Humor

The Humbugs of the World

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P. T. Barnum


P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

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Jerome K. Jerome


Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second publi…

Once a Week

Read by Cate Barratt


A. A. Milne


A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period…

Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1

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Mark Twain


Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) "Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia." 2.) "The Austrian Edison keeping scho…

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1…

A Book of Nonsense

Read by Phil Chenevert


Edward Lear


In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book …

More William

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Richmal Crompton


The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to …

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

Utopia of Usurers

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capi…

Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream

Read by Ruth Golding


John Kendrick Bangs


From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy…

Uncle Remus & Friends

Read by Phil Chenevert


Joel Chandler Harris


Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and m…

L' Art de payer ses dettes et de satisfaire ses créanciers sans débourser un sou

Read by Ezwa


Émile Marco De Saint-Hilaire


Manuel du Droit Commercial, à l'usage des gens ruinés, des solliciteurs, des surnumérateurs, des employés r&eacu…

Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…

The White Linen Nurse (version 2)

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…

Space Casey Season 2

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Christiana Ellis


In this follow-up to the award-winning comedy-science-fiction-audio-drama: "Space Casey", Casey the intergalactic con-artist conti…

The Europeans

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Henry James


The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…

Officer 666

Read by Roger Melin


Barton Wood Currie


Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rat…

The Defendant

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…

Я попала

Read by Jenni (ЛИ)


Измайлова Кира


Я попала От Автора: Это писалось довольно давно и дополнялось кусочками. Да-да, прием обстебывания фэнтезийных штампов давно не нов, я знаю…

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