Humor (Fiction)

Biltmore Oswald

Read by Nigel Boydell


J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

Mince Pie

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Christopher Morley


Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: &quo…

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Mon…

Read by Nathalie J.


L. A. Abbott


This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking,…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 autho…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

The Charwoman's Daughter

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…

ろまん燈籠 (Roman Dourou)

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Osamu Dazai


グリム童話のラプンツェルに設定が似た物語を、5人の兄弟姉妹が、正月に連作するという話。On new year's day 5 brothers & sisters write a story similar to Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel. (Su…

The School for Wives

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Molière


In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands and then The School for Wives (this one). "The central situations …

Love Insurance (version 2)

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Earl Derr Biggers


On duty with Lloyds of London in NYC, young Richard Minot is sent to the St Augustine-ish town of San Marco to ensure that a wealthy young l…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…

Half-Hours with the Idiot

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John Kendrick Bangs


Mr Idiot returns with his opinions on a number of diverse topics, including women, taxation, and international diplomacy. As always, the Idi…

Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

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C. J. Dennis


Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a w…

Mr H

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Charles Lamb


Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane in 1806. The plot is slender and revolves around a single rather feeble joke, but the…

The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat

Read by Tony Addison


Rudyard Kipling


Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth …

Bill Nye's Cordwood

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Bill Nye


From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Beasley's Christmas Party

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Booth Tarkington


A melodramatic folksy Christmas story, a little like Dickens - with a Tiny Tim, but also with some romance. Tarkington's writings are very m…

Europe and Elsewhere

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were…

The Bachelors' Club

Read by Keith Salis


Israel Zangwill


The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a s…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Cuentos festivos para niños menores de 50 años

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Juan Pérez Zúñiga


Recopilación de historias breves muy divertidas, absurdas y disparatadas del gran Juan Pérez Zúñiga, uno de los …

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