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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)...
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from throughout his career, in an effort...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2) - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Erotica / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Please note: this recording contains strong language. Also known simply as "1601", this is a humorously risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. (Summary by John Greenman &...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Please note: this recording contains strong language. "1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)...
The Old Maids' Club - Israel Zangwill
The Old Maids' Club - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry, begins an Old Maids' Club, while patient young Lord Silverdale advises, observes, and writes appropriate poetry. Candidates for membership must be young,...
My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. Itβs up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant houseguests, stingy uncles, broken hearts, and...
Amusement Only - Richard Marsh
Amusement Only - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)...
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels - Stephen Leacock
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Published 1800 -1900
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as "A Square", to deride the Victorian aristocracy and its hierarchies. But the book...
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
- Author: Robert Henry Newell
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. They were published regularly in the New York Mercury Sunday newspaper for the four years of the war. In the letters,...
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2) - Irvin S. Cobb
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2) - Irvin S. Cobb
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and the problems of having a large one; teeth, hair and finally hands and feet. Summary by Phil Chenevert...
Humorous Ghost Stories - Various
Humorous Ghost Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- "Dey ain't no ghosts" / by Ellis Parker Butler -- The transferred ghost / by Frank R. Stockton -- The mummy's...
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1 - Various
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Humor
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington...
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has offered to light the town with a new gas, but actually has...
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories - Mark Twain
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other...
Half-Hours with the Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
Half-Hours with the Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mr Idiot returns with his opinions on a number of diverse topics, including women, taxation, and international diplomacy. As always, the Idiot's silly soliloquies are packed with equal parts ridiculous fallacy and sly wit. Which is your favourite?...
Miss Marjoribanks - Margaret O. Oliphant
Miss Marjoribanks - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. The Chronicles originally appeared in the famous Blackwood's Magazine. Mrs....
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention is to live a pure and simple life filled with good works. But life among ordinary people in an English village...
Pomander Walk - Louis Napoleon Parker
Pomander Walk - Louis Napoleon Parker
- Author: Louis Napoleon Parker
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Pomander Walk is a unique street in London, and in this humorous novel we meet the unusual residents. It was originally produced as a stage play and includes lively dialog. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Bertram Wooster's manservant, Jeeves, is renown for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie's friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves's fame, decides to step in...
Brewster's Millions (Version 2) - George Barr McCutcheon
Brewster's Millions (Version 2) - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Montgomery Brewster inherits a large sum of money. Then he learns he's to inherit 7 times as much! But there's a catch: he has to spend every penny of the first inheritance before his next birthday (in 357 days), and have no possessions or anything...
Letters of Travel - Rudyard Kipling
Letters of Travel - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting...
Love Among the Chickens - P. G. Wodehouse
Love Among the Chickens - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge's...
More William - Richmal Crompton
More William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
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 others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas...
Fables in Slang - George Ade
Fables in Slang - George Ade
- Author: George Ade
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous βfablesβ which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists,...
Mr Munchausen - John Kendrick Bangs
Mr Munchausen - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some further adventures of this...
The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading) - Eliza Armstrong
The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading) - Eliza Armstrong
- Author: Eliza Armstrong
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Humorous Fiction
The Teacup Club (For the Advancement of Woman) is formed when Dorothy decides to found an intellectual club of her own - to teach her fiance a lesson! The clubβs discussion topics (official) includes Theosophy, Politics and Women in Legislature. The...
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
- Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous childrenβs poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for...
In Search of the Unknown - Robert W. Chambers
In Search of the Unknown - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
Robert Chambers was a contemporary of Lovecraft, and this book consists of "weird supernatural tales" in a somewhat similar manner, except that the emphasis is on humor rather than horror. The narrator works for the newly opened Bronx Zoo in New...
The Foolish Dictionary - Charles Wayland Towne
The Foolish Dictionary - Charles Wayland Towne
- Author: Charles Wayland Towne
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 1904. According to the beginning of the book, it is "An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin,...
The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque - William Combe
The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque - William Combe
- Author: William Combe
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
βTo bury these, to christen those, And marry such fond folks who chose To change the tenor of their life And risk the matrimonial strife.β This was the humdrum life of Dr. Syntax before he set out on his bizarre and hilarious adventures, presented...
Moods - Louisa May Alcott
Moods - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"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 world their own hue,and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." Emerson. This quote opens the story of...
Biltmore Oswald - J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
Biltmore Oswald - J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
- Author: J. Thorne Smith Jr.
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully ill prepared for his arrival and dubious contribution. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell)...
Sunbeams - George Wilbur Peck
Sunbeams - George Wilbur Peck
- Author: George Wilbur Peck
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, "The Sun", as amusing and often critical comments on social and political subjects, typically current in the...
The Clicking of Cuthbert - P. G. Wodehouse
The Clicking of Cuthbert - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Join the Oldest Member...whether you like it or not...and be carried on a magic carpet ride through the world of golf, love, and...aunts...as seen through the eyes of the creator of Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle, the inimitable Pelham...
The Bent Twig - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Bent Twig - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and...
The Doctor's Dilemma - George Bernard Shaw
The Doctor's Dilemma - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Comedy
The Doctor's Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently been knighted because of a miraculous new treatment he developed for tuberculosis. As his friends arrive to congratulate him on his success, he is visited by two figures who present...
Sketches New and Old - Mark Twain
Sketches New and Old - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation (read here by Caroline Mittler) which Twain re-translated into...
Mr H - Charles Lamb
Mr H - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the characters are skilfully drawn and the sharp observations of contemporary fashion do much to divert the...