Humorous Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
- Author: George Grossmith
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a...
The Return of Alfred - Herbert George Jenkins
The Return of Alfred - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle and a railway strike he finds himself lost in the county of Norfolk at ten o'clock one night. When he seeks...
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly Brown, who provides the investment)...
Roast Beef, Medium - Edna Ferber
Roast Beef, Medium - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for a large skirt and petticoat manufacturer. Her many adventures with people, (including predatory salesmen and...
Molly Make-Believe (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Molly Make-Believe (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a "ridiculous...
The Tinted Venus - F. Anstey
The Tinted Venus - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
When a young newly engaged man finds himself bound for an amusement garden with an old flame, not his fiancee, it is not surprising that he still feels some attraction for her. When they escape the heat of the dance floor to walk among the trees in...
The Dragon of Wantley - Owen Wister
The Dragon of Wantley - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, and the terrible Dragon of Wantley. Oh, and don't forget the wine. (Summary by D. A. Frank )...
Tenterhooks - Ada Leverson
Tenterhooks - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', but Bruce Ottley is as difficult and irksome as ever. His beautiful wife Edith continues to gently manage his...
A Prefect's Uncle - P. G. Wodehouse
A Prefect's Uncle - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Reginald Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older "Bishop"...
The Fortunes of Glencore - Charles James Lever
The Fortunes of Glencore - Charles James Lever
- Author: Charles James Lever
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore proclaiming his son to be...
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. - F. Anstey
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a diferent background.A series of adventures of a well educated foreigner in London which originally appeared weekly in...
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, in the Oxford student magazine...
The Peterkin Papers - Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkin Papers - Lucretia P. Hale
- Author: Lucretia P. Hale
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and...
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck - Robert Pitcher Woodward
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck - Robert Pitcher Woodward
- Author: Robert Pitcher Woodward
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be accomplished in 5 days by train, but the author took...
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their...
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P....
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
- Author: St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A collection of short and humorous one-act "sequels" to 14 major plays (many already in the Librivox catalog). Plays end too soon. They never show the whole of what I want to know. The curtain falls and I'm perplexed with doubts about what happened...
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Edith Œnone Somerville
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Edith Œnone Somerville
- Author: Edith Œnone Somerville
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate in the West of Ireland in about 1895. The tales tell...
The Giant's Robe - F. Anstey
The Giant's Robe - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his name in the literary world but mediocrity and rejection meet him at every turn. Dejected, he meets up with...
Fresh Every Hour - John Peter Toohey
Fresh Every Hour - John Peter Toohey
- Author: John Peter Toohey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This book is best described by its subtitle: “DETAILING the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of one Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal the Heart of a...
Coffee and Repartee - John Kendrick Bangs
Coffee and Repartee - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemans boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here these fellows repeatedly face questions and proclaimations of an inhabitant they call The Idiot. The...
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but...
Love at Second Sight - Ada Leverson
Love at Second Sight - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse. Thanks to Edith's forgiving and patient ways they have put their difficulties behind them, and their lives...
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the...
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic play, brought plentiful prosperity to...
Over The Plum Pudding - John Kendrick Bangs
Over The Plum Pudding - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of them by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by...
Rainy Week (Version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Rainy Week (Version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered people are unknowing actors in a carefully crafted play that is created by inviting personalities that can be...
The Little Nugget - P. G. Wodehouse
The Little Nugget - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody of the boy. As Mountry leaves, Cynthia Drassilis...
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Rendered homeless by the arrest of his father and poverty of his mother, the...
Nothing But the Truth - Frederic Stewart Isham
Nothing But the Truth - Frederic Stewart Isham
- Author: Frederic Stewart Isham
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolute truth for three weeks. He soon learns, however, that telling only the unvarnished truth can have...
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
- Author: John Leighton
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical ability but not blessed in looks or...
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story, and, as it was his expedition...
Tartuffe - Molière
Tartuffe - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is Tartuffe or The Hypocrite, written in...
The Silly Syclopedia - Noah Lott
The Silly Syclopedia - Noah Lott
- Author: Noah Lott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of Noah...
The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2) - H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Science Fiction
Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as insects and plants receive the...
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 - Various
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Volume 2 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 Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain and Bret Harte. -...
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on the...
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer
- Author: George Horace Lorimer
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace...
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com, consist of works printed in the Muscatine Journal,...
The Wheels of Chance - H. G. Wells
The Wheels of Chance - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a Drapers Assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on a 2 week tour of the countryside. And his world will never be the same again.(Summary by annise)...