Humor (Fiction)

Sunbeams

Read by Arnold


George Wilbur Peck


George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, &qu…

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

Read by Philip Martin


Cal Stewart


A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. (Summary by Philip Martin)

Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading)

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Steele Rudd


This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2)

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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…

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Ella Cheever Thayer


A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…

Meet Mr. Mulliner

Read by James Hutchisson


P. G. Wodehouse


A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson

He

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Andrew Lang


This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer)You will not think, therefore, tha…

Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

Mortal Coils

Read by Kirsten Wever


Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

Lines on The Mermaid Tavern

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John Keats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August…

Bauerngeselchtes

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Adam Karrillon


Adam Karrillon (1853-1938) war Arzt und Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Heimatromane aus dem Odenwald sowie durch Reiseerzä…

A Family of Noblemen

Read by Expatriate


Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…

Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane Austen


Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels…

The Old Debauchees

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Henry Fielding


Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…

A Bayard from Bengal

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Anstey


The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…

Phantasmagoria and other poems

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Lewis Carroll


This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…

Gigolo

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edna Ferber


Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

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Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley


"What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they e…

Money For Nothing

Read by Zach Hoyt


P. G. Wodehouse


In this incisively insightful novel P. G. Wodehouse, as is his invariable custom, delves deep into the souls of his characters to lay bare m…

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

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H. G. Wells


Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of t…

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