Humor (Fiction)
The Place Beyond The Winds
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Harriet Theresa Comstock
Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so…
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (Selectio…
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William James Mcglothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…
The School for Husbands
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Molière
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …
Humorous Readings and Recitations
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Leopold Wagner
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
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Stephen Leacock
"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…
Marge Askinforit
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Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
Amusement Only
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Richard Marsh
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
An Ideal Husband (version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…
Eliza
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
The Sorrows of a Show Girl
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Kenneth Mcgaffey
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the un…
Trolley Folly
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Henry Wallace Phillips
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…
Essays on Paul Bourget
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Mark Twain
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…
The Foolish Dictionary
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Charles Wayland Towne
"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…
The Idiot at home
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John Kendrick Bangs
The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion
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George Wilbur Peck
A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a wri…
Tales of St. Austin's
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P. G. Wodehouse
Early short stories from Wodehouse focusing on life at St. Austin's, a fictional English public school. Also, Included are four humorous ess…
The Inimitable Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse
Poor Bertie Wooster. His pals are always falling in love with the wrong girls, and he seems to always to be engaged to the wrong one himself…
The One-Hoss Shay
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiec…
Still - William
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Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales