi: novela de costumbres ridículas

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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…

The Egregious English

Read by David Wales


T. W. H. Crosland


This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…

The Impromptu of Versailles

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Molière


The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they ha…

A New Arrival

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George Washington Cable


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A New Arrival by George W. Cable. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.…

Not That it Matters (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


A. A. Milne


A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…

Swatty: A Story of Real Boys

Read by DaleBarkley


Ellis Parker Butler


The fun adventures of Georgie, Swatty, and Bony, as they encounter flooding rivers, emotional girls, burning buildings, rotten stumps, mean …

The Disagreeable Man

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W. S. Gilbert


LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 1…

Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels

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St. John Emile Clavering Hankin


A collection of short and humorous one-act "sequels" to 14 major plays (many already in the Librivox catalog).Plays end too soon. …

Shorty McCabe

Read by Scotty Smith


Sewell Ford


Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III

Read by Jim Locke


François Rabelais


The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…

Contes, récits et scènes en vers

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Gustave Nadaud


Collection de 48 poèmes humouristiques ou tragiques ainsi que 2 petites scènes de théâtre de la plume de Gustave …

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