Humor (Fiction)
Struwwelpeter (version 2)
Read by Roman Buettner
Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishment…
The Return of Don Quixote
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G. K. Chesterton
The mirthful story of a Don Quixote who, riding into a world of fetes and parties, tilts a humorous and well aimed lance at some of the conv…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Come Out of the Kitchen!
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Alice Duer Miller
A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …
Een Ongeluksvogel
Read by Anna Simon
George Lodewijk Kepper
'Een ongeluksvogel' is een roman uit 1868, over de lotgevallen van Eduard van Bergen - zijn opvoeding, schooltijd, vriendschap, liefde en av…
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…
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 …
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…
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
Ghetto Comedies
Read by Anthony Ogus
Israel Zangwill
A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…
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…
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…