Humor (Fiction)

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

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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 White Linen Nurse

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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 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 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…

Marriage, volume 1

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier


"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and…

The Pennycomequicks

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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…

The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …

Stage Land

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Jerome K. Jerome


A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily r…

The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

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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 Wit and Humor of America, Vol 04

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fourth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 author…

Best Way to Read a Book

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Edgar A. Guest


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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George Horace Lorimer


Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as…

The Make-Believe Man

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Richard Harding Davis


Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man…

The Cave On Thunder Cloud

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Tish Carberry reluctantly takes her two best friends, Aggie and Lizzie, on a camping trip into the hills of their Midwestern American town, …

Pomona's Travels

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Frank R. Stockton


Pomona and Jone of Rudder Grange fame travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great …

Moods

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Louisa May Alcott


"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the wor…

Gedichtsammlung 1

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Friederike Kempner


Eine Auswahl der fast 400 (meist sehr kurzen) Gedichte von Friederike Kempner.Die Verfasserin: "Das waren Tage des Glückes, als ic…

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