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Dere Mable - Edward STREETER
Dere Mable - Edward STREETER
- Author: Edward STREETER
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an army camp - all from Bill's unique...
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol - William John Locke
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible -- and irrepressible -- Frenchman in England and Paris. The author (1863-1930) was a popular British novelist, dramatist, and playwright, known especially for...
Bizarre - Lawton Mackall
Bizarre - Lawton Mackall
- Author: Lawton Mackall
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A series of essays offering a humorous look at commonplace items and occurrences. (Summary by Nick Bulka)...
Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome
Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. The journey takes in London, Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich,...
A Wodehouse Miscellany - P. G. Wodehouse
A Wodehouse Miscellany - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blanding Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and...
The Third Person - Henry James
The Third Person - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest...
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Family
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from the Great War, and pursuing more domestic and mischievous pursuits. Finishing up college and preparing for...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
Pride and Prejudice (version 3) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austenβs novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - βIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...
Penrod - Booth Tarkington
Penrod - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. (Summary by Jonathan)...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection) - Steele RUDD
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection) - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection" "The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eight years he had been thinking of that trip, but something or other always came to prevent his going. According to Dad...
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day....
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets - Edward LEAR
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets - Edward LEAR
- Author: Edward LEAR
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat" and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins "Take 4 pounds (say 4Β½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a...
The Princess Aline - Richard Harding Davis
The Princess Aline - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Morton Carlton, an easy-going, rich young artist, has never taken the concepts of love and marriage all that seriously -- until by accident a copy of an English illustrated paper falls into his hands, which contains a photograph of the young...
Miss Civilization - Richard Harding Davis
Miss Civilization - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Comedy
Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. This recording was made in Chicago at the LibriVox World Gathering in May 2007. Cast: Kristin Hughes Betsie Bush...
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit - Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Uncle Remus' stories feature a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit ("Brother" Rabbit), who uses his wits to slide out of trouble and gain the advantage over the slower witted other animals, many of whom are trying to eat him. Br'er Rabbit stories...
The Canterville Ghost (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost has a tough time convincing the...
Sketches Of The Fair Sex - Anonymous
Sketches Of The Fair Sex - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Psychology
Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress. It is our design to present a...
The Princess - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Romance
The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The poem tells the story of an heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter....
Gentle Julia - Booth Tarkington
Gentle Julia - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Emma (version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance....As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners...
Phantasmagoria and other poems - Lewis Carroll
Phantasmagoria and other poems - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual approaches to subject matter. Some of the poems are rather meta or introspective in content. Overall, this is a...
Told after Supper - Jerome K. Jerome
Told after Supper - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when... But no, I won't spoil the fun. This is a...
The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then...
The Black Moth (version 2) - Georgette Heyer
The Black Moth (version 2) - Georgette Heyer
- Author: Georgette Heyer
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
Jack Carstares, oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, has been disgraced by his brother. Gone for six years, living the life a highwayman he meets the woman he will fall in love with. Saving her from being kidnapped by a dastardly blackguard he is injured...
The School for Husbands - Molière
The School for Husbands - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom circumstances have given almost the...
The Uncle Of An Angel - Thomas A. JANVIER
The Uncle Of An Angel - Thomas A. JANVIER
- Author: Thomas A. JANVIER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
In what I have read so far this book appears to be a humorous character study on two levels. That between the uncle and niece and that of polite society in the 19th century. Anything can happen. I for one want to find out what will happen!! -...
The Rivals - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
The Rivals - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Author: Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable people went there to "take the waters", which were believed to have healing properties. The plot centres on the...
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who seems to find adventures at every...
A Guide to Men - Helen ROWLAND
A Guide to Men - Helen ROWLAND
- Author: Helen ROWLAND
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel. From the text: A man is like a park...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction / Satire
In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is condemned to live the life of a slave. Twain uses this vehicle to...
Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe - Thomas Hood
Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 4, 2015.Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet, born in London. (Summary...
The College Freshman's Don't Book - George Fullerton EVANS
The College Freshman's Don't Book - George Fullerton EVANS
- Author: George Fullerton EVANS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A short, humorous guide of what not to do in your first year of college. (Summary by Jill Engle)...
They and I - Jerome K. Jerome
They and I - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
A man and his three children leave the βLittle Motherβ at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervise the remodeling of the house he has just purchased there. The story is narrated by the father. His...
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert BARR
In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author - publishing a book a year...
Just William (version 2) - Richmal Crompton
Just William (version 2) - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's family, his elder sister Ethel and brother Robert, placid mother and stern father, and never-ending supply of...
Remarks - Bill Nye
Remarks - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use. I have carefully guarded, all the way through, against using...
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences - H. G. Wells
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Essays & Short Works
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with "a...
Indian Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
Indian Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction
This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summary by sidhu177)...
