Humorous Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac - L. A. ABBOTT
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac - L. A. ABBOTT
- Author: L. A. ABBOTT
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking, hilarious events that led (or stumbled) to the marriages and the ah--disassembling/failing/failures of each...
The Girl on the Boat - P. G. Wodehouse
The Girl on the Boat - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Also published as "Three Men and a Maid". The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is engaged...
The Semi-Detached House - Emily EDEN
The Semi-Detached House - Emily EDEN
- Author: Emily EDEN
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather petulant) Lady Blanche Chester,...
An Ideal Husband (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a crime, never had a "past" and never bowed to corruption or influence, or so she thinks... The disreputable Mrs Cheveley is...
The Diamond Cross Mystery - Chester K. STEELE
The Diamond Cross Mystery - Chester K. STEELE
- Author: Chester K. STEELE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stolen. Whodunnit, and how can the Colonel's expertise in fishing help to solve the case? (Summary by Carolin)...
Psmith in the City - P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith in the City - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes on the job of clerk at the “New Asiatic Bank.” Luckily, school friend Psmith, with his boundless optimism and...
The Black Poodle and Other Tales - F. Anstey
The Black Poodle and Other Tales - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)...
More Goops and How Not to Be Them - Frank Gelett BURGESS
More Goops and How Not to Be Them - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the...
Love and Mr Lewisham - H. G. Wells
Love and Mr Lewisham - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H.G.Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, shows how these – as well as involvement in spiritualism – have to compete with love. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Sea Lady (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
The Sea Lady (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive, which she conceals for quite a while, is to win the heart of a handsome but irresponsible young man whom she glimpsed...
The Book of Snobs - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Book of Snobs - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the world has been gradually...
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is written in the style of a diary kept...
Patricia Brent, spinster - Herbert George Jenkins
Patricia Brent, spinster - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she "never has a nice young man to take her out". In a thoughtless moment of anger she announces that the...
The American Claimant - Mark Twain
The American Claimant - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, "all men are created equal" America. Twain wrote the...
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2) - John Kendrick Bangs
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream (version 2) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Fantasy Fiction
John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot summary: J K Bangs has taken Alice from...
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament - Robert COPLAND
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament - Robert COPLAND
- Author: Robert COPLAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Introduction - This is a collection of ten comic pieces from the 16th century and earlier, as compiled and edited by Frederick Furnivall for private circulation in 1871. Only the first is by Copland. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)...
The Genial Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
The Genial Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with the loveable, but somewhat self-opinionated and irritating Mr Idiot. (Summary by Michele Eaton)...
Is He Popenjoy ? - Anthony Trollope
Is He Popenjoy ? - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a thoroughly respectable, upstanding, if...
Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harris are out of the boat and on the land riding their bikes. Their lives are too stressful and they need a break...
Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family - B. P. SHILLABER
Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family - B. P. SHILLABER
- Author: B. P. SHILLABER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the "inappropriate" word choices often cause one to look at a situation in a new way. (Introduction by Debra Lynn)...
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster ladies? A murder at a hospital, reuniting lovers, a mangy dog or does it have fleas? The hilarious and often...
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
- Author: Anne Wales ABBOT
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her solicitation, have allowed them to be...
The Problem Club - Barry Pain
The Problem Club - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathematics, but are social problems, in the broadest possible sense of the word. For instance, how does one manage...
This Giddy Globe - Oliver Herford
This Giddy Globe - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Is there a genre called FUN? Yes, and this is it! Insanely humorous geography that will have you rolling on the floor laughing with your sides hurting. (Summary by Neeru Iyer)...
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language - CUEY-NA-GAEL
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language - CUEY-NA-GAEL
- Author: CUEY-NA-GAEL
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Language learning
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to admit that it wasn't quite that...
The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all was to turn to Jeeves - Bertie's Man. He understood human nature, especially that of gilded youth. It did not...
Mrs. Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
Mrs. Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Herbert 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...
Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms - Heywood BROUN
Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms - Heywood BROUN
- Author: Heywood BROUN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, such as how to court women successfully, what it feels like to be a god, and why sometimes it would be a good...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. But trouble is never far behind them, and their adventures are only beginning when they meet up with...
Two Poe Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
Two Poe Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works exploring the pieces of the...
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures - Montague GLASS
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures - Montague GLASS
- Author: Montague GLASS
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment trade. Many of the plots were...
Miss Mapp - E. F. Benson
Miss Mapp - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story The Male Impersonator), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress (published as The...
Three Men and a Maid - P. G. Wodehouse
Three Men and a Maid - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his...
The Semi-Attached Couple - Emily EDEN
The Semi-Attached Couple - Emily EDEN
- Author: Emily EDEN
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misunderstandings and jealousies continually drive them apart. The machinations and intrigues of a large...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
Danny's Own Story - Don MARQUIS
Danny's Own Story - Don MARQUIS
- Author: Don MARQUIS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home because they need a new topic over which to bicker. Bicker they do, and fight just as often, from the day they...
Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2) - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2) - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction
Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's original writings. The Aesop-style fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings...
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / *Non-fiction
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse", a woman who had gained a...
Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Those Extraordinary Twins" was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". As Twain explains, he extricated "Twins" from "Pudd'nhead" when he found, as he was writing, that...
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories - First Romance, which had originally appeared in The Express in 1870, and A...
