Humorous Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
In Brief Authority - F. Anstey
In Brief Authority - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Fantasy Fiction
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough snob, is crowned Queen of the...
Madcap - George Gibbs
Madcap - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Quote:"To the quiet Titine her mistress created an impression of bringing not only herself into the room, but also the violent horse and the whole of the out-of-doors besides." --Chapter 1 of Madcap. --In the same chapter, Hermia Challoner, this...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts...
Grotesques and Fantasies - Israel Zangwill
Grotesques and Fantasies - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction
A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, these stories have a wider stage, poking fun at social conventions and society itself, both high and low. The...
First Fifty Digits of Pi - Scott HEMPHILL
First Fifty Digits of Pi - Scott HEMPHILL
- Author: Scott HEMPHILL
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Science
56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in styles of their own choosing. In...
The School for Wives - Molière
The School for Wives - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the...
Happy Days - A. A. MILNE
Happy Days - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual, they are funny, wry, and poke...
Emma - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands her friends and family until...
The Toys of Peace - Saki
The Toys of Peace - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham Redman)...
Love Insurance (version 2) - Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance (version 2) - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
On duty with Lloyds of London in NYC, young Richard Minot is sent to the St Augustine-ish town of San Marco to ensure that a wealthy young lady, Cynthia Meyrick marry his firm's client, Lord Harrowby. Then, in a meet-cute on a slow-moving train,...
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and going to balls. Catherine finds...
A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories - Bill Nye
A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend residing in Ludlow prison, to “advice” to a son, to a wry commentary on his visits to Oakland, California. From...
Gullible's Travels, Etc. - Ring Lardner
Gullible's Travels, Etc. - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Humorous stories of social climbing in America's "classless" society. - Summary by Winston Tharp...
Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of six short stories, each of them illustrating that even a marriage which looks perfect from the outside can be sabotaged quite easily by the two people involved. - Summary by Carolin...
Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor - Various
Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels...
Sir Harry Wildair - George Farquhar
Sir Harry Wildair - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
This sequel to the Jubilee [The Constant Couple, or A Trip to the Jubilee] appeared at Drury Lane in 1701, and was almost as popular as its predecessor. The smartness of the dialogue, the witty comment upon the fashions of the hour, the movement of...
The Chaucer Storybook - Eva March Tappan
The Chaucer Storybook - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stories are now available to those who would like to read them without struggling through Middle English poetry. The...
Helen's Babies - John HABBERTON
Helen's Babies - John HABBERTON
- Author: John HABBERTON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days while she and her husband are out of town. Helen says, "The children won't give you the slightest trouble;...
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Romance
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those...
Wodehouse in the Strand - Short Story Collection - P. G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse in the Strand - Short Story Collection - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of P.G. Wodehouse's short stories published in The Strand from 1918 to 1922. (kirk202) Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short...
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories...
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897.Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary"...
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by BellonaTimes)...
The Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
The Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
"It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his "alleged mind" on plans for the...
Flood Tide - Sara Ware BASSETT
Flood Tide - Sara Ware BASSETT
- Author: Sara Ware BASSETT
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on Cape Cod. Whenever he was 'ketched' by an 'idee' he had to see it to completion, and always did. His small...
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a woman who apparently has two husbands: A devoted English scholar and an abusive drunkard from the American...
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
The Europeans - Henry James
The Europeans - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England. The...
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an...
Grimm Tales Made Gay - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Grimm Tales Made Gay - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.(Summary by Annise)...
Miss Billy's Decision - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy's Decision - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
When Miss Billy closed, Miss Billy and Bertram were happily engaged. In this first sequel to Miss Billy will the path to wedded bliss run smooth or will misunderstandings and heartache cross their path? Find out in Miss Billy’s Decision! (Summary by...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2) - Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2) - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is...
Kashtanka - Anton Chekhov
Kashtanka - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish dachshund-mix, whose name means 'little chestnut.' After her detestation of...
Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in "The Defandant", "Varied Types" and "Tremendous Trifles". These 12 pieces were chosen to giving a peek into the margins...
Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation - Edward S. Van ZILE
Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation - Edward S. Van ZILE
- Author: Edward S. Van ZILE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in the cases of "When Reginald was Caroline," "How Chopin came to Remsen," and "Clarissa's troublesome baby" . If you're looking for a break from more...
Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be - Irwin Leslie GORDON
Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be - Irwin Leslie GORDON
- Author: Irwin Leslie GORDON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. -- S. McGaughey From the Introduction, "The editor begs leave to inform the public that only persons who can produce proper evidence of their demise will be admitted to Who Was Who....
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man - Sinclair Lewis
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachelor--a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and...
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking chains and all. But these modern Americans will have no truck with ghostly...
