Humor (Fiction)

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Jefferson B. Browne and Artemus Ward


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…

Antic Hay

Read by Jim Locke


Aldous Huxley


The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…

Danny's Own Story

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Don Marquis


Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home be…

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

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F. Anstey


Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different back…

If Winter Don't

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decl…

Een Ongeluksvogel

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George Lodewijk Kepper


'Een ongeluksvogel' is een roman uit 1868, over de lotgevallen van Eduard van Bergen - zijn opvoeding, schooltijd, vriendschap, liefde en av…

Chimes From A Jester’s Bells

Read by Debra Lynn


Robert Jones Burdette


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 t…

A Valentine (From an old Lover)

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Jessie Pope


Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems publ…

The Schoolmistress

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Arthur Wing Pinero


The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Th…

William The Conqueror

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Richmal Crompton


William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…

Dandy Dick

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Arthur Wing Pinero


“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 …

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

Read by Scotty Smith


Bill Nye


There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…

Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Irvin S. Cobb


Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…

Comedies of Courtship

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Anthony Hope


A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Voces Populi

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Anstey


F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…

Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

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Edgar Saltus


Saltus has been compared to Oscar Wilde for wit and language. His novels are entertaining, yet philosophical, exposing the vagaries of human…

Fables for the Frivolous

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Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Bunker Bean

Read by Joseph Tabler


Harry Leon Wilson


Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, bu…

The Tale of Paddy Muskrat

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Arthur Scott Bailey


Enter Pleasant Valley, the home of the interesting and entertaining creatures and adventures born of American author Arthur Scott Bailey. Th…

Tartarin of Tarascon

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Alphonse Daudet


The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures a…

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