Humor (Fiction)

Zuleika Dobson

Read by Termin Dyan


Max Beerbohm


A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the …

Nothing But the Truth

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederic Stewart Isham


A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolu…

Coffee and Repartee

Read by Daryl Wor


John Kendrick Bangs


First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemen's boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here …

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

An Outback Marriage

Read by Arrowhead Aussie


Andrew Barton Paterson and Banjo Paterson


A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGENDBanjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivati…

1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

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Mark Twain


Please note: this recording contains strong language."1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes …

Over The Plum Pudding

Read by David Wales


John Kendrick Bangs


Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of the…

Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)

Read by Terra Mendoza


Jerome K. Jerome


Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harri…

How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. M…

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Read by Catharine Eastman


H. G. Wells


Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiment…

The Rivals

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan


The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable peop…

Rudder Grange

Read by Sibella Denton


Frank R. Stockton


This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns…

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

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Mark Twain


A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)

Brewster's Millions (Version 2)

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George Barr Mccutcheon


Montgomery Brewster inherits a large sum of money. Then he learns he's to inherit 7 times as much! But there's a catch: he has to spend ever…

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

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Henry Fielding


An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…

The Old Maids' Club

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Israel Zangwill


Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry, begins an Old Maids' Club, while patient young L…

Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading)

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Rupert Hughes


What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. O…

Rootabaga Stories

Read by Betsie Bush


Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a s…

On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

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Robert Pitcher Woodward


" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - startin…

The Dragon of Wantley

Read by D. A. Frank


Owen Wister


The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…

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