Humor (Fiction)
Reginald
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Saki
Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally od…
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. T…
The Inspector-General
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Governor and Officials of a small provincial town in Russia are worried. They have received word that a Government Inspector is on his w…
Snarleyyow
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Frederick Marryat
This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat h…
Brewster's Millions
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
George Barr Mccutcheon
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 eve…
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Read by Kevin LaVergne
Mark Twain
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story fol…
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Read by Mark F. Smith
Frank Gelett Burgess
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…
Miss Marjoribanks
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Margaret O. Oliphant
One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 …
Fables in Slang
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
George Ade
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables i…
Perfect Behavior
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Donald Ogden Stewart
A humorous guide to manners and etiquette for ladies and gentlemen in a social "crises," published in 1922. (Introduction by Saman…
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
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Mark Twain
This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long co…
Is He Popenjoy ?
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Anthony Trollope
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Love Insurance
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Earl Derr Biggers
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…
Winter
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…
The Peterkin Papers
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Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. Th…
Who Was Who
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Irwin Leslie Gordon
A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. -- S. McGaughey From the Introduction, "The editor begs leave to in…
Kathleen
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Christopher Morley
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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Variousandthomas Lansing Masson and Various And Thomas Lansing Masson
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…
The Bent Twig
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…