Humor (Fiction)

The Maker of Opportunities

Read by Tony Oliva


George Gibbs


When you're tired only because you're bored; and you're bored only because it seems like there's really nothing worth doing; and you're so, …

A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories

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Caroline Ticknor


This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society…

The Third Person

Read by Anthony Orr


Henry James


The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …

Rainy Week (Version 2)

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered peopl…

Dere Mable

Read by Rob Kunkel


Edward Streeter


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. Th…

To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut

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William Cowper


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 by W…

Dibdin’s Ghost

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Eugene Field


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Dibdin’s Ghost by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 30, 2012…

The Cheerful Smugglers

Read by Arnold


Ellis Parker Butler


Saving for the baby's education: how can a young family be disciplined so as to regularly put money in the pig (bank)? Why, put a tariff on …

The Crock of Gold

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…

Kunterbuntergang des Abendlandes. Grotesken

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Klabund


Klabund (eigentlich Alfred Georg Hermann „Fredi“ Henschke) beschreibt in kurzen Geschichten, grotesk, humorvoll, überspitzt und zuweile…

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…

Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

Read by Phil Benson


Various


A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …

Mornings at Bow Street

Read by Chris Caron


John Wight


This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…

Stille Existenzen

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Jeanne Marni


In einer Sammlung von Einaktern zeigt die Autorin ihr Gespür für menschliche Empfindungen, Regungen, Stärken und Schwäch…

William The Conqueror

Read by David Wales


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…

Moth Terror

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Benjamin De Casseres


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Moth Terror by Benjamin De Casseres . This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 13…

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Finley Peter Dunne


In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin …

The Young Visiters

Read by Tysto


Daisy Ashford


The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena in…

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 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…

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