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Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in this collection are works that appeared by themselves in magazines during Twain's lifetime, as well as essays...
Merton of the Movies - Harry Leon WILSON
Merton of the Movies - Harry Leon WILSON
- Author: Harry Leon WILSON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a...
Tartarin of Tarascon - Alphonse DAUDET
Tartarin of Tarascon - Alphonse DAUDET
- Author: Alphonse DAUDET
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions....
The Compleat Bachelor - Oliver ONIONS
The Compleat Bachelor - Oliver ONIONS
- Author: Oliver ONIONS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late Victorian England is among his first...
Adventures of Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
Adventures of Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come into being...
When Patty Went to College - Jean Webster
When Patty Went to College - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a bright, fun loving, imperturbable...
American Fairy Tales - L. Frank Baum
American Fairy Tales - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect of the best of Baum's work, in Oz or out. With...
The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale - Irving Bacheller
The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale - Irving Bacheller
- Author: Irving Bacheller
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is a piquant parable of human nature. Bacheller's lightly humorous voice is evident throughout. Not all listeners will agree with the author's view of labor and management. - Summary by...
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. Mark Twain published several collections of his short stories and essays. This collection, like the others,...
Mr. Incoul's Misadventure - Edgar SALTUS
Mr. Incoul's Misadventure - Edgar SALTUS
- Author: Edgar SALTUS
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Saltus has been compared to Oscar Wilde for wit and language. His novels are entertaining, yet philosophical, exposing the vagaries of human nature. The publishers promoted Mr. Incoul's Misadventure thus: "A novel which is sure to be condemned by...
Psmith, Journalist - P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith, Journalist - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Psmith takes over editing a paper while the usual editor is away on vacation. He takes on a local slum lord, and divers alarums ensue. (description by Psuke Bariah)...
The White Linen Nurse (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and the air of perfection. She had...
The Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
The Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath...
The Adventures of Sally - P. G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sally - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally's ambitious brother, an assortment of theater people, a pair of...
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers - Robert Williams WOOD
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers - Robert Williams WOOD
- Author: Robert Williams WOOD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining! (Summary by Andrea L.)...
Buttered Side Down - Edna Ferber
Buttered Side Down - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it...
Reginald - Saki
Reginald - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been...
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting...
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy events as well as sad ones and is...
Love's Shadow - Ada Leverson
Love's Shadow - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The first in a trilogy of books known together as 'The Little Ottleys', this is a sparkling social comedy set in Edwardian London. Ada Leverson was a great friend and staunch supporter of Oscar Wilde and shared his love for sharp, witty writing....
Short Story Collection Vol. 043 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 043 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 043: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Uncle Remus & Friends - Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus & Friends - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and many of us adults!) love to listen to. Yet the 'Brer Rabbit and 'Brer Fox and the others sound a lot like the...
Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) - Steele RUDD
Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Humorous Fiction
This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis: After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd's second eldest son) has finally got married. To a...
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer - Richard STEELE
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer - Richard STEELE
- Author: Richard STEELE
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new satirical paper The Tatler by...
Once a Week - A. A. MILNE
Once a Week - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period was first published in Punch magazine. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass'' - Bill Nye
Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass'' - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong. I would not do so even if I had an idea what palliate meant. . . . I have taken great care to thoroughly...
Irish Wit and Humor - Various
Irish Wit and Humor - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be poignant in addition to being humorous and for others they may be...
He - Andrew Lang
He - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer) You will not think, therefore, that the respectful Liberty we have taken with your Wondrous Tale... indicates any lack of Loyalty to our Lady...
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from burial in the great mausoleum of the...
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary), Tummus (Thomas) recounts the series of...
Humorous Readings and Recitations - Leopold WAGNER
Humorous Readings and Recitations - Leopold WAGNER
- Author: Leopold WAGNER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to issues and authors of the time....
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. Fielding never owned to writing...
History and Records of the Elephant Club - Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
History and Records of the Elephant Club - Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
- Author: Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mortimer Q. Thomson (September 2, 1832 – June 25, 1875) was an American journalist and humorist who wrote under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks. He was born in Riga, New York and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Michigan...
The Sunny Side - A. A. MILNE
The Sunny Side - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, especially Winnie The Pooh, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in Punch, to which he was a...
Snarleyyow - Frederick MARRYAT
Snarleyyow - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat heavy-handed, the sympathies of the author are clear and good, and cruelty is often averted by good fortune or...
The Pennycomequicks - Sabine Baring-Gould
The Pennycomequicks - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scarred and battered by human and Divine tragedy, struggling for sustenance of the material and / or immaterial...
Mother Goose for Grownups - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Mother Goose for Grownups - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by fink)...
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The Stolen White Elephant (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
"The Stolen White Elephant" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the...
Not George Washington - P. G. Wodehouse
Not George Washington - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
It has been said that behind every successful man is a good woman. This is certainly true in the case of James Orlebar Cloyster. However, some funny things happened on his road to success. His story is humorously told from the point of view of...
The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell - Don MARQUIS
The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell - Don MARQUIS
- Author: Don MARQUIS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Published in 1921 (Prohibition went into effect in January 1920), "Hail and Farewell" is a collection of poems in honour of alcohol, drunkenness, and all things related. In "The Old Soak", an old codger grumbles and connives to get alcohol in the...
