Humor (Fiction)
Der heilige Bürokrazius
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Rudolf Greinz
Eine heitere Legende - Summary by Projekt Gutenberg
Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas
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…
Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent
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Ellis Parker Butler
Traveling salesman Eliph' Hewlitt finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and decides to settle down there. - Summary by Dale Barkley
Tall Tales from Texas
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Mody Coggin Boatright
Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …
The Owl Critic
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James Thomas Fields
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Owl Critic by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 3, 2011.…
The Flatting-Mill
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William Cowper
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Flatting-Mill by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011.…
One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame
Read by Nat Spratt
Robert Barr
Robert Barr approaches romance in two short stories in his engaging and subtly humorous style.In One Day's Courtship, British artist John Tr…
Skiddoo!
Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh and George V. Hobart
John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…
Petticoat Government, Volume 1
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder
Maarten Chuzzlewit
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Charles Dickens
De familie Chuzzlewit is op jacht naar de erfenis van de oude Maarten Chuzzlewit. De kleinzoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, heeft daarnaast ook zijn …
Off-Hand Sketches
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T. S. Arthur
The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…
A Parody Outline of History
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Donald Ogden Stewart
" Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in …
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
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Unknown
This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…
Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family
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B. P. Shillaber
Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the "inappropriat…
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures
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Montague Glass
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 P…
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales
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Richard Connell
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.
Making over Martha
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Julie M. Lippmann
The sequel to Martha-by-the-day. Despite others' wishes for Martha, that she rise above her station, she remains stoutly Martha, care-giver …
At The Sign of The Greedy Pig
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Charles S. Brooks
"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…
Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation
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Edward S. Van Zile
As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in the cases of "When Reginald was Carolin…
Der Roman der XII
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Herbert Eulenberg and Gustav Falke
Der Roman der XII wurde von 12, zu ihrer Zeit, hervorragenden Autoren als spaßiges Experiment geschrieben. Das Buch hat 12 Hauptkapite…