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The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)) The Wit and Humor od America series...
Brewster's Millions - George Barr McCutcheon
Brewster's Millions - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The story revolves around Montgomery Brewster, a poor man who inherits a large sum of money. However, there is a catch — he has to spend every penny within 30 days, and end up with nothing at that time. Should he make the deadline, he stands to gain...
Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective - Ellis Parker BUTLER
Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To that end, he enrolls in a correspondence course, where he gets lessons through the mail as well as the...
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope, Version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope, Version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Their Mutual Child (aka The Coming of Bill and The White Hope) is full of the loveable characters, preposterous situations, and opportunities to chuckle, if not outright laughs, that we expect from PG Wodehouse. It lacks the frantic slapstick of...
The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. The Trimmed Lamp follows The Four...
A House to Let - Undefined
A House to Let - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the...
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
- Author: Allan MONKHOUSE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values. (Summary by wildemoose) Cast:...
The Adventures of a Suburbanite - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Adventures of a Suburbanite - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia... much the same today as it was in 1911. - Summary by Sarah Jennings...
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
- Author: Kenneth McGaffey
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and glamour of Broadway. "In order to set...
The Witches of New York - Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
The Witches of New York - Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
- Author: Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Philander Doesticks (a.k.a. Mortimer Thomson)....
That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life - Henry Edward WARNER
That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life - Henry Edward WARNER
- Author: Henry Edward WARNER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. - Summary by david wales...
Brazilian Tales - Various
Brazilian Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at familiarizing the reader with a...
Charley's Aunt - Brandon THOMAS
Charley's Aunt - Brandon THOMAS
- Author: Brandon THOMAS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of course they can't stay unless there is a proper chaperone. So what could be more reasonable that getting a friend from the Drama Club to dress up and pretend to be Charley's Aunt?...
Chimes From A Jester’s Bells - Robert Jones Burdette
Chimes From A Jester’s Bells - Robert Jones Burdette
- Author: Robert Jones Burdette
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Part I. The Story of Rollo; Mr. Holliday knows all there is to know about raising children, or at least he thinks he does. His attempts to train his son, Rollo, "in the way he should go," are well-meant, but hilariously unsuccessful--or are they? I...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Satire
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel) The Wit and Humor of America series...
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
- Author: Caroline LOCKHART
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his widowed mother and his sister from...
Perfect Behavior - Donald Ogden Stewart
Perfect Behavior - Donald Ogden Stewart
- Author: Donald Ogden Stewart
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A humorous guide to manners and etiquette for ladies and gentlemen in a social "crises," published in 1922. (Introduction by Samanem)...
The White Linen Nurse - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring for the invalid daughter of the Senior Surgeon. The unexpected events which lead her there and also those...
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. (Summary by Chris Garbett)...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2) - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike...
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream - John Kendrick Bangs
Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy!" cried Alice, "Why, that is--that is terrible." "It certainly is," said the March Hare ruefully, it's rotten. Here I've...
Cinderella - George CALDERON
Cinderella - George CALDERON
- Author: George CALDERON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one." Set on a "bleak and cheerless heath overlooking the fjord" we meet...
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Education
If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad, this comedic gem outlines the pitfalls one will encounter when...
An International Episode - Henry James
An International Episode - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short but delightful novel.(Summary written by Kristen...
The Egregious English - T. W. H. Crosland
The Egregious English - T. W. H. Crosland
- Author: T. W. H. Crosland
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by some diamond-hard observations. The listener is also alerted to some attitudes of a different time that would...
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class...
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" instead of the "Gentle Grafter", the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical graft artist gives Jeff an extra...
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most fruits and vegetables as unsafe or...
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War - Artemus WARD
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War - Artemus WARD
- Author: Artemus WARD
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and...
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men - Max BEERBOHM
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's...
The Lark - E. Nesbit
The Lark - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts entirely new and original. Two girls, Jane and Lucilla, are led by Jane's guardian to entertain high hopes. The fortune,...
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade - Walter HAMILTON
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade - Walter HAMILTON
- Author: Walter HAMILTON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade covers such topics as the Clergy, the Fairer Sex, Doctors, Engineers and many others. - Summary by Kim...
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War - Finley Peter DUNNE
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War - Finley Peter DUNNE
- Author: Finley Peter DUNNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin Dooley, "doctor of philosophy." Mr. Dooley was a saloonkeeper with opinions on most everything in his day,...
Marriage, volume 1 - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
Marriage, volume 1 - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Author: Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and Campaspe. Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen ("And a half, papa") year old daughter of the Earl of...
Love Insurance - Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks... And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows is a comic novel, by the creator of the Chinese detective - Charlie Chan! - Summary by Linda Andrus...
Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and helped establish him as a leading English humorist. The book consists of 14 independent...
Faces and Places - Sir Henry W. Lucy
Faces and Places - Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Author: Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as...
The Swoop! - P. G. Wodehouse
The Swoop! - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." (ch. 1) — and features references to...
